tradition
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A Picture-Perfect Christmas Goes Darkly Awry in Horror Short Snow Globe
Snow Globe introduces us to a perfectly pink-clad woman flitting around a festively decorated room. But it soon becomes clear in this short film from Christopher Ryan Laughter — whose work io9 has shared before — that things are much more sinister than they appear. For one thing, the poem that narrator is reciting is…
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The Beautiful Ancient Art Of Making Sake
Yoshida Brewery in northern Japan is a 144-year-old family brewery that makes sake the old-fashioned way. That is, they make sake in a way that preserves a 2000-year-old tradition. Erik Shirai made a beautiful short of the people at Yoshida and the process of making sake in his film The Birth of Sake, and it…