Short Film Spotlight: Glove
The true story of a glove that’s been floating in space forever since 1968.
Directors Bernardo Britto and Alexa Lim Haas were inspired to make this short film by the archival NASA documentary For All Mankind. Fascinated by a brief shot of an astronaut’s glove drifting off into the expanse of space, Britto wrote the original screenplay, Haas developed the hand painted visual style, and they directed the film together (Fuster, 2016, ShortList 2016: ‘Glove’ Turns Space Accident Into Cosmic Cartoon). Glove played during the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and coincidentally For All Mankind played at the 1989 festival, where it won both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award in the documentary competition.
Stills by Alexa Lim Haas, courtesy of Glove.
the bioluminescent noctiluca scintillans – an algae known otherwise as sea sparkle – of australia’s jervis bay. (click pic or link for credit x, x, x)
At the core of the artificial-intelligence program AlphaZero was an algorithm so powerful that you could give it the rules of humanity’s most studied games and, later that day, it would become the best player there has ever been. James Somers investigates how the A.I. program mastered gameplay.
This is an illustration I did for my friend, Dai’s, PhD thesis. A part of his thesis involved a study around how some gay men (particularly those of a minority status) negotiate being gay outside of mainstream gay culture. One story that really stood out to me as being quite unique and touching involved a middle-aged fellow who has never been intimate with another man, doesn’t necessarily identify as being gay, but spends his days knitting baby socks on park benches and on the train as a way to perform his ‘gayness’. As he still lives at home with an extremely conservative family this is essentially the only way he knows to express his sexuality.
