Category Archives: Video

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Zach Bainter’s 2012 documentary short about World Beard And Moustache champion and Facial Hair Handbook cover model – Jack ‘just a normal guy with a big beard’ Passion –

…a man who has defied social convention and become an ambassador for the sport of competitive beard growing. Through good times and bad, he has pushed on to become the two time world beard champion. He shares this inspirational story with us and guides us through his world in a 7 minute narrative doc. He considers what his world has become due to his beard and contemplates the thought of a world without, much like that of the story of Samson and Delilah, he too faces the conflict of losing all he has become with just the cut of his hair.

Yes. That episode of Black Books.

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The new iOS puzzle game Monument Valley by Ustwo (released last week and already the top paid App) is a bit of a visual treat for gamers and MC Escher fans alike.

Influenced by the drawings of the Dutch graphic artist, the minimalist environment is sufficiently eyeball-pleasing to necessitate a feature where players can take pictures of the landscape to share.

And you play as a princess.

Finally.

Download it here (for €3.59).

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The Common Room Project – a collaboration between 13 animators – all contributing sequential takes on the spoken word poem Common Room by Talia Randall.

Previously: Opposite Of A Thank You by Erin Fornoff, Numb by Alvy Carragher and Cabra by Lewis Kenny.

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The frenetic trailer for a new play, Leper and Chip, written by Lee Coffey, directed by Karl Shiels. To wit:

The boy, Leper meets the girl, Chip. Boy meets girl… in the middle of a battering, boy wrecks bus full of pensioners, girl gets chased by machete wielding maniac and love without madness isn’t love at all…Fast, frantic, funny… Dublin at 100mph with leopard coated cougars, Pringle eating whales and your almost-midget mate chained inside a fridge.

Rob O’Donoghue writes:

‘Leper and Chip’ will be running in Theatre Upstairs, above Lanigan’s Pub on Eden Quay, Dublin from the 22nd of April until the 3rd of May.

Production company Bitter Like A Lemon is also raising funds via indiegogo, should you feel inclined to support the arts.

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Based on two earlier very watchable experimental animations (Yellow Sticky Notes and Ode To A Post-It Note) director Jeff Chiba Stearns and a 14 other Canadian animators reflect on a single day in their lives using the medium of black pen on yellow adhesive rectangle.

Particpants: Paul Driessen, Cordell Barker, Lillian Chan, Malcolm Sutherland, Alison Snowden, David Fine, Chris Hinton, Jeff Chiba Stearns, Marv Newland, Louise Johnson, Joel Mackenzie, Jody Kramer, Jonathan Ng, Howie Shia, Janet Perlman

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An award-winning ”idiot cinemascope short film’ by Maurice Huvelin, who sez:

Pilot for a ridiculous series project about legends, historical characters, famous films and amazing series… To be seen with binoculars, telescope or magnifying glass ! In this first short comedy : BIG, FAT & DIDIER, three big hunters, are singing in the far Far North…

You might want to go fullscreen. It’s shot from very far away.

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A fact filled mini feature by UK based game aficionados Do You Know Gaming?

Did you know the game was originally called Puck Man and that it was the first ever video game to feature power-ups?

Shut up, you did not.

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Behold what’s thought to be the first ever video footage of a meteorite falling to earth during its ‘dark flight’, or straight trajectory terminal velocity stage.

In the summer of 2012, Anders Helstrup  of the Oslo Parachute Club jumped from a small plane. His helmetcam records him deploying his chute and – seconds later –  a falling meteorite (travelling at about 300km/h) clearing him by just meters.

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(H/T: John Gallen)