Smoke Break #865: A Moving Short Film On Humanity’s Divorce From The Natural World

Hanna Maria Heidrich, a student at Germany’s Filmakademie Baden- Württemberg, crafted this short but poignant film about humanity’s ever-broadening disconnect with nature (via Laughing Squid).

FILM: Fundraiser For Gavin Froome & Mike Bernard’s “Coast Modern” In Strathcona

There’s a sweet-sounding fundraiser for a beautiful-looking film on West Coast Modernist Architecture by Gavin Froome and Mike Bernard going down in Strathcona next Thursday night. Footage will be shown, plus there will be the inevitable music, dancing and partying to follow. Tickets here, details there, and check the poster after the jump… Read more

New “This Must Be The Place” Film Explores The Idea Of Home

Lost & Found Films presents “This Must Be The Place”, a short film series that re-examines the spaces in which he inhabit.

There’s no place like home. It’s where we live, work and dream. It’s our sanctuary and our refuge. We can love them or hate them. It can be just for the night or for the rest of our lives. But whoever we may be, we all have a place we call home.

Smoke Break #692: An Animated Overture To Urban Development

(via LikeCool) Rob Carter’s “Metropolis” says a lot about the sedentary habit of humanity without saying anything at all. The part where the highway system unfurls from a ball of paper worms would have made Robert Moses turn and cough…

Smoke Break #691: When Pixels Invade And Take Over The Earth

(via Kuriositas) Patrick Jean’s new short depicts an all out 8-bit attack on New York City.

“Clash Of The Titans” Advance Screening Tickets Up For Grabs

SCOUT is sponsoring Vancouver’s March 31st exclusive advance screening of Louis Letterier’s remake of the 1981 cult classic, Clash of the Titans. The new version, an effects-driven tale, stars Sam Worthington (Avatar), Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient), Liam Neeson (Schindler’s List), and Pete Postlethwaite (The Usual Suspects). It tells of the mortal son of Zeus defending Greece and the Heavens after Hades rises to wrest control over both. As you can see from the clips above, it looks pretty intense. Not exactly The World According To Garp, but we all make exceptions for art, and that Kraken at the end of the trailer is gnarly. If you join us with a double pass of your own (you and a date), invent your own mythical creature in the comments. Be as descriptive as you like. The best ones win tickets, starting now.

PS. Consulting your Monster Manual for aid in this contest will result in the confiscation of your 20-sided dice.

I Wonder How Long Stanley Park Would Last Against Chainsaws?

(Via Sully) Watch this profoundly humanist anti-deforestation ad by Maya Lin. The basic visual arithmetic of loss of habitat + global warming + mass extinctions = you losing your favourite city park might not balance out, but that doesn’t make the final minute or so with the tree felling seen in reverse any less poignant. Can you imagine Stanley Park gone in sixty seconds? I’d rather not. More at WhatIsMissing.net.

Visual Refresher On The History And Meaning Of Human Rights…

Just in case you needed one. Check after the jump for a visual and musical interpretation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (it’s a gooder…and the subject of one this website’s first posts back in November, 2008). Read more

The Beautiful Evolution Of Everything In Under Ten Minutes

In the new YouTube era of mega mash-ups, a thing such as this – a 9:54-long series of clips depicting everything from the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago to the extinction level asteroid impact that closed the Cretaceous and killed the dinosaurs – is an eventuality, a new meme reference for when the complicated bigness of it all fails to chill a mind that was never programmed to comprehend secrets so monumental, like a cheat sheet for surmising the grandest of hows… Read more

New Restaurant Comedy Not Exactly A Recruitment Drive…

Sigh. When are we going to get our own Top Gun?

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