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“We are now reaching a point where technological progress threatens the very existence of humanity.” It’s all up for discussion in Surviving Progress. Some beautiful timelapse shots used in the promo.

Support your local economy just like H.G. “Skip” Brack.  Etsy videos are a real treasure trove.

What’s Cookin?  Just watch those pancakes rap.  Food, stop motion and rap music - a fine combination.

Holi.

Colours colours colours colours.

Showering down upon us.

A beautiful piece of filmmaking from the Variable collective.

Makes Monday not so beige.

The Bridge - the newest Scandinavian gem to hit the screens.  2 episodes in and I’m hooked.  Flawless cinematography, gorgeous grading - 50 shades of beige, blue and green, pacy editing and a fluid script.  Delightful.

Toronto liked it, Sundance loved it.  The story of the former President of the Maldives and his determination to ensure the survival of his nation and win the war on climate change.  Loved the underwater cabinet meeting clip.

His eyes are watching you.  Love Mar’s mural in Lisbon - The Rainbow Guardian.

It’s time to paint the banks!  Artists take to the streets in the IFSC in Dublin.  WB you still inspire.

South American Lightshow with a difference!

Coffee With A Conscience

Every once in a while you watch a short film that reaffirms your faith in humanity.  Yoshi’s Blend does this and more.  Here is a coffee artisan, a man who is as passionate about grinders and beans, as he is about his country Japan.

After the devastating earthquake and tsunami that ravaged the north-eastern part of the country, Yoshi felt compelled to help his people - “whatever we can do we should do.”

So he kitted out his VW van as a mobile coffee shop bringing warmth, normalcy and gramophone music to some of the most devastated areas of Japan. 

Brewing coffee offered him the chance to “bring the coffee grinders, beans and the scene that is normal to them and to me even though the area is devastated.”

Yoshi firmly believes that “our human voice is stronger than the tsunami.”  His Hope Cafe - Coffee With A Cause, becomes almost a drop-in centre for those struggling to come to terms with what happened to their lives so shockingly and abruptly.

Mackenzie Sheppard’s film has stark but beautiful imagery of Yoshi driving his yellow and white VW van through twisted and torn grey landscapes.  It’s a simple, striking and inspiring story.

Asghar Farhadi’s complex Iranian drama.  One to watch, even Mr Oscar agrees!

Vowels.

How to say them and how to see them. 

Simple, elegant video that’s based on an extract from an archival sound recording, the 1945 Linguaphone series ‘English Pronunciation - A practical handbook for the foreign learner.’

Lovely work from Studiocanoe.

Ben Slow’s mural - Charlie Burns on Flickr.

A striking black, white and blue mural on Bacon Street. Another gem in the heart of East London. Ben Slow’s masterpiece.

James Cochran’s mural on Flickr.

The fine work of James Cochran. An artist who paints murals of homeless people.

When you see his mural on Bacon Street in Shoreditch you wonder is the man featured a Greek philosopher, scholar - who is he?

It’s actually an image of a homeless man the artist met in Paris a few years ago.

Shoreditch flight path, art hidden on every street in this part of London.

Memories of Damascus

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Nestled in a Tokyo subway station is the restaurant of arguably the world’s greatest Sushi chef - Sukiyabashi Jiro.  This is the story of how one man has mastered the art of making perfect sushi, striving everyday to uphold his reputation.