Pixar’s a studio that’s known for delivering quality animated classics, but little is known publicly about their development process. Indeed, the studio has a reputation for excellent quality control,... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 1 week ago • 187 views

Before NOVA begins its construction, the Rainbow Bridge only exists in a 900-year-old painting that shows the bustling capital city of Kaifeng. Another NOVA ancient construction episode, again narrated... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 66 views • 54:16

A classic NOVA episode about attempting to build a Roman tepidarium, or hot baths, in Turkey. Narrated by Stacey Keach.

posted by newtboy 2 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 141 views • 54:28

Morgan explains the subtle difference between these two personality types

posted by dedstick 4 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 165 views • 59 secs

YouTube description: Follow along as Julian Baumgartner of Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration in Chicago works to conserve and restore this icon of Ave Maria. This piece was likely created in a workshop... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 months ago • 417 views • 11:31

In the animated short “Drawn & Recorded: Teen Spirit” by Drew Christie of Kalakala Animation, narrator T-Bone Burnett tells the story behind the famous 1991 Nirvana song “Smells Like Teen Spirit”... continue reading

posted by eric3579 6 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 691 views • 2:55

YouTube description: On August 8th, 1918, Allied forces in France launched the Hundred Days Offensive, one of the first combined arms operations of the war that included hundreds of tanks, airplanes,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 397 views • 3:15

YouTube description: A fractal pattern is a kind of equation occurring all around us in nature. So what's a fractal and what does it have to do with nautiluses, romanesco broccoli, Star Trek II: The... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 442 views • 2:09

YouTube description: Credits: Narrator/Director: Brian McManus Co-Director: Mike Ridolfi Sound: Graham Haerther (https://haerther.net/) Footage of Hamburg Energy Bunker courtest of Perspektive... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 9 months 1 week ago • 928 views • 8:52

YouTube description: Welcome to this Wisecrack Edition on What Key & Peele Teach Us About Comedy. Written by: Michael Burns Narrated by: Jared Bauer Directed by: Michael Luxemburg Edited by: Mark Potts ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 509 views • 14:48

YouTube description: Foraminifera – tiny, single-celled marine life forms – build gorgeous houses that record how much ice there is on the planet. Special thanks to Professor Lee Kump of Penn... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 3 months ago • 489 views • 2:51

"Programme website: http://bbc.in/2dB9Zth Planet Earth II, narrated by Sir David Attenborough coming soon to BBC One." From http://www.darkhorizons.com/bbc-ones-planet-earth-ii-tv-trailer/ ...

posted by ant 8 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 129 views • 1:01

YouTube description: Have ever wondered how digital illustrations are made? This video explains the basics. Help us keep making videos by supporting us in https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth We try... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 483 views • 3:49

The guy narrating is a bit stiff, but the info was interesting Via YouTube: Watch and listen to this insightful story of how Da Vinci created the Last Supper.

posted by Gratefulmom 8 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 42 views • 1:56

"A short Humanist animation about morality" - YT

posted by messenger 1 decade 1 month ago • 960 views • 3:09

In which the narrator shows how effective use of quadrants can make a movie scene come alive. It'll give you a different perpective on movies. "One of the many pleasures of Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Drive”... continue reading

posted by blacklotus90 1 decade 1 month 1 week ago • 66 views • 3:34

A dissection of dialogue scenes from a few movies to illustrate the importance of framing and creating geometric shapes when filming multiple characters. The narrator focuses on The Bad Sleep Well (1960,... continue reading

posted by blacklotus90 1 decade 1 month 1 week ago • 983 views • 3:11

Ever wonder how hamsters store so much food in their little mouths? In the first episode of the BBC’s new show, Wild At Heart, narrator David Tennant takes a look at just that in a way never seen before.

posted by Grimm 1 decade 1 month 3 weeks ago • 958 views • 1:55

Via Open Culture: Not long ago we posted the only known recording of Sigmund Freud’s voice. Today we present rare home movies of the founder of modern psychology, captured during the last decade of his life. ... continue reading

posted by Trancecoach 1 decade 1 year 3 months 2 weeks ago • 133 views • 2:03

Wow ... unlike human males, there really IS a brain down there! YouTube Description: A male and female mantis are captured in the act of mating, during which the male loses his head! From Wildlife on... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 1 year 11 months 1 week ago • 304 views • 2:21