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Bicycle Ballet | Kottke
Watch as artistic cyclist Viola Brand does all sorts of seemingly impossible bike tricks that look like ballet, all while dodging a massive chandelier inside an ornate European castle. See also bicycle acrobat Lilly Yokoi performing some similar tricks back in … Continue reading
Gravity is NOT a Force
The General Theory of Relativity tells us gravity is not a force, gravitational fields don’t exist. Objects tend to move on straight paths through curved spacetime. Thanks to Caséta by Lutron for sponsoring this video. Find out more at: https://www.lutron.com/veritasium … Continue reading
Ethereal Photographs Capture Mono Giraud’s Sculptural Garments Formed with Organic Materials
Through dreamy photographs, multi-disciplinary artist Mono Giraud accentuates the feathered fronds of wheat stalks and paper’s smooth curves. Based in the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Giraud consistently strives for simplicity and a focus on humble items in her practice that … Continue reading
Pumpkin Movie
In this hybrid-documentary, two long-time friends call each other over Skype to continue their annual Halloween tradition of carving pumpkins together, they swap stories of negative encounters with men. FESTIVALS: True/False Film Festival, Missouri, USA, World Premiere Sheffield Documentary Film … Continue reading
MioTalk
Christian Mio Loclair BIO Christian “Mio” Loclair is a new media artist and choreographer from Berlin, Germany. He explores the harmonic friction of human bodies, movement and nature colliding with digital procedures, data driven algorithms and machine learning. Using technology … Continue reading
Lively Interventions by 100 Architects Transform Urban Spaces into Vibrant Playgrounds
GRACE EBERT “Paint Drop” in Daning Road, Jin’An District, Shanghai, China Walk around Shanghai or Dubai, and you might stumble upon a bright, geometric playground amongst the concrete. The design studio 100 Architects installs bold interventions that transform typical urban … Continue reading
Cézanne: ‘The Father of Modern Art’
Paul Cézanne is perhaps one of the best-loved painters of Western art. Yet the popularity of his still life and landscape works has perhaps tamed the radicality of his vision in our own eyes. It is easy to forget that … Continue reading
Accidentally Wes Anderson, the Book| Kottke
Inspired by the symmetry and color palettes of Wes Anderson’s movies, the Instagram account Accidentally Wes Anderson has been collecting and featuring photos from folks all over the world that would look out of place in The Royal Tenenbaums or The … Continue reading
The surprising pattern behind color names around the world
Why so many languages invented words for colors in the same order. Help us make more ambitious videos by joining the Vox Video Lab. It gets you exclusive perks, like livestream Q&As with all the Vox creators, a badge that … Continue reading
A New One-Take BBC Ad Brilliantly Interprets the Feelings of Music Through Clever Choreography
It’s well-documented that music moves us, and an advertisement for BBC Sounds takes that research literally. A project of Rogue Films, the one-minute clip opens on a woman riding a city bus before swooping into a responsively choreographed dance enhanced … Continue reading
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