Category Archives: Video

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From ‘Hand’ – a 35 part online series by Gucci Japan focusing on handmade crafts. Here, the fine art of Japanese parquetry (razor-thin slices of mosaic applied as a decoration to wooden boxes) is demonstrated by Noboru Honma.

Aesthetically pleasing, yes. But come a little closer…

According to Gizmodo’s Jesus Diaz, this video – viewed at full screen with headphones in  – will generate an Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR), to wit:

…a perceptual phenomenon characterized as a distinct, pleasurable tingling sensation in the head, scalp, back, or peripheral regions of the body in response to visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and/or cognitive stimuli.

Do let us know how you get on. Chompsky’s chewed the minijack off the office earbuds.

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Japanese robotics professor Hiroshi Ishiguro and a team of scientists have unveiled the world’s first android newsreaders.

On Tuesday this week, two lifelke robots, ‘kodomoroid®’ (resembling a multilingual human child) and ‘otonaroid®’ ((resembling an adult female, since hired as a communicator by the national museum of emerging science and communication) delivered a first report – the story of an earthquake and an FBI raid.

MORE: Japan reveals world’s first android newscaster (AFP)

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A slick CGI short from French VFX artist Julien Vanhoenacker featuring a hovering cube roaming the surface of a dystopian world – “a visual metaphor of the positive and negative aspects of humanity and its path on Earth.”

Way to wreck the buzz there, Jules.

(Brief NSFW imagery).

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An impressive Blender-generated short by animator Daniel Houghton telling the bittersweet love story of:

.. two 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper that magically transform into paper people as they are spit out of a malfunctioning printer into a recycling bin.

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The Slap – Youtuber Uptomyknees‘ (screenwriter Max Landis) parody of Tatia Pilieva’s First Kiss video (which observed the diverse reactions of strangers invited to kiss within minutes of meeting).

Same idea, with a twist. To wit:

I gathered acquaintances, friends both casual and close, paired them randomly, put them in a void, and asked them to hit each other in the face. No one was pressured, and everyone was hit as hard as THEY asked to be hit.

UPDATE: A classy Max Landis gives the haters what they want.

dailywhat

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America’s Finest News Source reports:

If you hear the telltale crunch of a hipster’s discarded beard under your feet, don’t worry: experts say the hirsute young men are just making room to grow even larger, more ironic beards.

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