Cork animator Cethan Leahy’s award winning film in which – despite insisting it’s all the work of ‘The Beast’ – Captain Hake is suspected of murdering his own crew.
All will become clear.
(Thanks Cethan)
Category Archives: Video
Zombie Lake
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Lake Natron in northern Tanzania is a death trap for birds and bats who frequently slam into its highly reflective surface for much the same reason their urban cousins come a cropper on plate glass.
These images, from photographer Nick Brandt’s book Across The Ravaged Land, show the crispy carcasses of birds and bats found by Brandt on the shoreline and then posed – rather ghoulishly – as if still alive. Sez he:
Temperatures in the lake can reach up to 60 °C (or 140 °F) and the water has an extremely high soda and salt content which causes “the creatures to calcify, perfectly preserved, as they dry.
Brandt’s work is currently exhibiting at the Hasted Kraeutler Gallery in New York.
Despite the extreme temperature and alkalinity, the lake is a major breeding area for flamingos. The birds nest at the shoreline, feeding off a species of talapia – fish adapted to life in the hot salt water that feed on similarly adapted algae.
MORE: Meet the fish that happily live in the lake that turns birds to stone (BoingBoing)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMBkxZ2ooQg
Fail Army’s roundup of the best dings, maims, faceplants, property damage and plain old-fashioned foolishness from last month.
Warning: graphic content. Pain aficionados only.
An epic timelapse tribute to New York by production company The Seventh Movement, composed of 321 shots originally made for ESPN’s coverage of the 2013 US Open.
Music: Jamie N Commons – Rumble And Sway (Monsieur Adi Remix)
Cat People
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Highlights from the weapons-grade feline love-in that was the 2013 Internet Cat Video Festival in Minneapolis.
Henri, Moustache Cat, Grumpy, Colonel Meow – all the A-listers.
You can peruse the complete list of featured videos at the Animal Planet site.
Mariano Tomatis applies the wonderful troll physics of the Missing Square Puzzle to a 4×6-square bar of chocolate.
Watch it. Give a knowing snort. Watch it again.
Mind blowNOMNOMNOM
Waddayanuts! writes:
Growing up I always thought Tom & Jerry cartoons had music that was completely bonkers. Here it is performed in all it’s wonderful insane glory.
A medley of composer Scott Bradley’s 1940s and 1950s compositions for Tom and Jerry cartoons, performed live by the John Wilson Orchestra at the 2013 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.
Compo Cam
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnd8Izdxfyk
Dashcam footage from Russia (where else?) showing hopeful compensation fraudsters doing their (now legally inadmissible) thing.
Warning: contains one or two self-inflicted but fairly harrowing runnings-over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LmPBPWHJu4
You need Johnny T’s NYC tourist tips.
Eyyy. Don’t take it personal.
Previously: Mario and Fafa’s Blooper Reel
Hypocentre – an unnerving short by filmmakers Claire and Maxime that depicts Paris (like the opening scene of London in 28 Days Later, but actually inspired by Ross Ching’s Empty America series) completely devoid of people.
They explain the hows and whys here.