Song of the week

Easy Way Out by Gotye

Tarantino from below and Anderson from above

Filming from below and filming from above. Two different techniques, two different approaches, both contributing to the film’s essence.

Kogognada has created two short fascinating videos; the first one is a compilation of Quentin Tarantino’s shots filmed from below.

And the second one is compilation of Wes Anderson’s overhead shots of hands doing all sort of things.

Pretty cool. Don’t you think?

via Laughing Squid

See also:

• The ABCs of cinema
• Kubrick’s animated odyssey
• Cut. The last image

The semicolon was getting tired of winking

by Marc Johns

See also:

• Help the semicolon not to become extinct
• Can you take a hint?
• “Pun,ctu.a’tion?

The arrow of time

What makes the past different from the future? Just entropy. An excellent short video from Minute Physics, (a YouTube channel explaining physics with super cool animated videos), explores the differences between the past and the future.

See also:

• How big is our universe?
• Creating a mini universe
• Antikythera mechanism explained by LEGO

Beleza on the walls

Beauty is not always in the streets, it is on the walls as well. In particular, on the walls of Brasilândia Vila, a poor suburb on the outskirts of São Paulo, where Madrid Spain based artist collective Boa Mistura transformed them into a typographical scenery.

Words such as beleza, amor, doçura, firmeza and orgulho (beauty, love, sweetness, firmness and pride) were painted on the walls in perspective and revealed from just one point of view,  as people walk past the one location where the lines merge into the form of words.

See more typography murals after the jump.

The ABCs of cinema

A video quiz this time to test our movie knowledge. Evan Seitz created an amazing animation video, where its letter of the alphabet represents a popular film. How many titles can you name?

See also:

• First quiz of the year
• Last quiz of the year
• See the object, guess the movie

Erased words

Just erase: words, commas, sentences to reveal the true emotion and find poetry. Newspaper Blackout, a Tumblr blog of Austin-based artist and writer Austin Kleon (included in TIME magazine’s list of the  30 Must-See Tumblr Blogs) creates”blackout poetry” just by blacking out unwanted text with a permanent marker and revealing new and shorter versions of poetic expression.

See more after the jump