Just go with it.
A twofer from director Kouhei Nakama.
Music: ‘Hella’ and ’Calm The F**k Down’ by Broke For Free.
Category Archives: Video
A stunning CG short by Remi Devouassoud.
But what are we seeing? The cosmos? A human eye? Both?
You be the judge, ideally in fullscreen.
Legendary sound designer Ben Burtt, who was responsible for the sound effects in the first Star Wars trilogy, explains how two dozen iconic sounds from ‘A New Hope’ were created. To wit:
The base sound for the blaster shots came from a piece of metal hitting the guy-wire of a radio tower — I have always loved the noise that high-tension cables make. And I never noticed that Vader’s use of the force was accompanied by a rumbling sound. Anyway, this is a 45-minute masterclass in scrappy sound design.
A (Sundance and SXSW official selection) short by Ellen Evans featuring the contemporary diorama work of UK-based Kath Holden and her mother Margaret Shaw of Delph Miniatures. As Kath sez:
“I like to represent now. The era I life in. If we don’t do miniatures of what we do now, how will it be represented in the future?”
An impressive short by German animator Eric Giessmann. To wit:
As the world starts moving around him, the young desert dweller decides to follow the footprints of his fellow tribesmen to the origin of natural forces, time!
Joss Fong from Vox Video Lab explores the far more complex truth behind the Western cultural stereotype of Asian people interchanging the ‘L’ and ‘R’ sound. To wit:
Japanese, Korean, and Chinese are completely different languages that each handle L-sound and R-sounds differently.
A single from the recently released album Dandanista by Chap Hop superstar Mr B, The Gentleman Rhymer, who also animated the video.
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Behold: Handle, a highly manoeuvrable logistics robot from Boston Dynamics for pallet building, conveyor loading, killing all humans and so forth. To wit:
When Handle places a boxes onto a pallet, it uses force control to nestle each box up against its neighbours. The boxes used in the video weigh about 5kg, but the robot is designed to handle boxes up to 15kg. This version of Handle works with pallets that are 1.2 m deep and 1.7 m tall.
A ten minute time-lapse of the entire 13.8 billion year history of the Universe, visualised by remixer John ‘Melodysheep’ Boswell.
Narration by Brian Cox, Carl Sagan, and David Attenborough.Each second is 22 million years. We all appear right at the end.
Want to see what happens next? Check his time-lapse of the future, right up to the heat death of the Universe, many trillions of years from now.
German educational design studio Kurzgesagt ponders the following extremely important scientific problems:
What happens if we make a huge pile from all 15,000 nuclear bombs and pull the trigger? And what happens if we make an even bigger pile?
Previously: Self Aware?