A revealing comparison video by the masters of same – Metaball Studios – visualising the 200 billion aluminium cans we use in the course of a year.
The associated 182.5 billion plastic drinking straws they leave to your imagination.
Previously: Ruling Them All
An atmospheric short by Paris-based Insolence Productions contrasting the skill of professional chefs with the visceral majesty of raw ingredients and the brutal unrelenting pressures of work in a commercial kitchen.
A superior horror tale for the season that’s in it about a grieving young boy who encounters dark creatures that turn his life upside down.
Directed by former Pixar, LM and Paramount animator, Carlos Baena.
Behold: the Norfolk Southern–Gregson Street Overpass in Durham, North Carolina — aka the 11 Foot 8 Bridge, aka ‘The Can Opener’.
For eleven years, this low span has been tearing the tops off trucks despite light sensors and clear signage warning the drivers of tall vehicles. The carnage has been such that the bridge has long since been fitted with a camera, generating an endless stream of impact videos
Due to an unground sewage line, the road can’t be lowered but the local authority has now finally agreed to raise the bridge height by eight inches, thereby ending an era.
Spoilsports.
A revealing short from YouTube smartypants CGP Grey.
The answer is ‘no’ because elliptical orbits, you see.
Then again, what question were you asking?
An impressive short by Newcastle-based writer/director Sean McKenna (narrated by The Boosh’s Julian Barratt) for Channel4’s Random Acts.
It starts with the end of humankind, but don’t miss the end.
Anonymous Berlin based photographer Cpt.Olf documents the Grim-Reaper taunting antics of equally secretive German pichação writer and ‘urban climber’ Paradox.
The video is a promo for this art book.
An interesting timeline visualisation by Data Is Beautiful showing the waxing and waning fortunes of the internet’s most popular sites from 1996 to the present day.
