‘A Pearl’ by singer-songwriter Mitski.
Further enhanced by an elegant combination of CG and hand painted animation by Saad Moosajee and Danae Gosset of Art Camp.
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A new animation by artist Jake Fried who builds up layers of ink and white-out liquid, changing and overlaying the same black and white drawing, scanning each new iteration into Photoshop (there are 1440 in total, filmed over seven months) then editing the whole sequence into a 60 second short, complete with music soundtrack.
Previously: Mind Frame
Using a quickly knocked together trampoline, a few handfuls of magnetite sand and some powerful neodymium magnets, YouTuber Magnetic Games reveals the otherwise invisible magnetic fields at play.
German educational design studio Kurzgesagt explores the many, many obstacles in the way of a functioning human base on the Red Planet. Lethal radiation, minimal energy sources, pesky dust clouds. Those kinds of things. To wit:
Humans love to explore. Strangely enough even horrible places – like Mars. Let’s see how building a Mars base could work and how insanely nerve-wracking exactly it would be.
Previously: In Fareness
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an extraordinary microscopic time-lapse of the development of an Alpine newt by fillmmaker Jan van Ijken.
An atmospheric, beautifully lit GOBELINS film school graduation short by Parisian animator Arthur Chaumay in which a discussion between two boys on the shore of a deserted lake forces one of them to face the truth about himself.
A typically excellent Disney/Pixar short by Kristen Lester (inspired by the director’s own experience as the only woman in her workplace).
The tale of a bright pink ball of wool making her way in all-male startup, B.R.O. Capital.
A 4K tilt-shift time-lapse – the kind of thing you’ve already seen applied to scores of Western cities – imbued here with bonus uncanny valley strangeness.
Welcome to the North Korean capital – courtesy of a (presumably officially approved) feature by Joerg Daiber, who sez of it:
Pyongyang is by far the weirdest and strangest place I have ever been to. At the same time it’s also one of the the most interesting and intriguing places and unlike anywere else I have ever been to. You go there with 100 questions and you return with 1000!
A very impressive science fiction short created by All In Pixel for The Verge’s Better Worlds project and based on a short story by Justina Ireland tells the tale of a woman determined to leave Earth for a new life on an off-world colony restricted to the wealthy.