Our modern lives are overwhelmed with options. What to eat, wear, do, and consume—your choices are limited only by your means. But there is such a thing as too much choice, like when you have 400 cable channels and nothing to watch. This alegorical short from Bezalel school of visual communications grad Ofer Winter illustrates just a few such conundrums.
So a hobo came up to me on the street last weekend to bum a smoke and regale me with a tale of how his forefathers invented the television. This, of course, brought about an almost immediate 1920s surveillance state with Big Brother watching us as we watched The Honeymooners. The CIA, clearly, then exploited this system to "crash the Wall Street," cause the Great Depression and use the ensuing effects to more easily silence political targets. Compared to what you’re about to live through, my hobo’s drug-addled diatribe actually sounds quite reasonable.
And this is why you don’t play games at the enchanted boardwalk. Did Big teach us nothing?
There are two lessons here: One, Stuart Smalley was right (just look at him now, a US Senator). Two, chowing down on a fistful of peyote caps just before trying to talk to your crush for the first time is probably a bad idea.
In technology-obsessed Japan, farming doesn’t exactly top the list of desirable jobs. But a staffing company in Tokyo’s financial district is using its own office space to illustrate cutting-edge horticultural techniques
Journey through the depths of the cosmos in search of the mystical Laser Cat homeworld in this techno-fueled flight of fancy from Inese Verina with music by KODEK.