Weekly Filet #152: Runners, hi! And more.
A dead simple idea, a great short film: Chat up people while they are out jogging and ask them about their lives. Film makers Matan Rochlitz and Ivo Gormley had a theory that people might be more open, even to big, existential questions, if they were asked while running. They were right.
→ The Runners (Vimeo/Banyak Films)
A 15'000 word beast that will blow your mind right from the start.
→ A Star in a Bottle (The New Yorker)
If you know Ray Bradbury's «Fahrenheit 451», you'll know how genius this book design is.
→ Burn This Book (Kottke)
Maps of Europe, with all countries turned into comic characters. Another great find from the Public Domain Review.
→ Cartoon Map of Europe in 1914 (Public Domain Review)
2,4,8 – can you figure out the rule behind the sequence? A great short video about the power of falsification (and why people don't use it).
→ Can You Solve This? (YouTube/Veritasium)