This is Jake Shimabukuru, and he does things with his ukulele that I thought we’re even possible. Move over Tiny Tim.

Watching this scientifically accurate super-long-zoom of the known universe you can actually feel your brain inflate. Must, must,must watch in HD.

Combine:

Ping pong, hand grenade, kooky smart looking folk, The Glue society, Metal on Metal.

Result:

If I were Michael Douglas, and I was having a VERY BAD DAY, my face might look like this:

Too good.

In 1982, a bunch of 12 year olds set out to remake Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark in its entirety, using pretty much whatever they had lying around the house. Called Raiders:The Adaptation, it took $5,000 and seven summers to finish. Wired has a great roundup of the whole caper.

There were setbacks. Zala nearly suffocated while making a plaster cast of his head. In removing it, doctors at the hospital plucked both his eyebrows off. (Lesson learned: use papier-mâché, not cement plaster.) With no monkey available to play Marion’s mascot, the teens were forced to cast Snickers, a beagle-terrier mix, instead. The crew transformed Boy Scout uniforms into Nazi costumes and suburban Mississippi woods into the Amazonian rainforests, and spent four years creating a giant boulder to chase Indy.

This is just so great.

Interim Camp from FIELD on Vimeo.

A group called FIELD created this stunning short film of an eerie alien landscape where the mountains seem to creep and crawl with math tesselations. The sound design is also top notch.

The Cat Piano from PRA on Vimeo.

Really great animated short film from a young crew from Adelaide called the People’s Republic of Animation. Props.

Röyksopp ‘This Must Be It’ from Röyksopp on Vimeo.

My new favorite music video director. A lot of his clips have embedding disabled, so go to Youtube and search. So strange.

The only good free-to-air TV station in Australia is SBS. It’s mostly government funded, and its charter to screen content that is designed for marginal and ethnic audiences. So it screens a lot of foriegn language movies and lots of stuff with genuine cult appeal. It’s done a whole bunch of new idents, and they are AMAZING. Some were done by Sydney studio, Mighty Nice, and some weren’t, but credits have been hard to track down. Enjoy.