"A video essay exploring how Star Wars' editors recut and rearranged Star Wars: A New Hope to create the cinematic classic it became..."

posted by ant 6 years 5 months ago • 2,811 views • 18:25

YouTube description: Photography has a unique way of changing perceptions of a place, simply by presenting images that we’ve never seen before. It is exactly this characteristic that motivates Mutua... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 1 week ago • 217 views • 3:15

YouTube description: The epic journey of following an idea from conception to realization. The animator Anthony Schepperd (who doesn't appear in the video) is a total boss: https://vimeo.com/anthonyschepperd ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 1 week ago • 594 views • 7:10

YouTube description: Alexandre Farto (aka Vhils) is something of a rock star. Instead of adding, the street artist creates by taking away, carving incredibly intricate portraits and murals across the... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 1 week ago • 1,027 views • 2:40

YouTube description: Epicurious challenged cheese expert and noted author Liz Thorpe to guess which one of two cheeses was more expensive. Liz breaks down cheap vs expensive parmesan cheese, goat cheese,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 1,451 views • 11:20

Mocha Diffusion on a bulb vase. Kevin Kowalski uses the Mocha Diffusion decoration technique on this porcelain landscape bulb vase. Mocha Diffusion is a mixture of acidic liquid and oxide, then its dropped... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 467 views • 2:05

YouTube description: Seoul may be a glitzy high-tech capital, but honoring dining tradition is central to Korean culture. Ceramicist Yi Yoon-Shin and carpenter Sol Yi-Hwan create stunning porcelain... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 602 views • 5:53

A must-watch if you're into tabletop gaming of any kind. Prof Finkel is amazingly fun and charismatic.

posted by bigbikeman 6 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 332 views • 25:33

"To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of STARSHIP TROOPERS, we dug deep into our video archive to uncover footage we had not previously presented on the studioADI channel. Part 1 kicks off the series chronicling... continue reading

posted by ant 6 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 527 views • 5:48

"... Erik Johansson creates realistic photos of impossible scenes -- capturing ideas, not moments. In this witty how-to, the Photoshop wizard describes the principles he uses to make these fantastical... continue reading

posted by ant 6 years 6 months 1 week ago • 914 views • 6:22

YouTube description: Frances Glessner Lee created dollhouses with dead dolls. In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox's Phil Edwards explains why. Frances Glessner Lee's "Nutshell Studies of Unexplained... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 6 months 1 week ago • 716 views • 8:16

YouTube description: In 1982, when he was only 14 years old, Robert Wardhaugh sat down to play a game of Dungeons and Dragons. Thirty-five years later, that same game is still going strong. Based out... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 1,632 views • 2:55

YouTube description: Brace yourselves, this video is about Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band. (H/T @eric3579)

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 6 months 1 week ago • 2,504 views • 10:03

YouTube description: In the forestry hills of Big Sur, California, Jayson Fann weaves, bends and shapes eucalyptus and willow branches into incredible human-sized nests. Each of these “earthly temples”... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 504 views • 2:51

(H/T @eric3579)

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 1,296 views • 5:31

YouTube description: Related Reading: http://thequietus.com/articles/04889-janelle-mon-e-the-archandroid-afrofuturism http://www.popmatters.com/column/176055-power-up-janelle-monae-afrofuturism-and-plurality/ ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 979 views • 5:54

YouTube description: The fade out is underrated. It should come back. The fade out in music is one of those necessary tools in a record producers arsenal. But if you listen to today's hits it's much... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 494 views • 7:42