Happy Fourth of July! Found at YouTube from FlippyCat.

This is amazing. Tomas Mankovsky meticulously created this stop-motion animated short film by taking still photos from a hole in his ceiling looking straight down at the floor. There’s some time-lapse footage after the film that shows how he did it. There’s more “making of” stuff at his Web site, sorry-im-late.com. Enjoy!

A swastika appears at about 1:10; the creator of this Rubik’s Cube assembly video insists it is simply a stylized depiction of his initials, YH. Read his explanation at YouTube.

This is a fantastic, meticulous, and funny demonstration of stop motion animation by Jelle Van Dun. This is his description of the clip from YouTube: This Stop Motion Animation takes you into another world. In this world no physical laws count. The only laws that count are the laws of the Animator. I animated myself through my house and [...]