Ten years in the making, this is what self-taught animator Chris Thomas describes as ‘the world’s first stop-frame animated Western.’
It’s completely unhinged.
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Archie the border collie invents a new sport at a wet car park in Bloxwich.
A GOBELINS graduation film by Nicholas Olivieri, Shen Yi, Juliana De Lucca, Varun Nair and David Feliu tells the story of a future where everyone is implanted with a device that generates the perfect virtual friend.
In the debut episode of the Wired Masterminds season, Jonna Mendez, former Head of Disguise at the CIA (an epic job title, in fairness), explains how masquerade is used in espionage. To wit:
With women, you have a broader range of what you can do. You also have one extra step: you can turn a woman into a man. I would mention that it’s almost impossible to turn a man into a woman. What we do is always additive — we can make you taller, we can make you heavier, we can make you older — we can’t go the other direction. You want to be the person that gets on the elevator and then gets off and nobody even remembers that you were really there. That is a design goal at the disguise labs at CIA.
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Scenes from The Guardian Of The Temple – an open air interpretation of the myth of Ariadne performed earlier this month by French creative company La Machine in which two fifteen metre tall kinetic sculptures – a Minotaur and a giant spider – roamed the streets of Toulouse.
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The Astro Elroy – a single seater semi-autonomous passenger drone capable of 71km/h and 25 minutes of flight time carrying up to 116kg.
Although it has onboard controls for emergency manual override, the idea is that the passenger enters their chosen destination and the drone does the rest.
An inquisitive cat cat in the Luxembourg city of Esch-sur-Alzette picks a fight with the wrong damn rodent.
Japanese dance crew XTRAP break out the LED gloves to show off their impressive finger-tutting skills.
And if you liked that, here’s an equally impressive solo performance.
Talented 16 year old pianist Yannie Tan performs Franz Liszt’s ‘Hungarian Rhapsody No.2′ (1847), alongside and in perfect sync with Tom the cat’s performance of the same piece in ‘The Cat Concerto’ (1947).