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"Vireo's Eye" by Future Islands

One of the best songs of 2010.

Future Islands - Vireo's Eye from vision quest on Vimeo.

"Fram" by Blawan.

Blawan - Fram (Video Edit) from voconut on Vimeo.

Circulus: The Bike Track Inside a Library

Samuel Starr at Pomona College built a bike track/velodrome inside of his school’s library.

Circulus from machine project on Vimeo.

Grace Jones comes to town!

Before Grace Jones takes the stage at the International Istanbul Jazz Festival on July 16th, see these amazing videos and don't miss the concert:

Grace Jones @ Roundhouse from Patrick Tichy on Vimeo.

Grace Jones "Corporate Cannibal" from Jordy on Vimeo.

And here's a video that shows her singing "Williams' Blood" off her latest album "Hurricane".

Williams' Blood

The evolution of life, on a wall

Michael Marshall, environment reporter (Source: New Scientist)

The rather excellent video below is a wall-painted animation: essentially a stop-motion animation created by painting a sequence of still images on a wall and photographing them, then running the photos together into a film.

It was created by the street artist Blu, who describes it as the result of "months of work and hundreds [of] buckets of paint". That's hardly surprising, given that it tries to illustrate the history of the universe since the big bang, with a particular focus on the evolution of life on Earth.

BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.