The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Thumb Snatchers From the Moon Cocoon

It never ceases to amaze me how sentient extra-terrestrial civilizations can create massive interstellar spacecraft, navigate through the unimaginable voids of the cosmos, and nearly exterminate humanity with their nifty laser weapons, only to be taken down by a computer virus designed by Jeff Goldblum. At least make them incompetent like the invaders from this awesome, hand animated short by Bradley Schaffer. More »

Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Sacrilege

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ fourth album, Mosquito, is coming out on April 16th. But their new single “Sacrilege” is already here. The video, starring Lily Cole, is pretty creepy. It involves a masked man, some ritual sacrifice and a handful of sketchy townspeople. Oh, and the story unfolds in reverse. Was that a spoiler? Whatever, it’s great. The band played on The Late Show With David Letterman on Friday and brought the Broadway Inspirational Voices gospel group along to keep everyone honest. So ready for this album. More »

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Between Beasts

A young girl’s flights of fancy take a turn for the frightful in her pursuit of a mysterious glowing butterfly. Between the mythical dangers and deadly adversaries, it’ll be a small miracle if she can make it out of these woods alive. More »

It’s Almost Impossible To Believe There’s a Robot In This Suit and Not a Real Human

Boston Dynamics—the folks behind the brick-tossing BigDog—has released some new footage of one its other incredibly unsettling robotic creations. Petman’s designed to serve as a testbed for hazmat suits and other military garb, and is so realistic it’s hard to believe there’s not a real dude inside that suit. More »

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Kioku Zenkei

This impressive mixed-media short from Masashi Yokota, translated roughly as “Memory Panorama,” combines cinematography and papercraft. Every advancing video frame is recreated on a new still layer which, over time, grow into a stop motion animation of their own—while remaining in sync with the video itself. [Masashi Yokota] More »

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Love Hate

See, the thing is, your cat doesn’t actually hate you, per se. It simply prefers the more refined tastes of its imaginary lounging companion. Spread Motion Design filmed and animated this amusing short while Wolfpeople provided the score. More »

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: 62814256

Whaddya mean you don’t swallow your own hair? The 19-year-old woman that inspired this twisted animation from David O’Reilly certainly did. Then again she also had a four-pound hairball surgically removed from her intestinal tract. More »

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Legend Of The Golden Egg Warrior

Hahahaha, your Shaolin Rooster style is most impressive. But it is no match! For my Little Bunny Wu Shu! *lips keeps moving* [Crush] More »

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Old Portents & Hand-Out Hijinx

Ben Crouse has done what some have said could never be done—he’s captured the spirit of the World Wide Web, animated it into a six minute short, and put it back on the Internet. Hella meta. [Cartoon Brew] More »

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: My Dreamlapse

Mixing serene stop-motion scenes with abstract 3D animation, digital artist Mitch Myers delivers a haunting vision of his dreams. Which are apparently far better than my dreams. Those typically involve me running from hordes of the undead while dragging a footlocker full of avocados. Go figure. More »