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Band members are displayed across an array of 16 televisions in the music video for “Animals” by The Cast of Cheers. The video’s director, Babysweet, describes a bit of the complex production process:

The concept of the video was based around 16 VCR players and 16 Televisions. Each band member was divided into four and each section was filmed playing back the song. So each member had four videos of themselves playing back the single with the camera fixed on a different part of their body. This footage was then put onto DVD and then transferred onto VHS.

The televisions were then positioned into a stack of 16 and each was connected up to a VCR player. Each VHS was put into its relevant player and rewound to the start. On the day the band and crew all looked after two video players each. Once the camera was rolling there was a countdown for everyone to press play on their VCRS at the right time. As each VCR was different, some had a different reaction and playback time and so this all had to be taken into consideration.

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“The Subculture of Butchers” takes a look at a new generation of butchers who are running independent butcher shops in the San Francisco Bay Area. Directed by Ryan Ovadia, the short documentary is the latest in the Subculture Club series by Thrash Lab.

Being a butcher may not seem like a dream job to you, but in this episode of Subculture Club, we visit three independent butcher shops in the San Francisco Bay Area and reveal how the job has become a whole lot hipper and more desirable than it used to be. This generation of foodies and meat lovers want to know where their meat comes from and as a bonus have a relationship with their butchers (just like the old days).

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“The Night is our Canvas” is a short video of a live video projection session by Maki and iink that was recorded in an industrial complex in Vienna. The artists created the projection art with Tagtool, a multiplayer live projection art app for iPad by OMAi.

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“Hi-diddly-ho, neighborino!”

Nate Smith of Awkward Elevator has humorously imagined what it would be like if Google Translate could translate English into (Ned) Flanders.

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Old Cops Discover The Internet, a quick and humorous film by 5-Second Films, shows two older cops who have newly discovered the world of internet memes. They each have a great time using them while fighting crime.

Delighted by hilarious, extremely current memes, or “may-mays,” as they referred to them, these two beat cops found their life’s work reinvigorated. Every time they badger badgered someone dealing mushroom mushrooms, every time a perp took an arrow (bullet) to the knee, it felt like a shoop da whoop was happening inside their souls. Unfortunately, they both died when they starting doing the Yuma Yuma dance during a tense shootout with the Crips.

Bon Appetit recently featured a variety of lowbrow sandwiches that have gone upscale, including a gourmet Fluffernutter by chef de cuisine Gary Fizner of Star Provisions in Atlanta, Georgia. For his version, he skips the classic jar of Marshmallow Fluff and makes his “fluff” from scratch. The sandwich’s soft white bread is baked on-site and even the peanut butter is artisanal, coming from North Carolina nut butter company, Big Spoon Roasters.

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“Four Seasons”

Thailand-based Qualy Design has made two sets of quirky seasoning shakers that look like little snow globes.

“Animal Parade”

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The Log Pile Coffee Table is an innovative piece of furniture designed by Alexander Purcell Rodrigues and manufactured at Los Angeles-based Purcell Living. The table is made to look as if it were an unevenly stacked pile of firewood, including the built-in pull-out drawers. It is available to purchase online at YLiving.

It represents an aesthetic formalization of lumber, creating a dialogue between the natural beauty of the wood and the methodical standardization of the rectangular construction of its sections. A thick glass tabletop is suspended on top of the pile, snuggly fitted between logs at each end, and hidden within its facade are drawers for added functionality.

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In “The Science of the Friend Zone” by Vsauce, Michael Stevens explores the intricacies behind the dreaded “friend zone,” the situation where one person wants to be in a romantic relationship but the desired person does not.

Photographer Katka Pruskova created this beautiful time-lapse of blooming flowers using a DIY studio she built into a cabinet. She took more than 7100 photos during the course of making the time-lapse.

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Popcake is a fully automatic pancake making machine that can spit out 180+ pancakes per hour, It was specifically designed for the commercial foodservice industry, which is a shame for all the pancake lovin’ home consumers out there.

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Belgian photographer and video producer Pablo Vicente has created a slow motion video of male model Henny Seroeyen being hit by water balloons. It was shot with a Sony FS700 camcorder at 480 frames per second.

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“Peacock”

2013 is being called the “Year of the Ear” at Disney parks and, as part of that theme, they will be releasing a collection of Couture Ear Hats each month at locations within their parks. The first five hats are available to view at Disney Parks Blog.

“Felt”

“Pink Bow”

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Three years of construction on the new East Span of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge are condensed into just over two minutes in this time-lapse by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.

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The music video for “Cats in Pajamas” by Oakland, California band GnarBoots is a great combination of funny, bizarre, and even creepy. The single is from the “Cat Music for Cat People” compilation album.

Thanks Adam!