The scamps at Nukazooka poke fun at Elon Musk’s clunky design penchant with the launch of a new device capable of turning everything into a polygonal version of itself.
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A fascinating short (if you have a quarter of an hour to spare) in which physicist and origami master Robert J. Lang explains his artform’s eleven levels of difficulty: from the folding of a simple, traditional cicada to an extremely intricate one.
A further helping of ‘Stranger Things’ as it should be by Bad Lip Reading.
Previously: A Little Stranger
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Razor sharp macrophotography of the formation of ice crystals, evoking the frosty sensations of the Arctic by Beauty of Science.
Previously: Crystalline
Parallel dimensions imagined (using paint, ink, oil, soap, but no GGI or digital effects) inside the human eye by motion artist Thomas Blanchard.
Phil Edwards from the Vox Almanac series explores the origins of the oldest form of filmed animation – favoured by Aardman, Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson but first popularised over a century ago by insect collector Wladyslaw Starewicz . To wit:
His 1912 film, The Cameraman’s Revenge, was the most significant of those early experiments. By that time, he’d been discovered as a precocious museum director in a Lithuanian Natural History Museum, and that enabled him to make movies. The Cameraman’s Revenge was his boldest experiment yet, depicting a tryst between star-crossed (bug) lovers.
A time-limited chance to see Tomek Popakul’s Oscar long-listed semi-autobiographical short: the story of Young and Skinny, whose chance encounter on a bridge leads to a disturbing, mushroom-fuelled trip.
The deeply personal implications of China’s One Child Policy (1979 – 2015) from the perspective of a family that conceived two children during this time, explored in a powerful, award-winning short by animator Siqi Song.
A short film by cinematographer Chris Bryan, who worked on BBC’s ‘Blue Planet II’, showing the mesmerising crash and surge of ocean waves in slow motion. Sez he:
I love filming in the ocean more than anything, its not just a job, its a passion. And sometimes its nice just to document waves without surfers riding them. The feeling of jumping off the rocks in the dark by myself just to capture the very first rays of light hitting the ocean without another sole in sight is unexplainable, its one of the most amazing feelings ever, its like my own personal therapy.