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The Rings of Earth. An animation by Roy Prol

PIXAR see compromise and limitation as a way to breed creativity – and that is a lesson for us all.

Read the whole article. Well worth it.

Rupert Murdoch has it backwards

You don’t charge the search engines to send people to articles on your site, you pay them.

If you can’t make money from attention, you should do something else for a living. Charging money for attention gets you neither money nor attention

I don’t think you can define a consistent arrow of time here, but clearly more investigation is warranted.

One of the most enjoyable vids I’ve seen on YouTube for a while.

Some top bloke has edited a single storyline together using clips from CERN, Hubble/ESA, NOVA Origins, Catastrophe and Walking with Dinosaurs.

I’ve been trying to find something like this for ages. And in case you’re wondering about the title of the video. It had me too.

One Wikipedia later, and I know a Rube Goldberg machine is a “deliberately overengineered apparatus that performs a very simple task in a very complex fashion, usually including a chain reaction”.

Who says science don’t have a sense of humour.

My all time favourite. Take it away lads…

That was wonderful!
Bravo!
I loved it!
Ah, it was great!
Well, it was pretty good.
Well, it wasn’t bad…
Uh, there were parts of it that weren’t very good though.
It could have been a lot better.
I didn’t really like it.
It was pretty terrible.
It was bad.
It was awful!
It was terrible!
Take ‘em away!
Bah, boo!
Boo!

London is the last stop in an epic trip across Britain filmed in remarkable early colour.

London was the final stop in a marathon journey around Britain filmed as a series of cinema travelogues. Pioneering filmmaker Claude Friese-Greene brought these picture-postcard scenes to life with a specially-devised colour film process.

Great find by glue creative James Leigh.

Sculptural assemblage constructed from discarded materials, as glass, scrap metal, plastic, and wood.

Gabriel Dishaw specializes in high end junk sculptures ranging from as small as a figurine to larger than six feet tall. With experience as early as mid 1990’s, Gabriel has designed and created many Junk Sculptures.

If Star Wars was filmed two decades earlier and Saul Bass did the opening title sequence, it “might” look like this.

This was part of a school project. The song is “Machine” by the Buddy Rich Band off the album Big Swing Face (1967).