Category Archives: Video

A sci-fi horror short by Ruari Robinson about Dr Zoidberg-looking monsters living among us, inspired by the current state of the modern world. To wit:

After being phased out of his job, a dangerously unstable man’s life spirals out of control when the prescription pills he takes start to have a side effect: they allow him to see the parasitic beings that have long been puppeteering our world from the shadows.

See? You were right all along.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SukMJCv_lSA

Get your solid pigment core on with this slickly produced feature by German stationery giant Faber-Castell and a more down-to-earth film by the Derwent Cumberland Pencil Company (whose factory is still located near to where the first graphite pencil was invented in the 16th century).

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Director Hideki Inaba’s animated music video for ‘Tape’ by Swedish electronic group Canigou (Emma and Richard Lindström) – a mesmerising otherworldly environment in which fish, jellies and bubbles float and weave.

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An extraordinary phenomenon captured in November 2017 at Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, California by photographer Greg Harlow. who explains of it:

I spent over 3 months total in Yosemite last year and just got lucky.

Here’s the entire sequence in time-lapse.

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German educational design channel Kurzgesagt applies its trademark blend of pop science and animation to the last great frontier of the planet – the deep sea and its shadowy denizens.

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A short by Rune Spaans based on the brilliantly weird comic series ‘Weasel’ by Canadian artist Dave Cooper. David Cronenberg is a huge fan.

There’s abstracted boobies, wing-wangs and hoo-hahs galore. You’ll see.

What if your worst fear and your greatest love turn out to be the same thing? Lost in a dark forest, Eddy Table stumbles upon a mysterious girl and dangerous parasites. He should escape, but something keeps him from leaving.

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An in depth tour of BMW’s vast motorcycle factory at Spandau in Germany by Exceptional Engineering – a synchronised ballet of human and robot collaboration that can crank out an S1000RR superbike, complete with hand-built engine – in just two hours.

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