Another descent into the natural world by zefrank. This time, the odiferous, asphalt-cracking mycology of Phallaceae, or Stinkhorn mushrooms.
Previously: True Facts About Plant Hoppers
Category Archives: Video
An impressive recent release from students of the prestigious French animation school GOBELINS, l’école de l’image featuring a scientist who finds his world falling apart after a strange encounter throws his lifelong skepticism into doubt.
German educational design studio Kurzgesagt explores an alternative means of getting to space. To wit:
Getting to space is incredibly hard, expensive and needs a lot of resources. A more efficient way to get there is a Skyhook (or Spacetether), an ever rotating cable with a counter weight, that catapults spaceships from earth orbit into the depths of space.
Previously: Extreme And Violent Things
Roller Drone
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An epic aerial sequence filmed at Liseberg Park in Gothenberg Sweden wherein racing drone flyer Viggo Koch skilfully remote-pilots his craft in pursuit of an (unoccupied) roller coaster.
A short by Junyi Xiao in which a lonely man sits alone at his computer, making short work of his only visitor.
But all is not as it seems.
Drop Caps
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A typographic short by Gareth Smith and Jenny Lee featuring signage lettering coming unstuck in various haphazard ways.
Pleasing 3D rendered animated plays on words (emotional rollercoasters, crossed eyes, etc) by the talented designer Lucas Zanotto.
Previously: Minimals
A BAFTA-winning student film from Leo Brunel, Loris Cavalier, Camille Jalabert & Oscar Malet of French animation collective MegaComputeur in which dauntless, ultra-cool rescuers Salami and Parmesan attempt to save a skier trapped at the top of a mountain.
Since 2015, Henning M. Lederer has been bringing the geometric cover art of vintage books to life. Here’s his latest instalment.
It is pleasing to behold.
Previously: Moving Covers
Poursuite
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wHgeybOfqA
An utterly insane, bollard-dodging, pedestrian-endangering police motorcycle pursuit of one extremely slippery scooter rider through the streets of (we’re guessing) Paris.
For optimum effect, go full screen and tilt forward into the screen clutching a pair of makeshift pencil handlebars.