Highlights from every film that won the Oscar for visual effects since 1929, compiled by Burger Fiction’s Andy Schneider and Jonathan Britnell.
Category Archives: Video
Tree Mountain by environmental artist Agnes Denes – part art installation, part remediation project – a 38m high ‘mountain’ in Finland covered in 11,000 trees planted in a Golden Ratio configuration.
The artist explains more here.
Stephen Zheng (with the assistance of a cartoon woodland creature) explains the science and history of anaesthesia for Ted-Ed.
Spoiler: it may seem like you’re asleep, but you’re not.
DJ Preschool
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Behold the Blipblox – a soon-to-be-released synthesiser and beatbox for ages 3 and up.
Now stop beholding it and let the child have a go.
Two 1998 observations of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa by the Galileo spacecraft stitched together by NASA engineer Kevin Gill. He geeks off thus:
Processed using low resolution color images (IR, Green, Violet) from March 29 1998 overlaying higher resolution unfiltered images taken September 26 1998. Map projected to Mercator, scale is approximately 225.7 meters per pixel, representing a span of about 1,500 kilometers.
Of this painstakingly measured, pleasing-to-watch physics whatchamacallit, DoodleChaos sez:
I’ve synchronized the song “Fade” by Alan Walker to the physics of a Line Rider track drawing everything by hand. It only took about 3 months of work! I’ve listened to the song thousands of times while making this and I still love it.
A short by The Animation Workshop of VIA University College in Denmark wherein a disaffected young woman is lured in to the realm of a charismatic figure where she is free to follow her instincts and explore her deepest desires.
Steady on.
Entrancing
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Zaouli, the traditional dance of the Guro people of central Ivory Coast – always performed by a man, but not generally to the sound of Ethnodynamix by Parisian trancers Hilight Tribe.