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wind-up robots enjoy the city

In this quirky feel-good short film, robots roam the city, set to the tune of Canned Heat. by Black Sheep Films.

Louie CK

Order your own Louie C. K. finger puppet on Etsy. (If you send her a picture, she will also do a finger puppet of you, or anyone/thing else you want.)

Random facts about flying:

On any given day, more than 87,000 flights travel through US.
"The safest place to sit on a plane is in the middle of the back. Not too close to the exit because the people there get sucked out. And also because the planes often break in half. The front is the least safe. Which makes sense -there’s no way airlines could charge extra money for the safest seats" (Via, Via).
It would be impossible for someone to open the exit doors while the plane is in flight because of the pressure.
Real-time map of flights over the US.

keyboard cat painting

Via.

Play us out, for old time's sake, keyboard cat.

what snake venom does to blood

the wind will carry us

An infinity of destinies
We suggest one, but can we keep it?
The wind will take it away

Le Vent Nous Portera
by Noir Désir

This short film, titled “Rush Hour,” eerily set to the song "Mr. Sandman," features series of cars, bikes, and pedestrians travelling through an intersection in a well choreographed synchronization. Yikes, that was close! ...by Buenos Aires-based production company Black Sheep Films.

via, via.

elephants

Delightful children's book, fun for all ages, about an elephant who sets out to write an encyclopedia:

The main story is peppered with curious encyclopedic asides both about elements of Marcel's memories, from music to technology, and about elephants themselves – we learn that an elephant sleeps very little at night, "usually standing, always on alert," and takes standing naps throughout the day; that an adult elephant needs to drink 30 gallons of water a day and eat between 220 and 440 pounds of food depending on the season; that an elephant can't jump and must have one foot on the ground at all times; that despite an enormous weight of about five tons, an elephant makes no noise while walking.

(The information in the children's book, unlike the video trailer, is 100% accurate)
Via, avail.

save videos 2 ways

Savevideo.me lets you easily download YouTube videos.

Via.
See here.

Or, just type pwn in the html code to youtube web addresses:

See here.

Mr. T, arcades, Ice-T

Drinking and driving: Now an arcade game. (Keg on back of racing console), via & via. $6995

Ice Cube and Ice-T-adorned soda fountain. Via.

Also Mr. T tea bags, via:

time lapse videos of Earth from satelites

"Two generations, eight satellites and millions of pictures [form] a stunning catalog of images that, when riffled through and stitched together, create a high-definition slide show of our rapidly changing Earth. TIME is proud to host the public unveiling of these images from orbit, which for the first time date all the way back to 1984."

These pictures do not do the videos justice. Click the link at the very bottom of this post to watch the full videos.

Dubai is not the only city whose growth is documented in the archive. The entire Earth is expected to be available. At the link, watch many metropolises from around the world develop from the mid-seventies through to today.

"Since NASA launched the first Landsat satellite in 1972, the program has been in constant operation. Seven other satellites followed the first into orbit over the years, sometimes replacing ones that had reached the end of their operational life, sometimes joining ones still in operation. The most recent member of the fleet, Landsat 8, went aloft in February. At an altitude of 438 miles (705 km), the satellites make one orbit of Earth every 84.3 minutes. Keep that up for 41 years, maintaining a photographic record of your travels, and you compile a whole lot of pictures — millions of them, which have since been digitized into petabytes, or billions of bytes of data."

Watch the videos and learn more here.