In the bizarre CGI music video for “Animation” by Japanese band Young Juvenile Youth, the face of Yuki, the band’s singer, undergoes a series of surreal distortions and transformations. The video was directed by Kosai Sekine. The song appears on the band’s new EP Animation, which is available on iTunes.
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A mysterious motorcyclist evades aerial attackers in the climactic sci-fi short “EXTROPY – Speedhack” by filmmaker Dylan J. Nathan. Nathan created the short entirely on his own as a proof-of-concept for EXTROPY, his feature length sci-fi film project.
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Back in 1961, the U.S. Navy built a bowling alley at McMurdo Station, a United States research center in Antarctica. The two-lane alley featured a Brunswick manual pinset system, which required pinsetters to clear fallen pins and place new pins by hand. The world’s southernmost bowling alley served the station’s scientists and staff for nearly 50 years. It was dismantled in 2009 due to decades of wear on the alley and the alley building.
photo by Sandwich Girl
photo by Sandwich Girl
photo by Ken Klassy
photo by Peter Atkinson
The late 1960s modernist church Notre-Dame des Neiges (“Our Lady of the Snow”) in the French alpine town of Alpe d’Huez is home to a beautiful pipe organ in the form of a hand. The organ was built by German organ builder Detlef Kleuker and the sculptural enclosure was designed by the church’s architect, Jean Marol. The organ was completed in 1978. As organist Xaver Varnus demonstrates, the organ sounds quite beautiful as well.
photo by Peter Atkinson
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Filmmaker David Jude Harris has created a wonderfully ethereal video for the song “Bryn Marina” by the band Sound of Ceres. Harris achieved the lush underwater scene using coral-like expandable toys that rose to life with the introduction of fluid.
Bryn Marina is a journey through time and space- a story of how the human intersects with the universe and the relationship they share. Over a year in the making, the Bryn Marina video was filmed in time-lapse using still cameras and macro lenses to capture children’s “grow in water” toys as they slowly sprouted and came to life.
“Drone Aviary” is a short film by “collaborative design practice” Superflux that explores the idea of drones as protagonists with their own unique perspectives. It showcases a number of different drones performing a number of different tasks while they quietly and not-so-quietly record their surroundings.
It explores a world where the ‘network’ begins to gain physical autonomy. Drones become protagonists, moving through the city, making decisions about the world and influencing our lives in often opaque yet profound ways.
The short film is part of a larger project–The Drone Aviary Project–that investigates “the social, political and cultural potential of drone technology as it enters civil space.”
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The travel site HotelClub (previously) has created a colorful series that illustrates and explains several common Australian idioms that are probably a bit unfamiliar to those who live outside that particular area.
Today we take a trip down Australia’s linguistic lane. We asked Australian illustrator and animator Jared Atkins to depict some typical as well as some of the more quirky Australian sayings you might come across on your next trip.
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