Gulp.

"Gulp" is a charming stop-motion animation video produced by Sumo Science at Aardman Animations and apparently set a world record for the world's largest stop-motion animation set. It was created by Nokia for their N8 smartphones and was actually filmed by the phones fixed high above the beach.

The protagonist is an actual human who had to crawl inch by inch over the beach, while artists scribbled in fishes and waves in the sand to give the animation a lifelike look.

Be sure to watch the amazing "behind-the-scenes" video as well to see how it was made.

Caroline

YSL

We are all connected

A beautiful and poignant video for the WWF, titled “The World is Where We Live.”

The world is where we live from WWF on Vimeo.

Caroline

Bike Film Fest

The Bicycle Film Fest rolled into DC this weekend and I was fortunate enough to have a friend who clued me in to this wonderful fest (thanks Travis!). I caught two evening films that featured a bunch of different shorts. Some prominently featured bikes, while others merely had the bike as a prop. The shorts were from all over the world, from L.A. to Ghana to Estonia. I particularly loved the films that featured an underground bike culture or really sick BMX tricks.

Here are a couple that I liked (and think you will, too):

Nike6.0 The Pool. Full story from Hadrien Picard on Vimeo.

The Bicycle Cap by peSeta for the New Museum from casa peSeta on Vimeo.


Directed by Spike Jonze

Bikelordz : Stunts and Styles from Accra, Ghana from Bikelordz on Vimeo.

~*LOS ANGELOPES*~ Official Trailer from Richie Thomassen on Vimeo.

Caroline

Viral

I can't remember how I was first led to this video. I can tell you that I sat through about a minute of it before I got fed up, scrolled all the way to the end, and saw that neither the animation nor the song changed. I was completely dumb-founded and pissed... until I started reading peoples' comments and saw others were equally as confused and pissed. Why does the cat have a poptart for a body? Why is it in outer space?? Why is it leaving a rainbow trail?? And WHY in God's name is that song stuck in my head now?

Slowly my anger turned into love and I became one of the 300K people who also love Nyan Cat.

Caroline