Lauren Beukes Broken Monsters - Lauren Beukes is the amazing author who wrote The Shining Girls. If you haven't read The Shining Girls it was a time traveling, serial killer, paranormal hybrid of a novel.
Dave Eggers Short Francis
Learning From Inmates Reflect - Trent Bell is an architectural photographer that decided to photograph inmates and then asked them to write a letter to their former, younger self. The results are hypnotic.
If Your Dad Worked For Dreamworks - Yeah, ok, so now you know for CERTAIN your dad isn't as cool as you thought he was. DreamWorks special effects artist Daniel Hashimoto decided to take his family videos of his son and turn him into an action hero. They are all very short - but each one is wonderfully delicious in their own sweet way.
Your Daily Dose of Whimsy - animation whimsy love
Cut Paper Light Box Gloriousness - Paper is brutal in its simplicity as a medium. It demands the attention of the artist while it provides the softness they need to mold it in to something beautiful. It is playful, light, colorless and colorful. It is minimal and intricate. It reflects light, creates depth and illusions in a way that it takes the artist through a journey with limitless possibilities.
Prospect a Gorgeous SXSW SciFi 13 Minute Short Is it possible to create a sci-fi bildungsroman in no more than...
2048 Reasons to love 2048
Impossible Co. iPhone Polaroid Prints - There are some things that are just too cool to be believed. About a year ago I saw a kickstarter campaign that was determined to build a polaroid printer out of your iPhone photos. But it got stuck in the engines of development and just faded from my memory. Now though, the polaroid throwback is ready for primetime.
Gallery Animation Installation by Caleb Wood - Caleb Wood hand drew this animation frame by frame ... on a wall... at the Prøve Gallery in Duluth, Minnesota. Which is awesome on like a million fronts. The video above shows both the animation itself as well as the behind the scenes creation effort. Its a "gallery animation installation". Eh? Awesome.
New Coen Brothers Series Fargo
Heather Hansen Emptied Gestures - Heather Hansen deftly melds dance, performance art and drawing into a single aesthetic in these moving charcoal pieces. Heather's smooth movements and tightly gripped pieces of charcoal record her performances into organic and sweeping gestures and explosions of arcs and contours.
Just a pile of awesome TED Talks - If you don't know TED, it is a conference of inspiring talks that are in the 10 to 20 minute range that will inspire you and change your life.
The Signal 2014 Sundance Science Fiction Magic - Since this year's Sundance I've been hearing rumor about a movie entitled The Signal that will be the next big mind-blowing head job to pay attention to. Brought to us by William Eubank, The Signal seems simple enough at the surface.
An Open Letter To Shane Carruth - wherein a serious fan boy writes out questions for one of the world's great directors to answer if ever the bottle washes up on his shore.