As streaming and studios waste your time with far too much pablum compared to quality watching, making sure the defend the time you have in front of the screen becomes a priority. Here’s my list of online and offline media you probably won’t hate yourself for watching.
There was not a lot of truly great stuff in 2023. I’m not sure if this is just spillover from covid when every studio and streaming service were just thumping out any content to keep people engaged, so much bilgewater made it into production, or simply the fact that a lot of material seemed highly derivative of other shows, but 2023 had a lot of things to watch, but very little quality. While there were some gems in amongst the sea glass, they felt few. Let’s hope for more quality in 2024 though, and that the writer’s strike ended up honing rather than increasing pablum.
Wow, this is amazing to watch. Timelapse of the creation of a cartoon mag post-apocalyptic cover art. I’m impressed. Sure, I’m futzing around with getting my drawring betterer more and more , but this is really aspirational. Awesome.
via Jilo Ody .
Lurv this. I think all cities need moar of this.
Also, love the leap of faith while the oblivious passerbys walk over the chasm.
via ZeFrank
It’s a shame more people don’t go to the theatre these days, because there is some freaking amazing stuff going on there as effects and media and live performance combine (I try really, really hard to go once every two months to see something in my own defence.). I soooo wish I’d seen this production because I am absolutely amazed at what they’ve done with this sword fight scene where the main hero is battling the shadows around him. Like, wow.
Every year, Reuters takes untold numbers of photos covering the news and every year they honour the best from amongst them. Here’s the 55 best for 2010 (note: some of these are quite graphic and depict suffering, so be forewarned). That said, some of these are brilliant and amazing. Love this one from Thailand, though tough pick between it, the guy in Mogadishu wit the sharp and the out of focus Chilean carrying the dog. Amazing.
Can’t remember who I need to give props to for pointing me at this, but absolutely love the work on this video and the movement. Serene and amazing. And the music matches it perfectly.
Kinda freaking awesome, a choose-your-own-adventure YouTube zombie serial. Makes me wanna script, shoot, and chop my own kung fu, zombie, sorcerer, samurai, ninja masterpiece myself (with dinosaurs, of course).
And if you make it to the end alive and live and if you live in kiwiland (like you could miss those accents… ;-) ), you can enter to win a year’s supply of Hell’s Pizza once you know the magic email. Seriously though, did this not look like it was all sorts of fun to make?
I think this is pretty cool: Ads while you’re browsing are constantly becoming more and more intrusive and annoying.
The Add Art firefox plugin works in conjunction with AdBlock (also part of the download) to block the incoming ads and place a curated art exhibit in their place. The images are local so as not to slow down your browsing experience.
Love this. Anything to beautify the browsing landscape. Now if I could just somehow to do the same with billboards in the real world.