One day, Andrew the dragon went to his grandmother's for tea. But there was no water in the kettle. And then Andrew went to the wizard on a high mountain to get water and make tea. Based on the fairy tale by Donald Bisset.
The hedgehog-inventor got tired of cleaning the house and decided to create a robot that would work on pancakes and do house cleaning. This is how the cat vacuum cleaner appeared. And everything was fine until the Hedgehog's dog ate all the pancakes prepared for the cat vacuum cleaner. A little more and the revolution of robots would begin. But the Hedgehog saved a friend.
The worm decided to go into space. And the apple he gnawed was perfect for space flight. But after a collision with a hungry planet, very much like an angry apple, the worm decided to return quickly home.
The fox invited her friends to pizza on her birthday. If the animals are very hungry, then their nerves are completely useless. Why eat someone all the time when it's possible to order pizza home?
Artist and storyteller Abner Preis tells apparently simple stories with a deeper layer of social meaning. He combines the age-old structures of fairy tales and legends to address current affairs and doesn’t shy away from including an old-fashioned moral with the story, always with a dose of humor. Simple drawings generally play a key role in his art in the form of storytelling.
“Ha! That tickles! Well… uh, welcome… to my brain.” In 2028, Health Canada launches an anonymous online platform where anyone can stream their brain activity to get a brain massage. In this short animation film, you are one of the masseurs, evoking a stream of emotions and memories in a stranger.
They don't actually exist, but they’re always available and ready to help. The virtual assistants Siri and Alexa—respectively voiced by Susan Bennett and Susan Caplin—seem to know everything about you, from your search history and occupation to your medical details and secret photo collections. But what do we know about our virtual assistant? Who is this anonymous, ever-obliging woman trapped in our laptop? How does she feel about her “partnership” with the user? What does she look like and what does she think about her own life and ultimate transience?
The manual of mental disorders, the DSM, grows thicker with each new edition. There seem to be more and more psychiatric disorders, notes the maker of #AMiNORMAL, Mika Orr, whose father is a psychiatrist.
Mengtai Zhang locks us into his own memories of a center for internet addicts. Run by psychiatrists, who are backed up in some centers by military personnel, this institution functions as a re-education camp.
Games are making increasing use of motion control technology. In the past, you clicked your mouse or a button on the console to control your Super Mario or Sim; then Wii Sports made it possible to control the game using your own body.
When artist Anna Fries was pregnant, they didn’t feel at all like the stereotypical image of the expectant parent—a woman with hands clasped over her belly, her face glowing, gazing blissfully into the distance. It’s an image that leaves little room for those who are pregnant but do not identify as female, or for the reality that being pregnant can be physically tough and extremely disorienting. High time, then, to de-romanticize and de-feminize pregnancy.
In a number of countries you can now have a fully automated birth on a cloud of epidural bliss. To the rest of the world, having a baby is simply a matter of suffering pain. In this visual essay, Myleine Guiard-Schmid wonders why. Aside from the fact that it brings the joy of a new life, why can’t childbirth be pleasurable?
The video for the song by Peter Cash. Nothing serious and great, only funny, strange characters do strange things. Well, more shoes, shoes and "Should a Lady".