Cooperation at the beginning of life, the world mirrored to itself, and a furious Australian child. Your video Sunday

We haven’t had a video Sunday for a while. We like to share some of the inspiring, motivating, strengthening or just plain startling audio-visuals we find from the media torrent coming into A/UK.

Above is a music-video from Thomas Méreur, “Apex” (album link here) with visuals by FKY (instagram.com/fky_pictures/). The apparently simple device of mirroring the reality of seas, people on beaches and boats completely re-enchants the everyday experience. How do we see the hidden echoes and patterning of our lives?

From Aeon video:

If the competitive nature of existence ever gets you down, you might want to consider one leading theory of how complex life came to emerge in the first place. The endosymbiotic theory of mitochondrial origin (also known as symbiogenesis) is one of the leading theories for the development of eukaryotes – the nucleus-containing cells that are the building blocks of all multicellular organisms.

According to the theory, narrated here by the biologist Rob Lue of Harvard University, it was a symbiotic partnership between two primitive cells that allowed them to thrive, develop organelles for specialised tasks, and eventually give rise to complex new lifeforms. In other words, cooperation was key – and it remains so today.

The Australian child speaks the first words: “I’m angered, incensed, enraged and fed-up”. An animation after the bush fires, and in the militant spirit of Greta Thunberg.

From Creative Review:

The ongoing Australian bushfire crisis, brought on by record temperature highs and a severe drought, has had devastating effects. As tragedies continue to spill out – so far the death of 26 people, the destruction of over 2,000 homes and the impact it’s made on 800 million animals since September – many have begun to look around and ask how this has happened.

A new animation by Darcy Prendergast indicates that the answer has been in front of our eyes all along, and looks to politicians to act. Depicted in a fiery palette of yellow, orange and red, the video underlines the severity of the situation in Australia while pointing the finger at “fossil fuel chumps”.

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