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The trailer for an innovative award-winning short by filmmaker Daisy Jacobs (currently doing the festival circuit) that combines life sized wall-mural characters on a real life set with 3D stop motion to tell the story of two brothers struggling to care for their aged mother.

Here’s how it was done.

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Paraglider Théo de Blic takes to the skies above France kitted out with specially calibrated microphones to capture the dramatic sound of his parasail whipping through the air as an accompaniment to his acrobatics.

The action kicks off at 2:00 and, according to director Shams, is best experienced with a decent set of headphones.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sXLwLRXkEs

Performed in one continuous take with two cameras (apart from the overdubbed duet at the end), the talented (and demi-shaven) Marc Martel sings Nessun Dorma as Luciano Pavarotti and Freddy Mercury.

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Jerry Seinfeld’s honorary award acceptance speech to an audience of fellow liars at the annual Clio Awards hosted by the  US advertising industry on Wednesday.

He’s not joking about the 1991 ceremony – still referred to as ‘The Most Bizarre Event in Advertising History’.

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In case you missed this yesterday (we did) here’s trials bike superstar Danny Macaskill returning to his native Isle of Skye for a spectacular and hair-raising trek along the ridge of An Cuiltheann.

Previously: Meanwhile, In Danny Macaskill’s Imagination

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