Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait

Those looking for a highlight reel of soccer trickery or an artful abstraction of a star athlete were most likely dissapointed by the recent documentary "Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait." But the balance of action highlighting Zidane's skill, coupled with a more avant-garde approach to storytelling made for a hypnotically intimate look at one of the world's most talented athletes of our time. The work …

350.org: Global Warming Animation

Author Bill McKibben, whose 1989 book “The End of Nature” was one of the first to warn us of the threats of climate change, has helped launch a 90-second animation that’s put the spotlight of where we need to be if human civilization is going to survive. Once upon a time, before industrialization, before coal-fired power plants spewed carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that’s precipitated …

Banksy’s Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill Video

For something as bizarrely inventive as Banksy’s current installation of animatronic food, we couldn’t conceive of a better video than this one that Notcot commissioned from CH pal Seth Brau. The piece is a montage of the various vignettes—hot dogs in love, chicken nuggets sipping water—cut to a twangy country soundtrack which was inspired by the music that’s actually playing at the gallery. Seth’s video …