https://vimeo.com/302668759
Streaming on YouTube just in time for Christmas, comes this cute (but aren’t they all?) Pixar short by Chinese Canadian director Domee Shi (which originally played in cinemas as a support feature to Incredibles 2)
‘Bao’ tells the story of an elderly Chinese mum suffering from empty nest syndrome who gets another chance at motherhood when one of her dumplings springs to life.
Researchers from graphics Interface pioneer NVIDIA demonstrate their Style Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks.
In other words, artificial intelligence capable of generating human faces and other objects that don’t otherwise exist in real life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjDclfAFRB4
Footage of Paris recorded between 1896 and 1900 by pioneering fraternal filmmakers, Auguste and Luis Lumière, stabilised, foley sound added and slowed to natural rate by videographer Guy Jones.
0:08 – Notre-Dame Cathedral (1896)
0:58 – Alma Bridge (1900)
1:37 – Avenue des Champs-Élysées (1899)
2:33 – Place de la Concorde (1897)
3:24 – Passing of a fire brigade (1897)
3:58 – Tuileries Garden (1896)
4:48 – Moving walkway at the Paris Exposition (1900)
5:24 – The Eiffel Tower from the Rives de la Seine à Paris (1897)
Previously: New York City In 1911
A very pleasing Pachinko-style marble cascade designed by Denha to produce a variety of soothing noises as it does its thing.
An emotional journey in the form of a mixed media short by Korean animator Seunghee Kim. To wit:
One digs beneath the surface of the other to reach the deepest place of his heart during struggles. It lightens up the darkness. They fulfill one another within the sense of oneness.
Now for yiz.
A graduation short by Victor Garrido tells the twisted tale of a predator hunting its prey. But all is not what it seems.
A compilation of all the times YouTuber Coltography has scared her chihuahua Herbert with a fart. She qualifies her gaseous montage thus:
He hates it when I fart. I also hate it when he wakes me up in the middle of the night from farting so loud.
A short by Elli Vuorinen in which an optician grows tired of seeing the world too clearly as she comes to understand her inevitable involvement in its faults.
