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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYFRbCUX32s
A further instalment of AmazingLife247’s Japanese TV ad montage.
Ah Japan. Never change.
Previously: Japadvertising 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTcdutIcEJ4
In this promo for Pepsi Max, UK freerunner Damian Walters attempts and eventually nails the first ever running loop-the-loop.
Other carbonated soft drinks are available.
Ghostcube
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Ghostcube is a series of hinged interlocking wooden cubes created by Swedish designer Erik Åberg which can be twisted and folded – origami style – into a seemingly endless array of complex shapes.
Åberg has open-sourced the design in the form of 30 minutes of development and application video that you can download from his site.
The Letter – from the Derrynane Robot Club.
The club writes:
A short film about a letter that also tackles the tough issues facing students sitting Junior Cert French Paper 1…
Previously: Would You Like To Save A Child’s Life Today?
Snowtime
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A microscopic time-lapse of snowflakes forming by Vyacheslav Ivanov.
i09’s Robert Gonzalez explains:
The ice crystal(s) in snowflakes owe their six-fold rotational symmetry to the hydrogen bonds in water molecules. As water freezes, water molecules bound to other water molecules crystallize into a hexagonal structure, where each point on the hexagon is an oxygen atom and each side of the hexagon is a hydrogen bonded to an oxygen. As freezing continues, more water molecules are added to this microscopic six-sided structure, causing it to grow in size into the six-sided macroscopic structure that we recognize as snowflakes.
https://vimeo.com/user14251485
Music: Avril 14th by Aphex Twin
A short recounting the fateful, fearful, candy-coloured day in 1943 that Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman purposefully ingested LSD – a compound that he had synthesised and accidentally ingested days before – then cycled back home through the streets of Basel on his bike.
Directed by by Lorenzo Veracini, Nandini Nambiar and Marco Avoletta.
All work and no play…
For their Fund-It video, the Darklight film festival – “Ireland’s premier festival celebrating independent, animation, DIY, VFX and artist films” – asked some filmmakers to reinterpret and remix a classic film scene of their choice “all squished into a 6 second vine”.
The First person to name ALL the movie references (above) wins a pair of passes to the festival!
Lines close at 3.15pm. 4.15pm. EXTENDED until midnight FURTHER EXTENDED UNTIL 10am.
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The Darklight Film Festival?
Over the course of four days, Darklighters will transform Smithfield Square [Dublin] into a nerve centre of forward-thinking film, digital storytelling, collaborative workshops, discussions, and parties held across the community’s motley venues. We need your help to paint the canvas.
Get them.
Virtuosos Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser – the Steve Tyler and Dave Lee Roth of the electric cello fraternity – return to their classical roots for a spirited 18th century performance of the AC/DC classic.
Previously: Smells Like Electric Cellos
(H/T: John Gallen)