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Coping with Humans is a hilarious new, sci-fi ad with Carrie Fisher of Leia Skywalker fame. IBM Watson is a cognitive system that’s ushering in the new era of cognitive business. Recently, a group of battered science fiction bots spoke about their yen to take over the world and their dislike for working with humans. […]

DBD International has released a video about what they think ROI is about: a return on ingenuity. This reinterpretation of what ROI means is not new to DBD International, though it hasn’t been so crisply presented before. For example, a return on ideas is about how an organisation can become more efficient, effective and value-adding, […]

Catmageddon is a hilarious anti-smoking PSA that aired during the Grammys. Via Adweek: The venerable anti-smoking initiative Truth has tried just about everything to get people to stop smoking: edgy teens, cowboys with electronic voiceboxes, even earnest appeals to our health and vanity. Now they’re pulling out the big guns. Truth now says smoking is […]

Happy Monday! Here’s a compilation of every Best VFX winner ever, via Burgerfiction: For the 1927/28 Academy awards, the award was for engineering effects. There was no award again until 1938 where it was called a special award “for outstanding achievement in creating special photographic and sound effects. The very next year the award was […]

This cool video is about the fine art and craft of 1960s wallpaper manufacture. From This is Colossal: The film was shot at a factory in Perivale, just ten miles west of London. All of the wallpaper designs found in the video are garish and bright, shot in a time when people were intent on […]

And following on the heels of our post about spoofed DIY culture, here’s a video from Spike Lee’s ad agency, Spike DDB, that’s pretty much about the commercialisation of hipster culture. From Adweek: No man has more effectively served as an unofficial spokesperson for the city within a city than director Spike Lee. And so, […]

Growing tired of DIY hipster Maker culture? This video is for you. It’s the latest in a set of videos pushing back against artisanal culture. Some other of our favourites include ‘Bespoke Water’: The film features the Timmy Brothers, who peddle bespoke drinking water, like Batch #1402, which contains Mississippi River water, Lake Pontchartrain water […]

The Garden of Earthly Delights is a VR experience for Google Cardboard that celebrates one of the most famous Bosch paintings. Via VRScout: This dream-like first-person Google Cardboard VR experience is the latest app to celebrate the 500th anniversary of one of the world’s great surrealist paintings. Bosch VR explores each panel of The Garden […]

Papa is an amazing short film by Natalie Labarre. An inventor realizes he’s not a great dad so he decides to invent a better one. About the filmmaker: Natalie Labarre is a Franco-American animation artist native to NYC. At the end of her studies at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, she received a […]

Phil Grabsky makes the world’s largest Renoir exhibition available on film to a global audience. In it, he documents the life of the French master painter, looking through the Barnes Foundation’s extensive collection in Philadelphia, and exploring the progression of the artist’s style in his work. The film presents a range of perspectives on the […]