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Gypsea Stories: Wylo II from Bryony Stokes on Vimeo.

Gypseas live on the water. Afloat and free they roam all over the world. At 70, the infamous Nick Skeates has sailed around the world 4 times. Many have wondered how he does it and the changes he has seen over the years. This film reveals a unique insight into his life onboard his equally famous boat Wylo II.

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PolicyKit: Building Governance in Online Communities from Amy Zhang on Vimeo.

policykit.org

The software behind online community platforms encodes a governance model that represents a strikingly narrow set of governance possibilities focused on moderators and administrators. When online communities desire other forms of government, such as ones that take many members’ opinions into account or that distribute power in non-trivial ways, communities must resort to laborious manual effort. In this paper, we present PolicyKit, a software infrastructure that empowers online community members to concisely author a wide range of governance procedures and automatically carry out those procedures on their home platforms. We draw on political science theory to encode community governance into policies, or short imperative functions that specify a procedure for determining whether a user-initiated action can execute. Actions that can be governed by policies encompass everyday activities such as posting or moderating a message, but actions can also encompass changes to the policies themselves, enabling the evolution of governance over time. We demonstrate the expressivity of PolicyKit through implementations of governance models such as a random jury deliberation, a multi-stage caucus, a reputation system, and a promotion procedure inspired by Wikipedia’s Request for Adminship (RfA) process.

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Introducing the Loud Mini bicycle horn from LoudBicycle on Vimeo.

Get a loud Mini Horn here: loudbicycle.com/horn

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FOODSCAPES trailer from FOODSCAPES on Vimeo.

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AFRONAUTS from vernac.media on Vimeo.

AFRONAUTS (dir. Nuotama Bodomo)

It's July 16, 1969: America is preparing to launch Apollo 11. Thousands of miles away, the Zambia Space Academy hopes to beat America to the moon in this fictionalized film inspired by real events

vernac.media

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Purple Mountain from Allison Schulnik on Vimeo.

2022

Hand-painted gouache on paper animation.

Film by Allison Schulnik

"Purple Mountain" song composed by Aaron MF Olson Performed by The Musical Tracing Ensemble

Laena Myers-Ionita - Violin Aisling Cormack - Violin Pauline Lay - Violin Danny Echevarria - Violin Carl Harders - Double Bass Luke Csehak - Euphonium, Cello Tara Milch - Flute Patrick Shiroishi - Saxophone Aaron M. Olson - Conductor

The Musical Tracing Ensemble process: An ensemble of musicians is gathered in a performance space. Each musician has their own instrument, means of amplification (if needed), and pair of headphones. All musicians’ headphones are plugged into one outputting sound source (usually an iPod with many headphone splitters). Music (usually a well known song from the popular music canon) is played from the sound source and the musicians are instructed to play something, anything that they hear in their headphones as accurately as they can on their own instrument. The musicians never know what songs or sounds they will be hearing in advance. The audience only hears what the musicians are playing and none of the original sound source, thus creating a “tracing” of the sound source material. There is no rehearsal, everything is live.  

themusicaltracingensemble.bandcamp.com

allisonschulnik.me

Copyright 2022 Allison Schulnik

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MOTH from Allison Schulnik on Vimeo.

Film by Allison Schulnik * 2019 * 3:15min Gnossienne No. 1 * written by Erik Satie * Performed by Nedelle Torrisi **************************************^****************************************** MOTH is a traditionally animated, hand painted, gouache-on-paper film. It is animated mostly straight-ahead, with frames painted on paper almost daily for 14 months. The film seeded and bloomed from a moth hitting my studio window and continues as a wandering through the emotions of birth, motherhood, body, nature, metamorphosis and dance.

MOTH Copyright Allison Schulnik 2019

allisonschulnik.me

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Mound by Allison Schulnik from Allison Schulnik on Vimeo.

Film by Allison Schulnik Cinematography by Helder K. Sun. "It's Raining Today" written by Noel Scott Engel

4:23 min Copyright Allison Schulnik 2011 allisonschulnik.me

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Independent Animation (Film Club Spring 2023 trailer) from Chris Wei on Vimeo.

A trailer for the Film Club class I'll be teaching at the University of Iowa in Spring 2023! The theme I chose is independent animation; it's gonna be fun.

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Murders and Other Flying Things from Dennis Hlynsky on Vimeo.

This artist statement was created for the Essex Art Center's exhibit on Crows January 11 through March 15

videoplayer.telvue.com/player/MPSrqtMcbEAKyiwFn21noJI11kh_b-mH/media/468644

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MOTHER EARTH HOODIE

https://konnoi.com/

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i love unions. i love strikes. i love minor inconvenience symbolizing major inconvenience. i specifically love the 2007-2008 writers strike and i think the wga should strike again as soon as possible.

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Sunbelly from Encyclopedia Pictura on Vimeo.

In the distant future, a space-faring dog investigates the surface of a dead planet - leading to a dangerous encounter and the discovery of her own kind's tragic forgotten history - ultimately revealing a hopeful path forward.

Written, Directed & Animated by Jordan Speer beef.zone/

Score by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith kaitlynaureliasmith.com/

Produced by: End Cue endcue.com/

Nice Try nicetry.co/

Encyclopedia Pictura encyclopediapictura.com/

Producer - Andrew Kortschak Producer - Alex Plapinger Producer - Sean Hellfritsch Producer - Isaiah Saxon Co-Producer - Lisa Ciuffetti Co-Producer - Nick Plett Additional Design - Robert Beatty

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Digital Security Risk Assessments [Digital Enquirer Kit] from Tactical Tech on Vimeo.

Recording date: 12th July 2022

Lecturer: Denisse A., co-author of the Digital Enquirer Kit, Modules 1-4

This session will offer a step-by-step tutorial on how to produce a digital security risk assessment from a holistic perspective. It will focus on identifying threats, vulnerabilities, measuring impact, with an emphasis on developing resilience and recovery strategies after an attack.

The Digital Enquirer Kit is an e-learning course that guides learners on how to prevent the spread of misinformation, available on the free platform atingi.org. The course covers topics including media literacy, verification, and how to navigate the internet safely.

These events are part of the Digital Enquirer Kit project, and are organized by Tactical Tech in 2022. The Digital Enquirer Kit is produced and funded by The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.

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Amethyst Seer - RUMINATOR II: Reductant Day from Glob Records on Vimeo.

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Utah Lake Phragmites from Hutchings Museum Institute on Vimeo.

Exploring Problems and Solutions in Utah Lake

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Water Shed from Hutchings Museum Institute on Vimeo.