We’re kind of obsessive animation buffs, and as we constantly scour design and art blogs we find some truly stunning works that are slowly killing our computers and filling our archives. Nonetheless, we’re dedicating another Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos post to prettily animated shorts with especially inventive or avant-garde aesthetics. We hope you enjoy these [...]

Especially with web video, when a moment of boredom is enough for viewers to lose interest and click away, educational and informative texts have to be extra-cool to keep people watching. In this edition of Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos, we look at some particularly successful examples. We hope you enjoy (and are somewhat enlightened by) [...]

Who says educational videos and semi-informative cartoons have to be ugly and boring? Yes, video art has come a long way since the crude animations of our elementary school years. In this second edition of our weekly video art showcase Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos, we offer these 3 Cute and Informative Animated Shorts as proof.
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For today’s first of two editions of our weekly moving image showcase Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos, we look at three recent stop-motion shorts that use other art forms (photography, painting, installation) to take the medium in exciting new directions. After all, filmmakers with the time, patience and attention to detail can turn just about anything [...]

Admittedly, yes, digital imaging and computer technology have enabled some amazing artworks, but they’ve also produced some cautionary fiascos. Just because we have all this fancy technology doesn’t mean we should abandon inventive uses of our bodies and actual physical spaces. To understand what we mean by this, check out these 3 Stunning Multimedia Performance [...]

A few days ago we pointed you towards a post about greenwashing, in which several companies made claims of environmental awareness in commercials that seemed incompatible with their business practices. Continuing in that vein, for this edition of our weekly showcase of moving image art, Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos, we’re looking at corporate advertising that [...]

Though we’ve often prized TV and web commercials for their audacious uses of parody, satire and slapstick humor, it’s important to remember that TV’s impact – contrary to what Marshall McLuhan taught us – can be shockingly hard. Strap on your thick skin, then, before watching the brutal and brilliant ads we’ve rounded up for [...]

In our ongoing effort to keep up with all the nifty videos that come our way, we’re devoting this edition of our weekly round-up of moving image art, Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos, to a trio of nifty shorts that turn cityscapes into a visual and virtual playing field. We hope you enjoy Listicles’ 3 Beautiful [...]

Welcome back for the third edition of Listicles’ weekly round-up of all the nifty short-form moving image ephemera we come across in a given seven day period. There’s always more than we can squeeze into a three video post, so know that each installment of Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos is the result of a stressful, [...]

It’s our second weekly round-up of cool videos from all over the Interweb. Again, we came across way too many short films, ads, music videos and animations to do them all justice, so have instead chosen only the most timely and tasty to be featured in Listicles’ Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos. Enjoy!
Yankee Gal (by Antoine [...]