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OK, this is ridiculous, but in the best way possible. Spending too much time describing this short film by French animator Nicolas Deveaux would ruin it, so it’s probably best to just watch it. Created over a period of 1.5 years 5 Mètres 80 is a follow-up to a shorter animation he made 10 years ago about an elephant on a trampoline. Deveaux is widely known for his realistic animation of animals for both film and commercials, many more of which he shares on Vimeo. 5 Mètres 80 has toured film festivals around the world since 2013 picking up numerous awards and nominations including the Best in Show Award at SIGGRAPH Asia. (via Vimeo Staff Picks)

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News: A pregnant Popeye's employee was fired after refusing to pay back money stolen during a robbery.

Stacey Tyrell, a Canadian artist whose parents are from the West Indian island of Nevis, knows that when most people look at her they see a black woman.

"Backra Bluid" artist Stacey Tyrell. (Staceytyrell.com)

But Tyrell has a background that's invisible to many observers. She explained in an interview with the Huffington Post that some of her ancestors were enslaved African people who were forced to work on plantations and often coerced into sexual relationships. The result: she, like many other people in the Caribbean and in the United States, has Europeans in her family tree, too.

Still, because of what she calls "a dualism that is inherent in Euro-centric constructs of 'Whiteness' and 'Blackness' in western societies" — the idea that most people are one race or the other, not both — she often gets uncomfortable looks when she openly claims her English, Scottish, and Irish ancestors, she wrote on her website. She says it started when she was "a black child attending a predominantly white school," and it hasn't stopped.

"Over the years I have found that a lot of people (often white) get very uncomfortable at the mention of such a connection because they half expect me to launch into a diatribe about colonialism and slavery when all I really seek is an inclusive conversation about the fact that all of us are more related than we think," she told the Huffington Post.

The solution: in a photography project titled "Backra Bluid," (the name combines the Caribbean slang for "white master" or "white person" and the Scottish word for "blood" and "kin") she's dressing up like the white people in her family tree using full costumes, hairstyling, and makeup, to challenge the way people think of race and heritage.

An image from "Backra Bluid." (Courtesy of Stacey Tyrell/Staceytyrell.com)

"The images in the series are an attempt to interpret and explore these relatives from both past and present that I know are out there," Tyrell writes.

An image from "Backra Bluid." (Courtesy of Stacey Tyrell/Staceytyrell.com)

The artist believes the resistance she often encounters when she discusses her white heritage is "due to the fact that with the very act of mentioning such ties I am inadvertently reminding them of the brutal system of colonial African slavery and its legacy that has brought about such connections."

An image from "Backra Bluid." (Courtesy of Stacey Tyrell/Staceytyrell.com)

She says she's simply trying to get across that the majority of people in post-colonial societies are "hybrids of its past and current inhabitants. "

An image from "Backra Bluid." (Courtesy of Stacey Tyrell/Staceytyrell.com)

What's the point of using her own face and body to make this statement? Tyrell says, "By simply changing my skin color and making subtle tweaks to my features I wish to show that if someone were to take a closer look at my face they would see that it might not be that much different than their own."

"Backra Bluid" artist Stacey Tyrell prepares for a photo shoot. (staceytyrell.com)

(h/t Huffington Post)

Further reading:

• Ben Affleck's attempt to hide his slave-owning ancestor feels very familiar
• 11 ways race isn't real
• How the slave trade shaped Americans' ancestry

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A Robin Williams impersonator posted a video on YouTube that has gone viral — and it’s totally worth the watch. According to Entertainment Weekly, Jamie Costa completely nails 20 impressions of the late comedian, getting his voice and his facial expressions to match almost perfectly. He titled the video “Never had a friend like him,” which, of course, is a tribute to William’s role as the Genie in Aladdin.

“Not only does Costa bear an eerily close resemblance to the late comic, but he also has Williams’ vocal tone down so perfectly that watching him is almost like watching Williams’ younger self goofing around onscreen.”

As previously reported by the Inquisitr, Costa said that he wanted to make the video as a way to honor Williams, and to thank him for “igniting his passion.”

The Robin Williams impersonator has well over 1.3 million views on his video so far. According to Time, Costa impersonated some of Williams’ most memorable movie characters including Mork from Mork & Mindy, the Genie from Aladdin, and Mrs. Doubtfire.

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