Love the fluidity in this short.

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All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn’t your pet, it’s your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

— Joss Whedon

But what happens if a user visits at full-width one afternoon and revisits your site in the evening on a tablet, and everything looks completely different? It’s annoying—like someone rearranging the groceries in your pantry every time you closed the door.

—Trent Walton on Content Choreography

This blew my mind the first time I watched it. Mostly because it’s completely CG but also due to the outstanding production quality.

Truly, a labor of visual love.

The Escapist explains:

Somehow, a few gamers remembered seeing the image of a brunette female with the sun behind her in a catalog of stock images from Getty, a service that supplies images for all creative endeavors. Several angry posts were made on BioWare’s forums and various gaming outlets with links to both the original image and comparisons pointing out the similarity. Many decided this was unforgivable.

This kind of trivial nitpicking isn’t new to the internet but it makes me wonder if this is an issue only because Bioware artists decided to forgo using an in-house model, as if using stock photography cheapens the in-game art.

I used to work at a direct mailing company and we had a limited selection of models from our archives to use for promotional materials.

For budget reasons we’d often re-use the licensed images ad-infinitum and only once or twice considered hiring new models but the costs associated with that are expensive.

Reminds me of the story Gather Ye Acorns from the short-lived television series Amazing Stories, a gentler version of The Twilight Zone.

From IMDB: “Jonathan Quick, the bane of his practical parents’ existence, takes an ancient tree troll’s advice to pack up his treasured comic-book collection and follow his heart.”

Vader: “These walks we have, young one, are a perfect escape from The Empire and its day-to-day. Oh, look! A daisy!”

I love these kinds of mash-ups. Especially when it involves anything pop culture related and something more traditional, like Monet and impressionism.

(Image by Limpfish)

I learned that money can be a lot of things. It can be something that is hoarded, fought over, protected, stolen and withheld. Or it can be like an energy, fueled by the desire, will, creative interest, need to laugh, of large groups of people. And it can be shuffled and pushed around and pooled together to fuel a common interest, jokes about garbage, penises and parenthood.

— Louis C.K.