Aardman Animations (the Wallace & Gromit people) have produced the world’s largest stop-motion animation, with the images captured by Nokia cell phones, since Nokia sponsored the project. Here’s a making-of video that includes the final results, about a 20-second movie: … Continue reading
Another trailer for a classic film: by … Continue reading
This is old news, but here’s the successor to Daniel Craig: by … Continue reading
This short (30-second) documentary from British television illustrates why most large mammals in the wild are distrustful of humans: by … Continue reading
New York comic Mark Malkoff decided to test the limits of what an Apple store will allow you to do. Apparently, you can get away with quite a lot, starting with ordering a pizza. (One Apple store employee confronts Malkoff … Continue reading
A few years ago, still photographer Vincent Laforet began shooting films with digital SLR cameras that have video recording capabilities. Here’s one shot with the Canon 7D (similar to the T3i and 60D) that I particularly like, because in just … Continue reading
Here’s a remarkable video of some people in a small boat, equipped only with a single little knife, cutting an entangling net off of a humpback whale. The net had pinned the whale’s fins to her sides and entangled the … Continue reading
If you spend a lot of time on line you may have already seen this clip or variation thereon (this is the musical version): The original video on which this is based can be found here. Incidentally, baby monkeys typically … Continue reading
I’ve linked to this before but didn’t include the video itself, so I thought I’d do it right this time. For those of you not familiar with this often hilarious web series, it features Travis Harmon and Jonathan Shockley of … Continue reading
Courtesy of Talking Points Memo intern Michael Lester, a highly amusing summary of Glenn Beck’s final show on Fox: (If the video doesn’t appear below, try reloading the page or click this link.) by … Continue reading