Videos
Real Good Experiment
Blu Dot’s Real Good Experiment aims to track what happens to unwanted furniture when it is left in the street. They left 25 GPS tagged chairs on the sidewalk in NYC and sat back and waited to see what would happen. Watch the video to see what did happen.
Maths Dance Girl
University applications used to involve filling in an application form; these days you have to submit a video too. Or at least that’s an option if you are applying to Tufts University. Three Billlion spotted this application from “the maths dance girl”:
How We Have All Become Richard Nixon by Adam Curtis
Here’s something to watch with a cup of tea and a biscuit. Here’s a short film by Adam Curtis, who in this short film explains “Why We Have All Become Richard Nixon”, or in other words, “paranoid weirdos”.
Watch it here:
Panic Attack!
BBC News reports that Fede Alvarez, a Uruguayan film producer, struck YouTube gold when he uploaded short sci-fi film he made for $300. Four days later he was inundated with offers from Hollywood and has been offered a $30million dollar deal to produce a feature-length sci-fi film set in Argentina and Uruguay.
Read the full story [...]
Maggwire.com
Maggwire bills itself as ‘the iTunes of magazines’. As you read and rate its 600+ magazine articles it begins to recommend other articles you might enjoy. It includes articles from from Vanity Fair, Men’s Health, Esquire, Time and BusinessWeek and Marie Claire. You can search by topic and share interesting articles via Twitter/Facebook. If nothing [...]
Top YouTube videos of 2009
Almost…but not quite too late to do a best of 2009 – the top five videos on YouTube globally:
1. Susan Boyle – Britain’s Got Talent (120+ million views)
2. David After Dentist (37+ million views)
3. JK Wedding Entrance Dance (33+ million views)
4. New Moon Movie Trailer (31+ million views)
5. Evian Roller Babies (27+ million views)
So that’s [...]
Interactive Wedding ‘Ring’
GeekPhysical specialize in inventing interactive technological events, experiences and installations. Their latest invention is called Cold Feet and tracks the emotions of the bride and groom throughout the big day via a bouquet that contains blue and white fibre optic lights. The bride slips a bio-feedback ring on her finger which monitors whether she’s feeling [...]
What Went Wrong
What Went Wrong is an eight-week online interactive series that looks at the causes of the global financial crisis, from Big Think, a “global forum connecting people and ideas,” which has an archive of video interviews with more than 600 experts including and astronaut and a former mayor of NYC. What Went Wrong [...]
Streetlight Storm
Artist Katie Paterson was commissioned by Vauxhall Motors to create an art work on the theme of re-inventing British classics. Paterson took a British seaside town as her inspiration and created an evocative work for Deal Pier. Along the length of the pier, out to sea, the lights flicker in time with lightning storms as [...]
Cynthia Schneider: The surprising spread of “Idol” TV
Cynthia Schneider, in a recent TED Talk, explains how “reality TV is driving reality” as competition reality shows such as Britain’s Got Talent, American Idol and The Candidate are changing tribal societies in Afghanistan and the UAE. Watch her talk in the video:
