Did you catch last week’s 8-Bit Meth Minute? The Meth Minute is, of course, the weekly animation show put out by one Dan Meth, a genius in short-format animation. It all started with Internet People, a rousing genre-establishing compilation of Internet personalities. Since then Dan has turned James Brown into a robot, introduced us to a rock star accountant, took Mike Tyson to brunch, and made stars out of Watermelons. Last week, the Meth Minute did a retrospective of sorts, squishing the whole series into an ode to 8-bit video games. The result? Nothing short of genius!

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to play Super Mario Brothers.

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In the olden days, we didn’t have digital cameras. Everything was shot on film. But even in today’s high-tech wonderland of CCDs, DLPs, and DVDs, some people still do things the old fashioned way. Among these proud anachronists is one Dunc c. He used a Super 8 camera to show “the contrasts of a home in the north of Australia & one in Sydney with Mt. Warning in between.” The result is a beautiful hyper-speed journey in colours and textures you just can’t get from digital.

State of Origin: Think of a Circle

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Welcome, once again, to the off-kilter virtual curiosity shop I like to call Fringe Fridays, our nearly weekly look at animation and experimental web video. I’m excited to see the second episode of Freaky But True’s The Silent But Deadly Service has made its way to our port. There’s just something I like about the flat sitcom-like jokes in conjunction with the crew’s blasé acceptance of their strange underwater existence. And this episode ups both of those factors. If you haven’t seen episode one, you’ll want to click on the second video in the playlist and watch that one first.

Everything from these guys is pretty darn good, just check out the Diabolical Experiments series.

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Zune Arts is putting out some pretty amazing stuff. Zune Arts is Microsoft’s campaign to out-artsy Apple in the music player wars. I’m not sure if it’s helping sell any more of the plastic players, but it is helping some pretty creative folks to collaborate and get their work out there. Here’s the latest, a puppet-powered take on Michael Jackson’s Thriller:

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Fringe Fridays is about bringing you the strange and extraordinary in online video every week. Sometimes, as the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. No one exemplifies this better than Diagonal View. Some of our favorite content lately has come from them.

Whether it’s a car-flipping contest, a Belgian bar made of beer crates, a Star-Trek-themed apartment, a soccer mascot race, or a two-headed snake, they bring us things we never new existed. It may not be as artsy as last week’s adventures of a wandering light bulb, but the fact that it’s all true, well, that’s something special.

They have a website you can check out here.

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Today’s Fringe Fridays brings us to a dark and dusty room through the medium of stop-motion animation. The animator definitely owes a debt to such stalwarts as Jan Svankmajer and the Brothers Quay, but he brings something new to genre through his use of television clips. It’s a painstaking process, one that instills the movie with an unsettling atmosphere.

The Room Six O’Clock

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