This beautiful black and white video of Tokyo alternates between timelapse and slow motion. It conveys a lyrical quality about the city that reminds me of Godfrey Reggio’s intro to Koyaanisqatsi.
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30 years ago today, people were going to the theater to see this. I can see why people were unsure of the success of Star Wars; this trailer makes it seem more like a drama than a campy space movie.
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This is one of those rare moments when you think to yourself, “there must be something lost in translation, and I’m definitely sure that cobra has been de-fanged and de-venomed.”
Someone please explain this to me. I heard a rumor that the mouth is sewn shut.
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La Blogotheque is featuring a series of musicians who play in public places–just for the fun of it–called “Take-Away Shows”. Here are The Shins playing on the streets of Paris:
Other videos can be viewed on Blogotheque’s You Tube Channel.
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This PSA of a Native American crying is something I remember seeing sandwiched between unmemorable cartoons on Saturday morning during my childhood. It was also featured the film Diggers, which was recently released on DVD and tells the story of friends from a small fishing town in New York State that are slowly losing their way of life to big corporate fisheries.
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Pythagoras Switch (ピタゴラスイッチ) is a children’s educational show in Japan. All of the bumpers feature crazy Rube Goldberg devices that are made from real components. When I first saw this compilation, I was convinced that the video was computer generated, but after careful validation I have convinced my senses that these are indeed miracles of mechanical engineering.
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Prefuse 73 has a certain way of chopping up sounds and making them flow in a way that doesn’t sound incongruous. I remember hearing Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives and wondering what it would look like to visually represent a track. Sam Smith takes a stab with this fan video.
Just as Prefuse 73′s music is good theme music for everything, it seems to be the source of a huge number of fan videos/experimental projects. Who needs to make music videos when you’re the music for everyone’s videos?!
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In America, Superman fights crime with his super strength and special powers (laser vision, super breath, and mega strength). In India, he teams up with Spiderwoman to crush crime with sweet dance moves.
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A short animation from the America at a Crossroads series produced by PBS.
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