18th July
Super Human: Channel 4’s Awesome Paralympic Games Advert. This moving and upbeat film by Oscar-nominated cinematographer Bradford Young shows a real human side to Britain’s elite athletes competing in Tokyo this summer. Top marks for featuring a Bugsy Malone song as a soundtrack and the line “To be a Paralympian there’s gotta be something wrong with you.”
(3′:00″) (HT@storythings)
“To be an optimist is to be highly familiar with the historical situation of mankind throughout most of its existence.” This piece, explores thenotion of “reflexive modernity”. As a society, we have progressed from “unconscious modernity,” where science and technology developed without any concern for the consequences of its evolution, to a world where what humanity does is reflexively examined for its potential future risks.
The Faults. Mountains are huge creatures on a scale of billions of years, and this work presents a fast-forward look at the changes in these mountains, not only in the form of growth, but also in the form of fractures and destruction. These movements are driven by different noise algorithms. (1′ : 41″)
After Twitter’s launch fifteen years ago, the LA Times described it as an alternative to “your MySpace page”.
No cults, no politics, no ghouls: how China censors the video game world. The number of gamers there, is bigger than the entire populations of the US, Japan, Germany, France and the UK combined.
For years, mathematicians have said it’s unknowable. New proof suggests otherwise. How many numbers exist? We might know one day. Not every infinity is the same.…
Wonderful. Watch Beluga whales migrating on this livestream.
You should use emojis at work 👍 A well-placed emoji can save you a whole lot of words...and apparently, Clippy’s coming back. This time as an emoji.
Video tricks by a stop motion animator. This wizardry is outrageously good. (30″)
- Just marvellous. This quirky Pedigree campaign imagines thefantastical former lives of shelter pets. (1′:00″)