The spectacular defence display of the Blanket Octopus, captured during a night dive in the Lembeh Strait in Indonesia. Already iridescent, the female octopus has a huge translucent membrane connecting her dorsal and dorsolateral arms which can be unfurled up to two metres long to threaten potential predators.
The male Blanket Octopus, in stark contrast, has no such warning flag.
Generally, no more than an inch long, he dies immediately after mating.
Which is probably for the best.
FPV drone ‘pilot’ Rene Renson chases longboarder Josh Neumann and his two pals down the supremely curvy Lysevegen, which wends its way down a mountainside in Lysebotn, Norway.
Too late.
‘Coincidance’ by Handsome Dancer.
Your signature move for the rest of the day.
An Industrial Light And Magic featurette showing how ‘The Mandalorian’ is filmed – not against green screen or on location but inside a digitally projected environment – developed in collaboration with Epic Games – that moves in sync with the camera.
A ‘cinematic interpretation of the ‘bookface style’ filmed over two days at Erlangern in Bavaria by Jacco Kliesch.
A Royal College Of Art, London graduation short by Natasza Cetner inspired by the true story of Nigel, the lonely gannet of Mana Island who fell hopelessly in love with a concrete statue.
His tragic tale of idealisation and delusion shows us a reflection of our own misconceptions in love.
Mmf.
An incredible sand ‘painting’ created by an unnamed Senegalese artist working on the island of Gorée using a wooden board pasted with glue, over which he pours a few handfuls of coloured sand.
Wait for it.
A short – inspired by (and rendered on) Herman Melville’s classic tale by French animator Marie Paccou – with a twist. To wit:
For obvious budget restrictions, the Pequod has been turned into a kind of launch boat and you have to imagine all the crew hidden in the hold.
An impressive deepfake ‘recasting’ of Back To The Future with Tom Holland and Robert Downey Jr in the roles of Marty and Doc Brown by Ezyryderx47.
Vlad throws down mad villain style in a short written ad directed by Andrei Brovcenco of Bucharest-basd studio, FrameBreed.
