Don Hertzfeldt’s brilliantly unhinged short (nominated for a Best Animated Short Film Oscar in 2001), remastered in 2015 and recently re- released on the director’s YouTube channel.
A must see if you’ve not already.
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Eddy Chen – one half of Australian duo Two Set Violin – performs Pachelbel’s ‘Canon’ on a brace of Yellow Screaming Rubber Chicken Kids Baby Toy Squeak Squeaker Chew Gifts.
Naturally, you enjoyed that.
Now let’s join Eddy as he accompanies his colleague Brett Yang on piano for a rendition of Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’.
And now, Erik Satie’s Gymnopédie No.1.
Falling Down
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German too-much-time-on-their-hands outfit Sinners Domino Entertainment celebrates ten years in the tile-toppling game with an epic, 11-minute, 600,000 domino cascade.
A supercut by The Back Focus of multiple variations in TV and movie scenes in which one character thanks another as they walk away.
Hey, before you go, though.
Thanks.
70 years in the life of a naïve explorer – a journey that begins with a coin-operated space ship – chronicled in a charming, award-winning short by Nicholas Arioli.
Sky
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A stunning time lapse montage of the ever-changing beauty, serenity and drama of the sky by photographer Ron Risman.
A initially peaceful but progressively more unsettling short by Florian Grolig. To wit:
It’s calm and peaceful above the clouds. But chaos lurks in the distance and each night, it draws closer.
Multiplicity
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Behold the bewilderingly overpopulated, open world, first person, memory-gobbling RPGs of Brilliant Game Studios.
In The Ultimate Battle Simulator (top) players pit vast armies against one another. Above, 300 Jedi knights versus 60,000 medieval foot soldiers. Or if you prefer, a pitched battle between 20,000 Jedi and 20,000 Darth Mauls.
The Black Masses is a far darker and bloodier journey into crowd simulation, as evidenced above (warning: unremitting gore) by a sequence wherein 10,000 zombies are dismembered by a giant blender.
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Russian motion designer Vladimir Tomin takes his cursor and editing tools to streets, buildings and construction sites.
Ey-Oh, You
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Freddy Mercury’s callback intro to ‘Hammer To Fall’ at Live Aid sung by his inner prairie dog, courtesy of animator Joe Vevers.