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September 30, 2014
Undulatus Asperatus
Crazy wave clouds rolled over Lincoln NE on July 7, 2014.
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September 29, 2014
Pandora's Box — The Engineers' Plot
Pandora's Box: A Fable From the Age of Science, is a six part 1992 BBC documentary television series written and produced by Adam Curtis, which examines the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism.
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September 26, 2014
10 Seconds
Mike Heist has been working in the neon industry in Portland, Oregon for 30 years. He is a master in his craft, and is responsible for the bending of some of the city's most iconic signage. 10 SECONDS is a short film about work and happiness, and shares a bit of Mike's thoughts and insight into the amazing process of hand-made neon signage.
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September 25, 2014
The Floating Hat
Floating the magic hat by South Africa street performers.
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September 24, 2014
Circle of Abstract Ritual by Jeff Frost
Circle of Abstract Ritual began as an exploration of the idea that creation and destruction might be the same thing. The destruction end of that thought began in earnest when riots broke out in my neighborhood in Anaheim, California, 2012.
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September 23, 2014
Earth at Equinox
The entire disk of the Earth lit during the equinox on September 22, 2013. Credit: Roscosmos / NTSOMZ / SRC “Planeta”
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September 22, 2014
Digital Amnesia
Our memory is dissipating. Hard drives only last five years, a webpage is forever changing and there’s no machine left that reads 15-year old floppy disks. Digital data is vulnerable. Yet entire libraries are shredded and lost to budget cuts, because we assume everything can be found online. But is that really true? For the first time in history, we have the technological means to save our entire past, yet it seems to be going up in smoke. Will we suffer from collective amnesia?
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September 19, 2014
Paper Towel vs Hand Dryers
Which is more hygienic and which is environmentally sound- paper towel or hand dryers?
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September 18, 2014
The Diatomist
The Diatomist is short documentary about Klaus Kemp, master of the Victorian art of diatom arrangement. Diatoms are single cell algae that create jewel-like glass shells around themselves. Microscopists of the Victorian era would arrange them into complex patterns, invisible to the naked eye but spectacular when viewed under magnification.The best of these arrangements are stunning technical feats that reveal the hidden grandeur of some of the smallest organisms on Earth. Klaus Kemp has devoted his entire life to understanding and perfecting diatom arrangement and he is now acknowledged as the last great practitioner of this beautiful combination of art and science.
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September 17, 2014
X-ray Body in Motion — Yoga
A visual study/exploration of the body in motion with a focus on yoga poses. The goal for this piece was to create a realistic representation of radiological (x-ray) imaging. Instead of just creating a still image, however, the beautiful moves of yoga were combined with a new visual approach to bring the full human skeleton to life. Technical challenges included aspects such as achieving proper bone densities and representing actual bone marrow inside each individual bone
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September 16, 2014
A History of the Sky
This is a year-long time-lapse study of the sky. A camera installed on the roof of the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco captured an image of the sky every 10 seconds. From these images, Ken Murphy created a mosaic of time-lapse movies, each showing a single day. The days are arranged in chronological order. The intent was to reveal the patterns of light and weather over the course of a year.
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September 15, 2014
Two Sisters
Viola writes novels in a darkened room. Marie, her sister and only companion, takes care of her every need. Together, they are an island unto themselves, quiet and complete in their isolation. And then the abrupt arrival of a stranger throws their tenuous order into chaos. An animated short etched directly onto tinted 70 mm film.
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September 12, 2014
What Did Dogs Teach Humans About Diabetes?
Diabetes has a history dating back to Ancient Greece. Our treatment of it, however, is more recent and was originally made possible with the help of man's best friend. Due to physiological traits shared with humans, dogs have saved countless lives through the discovery of insulin. Duncan C. Ferguson shares the story of the canine's great contribution to man -- and how we can all reap the medical benefits.
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September 11, 2014
Malfunction
Vintage film footage in the hands of Cyriak, a freelance animator based near Brighton, UK.
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September 10, 2014
Richard Mosse: The Impossible Image
Artist and photographer Richard Mosse reveals the stories behind the making of his latest film, 'The Enclave' (2013), in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which will be shown in the Irish Pavilion at this year’s 55th Venice Biennale.
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September 9, 2014
The Man Behind the Smallest V-12 Engine in the World
José Manuel Hermo Barreiro, "Patelo", is a pensioner from Galicia (Spain). He's a retired naval mechanic and he has built the smallests engines in the world. This is his story.
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September 8, 2014
Every Runner Has A Reason
Ronnie Goodman may well be San Francisco's most unexpected half-marathoner. This is the story of why he runs. If you are inspired, please consider contributing to Ronnie's cause. He recently ran The Second Half of The SF Marathon to give back to the organization that helped him when he needed it most.
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September 5, 2014
Dreadnoughtus: A New Dinosaur Discovery
Drexel University professor Ken Lacovara has recently unveiled a new supermassive dinosaur species he discovered and unearthed with his team between 2005 and 2009. Weighing in at nearly 65 tons, Dreadnoughtus schrani is the largest land animal ever found of calculable mass and also by far one of the most complete skeletons ever found for a dinosaur in this mass range.
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September 4, 2014
Laniakea: Our Home Supercluster
Superclusters – regions of space that are densely packed with galaxies – are the biggest structures in the Universe. But scientists have struggled to define exactly where one supercluster ends and another begins. Now, a team based in Hawaii has come up with a new technique that maps the Universe according to the flow of galaxies across space. Redrawing the boundaries of the cosmic map, they redefine our home supercluster and name it Laniakea, which means ‘immeasurable heaven’ in Hawaiian.
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September 3, 2014
Conspiracy Theory Rock By Robert Smigel
The 1998 Robert Smigel animated short film "Conspiracy Theory Rock", part of a March 1998 "TV Funhouse" segment, has been removed from all subsequent airings of the Saturday Night Live episode where it originally appeared. Michaels claimed the edit was done because it "wasn't funny". The film is a scathing critique of corporate media ownership, including NBC's ownership by General Electric/Westinghouse. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Law of 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment,news reporting, teaching, scholarship,and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
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September 2, 2014
How Scotch Whiskey is Made
Taking you through the production process for Scotch Malt Whisky, Grain Whisky and Blended whisky, this film covers malting, cereal cooking, mashing, fermentation, distillation, and maturation. Finally the film takes you through the highly skilled and complex task of creating a marriage of Single Malt and Single Grain whiskies to make a blended whisky.
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September 1, 2014
James Burke Connections — Feedback
Electronic agents on the internet and wartime guns use feedback techniques discovered in the first place by Claude Bernard, whose vivisection experiments kick off animal rights movements called humane societies that really start out as lifeboat crews rescuing people from all the shipwrecks happening because of all the extra ships out there who are using Matthew Maury's data on wind and currents transmitted by the radio telegraph, invented by Samuel Morse, who's also a painter whose hero is Washington Allston, who spends time in Italy with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who comes to Malta and spies for the governor Alexander Ball who saved Admiral Horatio Nelson's skin so he can go head over heels for Emma Hamilton in Naples, resulting in an illegitimate son. Emma became notable in the Electrico-Magnetico Celestial Bed, where you go regain your fertility through electricity, and you can get more whiskey thanks to Dr. Joseph Black, who figured the latent heat of vaporisation in steam.
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