A day in the life of Soy Panday.

A hilarious video by College Humor on the admission of Zapf Dingbats as a font.

via swissmiss.

Here’s the trailer. The movie is set for a 2009 release.

via changethethought.

Directed by James Frost, Track from In Rainbows.

“In Radiohead’s new video for “House of Cards”, no cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data.” And btw, the song is awesome too.

This was placed under the miscellanea column of this blog for some weeks now. But really, it’s worthy of a post in its own right. This (a typographic-based video) is about why we should invest in the education of girls in developing countries.

“It does not exist. It’s a figment of a lame cunt’s imagination.”

Interesting typographic video using the voice over of Claude Bessey in the 1981 rockumentary, The Decline of Western Civilization (directed by Penelope Spheeris).

There is no such thing as New Wave from luze duze on Vimeo.

This is a ‘must see’ and one of my favourite TED talks by Sir Ken Robinson. Today, TED also marks 50 million views of its talks, more than half of it from outside the U.S. Here are the Top 10 talks.

The BMW GINA (an acronym of geometry, function in an infinite number of adaptations) replaces the traditional metal/plastic construction of cars with a textile fabric skin that’s pulled taut around a frame of metal and carbon fiber wires.

See the video here. Presented by Chris Bangle.

via 37signals.

Much lighter fare than No Country For Old Men, Burn After Reading is set for release this September. It stars stars John Malkovich, George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and Brad Pitt. The title of this comedy is an allusion to former CIA director Stansfield Turner’s book Burn Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors, and Secret Intelligence. If you are a Coen Brothers fan, this may interest you too.

Update: Embedding removed. This is what I can’t understand. It’s just a freakin’ music video. Watch it here instead.

via designobserver and golden fiddle.

Amazing graffiti rendered as an animated short film.

via signal vs. noise.

An old trailer which I bookmarked sometime last year. NSFW and not in front of the children for that matter.

Pangea Day on May 10 came and went but the films will leave a lasting impression. Two animated short films left a mark on me. This one is More by Mark Osborne (the other is Papiroflexia). It touches on the human condition on so many levels - from alienation to our longing to find meaning and inspiration in our lives and surroundings. By the way, the great soundtrack is by New Order. Watch the other Pangea Day films here.

Update: Someone obviously doesn’t feel like sharing anymore, but you can still watch it here.

Shown on Pangea Day, Papiroflexia is a whimsical tale of a man who changed the world with the art of paper folding. Seemingly rendered with paper cut outs, Baldwin masterfully narrates the state of our existence and our unspoken longing for a better world. Watch another excellent Pangea Day film, More by Mark Osborne here.

No Age, art-punk duo from L.A. Brilliant stuff. Read more about them here.

After 10 years, Portishead is back with “Third” which will be available from tomorrow.

“Instead of mellowing with age or returning to a signature sound, the band has fractured and splintered that sound, plunging even deeper into loneliness and anxiety. “Third” is unlikely to become fashionable background music; it’s too bleak, too daring, too exposed.” Read more of the New York Times’ piece here.

“Machine Gun” is the first video off the album.

via 37signals.

“Pangea Day is a global event bringing the world together through film. Why? In a world where people are often divided by borders, difference, and conflict, it’s easy to lose sight of what we all have in common. Pangea Day seeks to overcome that - to help people see themselves in others - through the power of film.”

Go to pangeaday.org to find out how you can be a part of this event.