Without a word of dialogue, Ted Chung manages to say so much in his short A Thousand Words. Shot in black and white, he explores how pictures speak a thousand words about a person.

Every day: so many opportunities to connect…What if you took just one?

This brilliant 30 second animation was created by Ryan Cashman using long exposure photography. It features an animated character playing a keyboard – sketched into the scene using an LED keychain light.

Animated light paintings of a little piano player performing. Filmed at night with the lovely I-5 and San Diego skyline in the background…I wrote the music and recorded it first. The frames were photographed with a Canon Rebel using 20-30 second exposure time. I used a small green LED keychain light to draw each frame. Once all the positions were photographed they were strung together and synchronized to the music in After Effects…They were all shot at 20 second exposure time. The drawing took about 10 seconds to do each time, then I’d step out of the way and let myself disappear.

A great video shot on a Panasonic LX3 in 720p HD, of what must be what a bird sees when flying.

Leo Murray and the folks at wakeupfreakout.org have created this animated film about climate change. Using a simple chalkboard feel they manage to send a powerful message about feedback loops within our climate.

This really isn’t about polar bears any more. At this very moment, the fate of civilization itself hangs in the balance.It turns out that the way we have been calculating the future impacts of climate change up to now has been missing a really important piece of the picture. It seems we are now dangerously close to the tipping point in the world’s climate system; this is the point of no return, after which truly catastrophic changes become inevitable.

Twenty-five year old motion designer Magnus Engsfors produced this short video to illustrate the moment of total mental collapse due to very difficult personal circumstances. A great choice of soundtrack- Twenty Minutes by edIT.

It was shot with one Canon Eos 5D and a single external ProFoto flash while I was hanging from two ropes stretched across the scene. Then some heavy masking and retouching in Photoshop before the layers were lined up in After Effects to add camera movement and particles