Ah, mushrooms and molds. They have their own agendas, you know.

It's weird how fungi play IDM.

I think I started tripping on mushrooms just by watching that...

Bobkat, you think that's weird you should watch them play pinball.

This was "stolen" from the Planet Earth series (the epic nature documentary shot in HD and narrated by David Attenborough). I think the poster overlaid their own music though...

Hey, Hey! Yeah,Yeah,yeah,yeah! isn't nature WONDERFUL!

Aw, this is so great! It's weird that the mould seem to pulse as they grow...
Yup. Agenda...

... it figures the poster frame is set to the phallic looking one.

It's even worse in the video. Made me blush, I tell you. Hello!

Also wonderful is The Secret Life of Plants. It is most memorable for its stunning, wild time-lapse videos of plants growing. A real pleasure. I think a lot of it is on Google Video; also, look here:

http://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Plants_(film)

#5 is correct.

This is Planet Earth footage dubbed with someone else's music. Its from the Jungles episode.

have you ever watched mushrooms grow... on weeeeed?

Mushrooms have a sinister agenda and must be stopped.

here's proof.

Amazing video!

#8: Me too, that was just a bit too phallic... and then the veil that fell down.

Alien cocks is all I can think of. And i really wish it wasn't.

The track is 'Delta' by Higher Intelligence Agency, from their 1993 album 'Colourform'.

Wow, I've always found fungus slightly creepy even when it wasn't animated. Watching it in time lapse really made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

On a somewhat related note, I think I must have seen too many time lapse videos of flowers growing/blooming as a kid, because I kept trying to "bloom" the flowers in my mom's garden by unfolding the buds. Strangely, there were never petals curled up inside waiting to pop out....

"My, what a yummy slime mold!" :)

This is BoingBoing at its finest -- weird, but fabulously wonderful stuff that most of us would never find. Thanks, Mark!

It gets even better:

"Their method of reproduction is different... Stinkhorns instead produce a sticky spore mass on their tip..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallaceae

there are advantages to having a multi-Kingdom genome...

whoever shot that video sure is a fun guy!

@HenKaiPan

Thanks. I think you are wonderful too.

Oh, crap! It's the Daikaisho! Gas masks, everyone!

There are hours and hours of footage like that in Planet Earth. And if you haven't watched that series in HD, you're really missing out. That will single-handedly make your HDTV worth the $$$ (that and Blade Runner).

It looks like a pulsating phlegm monster.

I need a rainbow chaser.

http://www.rainbowglitter.com/sky-seasoning-by-silverstein/

I watched it with the sound off and Lustmord playing, which fits the slime mould much better.

Wow, really cool. Except for the fact that the flash ads on boingboing crashed my browser. I had to go to the original blog entry to view the Youtube video. Sometimes its nice running a 64-bit browser with no flash...

I noticed the pulsing effect too, and wondered if it was a diurnal lighting variation that caused it. I really liked the part where the camera panned while it time-lapsed. Very good.

That looks a lot like the footage I saw of same while watching a DVD of the BBC's "Blue Planet."

Which has TONS of other great stuff.

There's been a documentary of those on TV just recently. I also think some of the shots in the above video were taken from it.

The TV version of that documentary I found on YouTube is dubbed german, though. But the mushrooms are the same, and so are their properties:

http://www.youtube.com/v/mrrCYQWosJI

http://www.youtube.com/v/A1dvRj953FM

http://www.youtube.com/v/qFUy5NMawtw

http://www.youtube.com/v/tLO2n3YMcXw

@15: Nice call. I haven't listened to that album in ages, although I still listen to Freefloater occasionally. The track in the video reminded me of Autechre's stuff from around the same time, which is interesting. If anyone's interested in something similar, there's an IDM version of the film, Fantastic Planet, floating around the interwebz.