Ahmet Serif Yildirim, a director, motion designer, and tattoo artist in Berlin has created a brilliant but unsettling 3D animation that depicts various phobias in great detail. Amongst the fears Yildirim has illustrated is arachnophobia (spiders), ophidiophobia (snakes), trypophobia (patterns of holes), thalassophobia (ocean), glossophobia (stagefright), spectrophobia (mirrors) and hodophobia (travel). via Vimeo Staff Picks
A Steady Dog Masters the Art of the Fidget Spinner
A beautiful and very steady shepherd named Rush quite confidently balanced a rotating fidget spinner on his dolichocephalic nose and skillfully walked towards his human without a single disruption. When the spinner stopped spinning, Rush patiently waited until someone could put it in motion again. This is my dog. His name is Rush and he…
The Last Song John Lennon Ever Recorded
Just a few weeks before his unexpected and tragic death on December 8, 1980, legendary musician John Lennon (formerly of The Beatles) went into the studio to work on a demo of the last song he unknowingly would ever record, a tender song entitled “You Saved My Soul (With Your True Love)”. The appearance of…
The Reunited Folks of ‘Deadwood’ Find That Times Are Changing in the Long Awaited Film Based on the Series
In a teaser trailer for the long-awaited, highly-anticipated film based upon the all-too-short HBO series Deadwood, a concerned Al Swearingen (Ian McShane) says a few words about the town while its former residents reunite after ten years to celebrate North Dakota statehood. While times have changed, many attitudes have not. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances…
Lykoi, A Recent Breed of Cat Whose Sparse Dark Coats and Big Eyes Make Them Look Like Werewolves
The Lykoi (Greek word for wolf) is a fairly recent breed of cats who are known for their big eyes and sparse coat make them look a lot like (fictional) werewolves, monkeys or even opossums. In fact, these cats are colloquially known as the wolf cat. The breed was established with five felines born in…
German Observatory Transformed Into a Giant R2-D2
Professor Hubert Zitt, who is widely known for his fascinating lectures on Star Wars, Star Trek and other science fiction, saw the perfect opportunity to put his distinctive mark on the university where he works. Zitt, along with his father-in-law and several helpful students, transformed the perfectly shaped Zweibrücken Observatory of the Natural Science Association…
Pink Cockatoo Sprouts a Pair of Dancing Human Arms
An adorable pink bellied galah (Australian cockatoo) named Bogie seemingly sprouted a pair of dancing human arms that appeared overnight. Or maybe it was all just a dream… I had the trippiest dream last night that I had arms……… Bogie was so amused by his arms that he decided to put a call out to…
How Ian McKellen Uses His Eyes to Convey Emotion
Video essayist and web producer Evan Puschak aka The Nerdwriter takes a deep look at the way legendary actor Ian McKellen employs his bright baby blues to communicated with particular nuance to his scenes. Puschak zeroes in McKellen’s role as Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings film series, noting that as the story’s moral…