
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWksZT19118
Mmf.
From Alex Chacon’s Modern Motorcycle Diaries – a 3-year, 124,000 mile, 36+ country, wanderlust-inducing video selfie
UPDATE: alternate source (NSFW animated lewdness). Original since removed from the Danish parliament website.
Rory tweetz:
Seen this vid by the Danish parliament to get people to vote in the European elections? It’s… edgy.
Of this brilliant low-rent short, animator Remy Schaepman sez:
One day, I realized I wanted to make a film in eight days. And for a long time, I have been longing to animate something really simple in terms of graphic style (like those of Sempé or Reiser). I had neither money nor time, but I had a mike. So I made the soundtrack with my mouth. I ended up with that. Thanks for your leniency.
A street food vendor in Xian, China creates balloon animals from what looks like sugar taffy.
Possibly more decoration than confection, what with being covered in the guy’s fingerprints and filled with his breath.
A short film made at a Kintsugi workshop organisd by Tokyobike in London.
Kintsugi or kintsukuroi is the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with a gold dusted lacquer that – like all good restoration projects – celebrates the old, the new and the repair itself.
Acquire wherewithal here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eutUgxIqHRY
Fumo is an outdoor ashtray created by design studio Ioglo that rewards correct disposal with a sound and light show from a library of 50 sounds and 56 LEDs.
The things they sacrifice for their children.
A performance poem by Alvy Carragher.
Previously: One Night Stands That Don’t Sound Like One Night Stands
A short from Korean animation studio Altered Image Works featuring Johnny – the laziest interplanetary delivery man ever to hit the autopilot button.