Return to Hair Hill is a gorgeously animated film from French Canadian Daniel Gies.
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11 PostsThis Australian couple has my dream job:
In a remote desert town in Australia, population two, a couple manages an emergency airport and keeps vacant cottages in pristine condition, waiting for visitors who never seem to arrive.
Tate Kids offers up this video to help (not just) youngsters express their feelings:
A while back, I posted Towers of Silence, which features vultures, and today this video popped up on my feed. Lovely little story with some close-up vulture footage giving a perspective I'd never seen before. Short, just a couple minutes long, but covers vulture romance, arthritis, stem cell surgery, and more.
Cabel Sasser, one of the co-founders of Panic, makers of Playdate (and many other things), gave this delightful talk at the most recent (and final) XOXO. If you watch it here on the embed, jump to 3:55 on the timeline to get to the talk, proper, and then watch to the end.
Delightful, yes? It gets better, because Sasser has created a website for Wes Cook's art. You can see it here.
St Wilfrid's Catholic School in Crawley have produced an end-of-year video featuring their headmaster — a faithful shot-by-shot remake of Spike Jonze's video for Fatboy Slim's Weapon of Choice.
I was most impressed by the side-by-side comparison with the orginal:
As someone said on MeFi, such wholesome fun!
Impressive Kashaka playing by Yowie.
More on their YouTube channel and instruction available on Yowie's Patreon.
Wikipedia has info on this West african percussion instrument.
Terrific short film to promote the new Tutu Academy on the anniversary of the Hong Kong Ballet's 45th Anniversary.
You can watch the 3-minute film here:
Paul Trillo made a video for Washed Out's "The Hardest Part" using Open AI's Sora. This is truly incredible, world-changing technology.
When you watch this, consider the amount of time, people, tech, special effects, logistics, sets, locations, and planning that something like this would take in the real world. Absolutely outside the scope and budget of an indie band, but done with AI for about $700. Regardless of what you think about the very idea of AI, that this can even be done is almost unfathomable.
Here's a small portion of the prompts Trillo used to create this:
...continuous shot moving forward zooming through time, with a view of 1980s highschool hall corridor with checkered tiled floor, buzzing with students walking around. the scene is captured from a low angle front perspective, showing a door at the end of the corridor getting bigger and closer. the scene is blurred, indicating a high speed movement. the shot is moody and cinematic, with a slight vignette and a warm, vintage tone. the shot is captured on 35mm film, fuji film stock from the 90s with an anamorphic 24mm lens...
A more fleshed out analysis of what's involved is available on FXGuide. Info on Open AI's Sora is here.
Ripple is a short film by Connor Griffith. "It's a flurry of frame-by-frame images, mostly from Google Earth and Wikipedia, that depict the many developed and undeveloped surfaces on the planet." — the Atlantic
