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Chocolate bunny revisited

Stilgherrian — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:00:11 +0000

Since it’s Easter Sunday, I’ll point you to a previous post showing what happens to unpopular bunnies. Enjoy!

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Zombies in Plain English

Stilgherrian — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:27:48 +0000

The folks at Common Craft are worried about you and your brain at Halloween. That’s zombie season and they want you to be prepared. To help, they made this 3 minute video that will enure you survive, brain intact. Wacky Canadians. (Hat-tip to Peter Black, kinda.)

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New Film & TV bookshop on King Street

Stilgherrian — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:58:55 +0000

Marcus Wade has opened the Film & Television Specialist Bookshop at 1/502 King Street, Newtown. Actually it opened in November but we only discovered it yesterday. Drop in, buy something, say “Hi” from us.

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How to kill a chocolate bunny

Stilgherrian — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:27:54 +0000

What can I say about this wonderful short film? It’s hauntingly beautiful, well photographed with excellent colour grading — and just a little bit creepy.

Hat tip to tiny gigantic.

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The greatest cartoon ever?

Stilgherrian — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:18:45 +0000

According to the Bad Astronomy Blog — and who am I to argue? — the world’s greatest cartoon ever was released 50 years ago last week. Do feel free to disagree…

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Le Grand Content

Stilgherrian — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:04:43 +0000

A thoughtful video for a Sunday morning from Clemens Kogler and accomplices. The best material is towards the end, I think.

~~Curiously, the end credits link to a strange site full of Biblical ranting and low-rent advertising of the kind which usually leads to spam and spyware-infested computers.~~

I also find it interesting that although it’s a ~~German~~ Austrian production, the metaphors about freedom quotes the US Declaration of Independence.

Thanks to Perceptric Forum for the pointer.

[Update: The end credits actually link to Jessica Hagy's wonderful file card "cartoons", not the Biblical ranting and low-rent advertising site. The "s" key on my keyboard is dodgy.]

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Cool Clocks for a Monday Morning

Stilgherrian — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:31:25 +0000

These three cleverly-designed clocks make the world look nicer… and the gods know we need that on a Monday morning!

Clockr (pictured above) by Mario Klingermann uses photographs of numbers randomly selected from the picture-sharing website Flickr. There’s also a Clockr screen saver for Windows.

The Industorius Clock by Yugo Nakamura uses animated images of hand-drawn numbers. (Thanks to Richard Watts for the pointer.)

And finally this 8-metre high water clock uses 260 litres of coloured fluid and some very clever plumbing to full glass spheres as time passes. (Thanks to _information aesthetics_ for that one — check their site for links to more pictures and an explanation of how it works.)