The Earth twirls along at a brisk 1070 miles per hour as it travels around the Sun, though you’d never notice it. But what if you did? This award-winning stop-motion animation by Dan Ojari follows an unassuming office worker as he gets up to speed. More »
Originally presented without comment, this mysterious short film by Takahiro Suzuki poses many difficult questions while providing precious few details—who are these people, what are they agog over, and does anyone else smell smoke? Your guess is as good as any. More »
Barricade the fireplace and bar the windows, these bumps in the night are more than “just the wind.” Just don’t bother trying to sleep after watching this ghoulish short from Laurie J Proud. More »
Well hello there, nightmare fuel. This unnerving cyclical animation from Monica Gallab mixes gnawing discomfort with sheer absurdity, building into a creepy mute crescendo. Then the ball drops. More »
Never underestimate the power of radical thinking, especially when your ideas are rocket-powered and equipped with laser cannons. Joe Pelling, director of the Sherbet animation studio, produced this amusing short of hypothetical brinkmanship between a pair of sanctimonious pseudo-intellectuals. 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 »
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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