Category Archives: Video

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A Hobbit/The Office mashup from Saturday Night Live. To wit:

After saving Middle-earth, Bilbo (Martin Freeman), Gandalf (Bobby Moynihan), Gollum (Taran Killam), Legolas (Kyle Mooney) and Tauriel (Kate McKinnon) take up office jobs.

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A stunning music video (ideally viewed full screen and with the sound up) for Nils Frahm’s ‘Re’ by 23 year old animator Balázs Simon who sez of it:

Listening to ‘Re’ planted a story and a world in my head, so I decided to create a music video for it.

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Skier Cody Townsend takes a straight line down one of the gnarliest vertical chutes of the Alaska Tordrillos Mountain Range, earning himself the “Best Line” award at the 15th annual Powder Awards.

And fresh pants, presumably.

(H/T: Graeme Kelly)

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72 year old artist Bob Potts uses hand-crafted gears, cranks and chains at his workshop – a 19th century barn in upstate New York – to create wonderful kinetic sculptures mimicking the flight of birds and insects and the swimming motions of fish.

The finished pieces are assembled in collaboration with his friend, painter and sculptor George Rhoads.

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http://youtu.be/Wwx5YOjIJTU

Gentle veils of rain.

Light jigging on the water.

It practically writes itself.

Dublin slam poet, Stephen James Smith recites Louis Mac Neice’s poem ‘Dublin’ over a series of cityscapes and images.

Seedy and elegant.

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A new Kickstarter-funded short by stop-motion supremo PES – the third in a trilogy that also includes Western Spaghetti and Fresh Guacamole Which was the shortest film ever to be nominated for an Oscar).

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