Category Archives: Video

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4iqPumWMMo

Jimmy Witherspoon’s soulful 1949 cover of the 1920s blues classic Ain’t Nobody’s Business (accompanied by Ben ‘Frog’ Webster on sax).

Prepare to have your mood significantly mellowed.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLrH0eTZNTg

Lisa Gallagher writes:

Here is a video you may like from an Artist I’ve worked with (I am a television producer) called “Miss Kate”. I got sent this recently after she shot this for a new online bit called TRAFFIC JAMS dir. by David Coffey of “Dan & Becs” and he also directed “Sarah and Steve” and “The Commute” on RTE, each week a different band pick a cover and perform it while squashed into a car.

 

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An award-winning 2012 short film by Jason Gwynn and Jay Sheldon (shot on a ‘micro budget’) chronicling the final days on the job of two cinema projectionists – made redundant by the virtual demise of 35mm in the digital age.

Virtual, mind you, not actual.

curiousbrain

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A charming recent video of an old chap discarding his canes to Rock Around The Clock, since gone viral and set to a variety of alternate tunes including this inspired sync to DJ Snake and Lil John’s Turn Down For What (which you should also see in its musicless version here)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8WxtuhiaJY

A new vending machine from a company called Pugedon dispenses food for the strays of Istanbul every time a bottle is deposited for recycling.

In a city known for its high number of stray dogs and cats (an estimated 150,000), it’s more of an awareness-raising gesture than a solution to the wider problem, but still.

MORE: This Genius Machine Feeds Stray Dogs In Exchange For Recycled Bottles (Huff Po)

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A colllaboration between Studio Wieki Somers and chocolatier Rafael Mutter in which a giant chocolate cylinder of 10 stacked layers studded with geometric patterns of flavoured shapes which are gradually revealed as a crank-turned blade slices thin layers off the top.

The work was commissioned as part of a retrospective of the work of the early 20th century Dutch furniture desigNOMNOMNOM

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