Boreholes drilled into the frozen surface of the polar regions (to retrieve ice cores for research) can be up to 3.5km deep.
Dropping a chunk of ice into one of these echoey vertical tunnels makes for very pleasing sounds indeed (best heard with the sound up or headphones on).
CAPCOM’s Resident Evil: Village demo with a mod by MarcosRCRE that replaces the ravenous zombies with multiplicities of a vastly more terrifying assailant – Barney the Dinosaur.
An enlightening graduation short by Géraldine Charpentier-Basille tells the deeply personal story of transgender Lou and the difficulties they faced with clothes, periods and labels when growing up.
Inspired by both the work of American philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler and Charpentier’s “non-queer friends”, the director describes her film as “a representation of a queer person made by a queer person”.
And you think you have problems.
A spectacular new compilation of funnel clouds, tornadoes and contorting skies by Mike Oblinski, set to ’The Last Goodbye’ by Eric Kinney and Danica Dora.
Previously: Vorticity
Full screen and sound up for best effect.
A pleasingly Zen short by motion designer Alex Barnet. Food for thought. To wit:
The Headless Way is a collection of philosophies and meditations by the late great Douglas Harding on the subject of the true nature of the self. I collaborated with his protégé Richard Lang to create this short video which gives a small taste of Harding’s understanding of the nature of the self through the lens of distance and observation.
A new director’s cut by producer Joel Gallen of Price’s mind-melting guitar solo at the 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony for George Harrison.
In the unlikely event you’ve never seen it – Prince commences to rip about 3 and a half minutes into ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’, performed with Harrison’s son Dhani, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Steve Winwood.
If you have seen it, watch it again for added Princeliness.
Anil Dash shared some extra details about the performance here (including what actually happened to the guitar Prince throws into the air at the end of the set) and a photo (top) of Prince heading unnoticed through the streets of New York for the rehearsal.
Behold: a rare 1940 index typewriter, the Toshiba BW-2112 – demonstrated here by New Orleans based Typewriter Collector – which uses horizontal cylinders with thousands of symbols to type in Japanese, Chinese and English.
In the mid 50s, when Toshiba switched to a Western style keyboard with Kana characters, the cylinder models were discontinued, making this a rare machine indeed. Of the device, which ordered characters in a manner similar to that found in a Japanese dictionary, Typewriter Collector sez:
They’re arranged phonetically by most common “on-yomi” (or kun-yomi in some cases) according to the kana syllabary (many homophones, of course)… Red characters help parse the readings. Last character to left of equal sign can be pronounced “kin” (exert) and the first character in next row “gin” (silver), then “ku” (suffer) in red followed by “kuu” (sky, empty), “kuma” (bear), “kun” (teachings, meaning [also the kun in kun-yomi]), “gun” (group), then “kei” (system) in red followed many, homophones of “kei”
Now for yiz.
A project by artist Reuben Wu in which drones and light painting are used to bring a hypnotic visual rhythm to rugged landscapes.
The project uses a stick of 200 LED lights programmed to shift colour and shape – the artist capturing the results in-camera and through a combination of stills, timelapse, and real-time footage.
Previously: Aeroglyphs
In recent years, some have suggested that nuclear energy is the key to reducing climate change. And others have said that’s just pish.
But who is right? And just how much do those other ejects suck?
German educational design studio Kurzgesagt has the answer, but – unlike their trademark plain-science animations – it’s not straightforward.
An award winning 2019 short by Merlin Flügel in which a community of occasionally masked individuals play a series of weirder and weirder games together prior to one final intense head-infiltrating contest.
