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When You Are the Last Cat Built For the Day
When you are the last cat built for the day…and there are no matching parts. via Miss Cellania
A Live Performance of Kavinsky’s ‘NightCall’ by Barnaby Dixon’s Creepy Face Puppet (and Ryan Gosling)
In October 2018, Barnaby Dixon premiered his “Creepy Face Puppet” — a full-body finger puppet with LED eyes and Dixon’s digitally projected mouth. Creepy Face,…
An Animated Montage of Over 2,000 International Flags
Filmmaker Daniel McKee spent quite a bit of time sourcing images of international flags (and their variations) to create “A Film of Flags”, an incredibly…
Driving Over a Frozen Finnish Lake in a Subaru Hatchback With Giant Table Saw Blades as Wheels
Finnish couple Lauri Vuohensilta and Anni Vuohensilta of the Hydraulic Press Channel and Beyond the Press replaced all four tires on their Subaru hatchback with…
A Unique Performance of Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 16
terribletan posted an absolutely astonishing, lightning-fast performance of the Wolfgang Amadeaus Mozart piece Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K. 545, which features a…
Director of Restored Archival Film ‘Apollo 11’ Explains His Use of Split Screen in the Moon Landing Scene
Director Todd Douglas Miller of the documentary Apollo 11 explains how he threaded together restored archival footage to craft a stunning narrative of the mission.…
Danish Actor Mads Mikkelsen and Swedish Director Jonas Åkerlund Play a Game of ‘How Nordic Are You?’
While promoting their Netflix film Polar, Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen and Swedish director Jonas Åkerlund took part in an amusing game that tested their knowledge…
How Ghost Vocals Appear in Music Recordings
In a haunting episode of the aptly named video series You Can’t Unhear This, the knowledgable host explains the concept of ghost vocals on music…
Kevin Smith Revisits Some of His Most Notable Films While Talking About His Distinctive Film Techniques
A lively Kevin Smith sat down with the IMDb series “Director’s Trademarks” to talk about some of his distinctive filmmaking techniques. In order to effectively…
A Pair of Curious Dogs Ignore Their Human While Attempting to Play With a Couple of Mischievous Otters
A pair of curious Labrador retrievers actively disobeyed the calls of their human in order to try to play with a couple of mischievous otters.