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An Amusing Photoshop Series That Seamlessly Inserts Random Animals Into Photos
animalsinthings is a very clever Instagram feed that seamless inserts random animals into photos. Examples include a white cat embedded into the top of Mount…
Man With Social Anxiety Tries to Overcome His Past to Connect With Others in the Claymation Short ‘Facing It’
In the brilliantly edited mixed-media claymation short “Facing It” by Sam Gainsborough, a young man named Shaun sits alone at a table waiting for his…
Incredible Edible 3D Animal Portraits Made From Food
View this post on Instagram A post shared by De Meal Prepper (@demealprepper) on Oct 17, 2019 at 3:58am PDT Belgian designer De Meal Prepper…
Dramatic Narrator Implores Respect for Cups in Surreal Animation by Joe Pelling of ‘Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared’
In the wonderfully surreal animated short “Use Cups”, a dramatic narrator implores the respectful use of cups. The voice also extols the happiness one can…
Every Sample Used by the Beastie Boys on ‘Paul’s Boutique’ Matched With Where They Came From
Polish video editor nama hecc very cleverly isolated every sample used by the Beastie Boys on their sample rich 1989 album Paul’s Boutique.
Cheerful Googly-Eyed Autonomous Robot Wearing a Christmas ‘Sweater’ Patrols New Jersey Grocery Store
While visiting a Stop and Shop in Bayonne, NJ, I came across Marty, a cheerful googly-eyed autonomous robot wearing a Christmas “sweater” while patrolling the…
Rare Footage of a Tiny Ruby Red Hairy Octopus
In 2018, while exploring the Lembeh Strait in Indonesia, Scuba diving instructor Gregor Irvine captured remarkable footage of a tiny ruby red hairy octopus. The…
Hospital IT Department Creates an Animated Christmas Door Display Featuring Snow Miser and Heat Miser
The incredibly inventive IT Client Services department at Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg, Mississippi created a marvelous animated door display as their entry for the…
Fantastic Fungi, A Beautiful Film Exploring the Miraculous World of Mushrooms and Mycelium
Fantastic Fungi is a beautiful film that explores the incredibly interconnected world of mushrooms and mycological networks that exist under our feet yet may be…
Brilliant Motion Transfer Glove That Handily Streamlines the Traditional Time Consuming Animation Process
Pasquale D’Silva, the co-founder of the independent animation studio Thinko, demonstrated the “Mr. Puppet Animation System” that they developed in-house. This system uses an engineered…