Picture This. It’s a trailer for a snowboard video. Usually I find these reels kinda repellant, all frat-boyish, all juiced up on adrenaline and bong resin and filmed with a Handycam, but Mack Dawg Productions takes an absurd level of pride in the production. Some of these shots are stunners including an xtremely satisfying final shot. (No, the final shot.) ¶ Additionally: the opener question asked when the first cell phone call was made. The answer is 1973 and YouTube cheerfully offers up the very first cell phone commercial. Thanks, YouTube!

Erbert & Gerbert’s Human Flipbook + its really great behind the scenes featurette. I love showin’ off videos like these, videos which require such precision planning, such perseverance, creativity, and self-motivation but which don’t require an abundance of cash. ¶ Already, I’m hearing fewer “get a life”-type comments and more amazed murmuring, which, I can only hope, will produce some creativity of its own before long. [via adgoodness]

Process Enacted. Not my strongest show-and-tell showing. An awesome bit of stop-motion but the pseudo-intellectualism of the title annoys me every time I show it. ¶ (Geddit?! The dude has ENACTED the PROCESS of making the movie.) ¶ Still, the movie guarantees a remark (“… that guy has too much free time …”) against which I will defend his pseudo-intellectual ass every day of the week. ¶ “We all have 24 hours, right? Am I missing something here? Or should we only judge people on the product of their hours? So what’s your product? What do you have?” ¶ Maybe I take it a little personally.

Konzerthaus Dortmund: Symphony in Red, certainly the most beautiful credit sequence I’ve ever seen – feature film, short film, concert series, bar none. ¶ Your options here comprise a super-lame YouTube upload, the compression of which turns reds to browns, or a jumbo-sized zipped QuickTime, which is really the only way to go, in my opinion. ¶ Watch it until you can catch the treble clef. [via Motionographer]

Japanese treadmill madness. File this one under cultural literacy, I guess. It’s crazy-insane no matter how you dress it up. ¶ We watched the first two rounds. ¶ We had time to kill at the end of class and chatted through some of Google’s bizarre interview questions also. [both links via kottke]