Watch Pixar’s Short LAVA About Two Volcanoes in Love

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If you see a Pixar movie at the cinema, you also get to see a Pixar short that precedes the movie—this short LAVA preceded Inside Out and it’s a charming love story about two…volcanoes? Yep, leave it to Pixar to imbue a rocky lava-spewing mass with warmth and wit.

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‘Paper,’ A Stop-Motion Animation by PES for Honda

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In this minor masterpiece from Oscar-nominated stop-motion animator PES, dozens of animators and illustrators worked on thousands of original drawings over four months of work. The result is that everything you see is done by hand and shot in camera.

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‘Uptown Funk’ Mashup Sees 100 Movies Dance Scenes Boogie to Mark Ronson’s Hit

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YouTube channel What’s the Mashup ? perfectly sync dance scenes from 100 movies so it looks like the characters are getting down to Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ hit “Uptown Funk”—The movies featured in the mashup ranged from Grease, Flashdance and Dirty Dancing to Magic Mike, 13 Going on 30, 500 Days of Summer, and many more.

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Watch the Remastered Version of Everything is a Remix as One Single Video

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Kirby Ferguson’s Everything is a Remix came at a time when remix culture, mashups and supercuts, were first taking off on the web—and copyright was, and still is, a big issue. What Ferguson’s series of films did, now available to watch as a single 40 minute long doc, is reiterated that, actually, remix culture had been going on since forever.

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Adam & the Ants Go Shopping at a Local Grocery Store

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This short film by Ben Gregor and Tim Plester shows what it would be like if Adam & the Ants, circa the early 1980s, went shopping at their late-night local grocery store at the same time as another New Romantic band, Sigue Sigue Sputnik. It’s an affectionate homage to the band and that era of music.

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‘Don’t You (Forget About Me)’—A Filmic Tribute to 80’s Teen Movies

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The Breakfast Club marked its 30th anniversary this year—and this supercut aims to honor that great John Hughes film and many other 80s movies, which is probably the golden age of teen movies. And this awesome tribute will make you pine for those days when there seemed to be a new great teen movie out every other week.

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Google Engineers Invent New Body Part To Strap Gadgets Onto

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Fed up with the human body not matching up to their moon shot designs and ideas, Google decided to start messing around with nature herself and redesign the human body, creating an entire new body part which they can strap gadgets onto.

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Friday Punchy Pics

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It’s time for that ‘Friday Feeling’ as you slip into the weekend zone – Here’s another delicious dose of pictographic internet hilarity to help round out your week. Specially designed for the lazy web surfer, this gallery can be browsed using just your scroll wheel finger; simply scroll down, lol, then scroll down some more. Couldn’t be simpler!

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Belgian Rapper Stromae’s New Music Video is an Artful Take on Battling Cancer

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Rapper Stromae latest song “Quand C’est?” has a stunningly animated music video made by his art collective Mosaert, and it’s a haunting take on cancer. It shows the singer battling with the disease as it attacks him like some kind of alien monster.

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Nickelodeon Will Be Celebrating 90s Shows with ‘The Splat’

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Nickelodeon’s 1990s cartoons and TV shows were undeniably awesome, Rugrats, Ren & Stimpy, Rocko’s Modern Life, Salute Your Shorts, the list goes on—and now the channel are celebrating that halcyon period with a programming block due to air in October called The Splat.

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‘Ultimate Gun Game’ is the First Person Shooter You Wish Existed

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What would happen if you combined the weapons from classic video games and turned them into one epic shooter? That’s the theoretical question VFX whizzes Corridor Digital have answered in their amazing video Ultimate Gun Game. Which is like a mini tour through video game history taking in games like Mario, Zelda, Portal, and Halo.

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