Nuclear energy. It’s a bit of a worry. German educational design studio Kurzgesagt bluntly enquires:
How many people has nuclear energy killed and how?
Previously:: Nuke The Moon
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UK animator Ollie Magee attempts to address an age-old conundrum of filmmaking: is a narrative still a narrative if it’s obscured by an out-of-focus horse?
Well, is it?
The director may release a version without the horse at a later date. Or not.
A 2019 short by Swiss animators Frederic Siegel and Benjamin Morard in which:
Leaving for his dream job, a satellite technician keeps solitude at bay by constantly texting with his old friends. After neglecting his duties a satellite leaves its orbit which causes the worlds network to collapse.
All Aboard
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zSWagCyWio
With Virgin’s Hyperloop due to begin service in 2030, the company has released a teaser for the ‘experience’ wherein passengers arrive at a Hyperloop ‘portal’ (’stations’ are so 2029), enter a pre-booked vactrain pod and maglev to their jaysus destination at speeds in excess of 1000km/h.
Film director Werner Herzog, who knows little or nothing about skateboards, was not an obvious choice of interviewee for Ian Michna of skateboard magazine Jenkem, but he turned out to be a kindred spirit (of sorts) and it’s always a pleasure to hear that accent. Asked what music he would use to score a skateboarding sequence he sez:
What comes to mind first and foremost would be Russian Orthodox church choirs, something that creates this kind of strange feeling of space and sacrality — so what you are doing is special, bordering the sacred.
You should hear what he says about chickens.
A mesmeric timelapse by German filmmaker Roman De Giuli mimicking the flow of water over the surface of the Earth using sand, jade, malachite and liquid pigment on paper.
Remember the old ‘After Dark’ screensaver?
Well here’s the real thing – a soothing, soporific 12 hour video of Pacific fishes, soft corals, and anemones at Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Nighty night.
Elysian
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https://vimeo.com/499129301
Behold: a taste of the recently announced €250 million plan to turn the world-famous 1.9km long Champs-Éysées into an ‘extraordinary garden’.
The revamp is scheduled to begin after the 2024 Summer Olympics, halving traffic, creating tunnels of trees and vastly improving the current Périphérique levels of pollution. Designer PCA-stream sez:
…the étoile intersection is reinvented as a public plaza geared towards tourists and Parisians who come to contemplate the Arc de Triomphe. on the avenue, the promenade experience makes a comeback and flâneurs will be able to stroll up and down the historic boulevard in an atmosphere greatly improved by the reduction in motor traffic.
‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’ – Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer’s most-recognised artwork – was recently subjected to two years of detailed research which, while failing to shed light on the identity of the subject, has revealed all manner of hidden detail including eyelashes (only visible under a microscope) and the fact that the grey background is actually a green curtain.
The surface condition of the painting (which has been subject to multiple restorations over the years) was studied by researchers Emilien Leonhardt and Vincent Sabatier, of Hirox Europe using a custom-mounted microscope.
The resulting 10 billion pixel panoramic scan – a gigantic stitch of 9,100 individual microscopic photographs, is available here in 2D and 3D for your perusal.
Kingmaker
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A fan of Hong Kong based woodworker Mr Zhou sent him a colourful block of stabilised wood and a request for it to be turned into a chess king.
You may find the process rather satisfying.