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@gilesphelps pointed to this article about PhotoSketch, a web app that's apparently for creating montages, but actually does a whole load of really clever stuff.

I never saw any of the Carl Sagan "Cosmos" TV series -- but I believe it's now available as a DVD box-set. I really must go out and buy that.

A sort stop motion squared.

Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey is a regular feature (it seems) at rodeos around the US. Is this exploitative? Well, yes. Is it totally made by the canned-hoofbeat sound fx? Heck yes!

"After four years as the marketing mascot for Cheyenne, Wyoming–based quick-service chain Taco John’s, Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey is saddling up and riding off into the sunset." http://www.qsrmagazine.com/articles/exclusives/0708/taco_johns-1.phtml

Just saw BouncE's show "Insane in the Brain" -- this short film was shown as part of the show. There was a lot of stage action that filled the slow middle section of this movie. All kicks off around 3:50 -- if you don't watch at least that long, you're not going to get this.

Social proof in action. Must see Benjamin Ellis's post on this (he's done all the hard work I was planning to do for a preso) http://bit.ly/3cYm8D

Proving once again that even the YouTube video meme pool is prone to the lazy nostalgia/remember the 2000s format... but still makes satisfying viewing. Ah well.

Wow. T-Mobile-sponsored flash mob w/ Oprah and the Black Eyed Peas for the launch of the new Oprah season. Can anyone remember the first one of these? (via Fabergé Lucus-Box)

This is comedy genius. Well -- perhaps post-modern comedy genius. The Hitler Downfall Parody meme becomes self-aware and self-referential. Do watch to the end...

(more dawsonbros stuff)

See New Teevee for more. Patrick Duffy used to be in Dallas. I don't really remember Dallas. (via Will Meyerhofer)

Via Computer Love

I love pop-up. Enough to own a couple of "how-to" and theory books, but not enough to have actually tried doing anything since I was a teenager. Watching this makes me want to try again

Spin is a short lighthearted clip about a DJ with time machine decks sent to resolve a nasty situation (via Danny Devriendt)

Featuring Scratch Perverts and Foreign Beggars. More information Neurosonics Audiomediacal Laboratories site. (via Jon Lee)

This couldn't speak more to my generation. 1500 hours of Lego-based stop animation celebrating 8-bit culture by Swedish band Rymdreglage (via Viral Video Chart)

Via Krista Lee

A response to the D&AD Student Awards on behalf of HP, created by two recent graduates of Kingston University.

This is really quite sweet. But the relatively low view count (fewer than 60K in two months -- June 8th) despite the BBC's fairly serious media oomph demonstrates how hard it really is to promote these things.

"Created by Tribal DDB and Stink Digital, this new interactive campaign promotes Philips’ latest entrant into the television market, the CINEMA 21:9. Since the television’s 21:9 frame lends itself so readily to film, Tribal DDB, Amsterdam commissioned us to create a piece of filmed content that could hold its own with Hollywood’s best. Director Adam Berg responded with an idea for an epic ‘frozen moment’ cops and robbers shootout sequence that included clowns, explosions, a decimated hospital, and

Ian Delaney says, "Like the spate of parkour videos that appeared a couple of years ago, it’s not just about skill: it’s transgressive – this is not the sort of thing your mum would want you to do. The police would give you a good talking to, as well. Actually, I don’t want you to do it, either – the tree will win." Via @timhoang