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An Amazing Example of CGI

The word "amazing", and other superlatives like it, are all about context.  For example, it's apropos if this were a regular video, as this short is equal to the term.  Add to the same context that it was all done by one, very creative person, and the word "amazing" becomes a slight understatement.  Finally, add to it that nearly the entire short was done in CG and "amazing" just doesn't do it justice.

Do yourself a favor and watch this in full-screen and see what words you can come up with, because I'm at a loss...

Let's Raise Kids to Be Entrepreneurs

Bored in school, failing classes, at odds with peers: This child might be an entrepreneur, says Cameron Herold. At TEDxEdmonton, he makes the case for parenting and education that helps would-be entrepreneurs flourish -- as kids and as adults.

Cyrus

I'm a big fan of the Duplass Brothers, who wrote and directed this film.  After directing acclaimed indie films like The Puffy Chair and Baghead, Cyrus looks like it could be their best effort, to date!  It's open in NY and LA, with more cities opening every week.

The World's Largest Record Collection

Over the years, Paul Mawhinney has amassed what has become the world's largest record collection. He has also been forced to sell it...

(via dave clark and alan m. kafton)

What's a bassoforte? Oh, *that's* a bassoforte!

So Glad It's Summer!

Five Oscar Nominees for Best Documentary

The Cove

Directed by former National Geographic photographer Louie Psihoyos, it documents the annual killing of dolphins in a National Park at Taiji, Wakayama, in Japan. It just won a Writers Guild Award for Best Documentary Feature Screenplay.

Which Way Home

Several unaccompanied children journey through Mexico en route to the US, on a freight train called "The Beast."

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsburg and the Pentagon Papers

Daniel Ellsberg, a top-level Vietnam War strategist, concludes the war is based on a decade of lies. He leaks 7,000 pages of top-secret documents to the The New York Times.

Burma VJ

Armed with small handycams undercover Video Journalists in Burma keep up the flow of news from their closed country despite risking torture and life in jail.

Which doc do you think will pickup the Oscar???