Nathan Callahan / Video Clip of the Day

December 31, 2014
Projections in the Forest
The projection mapping "bioluminescent forest" is made by artists Friedrich van Schoor and Tarek Mawad. The artists spent six weeks in the forest fascinated by the silence and natural occurrences in nature, especially the phenomenon "bioluminescence". They personified the forest to accentuate the natural beauty by creating luring luminescent plants and glowing magical mushrooms that speaks volumes to any visitor that enters the minds of the artists through viewing "bioluminescent forest".

December 30, 2014
Evelyn Glennie — What Do Artists Do All Day ?
Dame Evelyn Glennie is one of the world's finest virtuoso percussionists. She is also profoundly deaf. Born and raised in Aberdeenshire, she is the first musician to create and sustain the career of a solo percussionist, performing in over 50 countries, recording 30 solo albums and the winner of three prestigious Grammy awards.

December 29, 2014
"ll Capo” (Excerpt) by Yuri Ancarani
Italian artist and filmmaker Yuri Ancarani captures the otherworldly landscape of a marble quarry in the Apuan Alps, Northwest Italy, as Il Capo (The Chief) guides his men through the extraction process.

December 26, 2014
Ley Lines and Avebury Henge
On the winter solstice, Tom Scott trekked out to a cold and muddy Avebury Henge, out in Wiltshire, to talk about two things: first, the peculiar and mostly-British belief of ley lines, and second, the fact that it's basically a hipster version of Stonehenge: bigger, cooler, and you've probably never heard of it.

December 25, 2014
O Holy Night — Puddles Pity Party
O Holy Night is a well-known Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the French poem "Minuit, chrétiens" by wine merchant and poet, Placide Cappeau. Cappeau was a professed anticlerical and atheist. Puddles Pity Party is a band fronted by Michael Geier (as Puddles the Clown).

December 24, 2014
Snowflake Safari
Winter weather means more than sledding and snowmen. Next snowstorm, grab a magnifying glass and try snowflake hunting. Bullet rosettes, stellar plates and capped columns are just a few of the varieties of snow crystal you can find in your backyard. Kenneth Libbrecht, physicist at Caltech and snowflake expert, shares secrets of the snowflake.

December 23, 2014
Xmas Unwrapped by Toby Smith and Unknown Fields
In August Toby Smith travelled East with the Unknown Fields Division, to Vietnam, China and beyond. They traced the supply chain of the world’s consumer products across the South China Sea down cargo routes and inland to their production.

December 22, 2014
Are You Sitting Too Much?
Is sitting too much killing you?

December 19, 2014
Welcome to Union Glacier
Union Glacier is located in the southern Ellsworth Mountains of West Antarctica. This is a documentary about a small team of people who live and work on the glacier during the Antarctic summer.

December 18, 2014
The Mystery Of The Missing Martins
When half a million songbirds didn't show up at their usual roosting spot this summer, Adam Cole went looking for them. His search took him to the backroads of South Carolina, where he saw first-hand evidence of Shakespeare's influence American ecology, met a society of strangely enthusiastic landlords, and learned a bizarre fact about the missing birds: they don't nest in nature anymore. They only breed in houses provided by humans.

December 17, 2014
Soccer Ping Pong
Top Ten Headis (header table tennis) plays — a hybrid of soccer and table tennis. The regular table tennis table is used, but you are just allowed to strike the 7" inch rubber ball with your head.

December 16, 2014
The Feynman Series — Honours
"I don’t see that it makes any point that someone in the Swedish academy just decides that this work is noble enough to receive a prize — I’ve already gotten the prize. The prize is the pleasure of finding a thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it — those are the real things. The honors are unreal to me. I don’t believe in honors." — Richard Feynman

December 15, 2014
Rino Stefano Tagliafierr — Beauty
A path of sighs through the emotions of life. A tribute to the art and her disarming beauty.

December 12, 2014
Napster Documentary: Culture of Free
In 1999, a file-sharing program created in a Boston dorm room sent shock waves across the music industry and served notice that a major cultural shift was underway.

December 11, 2014
The Truth About 'Truth Serum'
Sodium pentothal, the so-called ‘truth serum,’ is real! But does it work? Find out what ‘truth serums’ do, and how your brain lets you tell lies.

December 10, 2014
Bruce Farrer, Thank You for Inspiring Us
For decades, high school teacher Bruce Farrer has been asking his students to write letters to their future selves. Twenty years later, he tracks down the students - wherever they are in the world - and mails their letters to them. The impact he has had on his students’ lives is profound and heartwarming.

December 9, 2014
The Story of the Chinese Farmer
A parable about life and nature narrated by Alan Watts, animated by Steve Agnos, and with music by Chris Zabriskie.

December 8, 2014
Criterion Designs
Earlier this week, Crierion had a party for the release of their new book, Criterion Designs, at the Society of Illustrators in New York. The filmmaker :: kogonada brought the following video, in which Criterion artwork comes to life, to present to the audience.

December 5, 2014
Steve Wozniak Debunks One of Apple's Biggest Myths
For its 85th anniversary, Bloomberg Businessweek chronicles the most disruptive ideas of the past 85 years. In 1976, The Apple 1 computer goes on sale for a retail price of $666.66. Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs and designed that product, remembers the early days.

December 4, 2014
What Are Those Floaty Things in Your Eye?
Sometimes, against a uniform, bright background such as a clear sky or a blank computer screen, you might see things floating across your field of vision. What are these moving objects, and how are you seeing them? Michael Mauser explains the visual phenomenon that is floaters.

December 3, 2014
The Truth About Asparagus and Your Pee
An astonishing amount of research has gone into the question of whether asparagus really makes your urine smell funny.

December 2, 2014
Alan Watts — The Greatest Skill of All
Alan talks about his revelation of harnessing the power of nature. Animated by "The Simpson's" Eddie Rosas. Excerpt from Why Not Now?

December 1, 2014
Man
Animation created in Flash and After Effects looking at mans relationship with the natural world.

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