Boy does this make me want to finish learning how to skateboard, and move to NYC.
Great short film by Nuno Rocha, written and directed for LG Portugal.
Rapha are about the coolest biking company out there. They make clothes, have a cycle club and send teams out for centenary biking challenges.
A man’s obsession with key lime pie brings him to the brink of insanity and a chance encounter with the Grim Reaper. Directed by Trevor Jimenez.
We featured part 1 of VBS‘ video series on Afghanistan a couple of days ago, but now in part three, the army have shipped out to the war-torn country, and it gets all the more shocking by the second:
“Night time mortar attacks lead into a day visit to Paghman village. A re-creation of an Afghan village complete with Afghani-refugees employed to man bazaars and restaurants. Suddenly a suicide bomber, played by one of the Gurkha soldiers who blend in among 2 Para, detonates his vest. The aforementioned Afghani refugees and the amputees / actors / stuntmen / ex-estate agents and aspiring comedians who work for an agency called Amputees In Action react in appropriate fashion. The army uses these guys a lot these days.”
Warning: contains footage that may be upsetting to some viewers.
Vice’s online VBS series are maybe the best thing they’re doing at the moment. Going places other reporters daren’t, and delving into stories so perverse, well, you might not even call them stories, it’s good to flick on for a quick burst or settle down for one of their longer documentaries.
Their latest series, Afghanistan In The UK, as they put it “travels to STANTA, a training camp in middle England to meet the esteemed 2 Para, one of the British army’s most elite, and legendarily aggressive, units. They are readying to travel to Helmand Province for Winter and are using a multi-million pound “Afghani Village” in the middle of the British countryside to prepare their new troops for their first visit to the war in Afghanistan. Some of the soldiers, male and female, are just 18 years-old.”
Oh and the usual Vice warning: contains footage that may be upsetting to some viewers. It would be more of a surprise if it didn’t contain shocking footage to be honest. Check out more of the show here.
Directed by Denis van Waerebeke for the Bon Appétit exhibition.
We haven’t really posted “aww cute pet” videos before, but for these sloths, we’ll make an exception.
Improv Everywhere hit the NYC subway, Star Wars-style. Making of video after the jump. More
A short film about cinema itself. 35 of the creators‘ favourite movies, simplified as much as possible. The end result is pretty cool.
