Weekly Filet #141: Hold Your Breath for 9 Meter. And more.
9 meter, that is a) a little more than the long jump world record and b) the distance between two highrises in the short film «9 Meter». This is all I'm going to say about the story, since I want you to watch it yourselves. It's the best short film I've seen in a long time.
→ 9 Meter (Anders Walter / Vimeo)
A great profile about the two men at the heart of the biggest and most important story of the year.
→ Snowden and Greenwald: The Men Who Leaked the Secrets (Rolling Stone)
A great collection of infographics and data visualisations from 2013. The one about the most contested Wikipedia articles is my favourite.
→ Our favorite charts of 2013 (Quartz)
These pieces of art look like piles of trash – until you switch on a lamp and look at the shadows from the right angle. Wow.
→ Amazing Shadow Sculptures By Tim Noble And Sue Webster (This Is Marvelous)
The toys they are a-changin'.
→ 50 Years 50 Toys, An Infographic of Popular Holiday Toys from 1963 to Today (Laughing Squid)
Long travel ahead? Need some extra weekend reading? Try the first of a series of collections from the Weekly Filet archive: «Unputdownable Stories»