Posted in Ideas, Video on Apr 17th, 2012 No Comments »
In this episode of Scientific American Frontiers, host Alan Alda visits with Michael Gazzaniga and meets Joe, the Man with Two Brains. A classic experiment laid out neatly. Wow. [via Coudal Partners]
Posted in Music, Video on Apr 17th, 2012 4 Comments »
Pentatonix does a great a cappella cover of the song “Somebody That I Used to Know.” Here’s Perpetuum Jazzile doing a cover of the Toto song, Africa: Zoom them out, turn it up! [via wimp.com]
Posted in Apple, Audio, iPad, Video on Apr 12th, 2012 1 Comment »
Rob Schmitz does a Marketplace story Foxconn and how they assemble Apple products. Marketplace is a radio show so many of Rob’s pieces are audio only with image slide shows to go with them. Here’s one on the workers who make iPads: The people behind your iPad: The workers. Note: Rob is the person who [...]
Posted in Process, Video on Apr 9th, 2012 No Comments »
The process of recycling plastic bottles and turning the resulting material into cloth and clothing. [via core77]
Posted in Places, Video on Apr 8th, 2012 2 Comments »
This eight minute video is absolutely stunning and very much like Japan itself: nuanced, quiet, detailed and full of small details you’ll pick up if you watch it more than once. Watching this video makes you feel like you’re in Japan. Note the map, red dot, place name, and time of day changing in the [...]
Posted in Ideas, People, Video on Apr 7th, 2012 8 Comments »
Watch Henry come alive when he’s given an iPod and headphones with music he remembers and likes on it. This video is part of the Music and Memory project. [via wimp.com]
Posted in Ideas, People, Video on Apr 3rd, 2012 1 Comment »
This was and is a great documentary. The entire thing is now available on YouTube and its great to see. I have this on DVD but I’m delighted that a wider audience will get to see this. Feynman wasn’t just a genius, he was a “character” who played bongo drums, talked about the interaction of [...]
Posted in Photo Resources, Process, Tech Stuff, Video on Apr 2nd, 2012 No Comments »
Dylan Bennett explains a lens’s aperture rating or f-stop. Even if you get this stuff or even if you don’t you’ll find something of interest in this video which is well made. I don’t fully get the math but I know how to use lenses and I get that there’s math involved in talking about [...]
Posted in Food, Ideas, People, Video on Mar 30th, 2012 No Comments »
Chef Dan Barber squares off with a dilemma facing many chefs today: how to keep fish on the menu. With impeccable research and deadpan humor, he chronicles his pursuit of a sustainable fish he could love, and the foodie’s honeymoon he’s enjoyed since discovering an outrageously delicious fish raised using a revolutionary farming method in [...]
Posted in Places, Process, Video on Mar 28th, 2012 5 Comments »
Beyond the Gardens: The Fungarium from LONELYLEAP on Vimeo. Incredible behind the scenes look at the largest collection of fungi around. [via Devour]
Posted in Places, Process, Video on Mar 27th, 2012 No Comments »
Backstage at The Royal Ballet of Flanders, Antwerp, Belgium. I love this behind the scenes, process stuff. Watch it full screen, it’s beautifully shot. [via The Kid Should See This]
Posted in Drumming, Process, Video on Mar 27th, 2012 No Comments »
Fantastic. Here’s the Zildjan web site and more videos. [via The Kid Should See This]
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, Video on Mar 27th, 2012 No Comments »
On Stage, Chicago Students Tackle Immigration, Poverty, Race Jeffrey Brown did an excellent segment on The NewsHour last night on the Albany Park Theater Project, an after-school community theater project for high school students in Chicago. The segment is deconstructed on their blog: Monday on the NewsHour: Albany Park Theatre Project.
Posted in Art and Design, People, Video on Mar 24th, 2012 No Comments »
PBS Arts has made a wonderful documentary about modern typographers, their love of type and how typography and type design is everywhere. Excellent, well worth watching this professionally produced short. Xiao Mina at core77 has a nice post on it: Learning to Love Type with a new PBS Mini-Documentary.
Posted in Places, Process, Time Lapse, Video on Mar 22nd, 2012 No Comments »
This is a wonderful time-lapse by Anthony and Christine Powell of the offloading of a supply ship at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Worth watching full screen. Amazing logistics in a very harsh environment. [via Coudal Partners]
Sunshine from American Buffalo on Vimeo. Lost in Translation in China. An American advertising producer goes to Shanghai, China to make commercials. Beautifully scripted, shot and produced. [via Devour]
Posted in Process, Social Software, Video on Mar 16th, 2012 2 Comments »
TED expands its reach with streaming talks on Netflix Netflix streaming library doesn’t have all the deep content their DVD library has but it has plenty of gems and there’s enough content up there to justify an AppleTV if you’re into such things. Now you can watch TED talks on your computer, iPad, iPhone or, [...]
Posted in Ideas, Video on Mar 16th, 2012 No Comments »
Fictional Thriller Tackles Dangers of High-Frequency Trading This is an excellent Paul Solman NewsHour piece on both high frequency (algorithmic/machine) trading on Wall Street and the author Robert Harris’ new book The Fear Index. Fascinating and scary and you know a movie is going to be made or is in the process of being made. [...]
Posted in Movies, Opinion, People, Process, Video on Mar 10th, 2012 No Comments »
I was poking around Huffington Post and found this interview with the writer Susan Orlean on social media and her experience with Twitter. It’s interesting, worth looking at. Then I started poking around Susan Orlean’s web site. That led me to her News and appearances page and I noticed a “bloggingheads” split pane video of [...]
Posted in People, Places, Tech Stuff, Tools, Video on Mar 9th, 2012 1 Comment »
Note the external links at the bottom of the Wikipedia page for William Kamkwamba. This is a great story and it reminds me of this one. [via wimp.com]
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