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As George Lucas proved with his fuzzy-cute Ewoks, people will swallow anything if you can find an adorable spokesperson to push it (also of note in this rubric: the Geico gecko). Chronicling this trend in recent ads, this edition of Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos is given over to commercials that assault us with sweetness then [...]

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) [...]

Encountered in the wrong context – say, on your first day at a new job – safety videos can feel like brain-torturing tedium, belittling condescension and a bad omen. Taken as deliriously comic arcana, though, the safety videos of yesterday’s workplace can be the coffee break entertainment of today’s worker. mental_floss demonstrates this terrific up-cycling [...]

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 [...]

We’re really digging the new visual flair that digital technology is opening up to the advertising world. Now that blockbuster visual effects don’t have blockbuster price tags, one-minute and 30-second spots can afford to swing for the bleachers. This week’s edition of Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos is entirely devoted to imaginative mini-world-making, as showcased in [...]

It’s Friday, and as we plot our weekend activities we’re making sure our vinyl shirts and bell-bottom pants are back from the cleaners, we’re getting our platform shoes re-soled and our lightning bolt-shaped sideburns are coming in nice and thick. Yes, we’re retro addicts, and we’ve assembled these 3 Deliriously Retro Music Videos to get [...]

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 [...]