Apr 18
What? You act like you’ve never seen a troop of baboons play Black Spire’s “Scars” before. Get with the times man. Kristof Luyckx directed the animation. More »
Apr 18
Cokiyu: Your Thorn
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Sublime melodies and gorgeous graphic design mate to create an explosion of organic animation in the title track of Cokiyu’s second album, “Your Thorn.” She crafts these esoteric beats using Max software, the video itself was directed by Ohashi Takashi. More »
Apr 17
Whoa, who would have thought that mutating hexagons could be so beautiful. It’s like watching a sheet of sentient paper origami itself into form. More »
Apr 17
Hollywood’s streets are paved with the album inserts and broken dreams of one-hit wonders. But this ambitious music video from Macklemore and Ryan Lewis shows the Seattle-based pair has no intention of going anywhere but up. The red-hot hip-hop duo has just released the “Can’t Hold Us” single—the first since their breakout hit “Thrift Shop”—and it’s spectacular. More »
Apr 16
So this is what living inside our most recognizable plant would look like—a gently bobbing yellow haze, with occasional downpours of ring rain. Quite peaceful really, ignoring the fact that its atmosphere is almost entirely hydrogen and helium. This short by Brazillian multimedia designer, Nagash, mixes macro video with snippets of “Saturnine” and “How to Measure a Planet” by The Gathering. More »
Apr 15
This heart-wrenching short by Kyle Moy and Ellen Su, follows a young astronaut and his space dog as they desperately try to avoid a horrific and painful death. It serves as a gorgeously animated gut-check that while we can’t choose when we go out, we can choose how we do so. More »
Apr 12
And you thought the Warner Bros. cat and mouse duo had outlandish chase sequences? Psh. This CGI reboot by Brian Jin combine Tom and Jerry’s slapstick humor with an anime motiff and Michael Bay-caliber explosions as the duo wreaks havoc on an airport’s security installment (and takes down a terrorist for good measure). More »
Apr 11
Like a modern-day Dante traversing the pits of Hell before ascending into Paradise, J03 is a man far out of his depth and just looking for the road home. Well, not so much a man as an 8-bit robot trapped in the digital revolution. Check out this cool live action/3D animated short by Once Were Farmers and The Gate Films. More »
Apr 10
The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Hello Tyrannosaurus, Meet Tyrannicide
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Warning: The following may cause epileptic seizures. Do not watch “Hello Tyrannosaurus, Meet Tyrannicide” by Hertfordshire-based post-hardcore quartet Enter Shikari while driving, operating heavy machinery, flying commercial aircraft, twerking, tweeting, forking, or spooning. Especially do not watch after turning off the overhead lights and sitting really close to the monitor. In fact, do not watch this video at all, just stop thinking and obey. – mgmt. More »
Apr 09
Overachievers take heed: In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man may be king but the two-eyed corneal thief is a victim of his own success. This cautionary tale from We Think Things illustrates the dangers of society turning a blind eye to crime. More »
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