Two very pleasing tutorial ‘woollanimations’ from the miniature kitchen of Andrea Love.
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The mighty Sir Tom Jones performs for NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series yesterday on his 81st birthday.
Tom sings Bob Dylan’s ‘One More Cup of Coffee’, Malvina Reynolds’ folk tune ‘There’s No Hole In My Head’, and composer Bobby Cole’s ‘I’m Getting Old’, which was presented to him at the age of 33 but he only performs now he feels he has sufficient miles on the clock.
Eighty-one.
A multi-award winning short (and playable app) drawn by Michael Frei, coded by Mario von Rickenbach and pleasing to behold if you like your animations episodic and your identical characters tiny.
Behold: Velox – a prototype amphibious robot designed by Pliant Energy Systems of Brooklyn with an all terrain propulsion system inspired by the locomotion of several natural species. To wit:
Velox can use several modes of locomotion found in the animal kingdom using just one pair of “fins”. These fins are best described as four-dimensional objects with a hyperbolic geometry that allows the robot to swim like a ray, crawl like a millipede, jet like a squid, and slide like a snake.
A craft equipped with this system has unprecedented freedom to travel through a range of environments in a single mission. As an underwater vehicle, the robot’s ability to instantly reverse direction and do quick turns make it ideal for task such as coral reef inspection or dragon fish hunting where a craft must rapidly manoeuvre to look around and between objects.
First the dragon fish, then all humans.
The sleep-deprived dusk till dawn experience of a new mother captured in a semi-autobiographical short by Neta Cohen. to wit:
The intense sensations, both physical and mental, of becoming a mother for the first time, coupled with extreme sleep deprivation, made me feel hazy yet overly susceptible, tired yet extremely tense. I was so tuned into the slightest, most subtle movements and sounds, that I could literally feel my home surroundings waking to life around me.
A rarely seen perspective of juggling – highlighting the precise, minimal hand movements required to keep balls and bats in the air – as demonstrated by alacritous prop manipulator Taylor Glenn.
No she doesn’t.
She’s just Humouring you.
But this is what it might be like if she did.
NOWNESS writes:
Inspired by ancient Greek philosopher Galen, video installation artist #MarcoBrambilla explores the human condition in his latest film, The Four Temperaments. Starring Academy-Award winner #CateBlanchett, Brambilla uses colour to evoke the Four Humours. In this beguiling quadriptych, the artist tests whether it is possible to create drama using two lines of dialogue spoken by the same actor. This project is part of #UnrealCity—the biggest augmented reality exhibition to come to London.
In Fairness
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An uncharacteristically existential animation from German educational design studio Kurzgesagt that asks “how do you know what to do with your life?’
Whoa.
To wit:
It’s so easy to get lost in your daily life: there are so many “urgent” and “annoying” things that you forget that actually every day is special, sort of. And even more so the days we have with friends and family. I know watching a video like this can hit pretty hard. But at least for me, the message it tries to convey does make me actually change my behavior. Reprioritize things. You know. Hope it had a similar effect for some of you.
Two monster renditions from the Rockin’1000 playlist wherein ensembles made up of around 1000 musicians play cover versions of famous tunes.
What sounds like a terrible idea is, as intended, epic.
More tunes here.