Nathan Callahan / Video Clip of the Day

December 31, 2013
I, Party Cup
It's just a plastic cup used to fill (and probably spill) the beverage of your choice. But it's more than that: It's a timeworn receptacle used to mark life's milestones. New Year's Eve! Childhood pizza party! Clandestine high-school kegger! Awkward office holiday celebration!

December 30, 2013
Experimental Animation Meets Pottery
A film by Jim Le Fevre, Mike Paterson and Roops and Al Johnstone (RAMP ceramics), commissioned by the UK Crafts Council.

December 28, 2013
The Power of Empathy
What is the best way to ease someone's pain and suffering? In this beautifully animated RSA Short, Dr Brené Brown reminds us that we can only create a genuine empathic connection if we are brave enough to really get in touch with our own fragilities.

December 27, 2013
Cellphone Crashing at the Airport
Don't you hate when people talk loudly on their phones in public? Why not have some fun with it and "crash" their calls!

December 26, 2013
What is Sea Level?

December 25, 2013
Media Reacts: A Christmas Present Or Two Or Ten Edition

December 24, 2013
Army Acid Test
This is a national archives and records administration film file of the army testing LSD on servicemen.

December 23, 2013
The Incredible Physics of Ants
They can flow like a liquid and bounce back like a solid. Masses of fire ants show a duality that intrigues physicists.

December 20, 2013
John Stezaker — Resonating Nostalgic Lyricism
In an image-saturated world, British collage artist John Stezaker rather creates more with less. Cutting up yesterday photographs, subtracting pieces, and juxtaposing faces, he transforms forgotten photographs and postcards into symbolic portraiture of modernism. Stezaker’s artistic interests in examining hidden relations between images have bestowed international success and recognition upon him and his collage art. Gestalten.tv had a precious opportunity to speak with the artist at his exhibition in Berlin’s Capitain Petzel Gallery.

December 19, 2013
The Arduous Psychoanalysis of a Used Car Salesman
A once-foundering actor gains a new lease on life by giving classic cars, well, a new lease on life.

December 18, 2013
Why The Full Moon is Better in Winter

December 17, 2013
Midday San Diego Traffic Reorganized by Color
The source footage for this video is a 4-minute shot from the Washington Street bridge above State Route 163 in San Diego captured at 2:39pm Oct 1, 2013. The aim is to reveal the color palette and color preferences of contemporary San Diego drivers in addition to traffic patterns and volumes. There are no CG elements, these are all real cars that have been removed from one sample and reorganized.

December 16, 2013
Moving Illusions

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December 13, 2013
How to Graduate from Art School
This film was inspired by all the pretentious full of shit art school kids that Colin Grimm has hadthe pleasure of going to graduate school with. For the last several months Colin has made a point to write down all the nonsense these students spit out during classes and critiques and format it into this monologue.

December 12, 2013
Oregon Christmas Tree Harvest With Helicopter
Behold Christmas Tree harvesting at Noble Mountain Christmas Tree Farm in Oregon with pilot Dan Clark flying a Northwest Helicopters, LLC 206B3 Jetranger on November of 2008. Oregon is the nation's biggest producer and exporter of Christmas trees, selling about 7.3 million trees a year, more than twice that of No. 2 North Carolina.

December 11, 2013
Creole Cowboys
A look at Louisiana’s R&B-Infused Zydeco Trail-Riding Culture directed by Tabitha Denholm.

December 10, 2013
The World Outside My Window
This montage of time-lapse photography from the International Space Station is collected from many taken in Expeditions 29, 30 and 31 and created by David Peterson.

December 9, 2013
The Is No Pink Light
Absent from the visible spectrum and neither a wave nor a particle, the color pink is, for many, a scientific enigma: how can a shade that doesn’t even appear in the rainbow exist? The answer lies in color theory.

December 6, 2013
Wind
Wind is an animated short about the daily life of people living in a windy area who seem helplessly exposed to the weather. However, the inhabitants have learned to deal with their difficult living conditions. The wind creates a natural system for living.

December 5, 2013
Wyoming Wildscapes II

December 4, 2013
The Unfixed Brain
In this teaching video, Suzanne Stensaas, Ph.D., Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Utah, demonstrates the properties and anatomy of an unfixed brain. WARNING: The video contains graphic images, a human brain from a recent autopsy. Background noise is unrelated to this brain or the deceased. There are two purposes for this video: 1) to stress the vulnerability of the brain to highlight the importance of wearing helmets, seat belts, and taking care of this very precious tissue, and 2) to use as a teaching aid for students who only have access to fixed tissue, models, and pictures.

December 3, 2013
Simple Harmonic Motion #8 Excerpt
Simple Harmonic Motion is an ongoing research and series of projects investigating complexity from simplicity; exploring the nature of complex patterns created from the interaction of simple multilayered rhythms. It is inspired by observations of natural physical and mathematical phenomena; as well as works by the likes of Norman Mclaren, John Whitney, Steve Reich, John Cage, Gyorgi Ligeti, Edgar Varèse, Brian Eno.

December 2, 2013
The Void
Emptiness here is regarded not as an absence of everything, but as an initial state when anything can appear. To see how dark room turns into the Big Bang epicenter a visitor should become “empty”. Every move and sound, captured by sensitive equipment, stops the 360 degrees audiovisual flow around. “Void” is a social experiment, to see how long today people can stay totally calm.

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