A short film by Great Big Story about the insanely modified Vespas of Indonesia and their similarly unhinged fans.
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‘Live looping’ by saxophonist Armin Küpper using the sound of musical phrases returned from long sections of pipe .
More of his echoey tunes here.
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A ‘live action musical animation’ by Optical Arts in which familiar objects cascade and smash to the sound of the first part of ‘Toccata and Fugue in D Minor’, by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Based on a premise by science fiction author René Barjavel and directed by J.K. Raymond-Millet, this eerily prescient French film from 1947 entitled ‘La télévision, œil de demain’ pretty much nails a vision of smartphones (and the risks of walking and driving while engrossed in them) while describing the evolution of TV into pocket sized devices.
For ten years now, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has been capturing an image of Sol every 0.75 seconds from geosynchronous orbit around the earth. In this mesmeric hour long video, every second represents a day in the sun’s life, with various noteworthy events highlighted. To wit:
12:24, June 5, 2012 — The transit of Venus across the face of the Sun. Won’t happen again until 2117.
13:50, Aug. 31, 2012 — The most iconic eruption of this solar cycle bursts from the lower left of the Sun.
43:20, July 5, 2017 — A large sunspot group spends two weeks crossing the face of the Sun.
Behold: Majestic Towers – all 80cm of it – a 450 piece laser cut acrylic HO-scale model of an art deco apartment building- showcased here by model railway builder Luke Towan, who further enhanced its miniature magnificence with deft paint-strokes, 3D-printed details and interior lights.
In fairness.
Yes, that’s exactly what it is.
The first post-lockdown concert to be staged at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre Del Liceu.
The performance – conceived by Spanish artist Eugenio Ampudio – of Giacomo Puccini’s “I Crisantemi” by the UceLi Quartet was enjoyed by an audience of 2,292 houseplants, each one occupying a red velvet seat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxL2JylKyDU
A look at the organised chaos behind the writing of the world’s best animated series by video essayists Behind The Curtain, featuring interviews with creators Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon.
A journey through the stages of life by London based artist and animator Vier Nev using pareidolia to tell two parallel tales of birth, identity and, eh, cats.
We are, silly.
German educational design studio Kurzgesagt lays out the science with its trademark authoritative calm. To wit:
Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have released over 1.5 trillion tonnes of carbon dioxide or CO2 into the earth’s atmosphere. In the year 2019 we were still pumping out around 37 billion more. That’s 50% more than the year 2000 and almost three times as much as 50 years ago.
Previously: The Coming Storm