Category Archives: Video

 

A short by English-Greek actor turned filmmaker Eros Vlahos that would have featured at this year’s (now cancelled) SXSW Film Festival. To wit:

A screen-obsessed teen ignores an Instagram meme chain and unleashes a Dickless Troll. Big mistake.

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This tiny, 99 million year old, hummingbird-sized skull found preserved in amber is shedding new light on the period during which reptilian dinosaurs evolved into the early form of their modern day descendants – birds.

The creature had the small pupils and canonical eyes of a lizard and 23 razor sharp teeth in its upper jaw, suggesting that it ate insects.

MORE: Tiny New Bird Dinosaur Found In Amber (The History Blog)

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Nominated for Best Short at the 2020 British Animation Awards, Samantha Moore’s fabric animated documentary, inspired by the sounds of industrial sewing machines, tells the story of Manchester lingerie factory Ella And Me.

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Afraid of intimacy? Beset by anxiety? Searching for some kind of meaning? Self-isolate no more – the School Of Life knows how you feel. To wit:

“We are, a lot of us, a great deal sadder, more anxious, more incomplete and more restless than we really need to be because of something very large that is missing from our lives. What’s worse, we don’t even know what this thing is and how much we crave it, because we don’t have the right concepts, experience or encouragement to help us locate it. What we long for and are slowly dying without is: community.

Tough times ahead, so.

Previously: No One Cares

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