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Search by Image, Recursively, Transparent PNG, #1 on Vimeo
"search by image, recursively. starting with a transparent png (400×225px). 2951 images, 12fps."
videos  images  web  via:waxy 
january 2012 by kevan
Oramics on Vimeo
"A brief glimpse of Daphne Oram's pioneering and unique Oramics synthesizer, designed in 1957 after she left the legendary BBC Radiophonic Workshop to pursue the project."
sound  history  science  videos  via:jrb 
april 2011 by kevan
ANTS in my scanner > a five years time-lapse! on Vimeo
"I installed an ant colony inside my scanner five years ago. I scanned the nest each week."
ants  time  videos  via:zarba 
august 2010 by kevan
Star Wars: Uncut
"You and 472 other people have the chance to recreate Star Wars: A New Hope. Below is the entire movie split up into 15 second clips. Click on one of the scenes to claim it, film it, and upload it."
films  mutation  videos  via:glinner 
september 2009 by kevan
YouTube - Inspired Bicycles - Danny MacAskill April 2009
Parkour on a bike, on the streets of Edinburgh.
parkour  cycling  cities  videos  via:manar 
april 2009 by kevan
YouTube - Saturday Morning Watchmen
Opening credits for an imagined 1980s kids-TV version of Watchmen. "But when trouble's about, you'd best watch out... for the Watchmen!"
comics  humour  television  videos  via:joh 
march 2009 by kevan
Alien-like Squid With "Elbows" Filmed at Drilling Site
"Oil companies are there to develop hydrocarbons, not find new species. [...] These discoveries may, in fact, have a negative impact on very expensive and valuable lease tracts if someone decides a rare species needs to be protected."
squid  videos  business 
november 2008 by kevan
Tate Intermedia Art: Under Scan
"As people walk around the area, their shadow is cast on the floor, revealing the video-portraits. As they appear within pedestrians' shadows, their bodies move and their heads turn to look straight at the pedestrian, giving rise to an interesting range of interactions."
art  light  videos  london 
september 2008 by kevan
The Periodic Table of Videos - University of Nottingham
"Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version has a short video about each one."
science  videos  via:mcios 
july 2008 by kevan
The Periodic Table of Videos - University of Nottingham
"Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version has a short video about each one."
science  videos  via:mcios 
july 2008 by kevan
Watchification
A visual spinoff of Speechification, gathering together quality factual television from YouTube and the BBC iPlayer.
television  videos 
february 2008 by kevan
DSVideo, wavelet video on the Nintendo DS
"DSVideo is a video player for the Nintendo DS console. An entire movie can be compressed into around 400MB."
ds  videos  software 
february 2008 by kevan
Diary of the Dead (2007)
London preview screening for the zombie trade. A good small-scale, camcorder perspective of the undead apocalypse; undermined a bit by the show-off set-piece gore scenes, but a good start to a reboot, a fumblingly decent attempt at a YouTube apocalypse.
filmlog  4stars  zombies  apocalypse  videos 
february 2008 by kevan
How You See It
Overlaid news. "What How You See It hopes to illuminate is how news broadcasts, far from daring reporting or varied approaches has regressed to pantomiming each other, creating a cacophony of sound and images that are no different from one another."
news  art  videos  via:waxy 
february 2008 by kevan
YouTube - Singing Tesla Coil at Duckon 2007
Electronic music from loud, modulated bursts of Tesla coil sparks. "It's been suggested that a good name for this coil would be the 'Zeusaphone'."
music  electricity  technology  videos  via:mcios 
august 2007 by kevan
YouTube - First Video - Show Me the Way (to Go Home)
First video of a spoken-direction project I collaborated on for a Tokyo art exhibition. It's either at the Ginza Art Laboratory or the Koiwa Project Space, I'm not sure which.
creations  art  travel  language  videos  gps 
july 2007 by kevan
YouTube - Daydream Believers (Mitchell & Webb pilot) 1 of 3
Mediocre parallel-storyline sitcom pilot from 2001 about a bad sci-fi writer and his bad sci-fi characters, getting a full series on Radio 2 from this weekend.
television  radio  videos  space  writing 
may 2007 by kevan
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Large squid lights up for attack
"The footage reveals the creatures emitting short flashes from light-producing organs, called photophores, on their arms. [...] Japanese scientists believe the creatures use the bright flashes to disorientate potential victims." With video.
squid  light  videos 
february 2007 by kevan
smashingtelly - the best full length free tv programs on the web, updated every day
"Smashing Telly is a hand edited collection of the best free, instantly available TV on the web. Not 30 second clips of a dog on a skateboard, or the millionth person to mime the Numa song, but full length programs."
television  web  videos  via:lmg 
january 2007 by kevan
Researchers catch giant squid - CNN.com
"A Japanese research team has succeeded in filming a giant squid live - possibly for the first time - and says the elusive creatures may be more plentiful than previously believed, a researcher said Friday."
squid  videos  japan 
december 2006 by kevan
GameTrailers.com - User Movie: 1K Project II by sMull
Driving game Trackmania allows you to overlay and compare replays; here's what happens if you combine a thousand of them - a huge, liquid tidal wave of cars, occasionally thinning out to leap like wildebeest, or fall like rain.
games  traffic  videos  via:funmotion 
september 2006 by kevan
KrazyDad » Blog Archive » A Year of YouTube Submissions
Graphing the growth of YouTube by plotting thumbnails. "Vertically, the thumbnails are positioned by the hour of the day they were uploaded, and horizontally by the day of the year."
history  videos  web 
august 2006 by kevan
Google Maps + Google Video + Mashup - Claude Lelouch's Rendezvous
"On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB [driven] at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris. No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a permit."
maps  videos  france  transport  cities  via:yoz 
august 2006 by kevan
YouTube - Eaaaaaaastenders
A clip from Eastenders with David Cann as a doctor, woozily stretched and soundtracked to resemble a Jam sequence.
videos  television  mutation  medicine  via:qwghlm 
july 2006 by kevan
Bakuten Domino - How to Stack Nearly Everything at TV in Japan
Clips of elaborate domino-track setups built from random objects, including the contents of someone's house - videos and shoes and slices of toast. Very Katamari.
japan  videos  via:waxy 
july 2006 by kevan
ProjectorGames - Google Video
Adam's LAN shenanigans - dozens of people playing ridiculously multiplayer versions of classic and original games, on a single projected screen. Includes a fun consensus-voting game selection system, and Zombie City.
games  society  emergence  zombies  videos 
july 2006 by kevan
The Secret Life Of Machines
Full downloads and torrents of all three series, apparently tacitly endorsed by Hunkin.
science  videos  television  technology  download 
may 2006 by kevan
YouTube - David Devant & His Spirit Wife
An unexpected handful of old videos, and a new one from a Vessel solo project.
videos  music  devant 
may 2006 by kevan
Your Tube, Whose Dime? - Forbes.com
"[YouTube's] bandwidth costs, which increase every time a visitor clicks on a video, may be approaching $1 million a month."
money  web  videos  business  via:waxy 
april 2006 by kevan
Mario - Live - Google Video
An excellent live-action cardboard-prop rendition of Super Mario Brothers, from some college talent contest.
games  videos  theatre  via:waxy 
april 2006 by kevan
YouTube - Chinese Gold Farmers Preview
"The documentary investigates gaming workshops in China that hire people to play online games like World of Warcraft and lineage. The gaming workers play at least 12 hours a day to produce in-game [commodities] which are sold to American players."
mmorpgs  money  business  china  interviews  videos  via:wmmna 
march 2006 by kevan
AtomFilms - Me and the Big Guy
Short-film 1984 parody, a cheerful Citizen 43275-B returning home to tell his omnipresent telescreen roommate every hilarious anecdote of his work shift.
videos  films  humour  surveillance 
march 2006 by kevan
The National Archives | 1940s Public Information Films
"[What a Life!] has no obvious point beyond, as the British Film Institute pointed out, displaying Massingham's fondness for black humour and parodying along the way that familiar complaint, 'the country is going to the dogs!'"
films  videos  history  politics  via:mcios 
february 2006 by kevan
Clive James.com: Gateway to the Video Section
Clive James interviewing people on a minicam in his library; including Jonathan Miller, Terry Gilliam, Julian Barnes. "[The guests] didn't seem to mind that there was no basket of fruit in the dressing room, or even that there was no dressing room."
interviews  videos  via:mcios 
january 2006 by kevan
The Vega Science Trust - Richard Feynman - Freeview Video
Streaming videos of a 1979 lecture. "Feynman gives us not just a lesson in basic physics but also a deep insight into the scientific mind of a 20th century genius analyzing the approach of the 17th century genius Newton."
videos  science  via:jones 
december 2005 by kevan
New Scientist - Broody squid carry their eggs in their arms
"The adults held the egg sac using two rows of talon-like hooks on the underside of three of their four pairs of arms. The sac is formed of two thin membranes which form a hollow tube, open at both ends."
squid  children  videos 
december 2005 by kevan
Sony BRAVIA - The Advert
"Set to the stripped-down acoustic soundtrack of José González' 'Heartbeats', 250,000 'superballs' come flying, in slow motion, over the brow of a typical street in San Francisco, raining down on anything that gets in their way." And none of it's CGI.
advertising  toys  via:mcios  videos 
november 2005 by kevan
cinematicfilm experimental film - The Catalogue
Brilliantly subdued mockup of the hypothetical view from an RFID, national-database shopping-mall security camera. The approaching reality of a click-for-citizen-details god-game interface.
art  surveillance  shops  via:anne  videos 
november 2005 by kevan
Video in the News: Bees Battle "Hornets From Hell"
Short documentary clip of Japanese honeybees doing their surrounding-and-overheating thing against an invading hornet scout.
bees  insects  war  videos  fire 
october 2005 by kevan
Lossless - Haruki Murakami, MIT, 10.6.2005
Video clips of Murakami reading Super-Frog Saves Tokyo and taking questions from an audience.
murakami  videos  books 
october 2005 by kevan
Five Men and a Limo (video/quicktime Object)
Five big American voiceover voices overvoice their limo ride to an awards ceremony.
humour  meta  videos  via:holly  filetype:mov  media:video 
september 2005 by kevan
Khronos Projector - Alvaro Cassinelli
"By touching the projection screen, the user is able to send parts of the image forward or backwards in time." Wonderful localised-temporal-anomaly video editing, piling the frames up and melting holes down into the past.
videos  technology  time  via:wmmna 
may 2005 by kevan
LiveScience: Mystery of Large Squid Caught on Video
Luring predators to a mounted camera using screaming electronic jellyfish, and catching a glimpse of a mystery squid. "It has body and tentacle characteristics different from any known squids."
squid  videos  mysteries  surveillance  technology 
march 2005 by kevan
Absolutely - Video Clips of the show
Eh, having seen the McSweeneys' "Who's on First?" dialogue linked a few times, this page has an Absolutely sketch from fifteen years ago doing exactly the same thing, with older films.
videos  humour  language 
march 2005 by kevan
Bring Dead Art Back to Life!
Competition to remix the (now public domain) Night of the Living Dead into fresh, lurching new media. Winner was a deadpan public-service-parody survival video, after Max Brooks - a bit inauthentic, but good use of clips.
zombies  art  hacking  music  videos 
february 2005 by kevan
vkn: Un ar reizi nāks tas brīdis
Animated graffiti - a walking figure split into video frames, spraypainted here and there, and brought back together.
art  graffiti  videos 
november 2004 by kevan
lovesetpixel: I Love Snow
Observer-interactive virtual snowstorm. "I am in my room and I would like it to snow. To do this I will create an artistic representation/simulation of snow via computation, and interact with the snow through my body." Impressive video.
air  ice  simulation  videos  weather 
october 2004 by kevan
NOAA Ocean Explorer: Deep Scope 2004 mission log
Seabed bioluminescence-detector camera captures a few seconds of a "very large squid" (6ft).
squid  videos 
august 2004 by kevan
Temporal Urban Mapping
Time-lapse animations of expanding cities.
cities  history  maps  time  videos 
july 2004 by kevan
Squidfish.net - Photo Gallery
Brief, excellent video clip of a squid tentacling a moving lure, then realising its mistake and launching clouds of ink. "I'm hit! I'm hit!"
squid  videos 
july 2004 by kevan
Mimic Octopus
Astonishing photos and video clips.
cheating  evolution  octopuses  photos  videos 
may 2004 by kevan

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