A dubiously described but pleasing to look at ‘five dimensional’ sculpture inspired by mathematics and the Fibonacci sequence.
Conceived by artist Ivan Black and Atellani, the Square Wave consists of 21 precisely bent metal rods and assumes various shapes and patterns depending on how it is held and the amount of kinetic energy applied to it.
Intended as a stress relief toy and possibly also a means of opening a portal to Hell or something.
A Rubik’s Cube solving robot built by MIT mechanical engineering student Ben Katz and electrical engineering student Jared Di Carlo of MIT.
Don’t blink as the machine solves the puzzle in a world record beating 0.38 seconds: first in real time, then at 0.25x speed, in case you missed it, then 0.003x speed, in case you missed that.
A short film by Stefan Hunt in which a man encounters a talking tree, assuming some greater significance to the fact that it has chosen to address him.
A bamboozling immersion in the busy scooter-filled streets of Taiwan by Tokyo based filmmaker Hiroshi Kondo, who specialises in capturing the endless motion of high density urban environments.
Full screen and sound up for optimal enjoyment.
More of his work here.
A perfectly timed mashup by booyapictures in which a despondent Tyrion Lannister vainly attempts to parlay with John Cleese’s Taunting Frenchman.
The Wisteria Puzzle Cabinet – a delightful work of inlay and fine marquetry created by furniture craftsman Craig Thibodeau but not just that.
The cabinet also incorporates hidden compartments and secretly accessed drawers designed by Robert ‘Stickman’ Yarger.
A pixel art short by animator Lumpy Touch that reimagines Jim Davis’ lasagne-fixated feline as 32-bit nightmare fuel in some survival horror game on the Game Boy Advance.
German educational design channel Kurzgesagt applies infuriatingly balanced and logical reasoning to the conspiracy-theory-roach-motel that is vaccination. To wit:
Vaccines are one of our best tools to prevent dangerous diseases, but they come with side effects. So would it be safer not to vaccinate?
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The iconic lightsaber battle of Vader and Obi Wan from ‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ (1977) impressively enhanced and extended with deepfake technology by Christopher Clements of FixItInPost.
And here’s the 42-year-old original for comparison.
A semi autobiographical short by Nate Milton, created as a therapeutic way to focus the ‘dark energy’ of his mental health condition. To wit:
…a true story based on the filmmaker’s experiences within the realms of High Strangeness, Magical Thinking and Manic Delusion
