Turning turntable scratches into visual patterns: Valerio Spoletini’s V-Scratch. Neat.
Watch this absolutely crazy bicycle stunt performance.
[Cycling up the steepest hills of San Francisco][1] looks like quite a challenge, especially when you see the struggle at the end of the video.
[1]: http://ia310126.us.archive.org/2/items/FrankChanRussianHillRoulette/bikescape_6906.mp4 (Russian Hill Roulette (direct link to MP4 video) [site language: English])
Game Over is an inventive stop-motion compilation of classic video games like Centipede, Frogger, Asteroids and more, produced with food, flowers and every day objects.
The [Jedi Knights][1] who say Ni?
[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leEsz9ci5XE (YouTube - Monty python - Black knight (star wars) [site language: English])
Space Invaders with real live people
People don’t care much about sweatshops but they “might” if the information was accessible…
Rumble through the Bronx III – More crazy alleycat racing in New York.
Projecting animated wild animals from a moving car, their speed synchronised to the car wheels, brilliant!
Today in “What have we learned from history?”: the Trojan Horse.
Do you believe in false gods? Are you a victim of the force?
This video is positively strange. I love the internet.
Bonom has gone one step further with his street art. Check out this animation by emich of his work next to Etterbeek railway station.
One wall. One week of Japanese Art.
The latest Gnarls Barkley video pays tribute to the blaxploitation genre with a nod to the awesome Blacula. Great stuff.
Ignoring global warming won’t make it go away.
Dr Octagon’s take on global warming.
Strangely mesmerising videos of tram journeys through Brussels filmed with a front-mounted camera. (thanks Gunter)
Mix your own rhythms in the kitchen
Master Plan, about the power of Google.
It’s 2056 and the planet is saved. I just laughed watching this, probably not the expected reaction.
Abstractor turns your TV or outdoor video screen into a work of art.
Tournis, a short film by François Vogel
Fascinating live video broadcast straight from a robot submarine that’s exploring the bottom of the Black Sea.
Atheism news of the day: Myspace deletes atheist group. And watch the “Four Horsemen” (Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens) discuss religion on video: part one and part two.
A visit to the Pacific's toxic garbage island, where our plastic goes to die/kill. It's a 12 part video so I'm not embedding it, just start with the link and you'll see the rest.
A visit to the Pacific’s toxic garbage island, where our plastic goes to die/kill. It’s a 12 part video so I’m not embedding it, just start with the link and you’ll see the rest.
Nerd music. Just what it says on the label.
Galco's Soda Pop Stop in Los Angeles offers 500 different flavours of soda.
The drugstore where time stands still.
The drugstore where time stands still.
Remember the band OK GO and that treadmill video that went viral a while back? They can’t do that for their new tracks, EMI, their record label, doesn’t like free distribution.
Remember the band OK GO and that treadmill video that went viral a while back? They can't do that for their new tracks, EMI, their record label, doesn't like free distribution.
Ben Goldacre: Battling Bad Science.
Once you’ve seen it, it’s everywhere.
The comments on the video for Haruomi Hosono's 1984 cassette track Watering a flower are lovely. It's a pleasant change from the usual youtube toxicity. They've even been compiled into a book. (via Joe Veix)
I'm not going to start posting a ton of things about the current pandemic but I wanted to point to Dr. John Campbell's YouTube channel which has been rational and informative throughout the whole thing and well worth a watch.
MoMA just uploaded an amazingly clear film from 1902 showing the suspended railway in Wuppertal. It's still impressive today but it must have been something 118 years ago.
Emmit Fenn's "Who Dat" video shows a pigeon with pretty impressive moves. Nice use of CGI by Patrick Jean.
I never knew the plastics industry had co-opted the recycling symbol in order to reduce people's image of plastic as an environmental issue. Bleak but not particularly surprising.
Beautiful story of an inventor still busy at 98.
From The gift of room tone article at Criterion.
Fascinating look into how sounds in film are produced. As well as a custom house built to do the work.
This visualisation/animation puts the depths of oceans into perspective. It gets quite chilling once it gets really deep and dark.
The story of the Liverbirds, Liverpool's first female rock band that came up behind the beatles and had quite a run. Amazing and moving story. (via Kottke)
You've probably already seen the miniature worlds created by Tatsuya Tanaka. Before watching this video, I was unaware he 3D-printed a lot of his content. His process is impressive and the results even more so.
Another hypnotising piece of footage captured by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Insitute.
Some filmmakers can do action, others can do comedy. And this video shows why Jackie Chan is one of the rare people to combine them well.
If you've been confused about the NFT hype, this well-researched video might help. It might also confuse you more. There's a lot to digest but it's really worth a watch. The running time is over 2 hours though, so stick it in your "watch later" queue and get to it when you have some down time.
The whole thing is even more bonkers than I thought.
Nothing new here but this video is a nice clear explanation of how dark patterns work. They're everywhere, and companies using them don't realise how much goodwill they lose from their visitors.
If you haven't seen it yet, this segment from John Oliver about data brokers is worth a watch, particularly the magnificent ending.
Two women reminisce about their teenage years in the 1890s. They were obviously better off than many of their counterparts of the day but it's still quite fascinating to get first-person accounts that go so far back. I'm also impressed by one woman's cycling endurance. London to Brighton and back on what was effectively a fixed-gear bike is quite something.
Another video concerning online tracking and all the data about you constantly being hoovered up. This one takes a good look at the difference between privacy and security.
I'm reading the Bright Green Lies book and found this thought-provoking discussion with one of the authors.
As he says, there's definitely an issue with the environmental movement these days being more interested in keeping modern civilization on its current course, rather than trying to protect the actual planet itself like it used to.
And the dominant blind faith in "green" technology does tend to make me uneasy.
Dries Depoorter built software to scan online public cameras and link them to geotagged instagram posts from the same location. Basically finding people from a single instagram photo and potentially tracking them across any public (or not) camera out there. Technically impressive, yet disturbing.
There was a video on the page too, but it seems to have been pulled due to a copyright claim from Earthcam who, I imagine, weren't very happy about their cameras being used for this.
An amusing 80s TV show intervention on the Knightrider Court sign in London.
Artist David Bowen has connected a plant to a robotic arm holding a machete. The electrical signals within the plant control its movement.
AI is definitely being overhyped these days, but there are still some impressive machine learning examples popping up. This real-time parody debate between Trump and Biden is simultaneously hilarious and terrifying.
If you've been around long enough, you've probably seen the Strandbeests of Theo Jansen. Wind-powered kinetic animal-like sculptures that trek across the beaches. He's still at it, now chaining them together.
If you're feeling confused about the recent AI hype and would like to understand how large language models (most AI are LLMs) work, this presentation is one of the clearest I've watched. It's an hour long, so grab a coffee.
In this age of ragebait and kinetic videos, I find watching each episode of Ed Pratt's journey from source to sea down the river Thames to be online comfort food. You can find the other episodes on his YouTube channel.
A fascinating look inside a hidden greenhouse in Los Angeles filled with rare plants. Carlos, their passionate caretaker, gives the tour.
