Intention - Apple

A few days ago, Apple kicked off the WWDC 2013 conference with a 2-hour keynote, revealing iOS7, the new Mac OS X and updates to its line of MacBook Air and Mac Pro. The keynote started with a short video describing the thoughts and emotions that go into creating each Apple product. 

Simple phrases paired with elegant visual. Very well done !

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Alan Watts - Time To Wake Up

Alan Watts sharing once again very inspiring and genuine reflections.

Coupled with a great piece by E.S. Posthumus and perfectly synced with a beautiful video animation.

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To This Day Project - Shane Koyczan

Help this message have a far reaching and long lasting effect in confronting bullying. Absolutely amazing !

An Animated Adaptation of Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot

“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love,everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. 

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”

Written and Narrated: Carl Sagan
Music: Hans Zimmer “You’re So Cool”
Art and Animation: Adam Winnik

The Importance of Frustration in the Creative Process

“Before we can find the answer - before we can even know the question - we must be immersed in disappointment”

To Do List 

A personal project created by Yaniv Fridman illustrating his to do (and not to do) list for “the things we cherish and aspire to in life”.  Read more, browse less.  Travel more, plan less.  

So true !

ABCinema

Test your movie knowledge with this animated cinema-based alphabet created by freelance motionographer Evan Seitz.  A is for Amelie.  B is for Big Lebowski.  C is for Citizen Kane.

How many can you guess?

T-Shirt War

Another stop-motion, because it’s simply beautiful to watch !

These guys changed shirts over 100 times each, taking individual pictures of each unique shirt. The designs on the shirts are not photoshopped and they are real shirts for each frame of animation. 

Other stop-motions you might enjoy:

Hudson - Against The Grain - MOVE - Animating Chanel 

Nuit Blanche

Nuit Blanche explores a fleeting moment between two strangers, revealing their brief connection in a hyper real fantasy. So beautiful and emotional !

Directed by Arev Manoukian

Cartier: “Painted Love” by AIR

Since 2008, Cartier has been inviting artists such as Lou Reed, Phoenix, Olivier Dahan and Camille Henrot to provide their individual interpretation in response to the question “How far would you go for LOVE?” 

Discover the new music video “Painted Love” with original music by the French band AIR. It follows the trials and tribulations of a young artist in New York as he searches for his muse.

Love is truly the greatest drug. Nothing compares :)

One Minute Puberty [HD]

Awesome animation about puberty by Alexander Gellner. Puberty, the fun and exciting times you had with pimples, uncontrolled new powers, and a thousand things you tried out for the first time. 

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“The Japanese Popstars - Let Go” music video - The Music Scene short

The Japanese Popstars - Let Go [HD]

I just discovered this music video for The Japanese Popstars’ track ‘Let Go’. Well executed and quite trippy animation style.

If you appreciated the animation in this music video take some time to explore through the PRESSTUBE site or check these 2 shorts: One Minute Puberty , The Music Scene

You might also like the following music videos:

Sigur Ros - Glósóli | Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up | The Naked And Famous - Young Blood | After - Moby  | Hudson - Against The Grain | OK Go - This Too Shall Pass | Kings of Leon - Use Somebody | Tim Neuhaus - As Life Found You | Ok GO - End Love | Ok GO - Needing/Getting |  Tim Neuhaus - As Life Found You | Super Flu - Oktavlachs | Breezeblocks - Alt-J(∆) | Seraph - Sigur Ros