A fully autonomous parking valet robot designed by Stanley Robotics – leave your car in its care and it’ll park it for you, then retrieve it when you return.
And then kill all humans, obviously
A fully autonomous parking valet robot designed by Stanley Robotics – leave your car in its care and it’ll park it for you, then retrieve it when you return.
And then kill all humans, obviously
A playful and rather touching documentary by Patrick Waldrop, using mixed media and an extended interview to explore the mutual admiration and friendship that existed between Hungarian immigrant and Simpsons animator Gábor Csupó and musician Frank Zappa, whose posthumous album cover for The Lost Episodes Csupó designed.
The mechanically operated flip books of artist Juan Fontanive, wherein 4-colour screen prints of 18th and 19th century natural history illustrations are extrapolated to contour the effect of birds hovering and in flight.
More of his work here.
POV monkeyshiner Buttered Side Down starts eating grapes then gets more ambitious as the situation escalates.
An impressive digital short by Serbian animator Sava Zivkovic in which a beautifully modelled humanoid is tasked with feeding a red stone into a hungry mouth protruding from the wall of the cave where he lives
Behind the scenes process here.
A stop-motion paper-cut animation by Seen Film made for the all-string cover of Bjork’s ‘Venus As A Boy’ by the Vitamin String Quartet.
A time-lapse of woodworker Andy Phillip hammering, sanding, turning and polishing a scrunched-up roll of aluminium foil into a shiny sphere worthy of Phantasm.
A fascinating half hour with dialect coach Erik Singer in which he analyses the accuracy of twenty eight Actors Playing The President Of The United States. To wit:
How close was Josh Brolin to capturing George W. Bush in W.? Is Jay Pharoah’s version of Obama true to life? Is it even possible for an actor to accurately portray George Washington?
Steve Aleksic covers Blondie’s 1978 hit with vocals – pretty much as you’d expect – performed by a cat.
Easy now.