Imagery

Cat versus bear cub: sentimental romp, or nature red in tooth and claw? Watching the two tangle playfully in a Russian hunting camp, the line is hard to draw. Video after the jump.

In the business of getting to space, an access of sublime ephemerality. Video after the jump.

A breakneck desktop adventure offers an uncanny sense of what daily life is like for a tech blogger. Video after the jump.

From 1905, a troupe of schoolboys show off their puzzling foil uniforms. Students in an experimental Utopian lyceum? Or visitors from the future?

A short film about the eye behind The Sartorialist shows how the web, like the printing press and photography before it, unleashes disruptive beauty. Video after the jump.

This making-of reel from effects producer Digital Domain shows how richly we've blurred the difference between reality and image-making.

A glass techno-cube spinning through space, rocked by a band with the unimpeachably awesome name.

Mats of extremophile bacteria? Bio-colonized pigments in an ancient aboriginal petroglyph? Or an image of our nearest planetary neighbor? Answer after the jump.

Another advertisement from the Land of People Who Want to Be Toys. Video after the jump.

Imagery that comes to grips with black holes, places where the equations of the physicists seem to stretch unto breaking. Videos after the jump.