Category Archives: Video

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C.G.P. Grey untangles the knotty branches of everyone’s family tree. To wit:

You have parents and your parents have parents, these are your grandparents who also have parents, your great-grandparents. Keep adding parents, keep adding adding ‘greats’. For every ‘g’ in the name there is one generation in-between you and that person.

Nibling is so an actual thing.

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A promo video featuring seven surreal CGI-enhanced vignettes by director Dan Kokatajlo and a team of creatives for the launch of the album Floating Metal Key by London-based electronica musician Mathew Wilcock.

Artist Digitally Warps London For EP Teaser (The Creators Project)

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The trailer for a multi-screen film by Timo Arnali about the hidden infrastructure of the internet – in this case a large data center In Alcalá, Spain operated by telecomms company Telefónica.

The film was made for Big Bang Data, an exhibition running at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona until October.

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With the recent announcement of OSX Yosemite, Nick Douglas from Slacktory has a dig at damn Apple hipsters (we you know who we you are) , to whom he sez:

This is what you did during the latest Apple keynote, and every one before it.

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Russian artist and animator Natalia Mirzoyan’s adorable short (made using different varieties of tea-leaves, if you don’t mind) about the life, times and grand designs of an independent-minded ant.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8gSztjwJ8Q

Anne Marie O’Connor writes:

Wexford musical theatre group Oyster Lane Theatre Group are auditioning for Jesus Christ Superstar, which they’ll perform later this year. As always, it’s hard to find men to take part in shows, so they made this video to try and get people to join up and audition.