Meet George. George is a nobody who gets beat up in alleyways. That is, until he attends some classes in self-defense. Things turn out quite differently after that.
This educational film was created by Chris Harding.
[via Short of the Week]
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Extreme Pogo Stick Action!
There are only 15 days to go until the end of this year. If I could remember anything, I would say 2011 was a year like no other. There was good, there was bad, and everything else in between. In his retrospective montage, Filmography 2011, YouTube user genrocks celebrates the year in movies.
This mashup is composed of clips from 230 films that were produced or released this year. For more info on the film and music selection, visit the Filmography 2011 tumblelog.
[via Live For Films]
Los Angeles-based photographer and film maker, Henry Jun Wah Lee camped out for three days in the Joshua Tree National Park in southeastern California, and during this visit in December 2010, the photographer witnessed a spectacular thing — the Geminid meteor shower. The meteors in the shower originate from the constellation Gemini and scientists have noted that the numbers seem to be increasing with each year, with sightings of 120 to 160 meteors per hour!
Not all of the light streaks captured in Wah Lee’s time-lapse video are meteors. They tend to appear in one or two frames, the trails that last longer than a few frames are slower moving aircraft. Wah Lee titled his most amazing video, Fleeting Light: The High Desert and the Geminid Meteor Shower, because as spectacular as shower may have been at the time, it is long gone now.
[via The Huffington Post]
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PROTEIGON
Created by animators Steven Briand (BURAYAN) and Luca Fiore, PROTEIGON is a creative stop-motion film featuring the transformation of simple shapes into other forms. Granted it could have been as easily done with CGI wizardry but it’s nice that the two creators took the time to do it by hand. It’s timed to some excellent music as well.
[via Holy Kaw]
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Phantom Cocktails
There’s no slow motion like phantom slow motion. You may recall the fun night that Tom Guilmette had with his Phantom Flex camera in a hotel room. This time, film maker Ty Migota uses a similar camera to capture various drinks and cocktails being destroyed. The majority of the shots were filmed at 5,000 frames per second, except for the martini shots, which were done at 8,900 fps. The clip is set to “Here’s a Little Something for Ya” by the Beastie Boys.
http://vimeo.com/31744552
[via Laughing Squid]
There’s no traffic like asian traffic. I’ve had first-hand experience of the cacophonous chaos on the roads of my home country, Sri Lanka. Photographer Rob Whitworth who happens to be based in Vietnam shows the seemingly relentless crush of traffic in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). His wonderful time-lapse video — Traffic in Frenetic HCMC, Vietnam — took over 10,000 RAW images and multiple shoots to get right.
[via Ufunk]
First it was Nigella Lawson being all tarty in the kitchen, and now it’s the turn of celebrity chef and potty mouth Gordon Ramsay to get the 80gumdrops treatment.
The industrious YouTube user creatively edited clips from one of Ramsay’s cooking shows to make Gordon Talks Dirty, where the chef talks about the intricacies of making love to the ladies. Ramsay provides many tips, including having a go with three fingers, shocker!
[via @Deems]
If you thought Kevin Parry’s The Arctic Circle was a little too dire, you may like one of his more recent creations.
Masquerading as a music video to Kalle Mattson’s song Thick As Thieves, Parry has created a cute stop motion arts and crafts history of the world, right from the big bang to our inevitable end.
[via This is Colossal]
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The Arctic Circle
About two years ago, animator Kevin Parry created a stark stop-motion film The Arctic Circle that explores greed, power, and how the thirst for power can become all-consuming.
In the desolate landscape of The Arctic Circle, our nameless protagonist cranks away at a tree until a fruit is formed and is ready for harvesting. His menial existence is changed one day when a mysterious box appears…
[via The Awesomer]