Kingkida’s entirely appropriate Sergio Leone inspired trailer for the best space western in the galaxy.
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A curiously familiar tune from James Hetfield And The News.
Which is to say: mashup artist Bill McClintock’s unholy marriage of this and this.
The otherwise excellent animated video for Gorillaz’ ‘Clint Eastwood’ augmented with ‘instrumentally accurate’ audio better reflecting the band’s movements.
By Chickenscopes, because lockdown, probably.
A short by students Jakob Fløtre Eiring and Konrad Hjeml of Volda University College in Norway, inspired by Eiring’s “loud and obnoxious” yawning session at breakfast one morning.
You may struggle to suppress the urge to yawn (but in a good way)
And learn a useful new word.
Finnish origami artist Juho Könkkölä spends around fifty hours scoring and folding a single 95cm² sheet of Wenzhou rice paper before he even begins sculpting the otherwise unbroken, uncut surface.
Using a combination of wet and dry origami techniques, he creates (among many other things) 28cm tall samurai warriors complete with plated armour, traditional helmet, and swords. Sez he:
There are several hundreds of steps to fold it from the square and there are probably thousands of individual folds
He talks more about his process here.
A spectacular UHD video by filmmaker Sean Dorán, who processed a week’s worth of data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory to create a sequence of the sun’s activity.
Full screen, dimmed lights and sound up for best effect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-tEOejLd-c
A haunting pre-lockdown short by Geoffrey De Crécy.
An ode to the solitude of machines.
Mmf.
Wait For It
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VuUqLyOax4
Somewhere in Japan, a metre thick layer of snow lies on top of an industrial unit.
That’s a health and safety issue, that is.
Someone give it a poke.
Algorithm
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A video for Nashville-based electronica artist Makeup And Vanity Set (Michael Pusti) by Saman Kesh and Justin Daashuur Hopkins in which a tech enthusiast attempts to scam a retail platform by claiming his new monitor was never delivered, requesting a refund.
At first, the site’s AI reacts politely to the scammer’s increasing rudeness, then it exacts sweet revenge.
Whys and wherefores here.
Space Time
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Behold: the Deep Space Resonance Watch by luxury timepiece maker Vianney Halter: an intricate 3-axis tourbillon beneath a domed crystal case, riding on a pair of synchronised balance wheels surrounded by a time display, hence, four movements symbolising the 4 dimensional fabric of the Universe.
Only two of these cosmic wrist candies will be made each year and yours will cost around €820,000.