I have no idea how this has slipped by me til now, but if you’re even remotely familiar with Don Hertzfeldt, you’ll need little prompting to watch this short film made for Showtime.

And if you’re unfamiliar with his work, than you’re an alien and you need to watch this, this and especially this.

Twin Peaks

Carved Book Landscapes by Guy Laramee

Bioluminescence in the Gippsland Lakes

The Big Picture

Inspired by Gardner’s riddle and earlier Slinky studies while putting together his paper, Kolkowitz calculated that the bottom of his metal Slinky would remain suspended for approximately three-tenths of a second. And only recently he made a surprising realization: the levitation time of the toy would be exactly the same if it were dropped on the moon, Jupiter or Mars, even with their vastly different gravitational fields. [full article]

A few years ago I made the conscious decision to stop watching trailers. Avoid them at all possible cost. For me, the state of movie advertising has gotten so bad, that by the end of watching a trailer, chances are, you’ve already seen over half the movie’s plot*.

Thanks, but fuck off, no thanks.

That has been the norm for years up until this very week, where I just clicked that I’ve watched the trailers for The Hobbit, The Dark Knight Rises and now Ridley Scott’s Alien-esque prequel Prometheus.  Granted that they’re all teasers, yeah it’s just images and impressions of what the final film will be like, and hells yeah do I feel excitement for all of them, but man, do I feel very wrong in watching trailers again like that.

Anyhow, here’s the one for Prometheus, definitely more and more becoming my most anticipated flick for 2012.

* best example is the trailer for Drive. DON’T watch the trailer for Drive before you see Drive.

Shawn Smith

Hubert Blanz

Rob Bailey

Boston.com’s The Big Picture has finally started the first of their end of year round up pictures and as always, it’s great and you should check it out.

So the big news is that North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Il is dead and that has South Korea is on full alert as his son Jong-Un takes the reigns and a whole nation weeps in mourning.

Now, don’t get me wrong, it’s a good thing he’s gone (though trepidations on the son).

And while I’m gonna miss making jokes about the world’s last gag-safe caricature asian (for now), I can’t really make fun or even criticise these people who have been subjected to decades of propaganda to behave like this.

Nope, not when there was this bollocks just a few months ago.

Fucking hipsters.

Commissioned by E4 to create Christmas idents for them, these 5 shorts by British animation group Treat are short, snappy and unexpectedly awesome.

Moses Bridge

David Kracov

Nadav Bagim