17-20-23: Alex Dainis Lip-Syncs With Herself Over 6 Years

I happened to see this video making the rounds on the Internet today, when I realized… wait! I know that person!
I happened to see this video making the rounds on the Internet today, when I realized… wait! I know that person!
Built by Berlin studio ART+COM, the Kinetic Rain sculpture at Changi Airport Singapore is composed of 1,216 individual rain droplets. Each one dangles by a thin, steel rope and is controlled by a computer and individual motor.
Set 6,000 years in the future, Robbie is an aging self-aware robot looking back on his life in the last moments before his battery life runs out.
Created by Neil Harvey, the film is composed entirely from over 10 hours of NASA archival footage. I’m not 100% on this, as I assumed there were some scenes that involved manipulation, but I think it’s almost all done through video from NASA.
You’ve likely already seen this by now, but it’s a great bit of video editing by Jeremiah McDonald. As a kid, he created a video for his future self… and this video is him, talking with that younger version of himself.
The guys from BriTANicK, trying ever so hard to remember the final lines to A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Launched in late November of 2011, NASA’s Curiosity will be landing on Mars in the early days of August. This video shows team members, talking about the technical challenges they’ll need to overcome, to get the vehicle down safely to the ground.
Created by Cameron Michael, The Manhattan Project is a wonderful bit of time-lapse video.
They’ve got an ambitious goal: $30,000 with a little under $6,000 pledged at the time of this blog post (with 19 days to go).
I’ll tell you this – I love the idea of Kickstarter, but haven’t really backed a ton of projects to date. Mostly, they’ve been projects started by friends that I wanted to support. But in this case, I wanted to put my money where my mouth is.
There are some really ingenious moments, where they seem to be able to impose a bit of order on something that looks like all kinds of chaos and randomness. In particular: using graduated openings to separate out mushrooms into 10 different sizes (1:31) and automatically aligning mushrooms to the same direction (2:39).
When I first saw this, I assumed the video was created by a teacher or staff member at the school – and the video was something done between classes, bidding the school and students farewell after working there for four years. On reading closer, I realized Tolu was a student – a Senior no less, in his final year.
Captured by photographer Sean White, Terra Sacra Time Lapses spans over 24 countries and six years. It’s a pretty breathtaking bit of video, and really makes you feel like travelling the world more than you have.
This video showcases 9 skaters who do some pretty uncommon tricks, all filmed in beautiful slow-motion. From a hardflip pretzel to a nollie 360 shuv underflip to a Merlin twist… these guys have got some serious skills.
Great animation explaining how we go about measuring incredibly large distances. Created by Royal Observatory Greenwich, it takes some pretty big/complex concepts and distills them down in a really cool/fun way (I love the little 40W lightbulb guys).
Every year, we Americans use over 13 billion pounds of paper towels. That’s right – billions. That is not a small number.
And you know what? I have a confession to make – I’m not helping with that number. I’m someone who’s in the habit of grabbing multiple paper towels to dry my hands. I’ve done this for a while, always with the belief that I needed more than one to fully dry my hands.
Recently, Chris has been playing a game called Fez and part of the game apparently utilizes 3D. He was in need of some glasses, no one in the office had any… so he ended up ordering glasses online.