Inspired by Joey Ramone’s posthumous love letter to New York City, directed by Greg Jardin, high school student Kevin Chiu spent two months taking 1991 photos of 140 Hunter College HS peers and teachers to create his own stop-motion homage.

More (The Hunter Pixilation Project) is scored to the song Leaves by Cheers Elephant.

Enjoy the video inspiration, too:

Thanks, Kevin.

A lesson in tradition taught in a less traditional way, How to Tie a Bow tie taught with stop-motion… by a bow tie. 

Related: more clothes videos + and other tutorials.

via This N That and Some Shirts.

Magnifying carbon monoxide (CO) atoms to over 100 million times their actual size, arranging them into a series of 242 still images, and then animating them together, scientists at IBM Research have made the smallest movie ever. Wait, how small is that again?

“If an atom was the size of an orange, then the orange would be the size of the whole planet Earth.”

The movie is called A Boy and His Atom, and it is Guinness World Records verified(!) as the smallest stop-motion film in the world.

You can read more about the project here, you can listen to the sound of moving atoms, and can watch how scientists Susanne Baumann, Andreas Heinrich, Christopher Lutz and Ileana Rau made the movie here:

The future is now.

Thanks, Monika. 

Bottle by Kirsten Lepore, a 2010 stop-motion animated story about a transoceanic, message-in-a-bottle conversation and the emotions that come with it.

We’ve featured Lepore’s work previously. You can also watch how she made Bottle in this behind the scenes vid.

Architecture (1980), a stop motion short made with blocks by Al Jarnow. His classic Cosmic Clock in also the archives.