YouTube description: The hippie aesthetic owes a lot to Art Nouveau.

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 week ago • 939 views • 5:41

"What is color constancy and how does it trick our brain into seeing colors that aren't really there? WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez and neuroscientist David Eagleman use ambiguous photographs and giant props... continue reading

posted by ant 5 years 1 month ago • 1,316 views

https://youtu.be/h9AiJWk5QdU Dorothea Lange captured this iconic photo known as Migrant Mother in 1936. But who was the woman pictured? And how did she and her family feel about its existence in the... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months ago • 398 views • 11:19

"Child labor was widely practiced until a photographer showed the public what it looked like. ... The 1900 US Federal Census revealed that 1.75 million children under the age of 16, more than one in... continue reading

posted by ant 5 years 5 months ago • 450 views • 6:36

YouTube description: Ross MacDonald makes his paper by making paper. For the last 25 years, he’s created tens of thousands of paper props for movies and television shows like “Baby’s Day Out,”... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 2,158 views • 5:31

YouTube description: ReMade in Chicago, Baumgartner Restoration is a second-generation art conservation studio in Chicago. Follow Julian as he completely restores a damaged painting. Baumgartner... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 3 months 1 week ago • 803 views • 8:34

YouTube description: PopSci found the lost and forgotten first underwater film. It's a story too strange and horrifying to be fiction (and, yes, it involves a shark and a horse). In 1916, the silent... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months ago • 1,538 views • 4:20

YouTube description: Chinese copy artist Zhao Xiaoyong has sold more than 90,000 Van Gogh reproductions. We follow him to the Netherlands see the real works of an artist who's consumed his life for decades. ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 1,059 views • 23:38

"The one about sitcom lighting. ... In this episode of Vox Almanac, Phil Edwards explores the surprising history behind sitcom lighting. Karl Freund was the genius cinematographer behind Metropolis,... continue reading

posted by ant 6 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 639 views • 7:04

The Captain attempts to rebrand himself... with mixed results. ----- Educational YouTube channels parodied in this video, which do things much better than me: http://www.youtube.com/periodicvideos ... continue reading

posted by eric3579 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 2,584 views • 13:36

After meeting a Facebook scammer the two become pen pals and Tobi agrees to work as a documentary filmmaker for his job.

posted by Ashenkase 6 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 888 views • 8:21

YouTube description: For 150 years, scientists believed lichen were defined by a symbiotic relationship between a fungus and algae. Meet the team of researchers who upended this belief in this short... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 2,419 views • 4:13

"How to design fear, explained with 99% Invisible. Check them out here: http://99pi.org Correction: The correct spelling of 'warning' in Persian is هشدار. Watch the previous episode from this... continue reading

posted by ant 6 years 10 months ago • 555 views • 7:04

3 weeks later, it's a stunning masterpiece. London-based stonecarver Anna Rubincam creates a portrait from start to finish -- all shot within a span of three weeks.

posted by BSR 6 years 11 months ago • 87 views • 8:36

"What was 'glorious Technicolor?' It was a groundbreaking technology — but it was more than that, too..."

posted by ant 6 years 11 months 4 weeks ago • 1,071 views • 11:05

"Dozens upon dozens upon dozens of pumpkins were cut, gutted, rotated, scraped, poked, slapped, and banged to make this stop-motion animation and the music that bring it to life. It took a few years -... continue reading

posted by ant 7 years 2 weeks ago • 535 views • 1:49

"... 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 7 years 3 weeks ago • 914 views • 6:22

YouTube description: In the village of Inakadate, Japan, elaborate expanses of “rice paddy art” grace the surrounding landscape. Looking for a way to boost tourism and contribute to the village’s... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 2 months ago • 974 views • 3:21

YouTube description: 30 Days of Timelapse, about 80,000 photos combined. 1500GB of Project files. Sailing in the open ocean is a unique feeling and experience.I hope to capture and share it for everyone to see. ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 2,169 views • 10:01

YouTube: In the 1950s, the people of Minamata, Japan started seeing strange behavior from the local cats, and it wasn't long before humans were showing the same symptoms.

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 669 views • 5:25