Loving this song and playful music video by Benny Sings. Silly Robo-Benny!

This song and surreal music video by Rozi Plain transports me to another realm, I love it!

This music video by Louis Cole is full of beautifully understated and ridiculous dance moves, choreographed by Louis himself!

A wonder of a physical comedy / dance video - Smac McCreanor mimics hydraulic presses crushing different objects, but with her body representing the objects being crushed!

Musical comedy man Brett Domino took an old episode of Blind Date and superimposed himself into the show, this comedy short really tickled me!

Gunhild Carling is a Swedish multi-instrumentalist jazz musician who has a flare for entertaining in playful ways! I saw a video of her playing 3 trumpets at once, which led to this video of her playing Happy on a bunch of different instruments, including a triple-trumpet parp-bonanza! Toot-toot-toooooot!

I haven’t been on tiktok much at all, but I recently found a link to these amazingly surreal short videos based around a phone booth, which make liberal use of practical effects to twist things into freakin’ weeeird territories, man.

I made the mistake of playing this retro smooth synth funk music video to my toddler and it’s now become a multiple times daily ritual that we watch this extra-long-ponytailed man emote on his synthesizer. But I don’t mind because if my baby’s into synthesisers then as far as I’m concerned I’ve done my job as a father perfectly 👌

A beautiful vocal and analogue synthesiser performance. Oh there’s a cello too! It’s powerful and spacious at the same time, like THE UNIVERSE ITSELF WHOAAA 🌌

I love this brass quartet piece by The Westerlies, it’s kinda joyful and beautiful! If you like this, their album Wherein Lies The Good is definitely worth a listen, some wonderful stuff on there 🎺

My friend Verity Standen made this beautiful song and music video in the depths of the pandemic. I first watched this a couple of months ago feeling deeply exhausted with it all, and I proper blubbed, I tell you, blubbed all down my face.

Lots to ingest in this talk on creativity by sculpture artist Tom Sachs! I love the bit about “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should” - I’ve often struggled with having lots of ideas and being buffeted about by them instead of choosing one and seeing it through to the end.

Japanese designer Okazaki Tomohiro makes playful stop-motion animations of matches. Mesmerising and oddly satisfying!

A trippy lil short of two guys talking bout nothin while their faces go nuts.

A musical making video with a fun version of Popcorn at the end :)

A home concert video with Róisín managing to be totally captivating and badass in her living room!

This guy has been making silly videos for a while and just blew up from 3k subscribers to 733k in the last two months thanks to this series of animations.

A very stupid music video with some great inspiration for things to do in lockdown.

A live music performance by pianist and synth virtuoso Georgie Ward! Amazing stuff! Georgie was/is the synth player in my new band Bandrucker. We played one gig then I had a baby and the pandemic hit and it all screeched to a halt. I hope to play music with Georgie again when the situation allows, she’s a badass!

A playful short film about anticipation and release. I also enjoyed this short by the same director.