It’s all fun and games with the fart box until someone craps on the carpet. Luckily we’re not dealing with horse-sized ducks. Rhode Island School of Design grad Joshua Durst created this whimsical animated short about a quartet of malcontent mallards and a magical box of flatulence. [Joshua Durst via Cartoon Brew] More »
Who’s to say that hours of bludgeoning Orcs with abandon while expecting the safety of reincarnation at a continue point doesn’t make us just a little more cavalier with our corporeal selves? Animator Doug Hindson explores the effects of blurring of digital and analog realities in Stuck. More »
All hail the hypno-box! This psychedelic short film by Calvin Frederick of CalArts surprisingly uses zero CGI or other special effects. He instead relies on a Canon 5D mounted in a motion-control rig, a programmable LED board, and mirroring to create this kaleidoscopic mania. More »
Indie-electrorock group, Astro, is kind of a big deal. Already one of the most popular bands in their native Chile since forming in 2008, Astro’s summer 2012 debut album arrived to heapings of praise by the New York Times and NPR. The band has even received invites to play some of the biggest music festivals in North America, including SXSW. More »
Caleb Wood was walking through Yoyogi Park in Japan recently and noticed that the heaps of excrement from a local murder of crows that coated the walkway (btw, ew) also created a poopy Rorschach Test. So he did what, really, any of us would have done: he whipped out his camera, snapped some crow crap close ups, and animated the results. [Cartoon Brew] More »
Floating through dream-like landscapes, this surreal short is not the time-lapse video it first appears. In fact it’s not a video at all. Vimeo contributor Mustardcuffins overlaid, then peeled off hundreds of still images to create the serene visual effects of Turner. As more and more stills are removed, the scenes appear to fade with the dying light. More »
Don’t let their gentle demeanor and calming stripes fool you. Zebras are unstoppable killing machines. They’ll bathe in the blood of your children just as soon as look at you. That’s why keepers at Tokyo’s Tama Zoo aren’t taking any chances and are prepping for the day these murderous equines overcome their paddock locks. But rather than free one of these stripey psychopaths, even temporarily, zoo officials instead opted for a slightly less deadly option: furries! character actors dressed as zebras. The horror. [BBC] More »
Livestock and art auctions share little in common beyond a name. While even the most ferocious bidding war at Christie’s or Sotheby’s will remain stately and reserved, cattle auctions devolve into frantic, rapid-fire calls the moment the steer enter their pen. But as Werner Herzog once quipped, these steer sellers speak “the last poetry possible, the poetry of capitalism.” More »
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