El Wingador Errol Morris documents the life of Bill Simmons (El Wingador) who is a competitive eater. This is an amazing film, highly recommended. Watch it full screen.

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Linsey Pollak is brilliant. Some of the best beatboxing coupled with creative musical instrument overlays I’ve ever seen. Turn it up, enjoy Pollak’s musical creativity. [via wimp.com]

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THIS MUST BE THE PLACE is a series of short films produced and directed by Ben Wu and David Usui that explore the idea of home. The three films they have up now are excellent, each in its own way.

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Marco Arment on Planet Money This is a great interview. The Planet Money guys are brilliant and Marco gets right in sync with their style. Marco made and sells one of my all time favorite utilities: Instapaper. In a nutshell, if I start reading an article on my computer and want to finish it or [...]

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Michael Garnier talks about his treehouse collection and B&B resort. It’s in Takilma, Oregon. I love this guy, he’s the John Muir (How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive) of the treehouse world. This documentary takes a while but its well worth it. Garnier and his little Jack Russell terrier are treasures. [via Boing Boing]

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Interview with Michio Kaku December 23, 2010 on the evolution of civilizations Micho Kaku is a theoretical physicist who’s incredibly articulate, funny, and fascinating. His site contains numerous interviews and lectures. Dig around after listening to the one linked to above, he’s quite an amazing person.

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video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player LACMA has a great exhibit up: California Design, 1930-1965: “Living in a Modern Way”. Worth seeing if you’re in the area. Deborah Sussman, whose work is included in the exhibition, talks about her early history with Charles and Ray Eames and her long career as an influential designer.

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This is an excellent video of both portraits and behind the scenes process of how photographer Peter Hapak put together his collection for an issue of Time Magazine. Reminds me of Irving Penn’s traveling studio (below): [via PetaPixel]

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Conserving Donald Judd at the Philip Johnson Glass House The Glass House happens to be in my backyard (New Canaan, Connecticut) and I’ve never been there. This is a nice piece at core77 on restoring and preserving a Donald Judd concrete sculpture that’s installed on the 47 acre grounds.

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People at the Burning Man 2011 festival reciting the Dr. Seuss book “Oh the Places You’ll Go”. A great idea, beautifully executed by Teddy Saunders (director). [via Devour]

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Happy at 100 Wonderful portraits of centenarians by Karsten Thormaehlen.

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Interview with Brian May, lead guitar player of the group Queen about his Red Special guitar that he and his father built from scratch. The “Whammy bar” is made out of one of his mom’s old knitting needles. Perfect. [via wimp.com]

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Bobby McFerrin is a national treasure. Here he is improvising with a rather large group in a stadium who know exactly how to stick with him. Here he is doing his thing at TED:

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Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter American Masters just aired a great documentary on the designers Charles and Ray Eames, the influential American designers. I highly recommend watching it by following the above link.

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Pickin’ & Trimmin’ from Matt Morris Films on Vimeo. I finally had time to watch this Matt Morris film and it’s well worth watching. Full screen, turn it up, enjoy a slice of life in Drexel, North Carolina. [via Boing Boing]

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This is by far the best of the documentaries on Jobs and early Apple. It’s an hour long, make the time to see it, it’s well worth it. [via Kottke.org]

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I’ve been following Scott Schuman’s Sartorialist blog for a while. This video shows him shooting in Tokyo. At a glance his blog and the video might look like simple documentary of street fashion of the upwardly mobile but in fact if you follow it for a while it’s like watching live, current urban anthropology. He [...]

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Steve Jobs talking about how he sees the world and the amazing thing is, his life and accomplishments are a testament to what he says here. He really did it. [via PetaPixel]

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The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face I first posted about Susan Kare here: Making the Macintosh Project but I’ve known about her since the mid-1980′s because both her icon and font designs were the “face” of the original Macintosh and stayed with us for close to ten years. [...]

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In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men — many of them illiterate — to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors in their own villages. It’s called the Barefoot College, and its founder, Bunker Roy, explains how it works. [via wimp.com]

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