The Giving Tree By Shel Silverstein Once there was a tree… and she loved a little boy. And every day the boy would come, and he would gather her leaves and make them into crowns and play king of the forest. He would climb up her trunk and swing from her branches and eat apples. And they would play hide-and-go-seek. And when he was tired, he would sleep
Mäusebunker or the Research Institutes for Experimental Medicine was planned in 1971 and completed in 1981 as a purpose built facility for animal experimentation. The construction of the building ballooned from 4 million to 126 million Deutsche marks and opened to a general dislike from the public because of it’s grim purpose and the cold, evil aesthetic of this brutal, monolithic laboratory. It has opened and closed multiple
Scavengers Reign is an animated show which came out in the last year. It follows a ground of astronauts that have crash landed on an unexplored planet and abandoned by the company that has sent them into the deep reaches of space. Separated and facing individual challenges of survival, the remaining crew members are trying to get back to the crashed mothership in hopes to find a way
This is an unofficial music video that someone has edited together from US nuclear bomb test footage from the 1940-50s for the track 'Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls' by post-rock ensemble Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Even though there is an absence of footage of carnage or people or cities being decimated, it is horrifying to watch. The music is instrumental which builds and builds which it makes for
The time of Artificial Intelligence has already began but the the of AI dominance is yet to come. That future will come about in our lifetimes and there is no way to try to comprehend how it will reshape our world and what that will mean for us as a species. Here are a few interesting videos explaining the possibilities and current applications. Ex Machina is one of
20 years ago today Modest Mouse released their third album Moon & Antarctic, a sprawling epic folk punk masterpiece. Issac Brocks words moved away from the urban spawl of a west being paved over, dead strip malls, and endless roads and went universal, contemplating the cosmos and our confusing place within them. He looks into his colour TV to get a view of what is outside the window,
I have been watching the animated, educational videos by Kurzgesagt for years now. They explain everything with straight forward simplicity while each video is crammed with well researched information and beautiful images and moving words. I look forward to anything they release but I have been waiting for the last month for their insight into the COVID-19 or Corona Virus Pandemic. This video explains exactly how the virus
IN-SHADOW is an animated short created solely by Lubomir Arsov with the help of a few others. It is a wordless, guided by an electronic soundtrack and imagery that says to lot about the makeup of society in very little words. It comments on government and media collusion, propaganda, enslavement, boredom, hopelessness, and our ability to rise up and attain a higher understanding, and only then will we
Sydney Film Festival starts today and Amy and I have 7 films booked in so far over the next 12 days. I thought I would take this opportunity to share the trailers for the films we are going to see, as I think they all look absolutely fantastic, and they're all so different from one another. First up, tonight is 'Anthropocene' a documentary, which is "a stunning sensory