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Kill Your Co-Workers

Matthew Gipp — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 16:48:07 +0000

Awesome video for a standout song on a standout Flying Lotus EP, Pattern + Grid World.

Werner Herzog Reads ‘Where’s Waldo’

Matthew Gipp — Mon, 03 May 2010 02:17:42 +0000

Not really. But still.

The Indelible Stamp of our Lowly Origin

Matthew Gipp — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:47:33 +0000

An eight-minute video that goes about proving—and does so in an extremely compelling, entirely unscientific way—that we’re all pretty apelike.

Nature By Numbers

Matthew Gipp — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:41:27 +0000

Second Wind

Matthew Gipp — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:40:24 +0000

Connected

Matthew Gipp — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:19:24 +0000

Set in the distant future, Connected is a story about survival and greed with a post apocalyptic wasteland as its backdrop. Survivors of an unknown disaster shuffle through a desolate landscape, as it quickly becomes clear that not everybody has the strength to survive.

Really, just a pretty cool short.

Plastic Bag

Matthew Gipp — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:46:52 +0000

Filmmaker Ramin Bahrani ‘traces the epic, existential journey of a plastic bag (voiced by Werner Herzog) searching for its lost maker, the woman who took it home from the store and eventually discarded it.‘

No, your eyes do not deceive you. Werner Herzog.

via Ebert

La Dama y la Muerte

Matthew Gipp — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:58:32 +0000

Sun Ra – Space is the Place

Matthew Gipp — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:31:14 +0000

Watch the 1974 film.

Luis

Sam Carlson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:37:36 +0000

Kanizsa Hill

Matthew Gipp — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:35:05 +0000

Get Out

Matthew Gipp — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:45:30 +0000

Skhizein, by Jérémy Clapin

Matthew Gipp — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:11:40 +0000

Alma

Matthew Gipp — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:42:24 +0000

A short by (Pixar animator) Rodrigo Blaas.

The Known Universe (a Video From the American Museum of Natural History)

Matthew Gipp — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:29:21 +0000

Lights Over Norway II

Matthew Gipp — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:40:03 +0000

With regards to the Norwegian Sky Spiral: NASA guy Tony Phillips—who runs spaceweather.com—postulates that it was a rocket engine from a secret Russian missile test spinning out of control. (via Wired)

Phillips put together a video explanation. A very convenient video explanation. . .

Here’s a video of the actual event that was uploaded by a Norwegian newspaper.

Dream Big

Matthew Gipp — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:34:09 +0000

You’ll recognize the following six films: 9, District 9, Napoleon Dynamite, The Evil Dead, Bottle Rocket and Boogie Nights.

You may not know, however, that they were all originally filmed as shorts by amateur filmmakers—all of whom began their professional careers by turning the short films in question into features.

Check out the roundup—with embedded YouTube videos—on Mental_Floss.

Stafford’s Moment

Matthew Gipp — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:50:23 +0000

Anybody who is familiar with NFL Films knows the only thing greater than the gripping narrativization is the gratuitous slow-mo footage

In that spirit, here’s Detroit’s Matthew Stafford digging his team into a hole against Cleveland, injuring his shoulder, eluding team trainers to get back on the field and, finally, throwing the game-clinching touchdown at the last second. It’s better than the movies.

Auto Everything

Matthew Gipp — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:57:21 +0000

Cargo rockets, auto-driving cars, color-coded freeway lanes, never walking anywhere: Magic Highway USA (or, the future of American infrastructure as imagined by Disney in 1958).

Papercraft

Matthew Gipp — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:21:18 +0000

Speaking of stop-motion animation: here’s a seriously cool video created in the spirit of Maurice Gee’s Going West.

Can’t help but marvel at this bizarre new trend of movie trailers for books. See also: Death Troopers and Inherent Vice.

Via Book Bench