dots and spaces

sushi cam

 

A clever little film where a camera is placed on the conveyor belt in a sushi restaurant. Seen at Reubenmiller.

By the way, I'm thinking up ideas for an alternative Christmas tree for Aspex gallery, any ideas, feel free to let me know.

They might be giants infographic

seen at Information Aestetics, one of my favourite bands take us on a trip around the periodic table.

garbage island on VBS

Fascinating documentary about the huge amount of plastic floating about the oceans. There's a point in the pacific where currents bring all the pollution together and the number of parts of plastic per parts of water is dangerously high. Whilst there's no actual floating island, that you can see, its because the plastic has broken down into so many small parts and as one of the crew say, its not the coke bottle you see, but the millions of particles that make up that coke bottle that have been dispersed through the ocean. Some amazing bits, for instance, they find few orange or red plastic particles, because these are what the fish eat...and we eat the fish.

This is part 1 of 3, head to the VBS site for more - an exciting channel, with some great content.

flight of the concords

Some of Summer Summed from kschaal on Vimeo.

I think I'm the last person in the world to see Flight of the Concords. On my last day in London I bought the box set at the BBC shop (30% deduction for ID holders...cool) and took it on holiday to France with me. I stole a few lazy mornings watching the first series and enjoyed it so much. It is wonderful.

I wanted to do a little post about it when I got home and thought instead of the guys, it would be nice to feature the Concords' most devoted fan...well, their only fan - Mel. Kristen Schaal plays her very sweetly, a bit mad with a dash of sinister and a hint of psychotic. I found out that Kristen has a Vimeo site where there are some gems including this one above. By the way the music is by a band called Pinback who are a worth checking out for their own videos.

Anyway, if you haven't already....Flight of the Concords.