Spoiler: Indie after-the-zombies movie:

Spoiler is an independently produced 17-minute horror/science fiction movie that illuminates the kinds of cold equations that have to be solved in pandemic outbreaks. In this case, it’s the story of the coroners who keep the zombie plague under control after it’s been beaten back. It’s a good twist on the traditional zombie movie, and hits a sweet spot of sorrow and horror that you get with the best zombie stories.

The zombie apocalypse happened — and we won.

But though society has recovered, the threat of infection is always there — and Los Angeles coroner Tommy Rossman is the man they call when things go wrong.

Spoiler

(Thanks, Ben!)

Video profile: Richard Birkett, maker of curious clocks:

Richard Birkett, who I first posted about in 2010, creates bizarre clock assemblages. “Magnifying flaws is one of the main things that these clocks do.”

Photo or painting?:

This is not a painting, it’s a photograph. “Camel Thorn Trees, Namibia” by Frans Lanting/National Geographic. (via Juxtapoz)

#839; Doug is Bad at Small Talk:

Furniture made by pouring molten aluminum over wood:

Hilla Shamia creates beautiful, weird furniture by placing logs inside molds and filling them with molten aluminum: “The negative factor of burnt wood is transformed into aesthetic and emotional value by preservation of the natural form of the tree trunk, within explicit boundaries. The general, squared form intensifies the artificial feeling, and at the same time keeps the memory of the material.” [via Design Milk]

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When Thomas Edison forced the cats to box:

These delightful boxing felines were equipped with miniature boxing gloves and set to brawling by none other than legendary douchebag Thomas Edison, as a means of promoting his newfangled moving picture device in 1894.

Thomas Edison – 1894 Boxing cats

(Thanks, Isaak!)

Exquisite Papercraft Stop Motion Video for Ödland:







I was absolutely floored watching this enchanting stop motion video directed by Vincent Pianina and Lorenzo Papace for a song called Østersøen that was also written, composed, and recorded by Papace for his band Ödland off the album Sankta Lucia. What strikes me most about the video is the transitions between scenes, as objects change scale or as the camera zooms in to reveal alternate dimensions embedded in the smallest of areas. You’ll watch it two or three times before you see everything. See many more making-of photos over on Le Petit Écho Malade. Can somebody please give this Papace guy lots of money so he can make a short film? I would pay lots of money to see it.