Designer / filmmaker Hillman Curtis has been working for about 9 months on "The Happy Film," one person's pursuit of happiness through self-experiment - that person is Stefan Sagmeister. The Happy Film takes a look at the strategies serious psychologists recommend to improve one's personal well-being and overall happiness. The questions “Is it possible to [...]

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Takeshi Tadatsu, a Tokyo comics artist, who back in the 90s created “Tokyo NewYork” for The New York Press, has been busily making shoebox cars that will knock your socks off. I was smitten enough by them to ask where his toy inspiration came from: "I have many Mexican wrestler figures; one day I placed [...]

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This innovative spot for MTV Brazil was created by director Dulcidio Caldeira of Paranoid Brazil. Such a clever way to create stop-motion. Apparently, to achieve this effect, the balloons were fastened to a rail which went the length of two football fields. The popper traveled at a rate of 600 balloons per minute.

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Randy J. Hunt of Etsy wrote to say: "Venice, California-based artist and art director Greg Beauchamp a.k.a etsy.com/?shop/?beauchamping strives for the most elusive quality there is in his life and work-- simplicity. We're releasing this video. It's pretty awesome. . . . This video is a journey to the secret location that helps him reveal [...]

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Winky Dink And You was the first interactive TV show aired on CBS from 1953 to 1957, on Saturday mornings. Hosted by Jack Barry, a popular game show host, it featured the exploits of a character named Winky Dink (voiced by Mae Questel, the voice of Betty Boop) and his dog Woofer. Winky Dink, noted [...]

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  (notes on) biology from ornana films on Vimeo. ?Danny Madden, Jonathan Silva and Will Madden (collectively known as Ornana Films) created this brilliant hand-drawn exploration of "bored in class" doodles. Wait for it, because it's worth the ride.

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From the satiric mind of Tony Hendra comes the hit music video of the latest North Africa War. You'll go GaGa for it.

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The Saga Of Biorn from The Animation Workshop on Vimeo. This fine little piece comes to us from an animation school in Denmark called The Animation Workshop. Created as a Bachelor's project by a talented team of animator and CG artists, this film is well designed, has a solid story and a punch of humor. [...]

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CBS Sunday Morning, which often covers the pop culture beat, has a delightful segment (online) devoted to friendly trade characters - their makers and remakers. From Speedy Alka Seltzer to Tony The Tiger to Mr. Peanut (now voiced by Robert Downey Jr., yes that one) thrown in. This clip is worth a look and listen. [...]

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“Widows and orphans give us sleepless nights."?In any other sense, that phrase might conjure up images of black spiders or a certain little redhead named Annie. But when you realize the words were spoken by partner and typographer-extraordinaire Caz Hildebrand of London-based graphic design firm?Here Design, the picture changes mighty fast. She adds, “All of [...]

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