Colin Mika and Brandon Vedder of All Cut Up Films created this amazing time-lapse video of Los Angeles by photographing the city through a “snow globe”. They captured 4000 images with a custom rig, which consisted of a Canon 5D Mark II, a homemade tilt-shift lens, a light...

Beyond the fact that the motion graphics on this are simple, smart and appropriately applied, there are some good figures to have at your disposal (when quoting the number of tweets per second at the Christmas dinner table). You're uncle will be suitably dismayed...