Behold: artist Bruce Gardner – a master of the meditative Japanese art of hikaru dorodango (lit. ‘mud dumpling’) wherein ordinary dirt is meticulously crafted layer by layer over hours into perfect, but fragile, polished spheres.
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The noble art of fencing excellently shenaniganised with motion capture by Fencing Visualised Project.
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Filmmaker Vugar Efendi’s side-by-side comparison of film scenes and the artworks that inspired them.
Johnny Cullen writes:
For too long Jessica Fletcher has avoided justice – even suspicion – for the brutal string of murders that she has committed. I made this film to present a legitimate case to finally #bringjessicatojustice
In a new episode of the PBS animated Blank On Blank series, the astronomer Carl Sagan talks to Studs Terkel in 1985 about his concerns that humankind didn’t havw the ability to communicate with extraterrestrial life. To wit:
Look at timescales, you realize that our civilization is the most backward civilization in the galaxy that could communicate at all, because we’ve just invented radio telescopes,just a few decades ago. We had not the ghost of a chance of communicating with anybody else.So If we receive a message, it can’t be from anybody less capable than we, because anybody less capable can’t communicate at all. So it has to be somebody much in advance of us and maybe as much in advance of us as we are in advance of the ants, say, or the worms.
A video essay from filmmaker Stephen Murphy, to wit:
… bad films can be as influential as good ones. This episode focuses on The Phantom Menace, a film that is particularly influential and particularly bad. Modern blockbuster culture started in 1999 when George Lucas released his prequel into the world and cinema changed forever…
MORE: The Phantom Menace: The Most Influential Film Of The 90s (City Absurdia)
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WSB-TVs Mark Arum and Fred Blankenship pay tribute to the legendary A Tribe Called Quest co-founder Malik ‘Phife Dawg’ Taylor, who died this week from complications arising from diabetes.
RIP
A Tribe Called Quest’s Phife Dawg Dead at 45 (Rolling Stone)
A music video synching the movement of geometric shapes to the frenetic beats and jazz riffs of Takeshi Nakatsuka’s ‘Japanese Boy animated by Hironori Sugie.
Nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imHUmZeAaqQ
Fail Army’s entirely subjective ultimate compilation.
It’s all downhill from here.