After the Singularity, Health Care Only Gets Worse
Plastic people acting like real people is a favorite of ours. As we can see here, Elon Musk has every reason to be worried about the future. See more videos by Pierre Grillère
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Boring Machines Disturbs Sleep
Max Richter’s latest composition, From Sleep, is eight hours long. This remix by Mogwai is your alarm. If you’re in need of slumber, you may do better with this.
Lo-Fi Videos for Wi-Fi Video Watching
In his video for “Siamese Brutality” by the Soupcans, Winston Hacking uses his fingers instead of a computer to animate his collages. From CMJ: “I decided the images needed to come to life before their inevitable destruction, so I just moved them around with my fingers and an exacto knife.
Rancho Música
This is Jarbas Agnelli, “walking around [his] ranch, looking for everything that makes interesting noises.” His ranch sounds great. Drummers reinventing their craft never gets old.
The Clock of the Long Now
Like a Stonehenge in the present day, the Clock of the Long Now is a project to build a clock that can operate for the next 10,000 years. The project’s director, Alexander Rose: “In trying to design a 10,000-year clock, we’re invested in generational thinking
Max Richter’s Eight-Hour Lullaby
Here are three minutes from Max Richter’s From Sleep, an eight-hour composition he calls his “personal lullaby for a frenetic world.” Download From Sleep
A Surreally Bad Day
When your keyboard turns literal and the toothpaste attacks, you can tell. It’s another one of those days. Directed by Terri Timely
You Can’t Kill the Rooster
David Sedaris reads “You Can’t Kill the Rooster”—the greatest story in human history—about his brother Paul, aka The Rooster. See also: The text for “You Can’t Kill the Rooster”
If the Cuckoo Don’t Crow, Then You Know There’s Wind Coming
A listener calls into Nick Pandolfi’s radio show with the story of when his mother predicted a hurricane the BBC didn’t. Also: Proof animation obviates subtitles. Animated by Steve Kirby
Weird Simpsons VHS
Just as I remember it. Directed and animated by Yoann Hervo