Check out this great stop-motion time-lapse tilt-shift video, entitled “Bathtub IV”, from Keith Loutit, via BoingBoing.

A beautiful and thought-provoking video/animation from Bruce Branit of a future I am certain will be accessible:

This week on Your Weekly Media, I’ve chosen a video I was made aware of when I took a distance-learning course in (then) Macromedia Flash in 2005. While the quirky song by The Real Tuesday Weld is made somewhat traditionally, this home-brew video is a testament to the power of a rapid-prototyping tool such as Flash. Anyway, enjoy the weirdness, and for more of it, check out Figli Migli Productions.

In the second installment of Your Weekly Media, I’ve picked a short film by Hungarian Géza M. Tóth, which was nominated for an Oscar in 2007, and should have won. Peter and the Wolf was good, but this was better.

We take a short break from our regularly-scheduled programming of my journal entries from China to bring you the following awesomeness:

Hi, this is not a very good post for such a long delay, but it’s worth it. Turn up the sound, boyeee.

Just in time for the next edition of the Budapest Bardroom, here is the soon-to-be-infamous theory of local art-historian and long-term expat Dzseff: that the cookie monster is really a . . . . just, kidding, you’ll have to watch the video to find out!

Here’s a link to a text version of the presentation, with footnotes, sources, and more information. Stay tuned for part two, being revealed tomorrow at the Bardroom, and hopefully online soon for the world to see and be shocked!

*Title (and video) stolen from JapanProbe.

Ever wanted to know what it’s like to be the main attraction in one of those conveyor-belt sushi joints in Japan? Well this is it: