The Web’s Best Video Clips: Videos With A Brain

A cute little animated short about two rock creatures watching the passage of time (”the age of man”, as it were). Very creative. Audio in German, with English subtitles.
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Impressive animation, with music by Mew.
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Interesting short film created by students. A young girl ventures into her bowl of alphabet soup. A bit strange, but it’s French…so it’s probably some sort of European sensibility.
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This is a truly beautiful animated short film. Here’s the description from the makers of the film: “Solar is a short animated film by graduate creatives Ian Wharton and Edward Shires. A tale of the sun, moon and two characters who inhabit a planet that relies on day and night perhaps more than it would [...]

Things that don’t originate on video often don’t transfer very well…and this is one of those cases…i.e., the image quality is pretty terrible. But that’s about the only thing you can say in criticism here. The animation is very creative and very well done.
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[via Neatorama] Architect & sculptor Robert Bruno took about 23 years and a hundred tons of steel to create this…well, it’s a house, it’s a sculpture…it’s strange and beautiful.
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Gruesome body parts greet customers of a bakery in Ratchaburi, Thailand. Artist and baker Kittiwat Unarrom has sculpted life-like heads, feet and hands from dough in the bakery’s kitchen and exhibits them in glass cabinets in the shop. He says his edible art lures one hundred visitors a day.
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Lightwriting is hot right now…even showing up in network TV spots. This is an especially creative and energetic piece from Lichtfaktor.
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Art at a microscopic level…created thru physical or chemical processes and captured using Scanning Electron Microscopes, Atomic Force Microscopes, and Scanning Tunneling Microscopes. Some fairly compelling images here. More at www.nanoart21.org.
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Not computer graphics. Maybe more beautiful. Just watch it. It’s called “Morpho Towers”.
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