Category Archives: Video

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Youtuber SafetyHammer (animators Doug Bayne, Ben Baker and Trudy Cooper) sez:

The Elegant Gentleman’s guide to Knife Fighting is an Australian sketch show- they came to me and said “you love Terry Gilliam, right?”
Yes. Yes I do. I made them a bunch of animated bumpers, these are some of my favourites.

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(H/T: Rachel Wynne)

maths

“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music.” —Bertrand Russell

A rather fetching triptych video by Yann Pinneill and Nicolas Lefraucheux of Parisian video production agency Parachutes showing the mathematical principles underlying everyday events: equations to the left, mathematical models to center and videos of the phenomena to the right.

A full screener, this one.

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pingpong

You’ll recall the rather excellent extreme knife throwing video from Swedish stunt table-tennis crew Tumba Ping Pong Show.

Well, here’s spoilsport Captain Disillusion to show you how it was done.

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kidneys

Editor Alan Capriles’ cut of a chilling documentary short about the village of Hokshe, Nepal, where local residents estimate that nearly 70 people out of roughly 300 have sold their kidneys to black market organ harvesters

Lured to India by the promise of cash, villagers are tricked into thinking their kidneys will regrow “like a mango in a tree.” Years later the money is gone, and so is their means of survival.

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