Lauren Panepinto of Orbit Books condensed all her hard work on a Victorian/Steampunk novel cover into a fascinating two-minute clip. Found at YouTube from orbitbooks.

I recently listened to this Fresh Air podcast of Terry Gross interviewing director Wes Anderson about his film Fantastic Mr. Fox. In the interview, Anderson discusses how the stop-motion animated film was made. For an animation freak such as yours truly, it was fascinating and prompted me to add Fantastic Mr. Fox to the top [...]

Xyloexplosive devices (i.e. stick bombs) are a much cooler kind of domino toppling. Xylo is from the Greek and pertains to wood, so literally xyloexplosive means “explosive wood.” This is the world’s largest stick bomb. Found at YouTube from lunatim via Boing Boing.

A time lapse video of Julian Beever creating the Aveeno Fountain of Youth chalk drawing in Union Square. Found at YouTube from pavementpicasso via Huffington Post.

Art student Jamie Bell wanted to wrap up his art course with a bang and so he decided to tell the history of everything in flipbook form. Found at YouTube from DispleasedEskimo via Holy Kaw!

In this lecture on J. D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey, Professor Hungerford presents her argument about religion in the novel as an example to students of how to construct a sound literary critical paper using evidence from the text. Found at YouTube from YaleCourses.

This guy uses 14,000 dice to make this mosaics of two American icons: James Dean and Marilyn Monroe. The project is about 8 feet tall and 5 feet wide. Found at YouTube from dAlvarez3182.

Camogli is an Italian village that is not entirely what it seems. Found at Holy Kaw!

YesYesNo teamed up with The Church, Inside Out Productions and Electric Canvas to turn the Auckland Ferry Building into an interactive playground. They created an installation that went beyond merely projection on buildings by allowing viewers to become performers, by taking their body movements and amplifying them five stories tall. Found at Vimeo from thesystemis.

Muzorama is a short animated film based on the universe of french illustrator Jean-Philippe Masson a.k.a. Muzo. Found at Vimeo from Muzorama Team via Bombi(llo).