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This is must watch animation! Human kind is not built to last....

very inventive idea, and stop motion is perfect format. well done

"They look like big strong hands, don't they?"

if you were to compare humanity's time in correlation with the earth and sun and their projected timeline, our existance would be like 1/4 of a second in June out of the year. Insignificance can really ruin your day. more documentary type videos need to be on digg! im getting sick of seeing some random guy getting hit in the nuts with a football.

My pet rock gives this two stones up.

Schönes Werk!

Truly amazing,. What are the odds I just watched it 20 sec after I finished watching The Man From Earth. Thats probably why it felt it was more epic than funny.

This was on The Animation Show, a fantastic compilation of animations. Both Volume 1 and 2 are some of the coolest things I've ever seen.

o noes! my head is covered in moss!

Here is a high resolution torrent download of this clip: (64MB)
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3511032/Das_Rad_-_Shor ...

35 years in 10 seconds. http://youtube.com/watch?v=laPU0bS8JOc

That was depressing. Not sure what to think when an animation can so powerfully put things in perspective, albeit very temporarily. We are but blips in time, and that is all.

Very cool - I've always wondered what it would be like to experience the world at different subjective rates (either much much faster, or much much slower)

The torrent link I've posted before doesn't have any seeds.
The "Das Rad" clip is present in this torrent - a collection of clips from the Beltesassar's Short Animation Festival
http://www.mininova.org/tor/263585

That was the first time in a long while where an idea is new to me and I grasp it near the beginning and play it over in my head but then the film expands on it further than I think they will.

very surprised about this.

I love how he throws the seed, and a tree pops up.

Why is it presented in "fake" widescreen?

Remember Star Tek's Wink of an Eye episode?

beautiful, amazing and elegant...what i like in most things!

The acceleration was a nice touch. Small city, big city, HOLY HELL IT'S COMING AT US! Lol! Nice work.

Low resolution is unwatchable.

Jesus Christ .... cant anyone just ever say ... that was awesome

WOW that was brilliant, fantastic job at the stop motion video, and one hell of an idea.

brilliant concept executed to perfection...

really great!!!

I wish I had 100 diggs to give to this.

I wake up and find Das Rad on digg? ***** dugg!

Unique!!! Dugg...

This is included (along with many other great animations) on the Animation Show DVD. Seriously a good buy. Don Hertzfeldt+Mike Judge=Awesome.

Is it me or that looked like city 17?

life is like a flash, even though we cannot control how long we last, we can definitely determine how bright we will shine.

das RAD

i can't believe that NOBODY noticed two robot-shaped piles of rock standing next to the road for 1000's of years!

This animation is great, but we can hardly see anything. I miss Stage 6.

Wow this was incredible. One of the better 5 minute segment I've spent in my life.

Definitely inventive and clever. And arguably may have been less great using 3D animation.

The over population myth:

Folks ridiculed people for suggesting that the entire world population could fit in Texas, but at the density level the Sierra Club was advocating, all 6 billion people in the world today would be able to fit in an area just 2 percent as large as Texas. The state could hold upwards of 300 billion people at that level of density. Responding to criticism, the Sierra Club quickly took the page down and retooled it, defining efficient urban density as only 100 households per acre. But that’s still a population density of 153,600 people per square mile, or a density high enough to put every single man, woman and child in Texas almost 7 times.

Forget Texas, the entire world population could fit in Virginia!

After seeing the wagon wheel scene I recalled watching a documentary about time, particles in quantum mechanics seem to disappear and reappear. I wonder if there could be a time faster than our perspective causing unobservable changes to those particles.

This reminds me of a project i made for my english class. it used a bunch of ripped clips from a national geographics video that was about the world after man kind was long gone. thew a bunch of the clips together and used the song "dust in the wind" in the background. it came out pretty good. should get a copy of it and put it up :D

Haha.. those rocks are cool! and us... not so much =(

I thoroughly enjoyed that.

Wow ***** brilliant, it was also a bit sad.

How did the city building disappear that quickly? Even at "rock time", those buildings wouldn't just vanish so much quicker than the billboard.

i love the way that the progression of technology is so easily mapped to a tan graph. The acceleration of the progression increases exponentially until it hits a point where we blow ourselves up ( the asymptote) and the it starts over... pretty wild.