If you don't mind heartwarming holiday ads, these German commercials via Cora Buhlert are tiny stories, with different feels to them. Most have little dialogue, and one has subtitles, so I think anyone could follow.

The Edeka one I'd already heard about a couple times--it has some bite to it.

In case you have fourteen minutes and haven't seen this one.

I have been hunkered deeply in the bunker finishing a thing, so I really appreciate popping out for brief encounters with beauty, such as this one via anghara--wait for the dance of the night skies. (You'll see what I mean.)


Finding Oregon from Uncage the Soul Productions on Vimeo.

via steepholm, check this out, and if you need more Saturday morning cattage, this one.--the blog title comes from the latter.

Hang on for about forty five seconds into this vid via davetrow.

Via several people, cat and dolphin.

I lucked out in winning an auction for con_or_bust, which was a request for a post from Deepa D, whose posts on fandom, feminism, music, books, and a host of other subjects have been linked everywhere, for good reason: she's articulate, well-read, and every single time I read one of her posts I learn something new.

The post is here. She's got plenty of ( Read more... )

Via stephanieburgis, whose YA Regency-with-magic comes out next spring this delightful vid on the art of dueling. Note the modern duel suggestion. I rather like thumb wars, myself.