Mountain bike freestyler Danny MacAskill, teammates Duncan Shaw and Rory Semple do their bouncy, balancy, low-pressure wheely thing in the sleepy seaside town of Rhyl, North Wales.
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A very pleasing hand-drawn short by Ho Tsz Wing set to ‘Catgot’ by UK-based electronica duo ISAN.
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Behold: the Snowman Carrier from Japanese leather retailer Tsuchiya Kaban [actually part of a playful series of promotional/showcase side projects for designers called ‘The Fun of Carrying’].
Conceived by Yuko Matsuzawa (who features in the video), it’s an elegant waterproof bag for transporting your miniature snowman, complete with carrot pocket and a sliding tray for easy removal.
What do you mean you don’t have a miniature snowman?
Behold the melon-twisting Schröder Staircase by Mathematician Kokichi Sugihara of Meiji University – a 3D model which appears the same right side up and upside down, it’s left end always looking taller than its right.
German educational design studio Kurzgesagt answers the single most salient question of our time:
Could the moon be destroyed, showering the earth in a rain of meteoric death?
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An unsettling, surreal, award-winning 2019 short by Hungarian Royal College Of Art graduate Luca Toth. She sez of it:
I wanted to make a surrealistic movie about how someone falls in love
An atmospheric 2016 short by Gabrielle Lissot. To wit:
A young woman follows a trail of coloured threads that leads deep into a thick dark forest, untangling them as she goes, hoping to find the answers to her lingering fears.
Consciousness trapped in a mortal machine made of meat?
We all know how that feels.
German educational design studio Kurzgesagt explores the possibility of eternal life in a disembodied digital utopia.
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Tag – not just a game for kids. Or chimps.
Director Phil Edwards explores the rules, strategies and origins of Professional Chase Tag – codified by brothers Christian and Damien Devaux – drawing on a ready-made athletic talent pool: parkour athletes .