Category Archives: Video

Sunrise doesn’t normally look like this.

Because the moon’s not normally in the way, as it was on the morning of May 10th, 2013 when seen from Western Australia. To wit:

At times, it would be hard for the uninformed to understand what was happening. In an annular eclipse, the Moon is too far from the Earth to block the entire Sun, and at most leaves a ring of fire where sunlight pours out around every edge of the Moon. The featured time-lapse video also recorded the eclipse through the high refraction of the Earth’s atmosphere just above the horizon, making the unusual rising Sun and Moon appear also flattened. As the video continues on, the Sun continues to rise, and the Sun and Moon begin to separate. This weekend, a new annular solar eclipse will occur, visible from central Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and a narrow band across Asia, with much of Earth’s Eastern hemisphere being able to see a partial solar eclipse.

(Video: Colin Legg & Geoff Sims; Music: Peter Nanasi)

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When young musician Sam Seeger received an ominous phone call from his (presumably evangelistic) brother warning him to abandon his hellish muso ways, he recorded it,  illustrated it and so the Internet got another theme tune.

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A animated cacophony of musical anecdotes animated by Miloš Tomic inspired by a conversation overheard on a bus where a young musician admitted facing her cello into traffic when crossing the road, in the hope that, if she was hit, the instrument would be smashed up first.

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A recent set by Dave Chappelle near Dayton, Ohio – less stand up, more a heartfelt personal take – in which he addresses (among others) the death of George Floyd (after 8 minutes and 46 seconds of forced asphyxiation) and the mass protests that followed.

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Saturday night.

A new mashup by Donato ‘Milky Eyes’ Sansone (you’ll recall this one) compiling the pikes, ticks and jumps of Olympic athletes into one frenetic, minute-long interconnected sequence.

Go full screen.

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Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ updated version of his prescient 1970 lament to environmental destruction, set to an animated video by Chris Hopewell filmed on sets made with recycled materials, including trash from the ocean.

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