Difficult question of the day #283 – in order to reduce carbon emissions, should we go down the nuclear path, at least for a while? That and a number of associated questions are answered in this video made for the Science Museum in the UK by tinmouse. The knee-jerk reaction might be a “no” – of course there are dangers involved. However, when weighed up against the alternatives, perhaps, perhaps, perhaps…
Take a look at the video below. It make help you make up your mind about
where you stand!
Alessandro is a gangster’s son – and as such he has an awful lot to live up to. He desperately want to prove himself to his father, but despite being forbidden to do so, decides to rob a new night club in order to show that he can live up to what he believes are the family’s expectations of him. However, when he and his accomplice get to the club, they discover that robbing its denizens might prove a more challenging prospect than they anticipated. And Alessandro is for one great big surprise into the bargain.
There are tropes at work here - the desperate son seeking a
father’s approval, the heist gone wrong, the double life - but they’re handled
with such panache and confidence that the story feels fresh and full of heart. In
fact, it plays with gender performance and expectation in ways that evoke Victor/Victoria,
but with a contemporary pulse and cinematic finish that belies its student
origins. It's sharply paced, beautifully designed, and emotionally satisfying.
So, congratulations to all involved — especially the directors João Buosi,
Yangjia Chen, Adam Meziane Philipps, Carla Sampaio da Silva, Xinxin Qin, and
Zhen Zhou, student filmmakers from the renowned Gobelins school of visual
communication and animation in Paris.
Watch Dare to be Fabulous below.
This is something truly atmospheric. Last year, director Steve Atkins took a hike
through a Japanese forest. The result? Inspired by Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess
Mononoke, plus the (easily believable) idea that Yakushima’s forest are inhabited
by spirits, this remarkable piece of film shows us the island moss-covered
wooded landscapes with ancient cedars in abundance. It doesn’t just look like a mythical world –
it is one.
Hats off, too, to Rob Martland for the haunting soundtrack.
We’re a little late to this particular party, but give us a break. We were only introduced to the animation work of Ben Meinhardt recently, when he released the deliriously adorable “We’re Kinda Different” a few week ago. Please check that out, too, if you have a moment. However, this song is for all of you us who find things in common with the hero.
It is very short – but it delivers its message and once you have done that, why hang around? Emily Dickinson once said “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tune without the words - and never stops - at all." Well, this particular ditty does have words (which will probably implant themselves in your head and keep coming back, probably in an ironic way). Meinhardt himself optimistically announces this animation with – “Another in my I Hope This Doesn't Age Well Series”. See, it springs eternal, it really does.
Over at our sibling site, arkinspace, there is a feature on the remarkable weaver ant. When they need to make themselves a new home (and the way that they do it is hinted at in their name!) then a little teamwork goes a long way. It may seem impossible, but slowly but surely they work together to make themselves (and their offspring) a new home. Learn more about this fascinating species at arkinspace.
The devil, so they say, will make work for idle hands. So it is with brothers Luke and Riley, the dual protagonists of Yakka. You can tell from the outset that, if they were in some suburban area with alternative company, that they would probably not have the time of day for each other – chalk and cheese. However, they’re stuck in the middle of a secluded Australian estuary and they are, effectively, the only company that they have.
Their father is neglectful – and the film more than hints
that their relationship with him is one of fear and violence. There is no mother to be seen (no doubt she scarpered
a long time ago) and the boys seem borderline feral, bruised, unkempt and
unhappy. This makes Yakka sound like a
gloom fest, but it really isn’t – not that you’re going to see any pole-dancing
unicorns here either, that’s for sure.
What it does do, really well, is paint a picture of the strained relationship
between two very different brothers who, without proper parental care, have
learned how to fend for themselves (with
all the resultant consequences of their choices).
Starring real-life brothers, Jiya and Javi Vander Straaten (above, with Grant Lyndon, who puts in a brief but assured appearance as their father), Yakka was written and directed by award-winning Australian filmmaker JackShepherd. The film has won a number of award, including Best Film at Port Shorts Film Festival 2024, Best Director at Canberra Short Film Festival 2024, Best Live Action Film at Sydney Lift Off Festival 2024, Best Cinematography at Sydney Lift Off Festival 2024 and Best Cinematography at Global (UK) Lift Off Festival 2025.
Watch Yakka below.
This is great. In one of the most emotional moments ever broadcast on France’s The Voice Kids, 14-year-old Louis D stunned the nation - and the show’s judges - when he sang Si j’avais su ("If I Had Known"), a heartbreakingly personal ballad by French singer Claudio Capéo. We don’t normally cover this kind of show on Kuriositas because you have probably have seen it on your own devices before, but most of you reading this are English speakers (if I am to believe the stats!) and may well not have had the opportunity to watch this before.
What made the performance so extraordinary wasn’t just
Louis’s vocal ability or maturity. It was the fact that Claudio Capéo
himself was sitting just a few metres away - serving as one of the show’s
coaches. And the song Louis chose was written by Capéo in memory of his late
grandmother. It’s a song filled with pain
– if I had known being the chorus trigger…
“If I had known… I would have told you all the things
that I had never told you… that your skin smells like roses… that your wrinkles
resemble the waves where children swim.”
“If I had known… that time doesn’t wait… that it would be the first time I
saw you for the last time… I would have hugged you tight… I would have said
goodbye a bit better.”
You get it. As Louis sang the raw, grief-filled lyrics (now popular at French funerals), Capéo’s face told the story: a mixture of disbelief, pride, and visible emotion. By the final note, he was overcome. All four coaches turned their chairs - a rare unanimous endorsement - and Capéo, visibly moved, rushed to embrace the young singer. “You turned my heart inside out,” he said. “It’s the first time I’ve lived something like this.”
Louis went on to become a finalist in the 2024 season of The
Voice Kids France, ultimately placing third. But many will remember him not
for the trophy he didn’t win—but for the one-of-a-kind moment he created.
The song, Si j’avais su, is a melancholic reflection
on lost chances and unsaid goodbyes. For Louis to interpret it so powerfully at
such a young age - and in front of its creator - felt like something more than
a talent show moment. It was a shared human experience, captured live.
Even if you’ve never heard of either singer, this short clip
might just stop you in your tracks.
What particularly got my attention here – in that kind of deer in front of the headlights kind of way – was when one of the jumpers was attached to another by what seemed like a very thin cord and then proceeded to glide underneath her base-jumping partner through the fjords. Well, underneath at one point, around at another – then on top and finally through some kind of space-time portal into another dimension (OK not that last bit). I spilt my coffee at this point (and I'm not even going to start on bodily fluids).
Interwoven between the breath-taking base jumping are short “talking heads” of the base-jumpers themselves. Honestly, despite massive evidence to the contrary, they all seem quite sane.
A big thank you to all involved for creating this – although
I would never, ever, ever (x100) consider doing it myself, this certainly shows me why
base-jumpers feel the need! It must be the sensation
of a lifetime. Just not my lifetime...
This animated short directed by students at ESMA tells the story of two distinctly different robots who have the unenviable job of cleaning and maintaining an abandoned home. As the dust piles up, they both begin to be aware of the possibility of a life beyond it, but any attempt to leave the mundanity of their existence is quickly halted by their all-seeing supervisor. It comes to a head when the smaller of the two robots accidentally turns on the TV and watches a nature documentary. Will they ever get to experience what lies beyond the dust?
This very touching science-fiction animated short is nothing short of brilliant. I’ve said this time and time again about ESMA graduation work – it is so very difficult to distinguish their work from the professionally created shorts that one can only imagine a very rewarding future ahead of them in the animation industry. The characters of our two protagonists come across very well through their actions right from the start – and this is what really makes the short work (and is very difficult to pull off in something without dialogue even when your characters are human, let alone animated robots).
There are tropes at work, to be sure, but that is very
nearly always the case in very nearly all works of science fiction these
days. I have to say that this would fit
right in as an episode in the LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS series on Netflix (I think it’s superior to some of the works shown there, I have to say).
So, congratulations to all involved, especially the directors Alexia Ameline,
, Marin Benitez, Lucien-Paul Bigey, Marine DuPot, Benjamin Hack, Matteo Michel,
Salomé Quillien and Juliette Vignollet.
Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher and social theorist, never quite got over the rejection of his ideas for “the perfect prison”. In fact, he was so disgruntled that he came up with the idea of sinister interest –the vested interests of the powerful that then conspire against a wider public interest. That rings bells…
Regardless, his ideas were not original – there had been
round prisons before – but he did live to see his own idea incorporated into a National
Penitentiary (otherwise known as Millbank Prison) in the UK, which opened in 1821. He wasn’t happy with that either. After his death, the idea of radial prisons
did take off – which most say owe a debt to Bentham’s Panopticon idea.
Back to Earth, perhaps it was pre-revolutionary Cuba that
got the closest to Bentham’s original ideas when it built the Presidio Modelo
in the 1920s. However idealistic the
plan, they soon went wrong. When a young
Fidel Castro found himself imprisoned there decades later, what was designed to
be a space to hold 5,000 inmates at capacity was now “home” to over 6,000 with
no running water and almost overflowing with the detritus of everyday
life. I guess the idea of “who watches
the watcher” was as important then as Bentham thought it originally, but as the
idea of the Panopticon only works in the authorities ensure that the watchers
are watched, perhaps the idea was flawed from the get-go, in its assumption that
human nature gives a damn. If only he
could see the future and the all-pervasive cameras that cover every inch of our
cities. I wonder what he would make of them?
Perhaps he would resort to something he had already said - and one of my favourite quotes about the human condition to boot. That is “Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.” Put kindly, we’re all a little too obsessed with progress to realise that what we currently have, after all, is not so bad.
Watch the video about the Panopticon below.
If Warsaw is on your bucket list or you are visiting Poland in the near future, take a look at this remarkable hyperlapse. Youtube creator MrTiuro got on his bike and, well, the rest is here for you to see. He starts in the Old Town district, journeys through it and then ends up in the new commercial hub in Warsaw’s Wola district.
You can’t really get a more honest view of a city than driving (or in this case, cycling) through it. Warsaw truly has a dual identity. First, the old town charms with its cobblestone streets and oozes history. It is difficult to believe that most of it was painstakingly rebuilt after World War II. Then, we reach the skyscrapers of the modern city – impressive. However, Warsaw did get its first true skyscraper in 1955 with the completion of the Palace of Culture and Science (Pałac Kultury i Nauki), a towering building that remains one of the city’s most recognisable landmarks – and you will see that too in the video below.
I don’t want you to divert your eyes from the buildings, but when I ran through the video a second time, there was one thing that really struck me (I live in London, which looks filthy by comparison). That is, the streets are spotless. Absolutely spotless. I couldn’t spot that many bins for public use (although I did see some in the video), so I have to assume one of two things – or maybe it's both of them! Either the Poles are a fastidiously tidy people who highly disapprove of littering or the City Cleaning Authority (Zarząd Oczyszczania Miasta, ZOM) is one of the best in the world. Or both. Regardless, enjoy this whirlwind tour through the streets of the city of Warsaw. Who knows, maybe in a short time, you will be ambling through them yourself.
Scroll down and press play while you read this. It’s audio only – apart from the very cool new
version of the iconic album sleeve above.
The result is a total re-imagining of the album. The band, too, get a slight name change to
The Blondies (adding “The” to any band name is what marceve76 does to give them
a more 50s vibe). Ironically enough, this is how they were referred to
collectively by those involved in the production of the album in 1978. Producer Mike Chapman said of them in an
interview for Sound magazine: “The Blondies were tough in the studio, real
tough. None of them liked each other, except Chris and Debbie, and there was so
much animosity.” Perhaps that is the
main reason why they finished the album in an astonishing six weeks, rather
than the six months they had been given by their label. Little did they know that this album would propel them to global fame and fortune.
Regardless, these stylised 1950s versions are very good.
Whether they are a heartfelt homage to the band or simply a playful retro
experiment, they’re executed with flair and imagination. Like any Blondie fan,
I went straight to my favorite tracks from the original, to see how they had
been interpreted. "Fade Away and
Radiate" is now a walk through a magic plastic land of 1950s suburban
angst, replete with tupperware and trembling smiles, pastel kitchens and
bottled-up despair. It’s a dreamy distortion - equal parts nostalgia and
nightmare - where atomic-age optimism flickers beneath the hum of television
static. The line “Dusty frames that
still arrive, die in 1955” is an indicator that this must have been recorded in the latter
part of the decade(!). It did make me
wonder why Lana Del Rey didn’t record a version of this track, because this song would have suited her.
The Blondies (the real deal) admitted that the girl bands of
the 1950s were an inspiration to them, lyrically at least. And Picture This sounds very much like a girl
group, in this incarnation. The lyrics
have not been changed, which makes you realise how times had, in fact, changed
between the 1950s and 1970s. The line: “I
will give you my finest hour, the one I spent watching you shower” on Picture
This would certainly have ensured the song’s ban from any airplay in the 1950s!
Naturally, the album’s biggest hit – “Heart of Glass”, their
first US Billboard Hot 100 Number 1 – makes an appearance, revivified as a
rockabilly romp with twangy strings and a wink to the jukebox era. You can
imagine it crackling from a dusty diner radio while someone in a powder-blue Cadillac
drums the steering wheel, caught somewhere between heartbreak and a milkshake.
So, yes, a big thumbs up to this. Is it as good or better
than the original? It’s only human nature to make comparisons. However, this
version isn’t trying to replace the original – it’s offering a new lens, a
playful shift in tone and texture that pays homage while confidently doing its
own thing. And that, in itself, is worth celebrating. One can only wonder what Debbie Harry will
make of this! As for me, it has definitely made me want to return to the original band, too, for another listen to their greatest hits.
If you haven’t already pressed “play”, then do it now!
Before Wendy and her brothers, before the Lost Boys, there was Jim. How Jim came to Neverland, we are not told (I like to imagine that he was rescued from a shipwreck by Neverland’s immortal inhabitant). Speaking of which, the Peter Pan you will see here is hardly recognizable from his usual media representations. Cute? Yes. Psychotic? Absolutely. Here, his overriding desire is to rid the world of any adults that cross his path.
Unfortunately, time does not stand still and Jim has come to
realize that instead of helping his friend hunt down grown-ups, he is just about to become the hunted. I will leave the rest to you to watch, but
this is a hugely entertaining animated short, with action right from the very start,
which only lets up for some brief moments of exposition. In other words,
fantastic.
It’s amazing that this is a student film, from ESMA in France. The artwork and animation is
seamless and as well as the character animation I particularly liked the design of Hook’s ship, the Jolly Roger (see below). The story certainly explains Hook’s abiding
hatred for Pan – an our sympathy is now unambiguously with him – up to a point.
Although the victim, originally, it’s a shame that his adult response is one of
revenge. However, if it wasn’t then there probably wouldn’t be much of a story here!
Neverland was directed by Hortense Mba, Jean-Baptiste Ealet,
Lola Raimbaud, Louis Xillo, Lucas Payet, Mario Latcher, and Thomas Godechot. The
wonderful music is provided by Nicolas Jubert with voices by Juliette Cayette and
Lily Mulheran. Great work from the sound
artists, too - José Vicente, Guilhem Favard, Tristan Le Bozec, Mickaël
Merrheim, Yoann Poncet. I can envisage
long and successful careers in the animation industry for all of them.
Watch Neverland below…
Primitive War is a film that I will probably have to see based on the trailer alone. It looks like a combination of Apocalypse Now and Jurassic Park, frankly, with possible a little bit of Predator (original) thrown in for good measure. For me that’s a win-win and although it could end in disappointment, it seems that fans of the original novel by Ethan Pettus are also drooling in anticipation. Published in 2017 it (and its sequels) have become hugely popular. 68% of over 1,000 reviews of the novel on Amazon give it a five-star rating, and it has a 4.5-star rating overall. The reviews there are full of praise and apparently the body count is through the roof (which it should be – it’s dinosaurs). It doesn't have any characters in it played by kids, either (just saying).
The trailer looks like we’re in for something of a roller-coaster ride, and although one or two of the reviews of the trailers have pointed out some differences from the book already, most of the reviewers are not shy of admitting that they are, nevertheless, “pumped” (seems to appear a lot). The film is set in 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War. A recon unit (who go under the name of Vulture Squad) are commanded to find out what has happened to a platoon of Green Berets that has gone missing under mysterious circumstances. The mystery of their disappearance is soon sorted (dinos), leaving Vulture Squad to try and get out of the terrifying situation.
The film stars Ryan Kwanten (who you will know from HBO’s vampire drama, True Blood) and Tricia Helfer (she played Number Six in the science fiction series Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009). Add in support from Nick Wechsler (from both Roswell and Revenge) and Aaron Glenane from the Snowpiercer series and you have a cast who are already immersed in the science fiction genre from the neck up. Take a look at the trailers below and see what you think!
When will Primitive War be released? It hits theaters on August 21, 2025.
A century ago, the world danced precariously between wars, flappers twirled to new, modern dances, and telephones still had cords. But the people of 1925 laughed, worried, posed for photos, and waited for things to change - just like us. In this snapshot of time, let’s take a look at the faces, fashions, and fragments of ordinary lives from 1925 - and where possible, what happened to them afterwards.
Note
I used Flickr’s The Commons and Wikimedia Commons for this
project. The first obstacle I came
across was unexpected but on reflection it shouldn’t have been – human nature!
Many photos from this era are not marked with exact dates or even years and so
unless they were associated with a specific event, then the curators had to be
vague (between 1920 and 1925 and so on). Fair enough. Before I started using a phone and the date stamp that goes with digital
photography, I didn't take the time to scrawl dates on the back of my snapshots – leaving
me to guess about the exact year from my own history, let alone that of
complete strangers. So, if I had not recorded dates myself, how could I expect
others to do so? Yet because I wanted to
try and feature people as ordinary and everyday as possible, much more than
politicians and actors, this precluded so many great photographs that I soon
lost count.
The second issue is the Eurocentricity of most photographs included. This was not a choice but due to the available sources. Most accessible historical photographic archives come from Europe and North America, where photography was adopted earlier and preservation institutions were established, resulting in better-documented collections.
When I have included people who were well known or even
celebrated in 1925, it is in more informal settings wherever possible. A few photographs
that have been recorded as circa 1925 have been included, simply because
they were irresistible, so please forgive me for that. There were other issues
that I came across as I went along, too (more of those later). However, the
decision to select photographs with verifiable dates was a good one.
Photography in 1925 was affordable enough for many ordinary
families to participate but still a small luxury, especially when compared to
how easy and cheap digital photos are today. Each shot counted, and people
often took photos to capture special moments rather than daily life. So, many of these photos will seem arranged,
organized and posed for a good reason: they were!
I hope you enjoy this gallery of the people of 1925.
Let’s start with something quite silly. The National Archives of the Netherlands has this great picture of a group of young swimmers with bike tyres tied around their bodies as a swimming aid. Taken in Germany, 1925. It must have seemed like a clever idea at the time, but from the look of the smirks on some of the faces we can see here, I doubt whether this idea was ever taken seriously. These young people all look as fit as the veritable butcher’s dog and it’s highly unlikely that they would have needed any support to help them swim!
Poor old
Molly Malone. When Kuriositas first
reported on her (in our 2013 article Statues of Dublin and their Notorious Nicknames),
the photos we were able to source at the time showed her untouched and
unsullied. Apparently, shortly after, a tourist guide was “inspired” to tell people
that rubbing her breasts would bring good luck.
As her more than ample bosom is well within groping distance, the sticky
paws of countless tourists rubbed and rubbed and rubbed away at the carbonate patina
which had given her an added aesthetic beauty and the sense of age (even though
the statue only dates from 1988). Now,
instead of saying “look at the breasts on that statue”, people are much more
likely to say “look at the statue on those breasts”.
Joking
aside, Dublin City Council are now considering moving the statue if tourists do
not desist from putting their grubby mitts on Molly’s tits. Sorryfor the informal language, I couldn’t
resist that little rhyme – but you could imagine the real Molly
paraphrasing those words as a retort if she was still around. I’m fairly sure she wouldn’t have any unwanted
hands on her mammary glands. On a
serious note, the patina on bronze statues, as well as adding to the overall
aesthetic, can also help protect the metal underneath from further
corrosion. In fact if you look closely,
you can see that the erosion
is becoming a problem.
Repeated
rubbing can permanently stain or alter bronze, especially in outdoor
conditions. It's a mix of chemical staining and mechanical wear. It isn’t a case of just leaving it for a
patina to occur naturally again – the statue will need extensive and
expensive (just can’t stop rhyming today) restoration work in order for Molly’s
bits to once again resemble the rest of the piece.
Perhaps Dublin
City Council should just accept that this is going to happen, and it happens to
statues across the globe. Poor old VictorNoir, interred in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris has had close to 150
years of people rubbing his trouser bulge. Below is the report on the Molly
Malone statue by the Irish public service broadcaster RTE.
Say what you will about Australia’s wraparound spider – it isn’t out to get you. At least, that’s what this article tells us. Unlike (apparently) most of Australia’s animal population, this little guy (and it is little) just wants to be left alone. In order to ensure that, it has evolved a way of wrapping its body around a twig or small branch, pressing itself down, so that it is indistinguishable from the twig, making it very difficult for its predator (the local bird population) to see it during daylight hours. Our sibling site, the Ark in Space, has the lowdown on this fascinating spider species, as well as a fantastic picture gallery to go with it.
Meanwhile, my local butcher put this sign up outside of his shop. His summer break – well deserved – has arrived and he lets those of his customers who don’t already know (or, alas, have not planned ahead) into the fact that he will not be opening his doors for a while. He does it every year, so we have come to expect the humour in it. However, I thought I would share it with you this year!
You can tell I live in the UK - an old red public telephone box has been caught in the window's reflection!
If you were on a hiking trip and found something
suspiciously extraterrestrial, you would take it home and try to find out more
about it, wouldn’t you? It’s perhaps a
little bit of a trope, but it nevertheless forms the basis of this hugely
enjoyable short film starring Steven Yeun and Sam Richardson. Both of them put in excellent performances
but – at the same time – looked a little younger than I remember them from their recent projects.
Crash Site was directed and edited by Jason Sperling and written
by Miles Brandman. I enjoyed the director’s
note on YouTube which says tells us that no AI was used in the film but not for the reasons that you might imagine. Also, that it
was created back in 2013. That would at
least explain why I thought both actors looked young in this!
Watch the full film below.
This is awesome.
Throughout our history, our perception of dinosaurs – the “terrible
lizards” of the title, has evolved according to our understanding of these prehistoric
beasts. This animation tells a single story, but the animation changes to show the various forms of
dinosaur depictions that have come about throughout the few short centuries since they first siezed our collective imagination.
It was created by David James Armsby, a Scottish animator, artist
and filmmaker. Armsby is an autodidact
when it comes to animation. He started experimenting
at the age of 16 and through a process of trial and error he learned how to
create his own films. I think I will end
this short post with his own words, so you can then get on with watching this amazing
short.
"Terrible Lizards is my own personal tribute to all
things palaeontology, paleoart, and paleo-media throughout the past two
centuries, and our ever-evolving understanding of these ancient and fascinating
animals.”
Take Slow Light, for example, their latest
stop-motion short. The animation itself feels alive with meaning. It
tells the story of a man whose sight is delayed by seven years, so he
experiences life out of sync with the present moment. The film is haunting,
beautiful, and intricately crafted and like all their work, it blends visual
ingenuity with emotional clarity.
Like all their projects, Slow Light was built from the ground up, with a focus on strong visual concepts, smart use of materials, and a clear narrative arc. From concept through to final render, they handle each stage of production themselves, ensuring every frame feels purposeful and every story lands just right. I have to admit, on first viewing I found Slow Light a little perplexing but here's the thing: I couldn't stop watching it. It's a melancholic story and if you're looking for a simplistic happy ending, don't bother (don't get me wrong, I love simplistic happy endings, but that is not what Slow Light is about at all).
At its core, Slow Light explores alienation, memory, and the passage of time - themes deeply rooted in the Polish cultural psyche. The protagonist’s delayed vision, where he only sees the present seven years after it occurs, creates a painful disconnection from the world. He witnesses joy, love, and tragedy long after the moment has passed. This narrative is quietly tragic, mirroring the longing and loss common in many traditional Polish tales.
If you haven't yet seen Slow Light, it’s well worth
your time. You're not just watching an animation. You're witnessing how time,
memory, and vision can be sculpted by hand. Watch it below.
Gistory is a relatively new YouTube channel, launched in January this year. Despite its recent arrival, it’s quickly gaining a reputation for producing delightfully absurd animated history videos that recount real – but sometimes scarcely believable - events. Happen they did, however.
The most recent animated short is about America’s plan,
during World War II, to develop bat bombs to help in the fight against Japan. It was something of a farce from the start
and stretches credibility to the max but a quick check of the Wikipedia page
about it will prove to you that yes, this absolutely happened. I won’t say anything more about this
particular slice of history (except maybe that it was batsh*t bonkers) as the
animation will explain everything..
I will definitely be featuring more work by Gistory on
Kuriositas. This is an entertaining
short, ideal for both young people wanting to learn more about offbeat history
in a fun way and adults who enjoy quirky takes on lesser-known historical
events. Watch the story of the bat bombs below.
Do you have a dinosaur mad child? Then, show them these. You won’t see Rhymesaurus or Limerickodon or even a
Musephyll in this collection of short poems… Even so, Jurassic Limericks was
probably inevitable at some point in time (lots of people are probably wondering why they didn't think of it, now). No, these are the real deal. There's Triceratops, Pteradactyl, Troodon and others, all with their own limerick. Founded several years ago as a
theatre and media company, CarryTale is now stepping into the spotlight with
this exciting new venture, bringing to life playful dinosaur-inspired limericks
through vibrant 15-second animated shorts. With creativity rooted in family fun
and poetic whimsy, this new series invites viewers young and old to embark on a
joyful journey where dinosaurs and poetry collide.
Jurassic Limericks originated from a playful game of
creating spontaneous limericks and poems inspired by dinosaurs, enjoyed with founder
Jeremy Baker’s children. These imaginative verses were then accompanied by
original dinosaur-themed drawings. Now, these creations have been transformed
into 15-second animated shorts. If you are going to do things as a family, you might as well go the whole hog...
And, as I also went to university with Jeremy, a shameless plug to
celebrate the launch of CarryTale Studio’s new YouTube channel is in order. A
new Jurassic Limerick video will be released each day over the course of a
week. Fans and young dinosaur enthusiasts alike are invited to enjoy and share
these delightful animated shorts. Watch
them below and let us know which is your favourite.