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This music video for the song “In Your Arms” by Kina Grannis is a stop-motion animation done with a background composed of jelly beans. It’s a crazy project that required 22 months, 1,357 hours, 30 people, and 288,000 jelly beans. They could have used CGI, of course, but each frame was carefully created by hand and photographed with a still camera. It’s even more mind-blowing given this fact: none of it was done with a green screen.

Forgive me, the music is garbage, but the jelly bean stop-motion is fantastic.

(Source: youtube.com)

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Simon’s Cat in ‘Double Trouble’ (by simonscat): SO so good.

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graceyu:

An execution takes an unexpected turn.

What does it mean that I started laughing at this? Am I a sociopath? 

[@Alisonkbday: Phenomenology!]

(Source: enlightension)

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The Three Little Pigs and the Secrets of a Popup Book - An iOS app that shows the inner workings of its pop-up book. Extremely cool. And oddly enough, I was talking with a friend at work a couple days ago about how cool it would be if, when you pull an app like Safari beyond the interface bounds, you could see a bunch of animated gears spinning and working under the hood.

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Return of the Jedi Missing Lightsaber Scene - Awesome! Thanks to Daring Fireball (yet again) for the link to this awesomeness.

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Watch This: Jim Henson’s ‘Time Piece’ - Cinematical - Love the part with the dog panting.

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A Whole Lotta Nothing: Khan Academy - Inspirational example of the impact one motivated, passionate person can have on the lives of others. Awesome. I’ve also got to give him props for the presentation. Instead of “let me show you what I’ve done” it was “what do you think?”.

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PLASTIC BAG | FUTURESTATES | ITVS (via IndiesLab) - Narrated by Werner Herzog, directed, written, and edited by Ramin Bahrani. Odd, yet beautiful. Thanks to Roger Ebert and Jason Kottke for the link.

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sidkan:

Nuit Blanche

Beautiful short film.

Excellant cinematography, compositing, art direction, music

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"Jason Garrett-Glaser, currently lead developer of x264, on the state of Internet video. Thoughtful, detailed, insightful analysis."

Daring Fireball Linked List: Flash, Google, VP8, and the Future of Internet Video - I’d venture to add “thorough” to the list of adjectives for Jason’s piece.

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"Dear Google, With your purchase of On2, you now own both the world’s largest video site (YouTube) and all the patents behind a new high performance video codec — VP8. Just think what you can achieve by releasing the VP8 codec under an irrevocable royalty-free license and pushing it out to users on YouTube? You can end the web’s dependence on patent-encumbered video formats and proprietary software (Flash)."

Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube - Free Software Foundation - If Google heeds this letter’s advice, the web would change for the better overnight.

Update 7/17/10: They did.

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Legend.