Compare And Contrast of the Day: Meanwhile, a world away: A poignant portrait of daily life in Afghanistan, by Lukas and Salome Augustin.

Lukas writes:

I have lived from 2006-2008 in Kabul doing my civil service for a humanitarian aid organization. This March I had the chance to go back with my fiancé to show her the place

A Bite Of The Big Apple of the Day: Andrew Clancy spent a year shooting random scenes around New York, the end result of which is this lovely five-minute compilation aptly entitled "A Year in New York."

Music: “We Don’t Eat” by James Vincent McMorrow.

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Short Film of the Day: Amanda Bluglass's short film Ray: A Live Underwater tells the story of 75-year-old Ray Ives, a former commercial diver who has spent half a century plundering the deep seas "like a modern-day pirate."

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Lights Out: Matthew Rhys calls an emergency meeting of his board of directors to discuss the best way into a girl's pants in Peter Calloway's Herman's Head-inspired short, The Think Tank.

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Nature Film of the Day: Paul Kroeker was shooting footage of a dragonfly that landed on the deck of his Lake Winnipeg home, and happened to capture the last moments of the bug's life.

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Well This Is Sufficiently Terrifying of the Day: Artist collective This Is It (of "Bad Things That Could Happen" fame) returns to form with one of the most creative odes to anti-creativity you'll ever have the pleasure of being scared to death by.

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Short Film of the Day: I liked Hanna Maria Heidrich's We Miss You better when it was called Lars von Trier's Antichrist.

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