Anna Mantzaris’ Quirky Stop Motion Explores Inner Desire to Lose Control

Swedish director Anna Mantzaris has a penchant for its darkly humous as noticed in her 2012 movie “But Milk is Important.” Her latest brief ENOUGH was created throughout her first year in the Royal College of Art where she graduated earlier this season. The stop-motion film follows several kind-looking personalities as they snap during regular occurrences like bothersome board meetings, dealing with demanding customers or only narrowly missing the bus.

“I wished to have very soft and sympathetic personalities, compared with the soft activities,” Mantzaris clarified to Directors Notes. “I liked them to feel somewhat uncomfortable and awkward, as we could occasionally feel in social circumstances. Additionally, I needed it to feel somewhat dull and grey, to improve the sensation of everyday life we occasionally wish to split from.”

This amusing animation is a cathartic release of this darkness we take bottled up inside and showcases exactly what may occur in case you eventually allow yourself to lose control. You may view more of her short movies on her website and Vimeo.

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Two Vortex Rings Collide in Slo-Mo Video by Destin Sandlin

Destin Sandlin spent years trying to recreate a happening he witnessed 5 years ago — two vortex rings clashing with each other, creating a group of smaller rings consequently.

Working in cooperation with David Linderman, he finally captured a similar crash in high resolution, which is currently published in most of its slow movement glory on his YouTube channel SmarterEveryDay.

 

This incredible experimentation was decades in the making, as Destin and his team worked through failure after failure to recreate and catch a mesmerizing demonstration of vortices colliding in water.

While it resembles a relatively straightforward experiment with ink within an aquarium, there were so many variables to consider this project took four years from concept to end to catch. Destin’s aim was to recreate the vortex crash experimentation, last captured on a fuzzy videotape in 1992, in magnificent, clear high-definition.

And then there’s the equipment to capture the experiment in the high-tech vision Destin was aiming for.

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An Irish Artist Puts Together Thousands of Google Earth Images In a Kaleidoscopic Video

Fine art graduate Páraic McGloughlin has produced ‘Arena,’ a kaleidoscopic video composed of thousands of Google Earth images.

The young Irish artist has experimented with the constraints of gifs throughout his artistic career, utilizing them as a moderate to manipulate his drawings along with his photos. ‘Arena’, which Vimeo announced as its ‘Video of the Month’ this April, sees McGloughlin series together thousands of Google Earth pictures, creating what seems like an extended gif of an ever-changing planet. The minute-and-a-half long movie reflects a changing urban landscape, marked by rivers and fields which swell and shrink to the beat. Framing ‘Arena’ in this manner, McGloughlin brings our attention to the artificial, manipulative qualities of his job. This aspect is increased by VHS-style effects that see lines scrolling up and down the display like someone is pressing fast forward.

The minute-and-a-half long movie reveals a changing urban landscape, marked by rivers and areas that swell and shrink to the beat.

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Romane Granger Captures the Complex Ecosystem of Ocean Life in Abstract Videos

In a pair of teaser videos for singer Stevanna Jackson, animator Romane Granger utilizes closely modeled clay to indicate the complex ecosystem of life on the ocean’s floor. In Ocean Blues #1 and #2, the springs and coils of clay shift in tune with Jackson’s music as waves, flower-like layouts and human characters emerge from the sea. Granger is an animation student at L’École Nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. You may see more of her work on Vimeo and Instagram.

h/t colossal

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A One Minute Hand-Drawn Video of Art History

Filmmaker and educator Cao Shu capture the history of art in an experimental short film which lasts for over one minute. During the film, the central character moves through the small motions of regular movements like assessing the time and having a beverage, with every frame left at a different art historical style. The film begins in early Egypt and progresses through Chinese ink paintings and Japanese block prints to Modigliani and Basquiat-style portraits. Cao leaves a vast selection of art styles in a manner that is evocative without being overworked. He lives and works in Hangzhou, where he teaches at the China Academy of Art.

Animated Paper Collage by Jake Fried

Animator Jake Fried is popularly known for his hand-drawn ink and white-out films that incorporate compact imagery and symbolism throughout a fast-changing field of view, all photographed frame by frame through almost 1,500 layers. His most recent bit, Paper Trail, introduces a collage-like feel via a lovely layering technique. You can see many more of the movies on Vimeo.

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The Naked Truth Behind Those Excellent Instagram Snaps

Social media offers excellent opportunities to share and connect with other people. But let’s not dismiss the darker portion of it, which can make your life quite unhappy if you start comparing yourself with the seemingly endless army of people living way happier lives than you.

That’s what this video is all about. Produced in partnership with style house boohoo.com and Ditch the Label, an anti-bullying organization working from the USA, UK, and Mexico, the clip showcases exactly how easy it is to stage these excellent Instagram shots while disregarding what’s happening around you.

“We’re all guilty of twisting the truth just a little bit on social networking,” writes Ditch the Label on their site, “but in that point has it gone too far?”

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