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Marie Curie Is Looking Radiant
She’s practically glowing! via Miss Cellania
Hybrids, A Powerful Animation About Marine Life Incorporating Ocean Pollution Into Their Bodies
Five talented graduate students at the French animation school Ecole MoPA created a short powerful entitled “Hybrids” for their final project. This film imagines marine…
How to Make the Infamous Banksy Shredding Frame
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dave Buchanan (@davebuchanan90) on Oct 17, 2018 at 9:50am PDT On October 5, 2018, Sotheby’s in…
How Enchanted Objects in Disney Films Offer Hope, Limit Evil and Reveal Truths That Cannot Be Seen
Debra Minoff and Susannah McCullough of the television and film analysis site ScreenPrism take an animated look at how the enchantment of banal, everyday, natural…
The Elephants at the Oregon Zoo Gleefully Squish Giant Pumpkins to Celebrate the Arrival of Autumn
As they’ve done for the past few years, the elephants of the Oregon Zoo celebrated the arrival of the autumn season by squishing an assortment…
Oddly Beautiful X-Ray Images of Animals Taken During Their Annual Checkups at the Oregon Zoo
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Oregon Zoo (@oregonzoo) on Oct 18, 2018 at 12:15pm PDT During the annual checkups of their…
Anthropomorphic Marionettes Powerfully Narrate the Music Video for ‘Asleep on the Train’ by Tom Rosenthal
Filmmaker Catherine Prowse has created a powerful music video that brilliantly uses colorful sets and anthropomorphic marionettes to narrate the lyrics of the beautiful Tom…
A Seemingly Giant Spider Appears to Cross a Street Towards a Texas Police Officer During a Traffic Stop
In an amusing unintentional optical illusion, a seemingly giant spider appeared to cross a street towards the Fulshear, Texas police officer who was outside of…
MTA Partners With NYPD Transit to Give NYC Subway Riders an Elaborate Haunted Halloween Experience
The folks at the Metropolitan Transit Authority partnered up with the Transit Unit of the NYPD to turn the Union Square subway station on the…
A Shot-by-Shot Recreation of Thumper’s ‘Twitterpated’ Scene From ‘Bambi’ Performed Faithfully by Humans
Filmmaker Austin Green of HydrogenGreen and actress Brittney Rae created a very faithful shot-by-shot recreation of Thumper‘s famous “Twitterpated” scene from the classic Disney animation…