This short is based on an old joke, a perennial in compilations of Jewish humor. Although the details differ between versions, the scene remains the same: a priest challenges a rabbi to a debate on the spiritual condition of Jewish people. But neither speaks the other's language, and...well, I won't spoil the punch line.
I'd seen pictures of it before, but an especially dramatic photograph caught my eye on a magazine cover in the grocery store. It almost looked like another vegetable: a brilliant marigold-orange "fuel-air" bomb, the most powerful non-nuclear weapon on the market.
This short is about an argument over dinner, an argument that goes around in circles. What's unusual is that the dinner goes around in circles too; what's eaten by one combatant comes out of the mouth of the other, so neither the eating nor the fighting ever has to end.
Enoch receives a premonition of disaster, so he sets out to collect as many books as he can find, to preserve the knowledge of the world. But, lacking reliable divine guidance, all his careful preparations come down to a straight-ahead, all-or-nothing gamble....
"Remember, you never need to solve the problem right now." Apparently, no problem could possibly arise that this handy video self-help pamphlet is unprepared to deal with.
This short, a dance for camera, was created at the Point Park Conservatory in Pittsburgh, choreographed by Doug Bentz.
Here's a kinda-creepy collage of pictures and sounds assembled automatically by a Lingo script, all at least tangentially related to my childhood in Huntington, West Virginia. I'm really not sure quite what to make of it.
The painter in this short may think she's only painting circles on the ground. But from our privileged vantage point, we can see well enough where it's all going to lead....
What if you're offered only two options, and neither of them are any good? The poor creature in this short can't hope to understand that it's trapped inside a completely arbitrary system.
"Is the nail attracted to the magnet?" "Yes!"
This oddly martial drill on the properties of the magnet comes to us from an old, damaged album of '50s educational songs. I just couldn't help imagining what the recording session must have looked like, and out came this little cartoon.
Have you ever looked at a sentence until it stopped making sense? For this short, I took a bit from a little-known Lewis Carroll poem, and repeated it until it lost any kind of meaning.
Photographer Dafna Levy took a picture in 1992. It showed a cheerful yellow billboard bearing a syrupy poem about the beauty of mountains, something you scan quickly and break off reading about halfway through. It took me a minute to notice the barbed wire, and a minute more to realize where this photo had been taken...
Widely Held Attitudes to Different Generations - Forbes A recent survey by Harris Interactive conducted for Charles Schwab and Age Wave asked almost 4,000 Americans aged 21 to 83 what they thought of different generations. Specifically, they were asked about people aged 13 to 31 or Generation Y; those ...
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