A strange history lesson from Infrequently Asked Questions recounting the true story of the 19th century London Necropolis Railway, specially designed to haul corpses from the city out to the countryside on one final journey.
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A multi award-winning graduation short by Veronica Solomon of the Film University Babelsburg. To wit:
What would you be willing to do for them to love you? LOVE ME, FEAR ME is a reflection on the roles we play and the shapes we take, the stages we chose, the audience we try to impress and the price of acceptance.
Like the Earth, the sun rotates, as it does, it changes in both subtle and dramatic ways. To wit:
In the featured time-lapse sequences, our Sun — as imaged by NASA‘s Solar Dynamics Observatory — is shown rotating though an entire month in 2014. In the large image on the left, the solar chromosphere is depicted in ultraviolet light, while the smaller and lighter image to its upper right simultaneously shows the more familiar solar photosphere in visible light. The rest of the inset six Sun images highlight X-ray emission by relatively rare iron atoms located at different heights of the corona, all false-coloured to accentuate differences. The Sun takes just under a month to rotate completely — rotating fastest at the equator. A large and active sunspot region rotates into view soon after the video starts. Subtle effects include changes in surface texture and the shapes of active regions. Dramatic effects include numerous flashes in active regions, and fluttering and erupting prominences visible all around the Sun’s edge. Presently, our Sun is passing an unusually low Solar minimum in activity of its 11-year magnetic cycle. As the video ends, the same large and active sunspot region previously Video Credit: SDO, NASA; Digital Composition: Kevin M. Gill mentioned rotates back into view, this time looking different.
(Video: SDO, NASA; Digital Composition: Kevin M. Gill)
One of the many things ’Solo: A Star Wars Story’ lacked was the presence of Harrison Ford as Solo.
An extraordinary persistence of vision installation by Russian art collective TUNDRA which sez of it:
Row is a modular and scalable array of screens that can form lines of various length of any desired shape. Translating raw visuals driven by generative sound, the content itself is being echoed with a slight delay which creates various moving patterns that highlight and reflect the spatial characteristics of where it is installed.
Fair enough.
A new natural history short by zefrank in which we learn of the hummingbjïrd, its double-barrelled tongue and its degenerate addiction to sugar.
Previously: True Facts About Matthew
A short 68mm film (recently published by MoMA) from 1902 featuring the town of Wuppertal in north west Germany which – while the rest of the western world was busy investing in trams – went for the more complex but infinitely cooler Suspension Railway option.
This footage of the town as seen from its train – 12 m above the ground – is uniquely drone-like in scope, unlike the stationary camera angles favoured at the time.
The Schwebebahn is still in use today, carrying 25 million people a year along its 13km track.
A lyrical, trippy short written and directed by Lubomir Arsov. To wit:
Embark on a visionary journey through the fragmented unconscious of our modern times, and with courage face the Shadow. Through Shadow into Light.
“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.” – C.G. Jung
An interesting suggestion from German educational design studio Kurzgesagt. To wit:
Getting rare materials from the ground into your phone is ugly. The mining industry is responsible for air and water pollution and the destruction of entire landscapes. But what if we could replace the mining industry on Earth with a clean process that can’t harm anyone?
Previously: Is There Anybody Out There?