The people at Aardman Animations have done it again.
To quote their site, "The Pearce Sisters", directed by Luis Cook, is
"an amusingly bleak hearted tale of two weather lashed old spinsters. lol and edna pearce live on a remote and austere strip of coast. they scrape out a miserable existence from the sea. the pearce sisters is a tale of love, loneliness, guts, gore, nudity, violence, smoking and cups of tea."
Alone, these are each some of my Very Favorite Things. Combined, they make up an incredible work of art which has almost entirely blown my mind. View clips here.
Theo Jansen, artist, studied science at the University of Delft Holland. The first seven years being a artist he just made paintings. Then he starts a project with a big flying saucer, which could really fly. It flew over the town of Delft in 1980 and brought the people in the street and the police in commotion. Since about ten years he is occupied with the making of a new nature. Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic matierial of this new nature. He makes skeletons which are able to walk on the wind. Eventualy he wants to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.
View photos of his unique and strangely life-like constructions here.
And watch a video of these magnificent wind-powered beasts in action here.
I've been in a particularly sour mood lately, with no way to advertise it and share my misery with others. But at last, problem solved! Just put on one well chosen dress, et voila! Foul mood shared without saying a word!
"I made this half-pony half-monkey monster to please you
But I get the feeling that you don't like it
What's with all the screaming?
You like monkeys, you like ponies
Maybe you don't like monsters so much
Maybe I used too many monkeys
Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you?"
God bless Jonathan Coulton. More songs by that wonderful creature at his site.
There's nothing like laying around all afternoon and watching a mobile spin lazily, hanging from your ceiling. This is an obvious truth which I have foolishly forgotten lately, and plan to rectify as quickly as possible--hopefully with about two dozen of these Flensted Mobiles.
Okay, I know you've probably all seen this, and I'm the last living person on earth who hasn't already watched the trailer. I just felt really strongly about the books when I read them and had some serious objections to some of the casting decisions for this movie, so I put off even watching the trailer until now. And I have to admit, while I still have the objections, you simply cannot go wrong with armored bears and fancy dirigibles. Ever.
For his graduation project, Gal Shkedi, a student at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Israel, animated this video for Tom Waits' "Starving in the Belly of a Whale." Kind of makes me feel ashamed of all the half-assed work I did in college.
Modest Mouse is having a video contest for the song "Missed the Boat" from their latest album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. Some of the entries are pretty impressive, so view and vote here!
Now you can feel like you're always home, wherever you are. Or at least your ring finger is. Either way, I'm totally in love with these house-shaped rings by J. Davis Studio.
Tedd on 
