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This is really cute and informative: The ABC of Architects
‘100’ (from 0 to 100 years in 150 seconds) (by Filmersblog)
Jeroen Wolf spent four months documenting the people of Amsterdam, approaching them on the street in an effort to film one each of every age from 0 to 100. The hardest to find, he says, was 99.
Machine Gum’s little robot guy, animated!
Jim Guthrie // Monsters (by John Martz)
The Penguin English Library opens its doors (animation by Woof Wan-Bau)
I woke up in the most poisonous mood this morning. In response, the world has been conspiring to make me smile/laugh all day. Good job, world!
Stop-motion guacamole-making. Well, not quite.
By PES for Showtime short stories.
Dee-lightful.
THIS MOVIE’S GOT AN INCONSISTENT VISUAL LANGUAGE
Three Little Pigs advert
This advert for the Guardian’s open journalism, screened for the first time on 29 February 2012, imagines how we might cover the story of the three little pigs in print and online. Follow the story from the paper’s front page headline, through a social media discussion and finally to an unexpected conclusion
Well done.
The Black Keys - Gold On The Ceiling (Official Video) (by theblackkeys)
sparkamovement (via No Depression)
Canadian students Kate Macdonald and Janelle Blanchard recorded a version of Neko Case’s brooding “Star Witness” on a school staircase and the result moved Case to tears. “Wow. That just made me bawl my eyes out,” she tweeted. “What beautiful singers. I’m not worthy… Holy god. They broke the shit out of my heart!!” Mine, too. They accomplish this with a ukelele, angelic voices, a talent for harmony - and a mission to save their school.
The Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School houses an arts-intensive program that draws creative students from the Toronto area. But, in September, the local school board voted to close the school. It is the only school in downtown Peterborough and is described by locals as vital to the life of the community. Kate and Janelle took to the stairwell to record Case’s song to draw attention to the impending closure. That tweet from Case has the video (by Jared Raab) flying around the internet. You don’t want to miss it. This is a tough time for school arts programs and these enormously talented students give the need to support arts in schools faces and achingly clear voices.
Learn more here.
(via pluralisms)
Sundry Sundays: The Happiest Owl in the World
so it’s the last weekend of the semester, i’m juggling about 9 different assignments with my post on the year’s best Criterion releases and an Alvin and The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked review, and i feel as if i’m on the brink of losing my fool mind. so my girlfriend sent along this video, and… it’s just… that owl is the platonic ideal as to what i want my life to be like. i’m just gonna close my eyes for a second and find the massaged owl inside of me (not a euphemism). ahhhh yesssss…..
