A dialogue-free ink-on-paper short by east London based animator Elizabeth Hobbs, based on the Grimm Brothers’ ‘The Fisherman And His Wife’.
As in the original fairytale, an enchanted flounder offers to improve a fisherman’s life in exchange for sparing his own but – again and again – both are thwarted by the outrageous, spiralling demands of the fisherman’s wife.
Of course, it’s all a metaphor, and if you watch closely in the final minute, you’ll see what for.
Youthful Thom Yorke-looking guitar virtuoso Ichika Nito likes a challenge – specifically, detuning his guitar to near-unplayabilility then creating beautiful sounds despite that.
Above: what he can do with alternate E and F tuning, all-E tuning and all-F tuning.
Presenting: the Wobble Dog 9003i from Atomic Shrimp – the ideal solution to all your wiener oscillating needs.
You filthy so-and-so.
50 years ago this week, local officials of a small seaside town in Oregon decided to dispose of a long dead beached whale by detonating a charge inside it, hoping to obliterate the bulk of the problem and let seagulls and crabs deal with the rest.
They estimated a half a ton of dynamite would do the trick.
As it turns out, that was overkill. Mammalian marine guts spewed everywhere, raining down on townsfolk. A quarter-mile away, cars were smashed with chunks of cetacean carcass. This story remained a local legend for two decades, until the early ’90s , when the newspaper columnist Dave Barry mentioned seeing footage of the exploding beast. Soon after, this video clip — originally reported by Portland news channel KATU — went viral on the internet, long before “going viral on the internet” was even a thing.
A rather adorable short directed by Catherine Prowse for Childline about the anxieties of growing up and the futility of bottling them inside.
And if you liked that, you may care for the equally cute ‘making of’ feature.
German educational design studio Kurzgesagt explains how the life of cells hinges on motion – like breathing – and another, rather less controllable regulator of life: size.
Previously: Brave New World
A white-knuckle descent by skydiver Angus Sellen through the rocky ravines of Shark’s Tooth Mountain in New Zealand, captured in 4k fish-eye perspective.
Full screen for extra terror.
As a prima ballerina in New York during the 1960s, Marta C. González performed Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake perhaps hundreds of times.
Marta had Alzheimer’s and recently passed away. But in this poignant footage, filmed last year in Valencia, interspersed with clips of her past performances, she is reanimated by the music of the ballet, recalling choreography that she still knew by heart.
A National Film Board Of Canada funded collaboration between director Andrea Dorfman and poet Tanya Davis with gentle but useful advice about staying connected and sane while isolated.
We thought about going there but decided it would have been a cheap shot.
A melodic short about two kleptomaniac stoner removal men by Alexandre Nart of Parisian animation studio Passion Pictures.
Not a series. But if it was, we’d watch that series.
