Category Archives: Video

‘Oddly IKEA’: an IKEA (USA) promotional video for ‘dorm room’ furniture designed to evoke a brain-tingling ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) with whispery narration, gentle scratchy noises and scenes of a task being diligently performed.

How do you feel watching it?

Mildly euphoric? Apoplectic with rage? Anxious to purchase soft furnishings?

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Each episode of HBO crime drama The Wire opens with a quote from one of the characters suggesting the theme of the show to follow.

Here, assembled by Matthew Coffaro, is a  compilation of every epigram from all five seasons, in order.

Full list of quotes here.

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The sumptuous Mendl’s pastry featured in Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel – brought to mouthwatering life by Binging With Babish and in a short feature from the film’s DVD extras.

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Leave the modern world behind and marvel at the canny woodcraft of the Primitive Technology channel, a chap in Queensland who makes all manner of ingenious devices in the wild using only natural materials – in this case, a monjolo, or water-powered hammer traditionally used to pound grain to flour or crush clay for porcelain.

More here.

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The result of a year’s work assembled from footage captured in Ireland and Poland which, according to Sligo-based, Poznan-educated artist Páraic Mc Gloughlin:

…explores an abstract interpretation of choice, decision, consequence, circumstance, time, among other things, a personal perception on how we try to find whatever it is we are searching for. The film looks at similarities in various environments, the interrelations of people and our connection with one another in the very similar yet very different paths we share.

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