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One time while were riding in the elevator in a really, really tall building one of our favorite jams came on the muzak, and we felt transported to a dark, light-dappled dance floor. We’re not sure the other people in the elevator were transported to quite the same place, and it became clear when the [...]

Stop motion videos are like the sure-fire way to Internet success these days (note, for instance, the huge success of Sorry I’m Late), and though they haven’t always been all that visually sophisticated. As everyone jumps on the stop-motion bandwagon though, equipped with better cameras and fine-tuned editing systems, is it any wonder that we’ve [...]

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 [...]

Those bars, lines, circles and graphs in iTunes and other music-playing technologies that give some kind of graphic expression to the sounds issuing forth get old pretty fast. We had givem up on using them, and on trying to download new ones, until the other day we came across Marcelo Costa’s cool stop-motion vidsticle of [...]

We still have a thing for stop-motion animation, even if more fancy jazzy styles of computer-generated effects have long eclipsed its usefulness. Though it blends in less seamlessly, something about the craft and wonder of stop-motion makes it a truly exciting filmic device. That’s why we were especially excited by Unreality’s listicle of 10 Memorable [...]