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An extraordinary descent to the surface of Saturn’s largest moon, using actual footage from the Huygens Space Probe, which landed there in 2005. To wit:

The probe sampled Titan’s dense, hazy atmosphere as it slowly rotated beneath its parachutes, analyzing the complex organic chemistry and measuring winds. It also took hundreds of images during the descent, revealing bright, rugged highlands that were crosscut by dark drainage channels and steep ravines. The area where the probe touched down was a dark, granular surface, which resembled a dry lakebed.

MORE: Huygens: ‘Ground Truth’ From an Alien Moon (NASA Jet Propulsion Lab)

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A wonderful, flowing title sequence created for the Style Frames Design Conference in New York last November by Tel Aviv-based animator Eran Hilleli featuring music by Disasterpeace.

Watch it (ideally full screen with the sound up) then watch it again.

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Tracked by an overhead drone, Bulgarian freerunner and daredevil Ilko ‘Ill’ Iliev does his thing, eating up the (very impressive) scenery in the style of Grand Theft Auto 2.

Full screen for best effect.

Music: ‘Bad King Kong’ by The Derevolutions

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for reasons best known to himself, video editor Bobby Burns compiles footage form the Indiana Jones films to make Speilberg’s eponymous hero look like Jason Bourne. To wit:

We can dream, right? What if this Steven Spielberg classic was actually part of the Bourne series? Here’s a little taste for the action spy fans!

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A short by Michael Marczewski. To wit:

…a group of little autonomous robots performing a range of repetitive functions, driven by mechanical devices. But as the mechanisms mercilessly start getting faster and faster, things take a turn for the worse for the helpless robots.

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