This is a video of Polish composer Karol Szymanowski’s Etude in B-flat minor for piano being performed instead on glass harp by Anna and Arkadiusz Szafraniec and theremin by Grégoire Blanc. It’s got a real other-worldly sound to it, like the sort of thing you’d expect to hear when being
Created by former professor of urban studies Alasdair Rae of Sheffield, England, this is a 3D visualization of the world’s population density. As you can see, along all the coasts are generally very popular places to live. Also, absolutely everywhere in Asia. If there’s dry land to walk on there,
This is some footage shot for a music video for Opale’s ‘Sparkles And Wine’ (I love both, please don’t make me choose but if I have to, wine!), by cinematographer Nacho Guzman that serves as a great demonstration how much the angle and color of light on a face can
In it’s all gibberish to me news, this is a video created by Diego Rivas trying to highlight how English, Spanish, and French sound to people who don’t speak them. I feel like he was also able to capture some of the language in his facial expressions. But is it
This is a video of an upstairs bathroom that’s been sealed being quickly filled with water via a fire hose until it decides it just can’t take it anymore and collapses into the living room below. I’m not sure what, if anything, we were supposed to learn from this experiment
In I’m pretty sure I remember a Mythbusters episode about this news, this is a video of The Action Lab half-heartedly experimenting to see if a swimmer (read: wind-up turtle toy) can swim just as fast in syrup as in water. The idea is that although syrup is more viscous,
These are a couple video demonstrations of musician Anthony Dickens’ Circle Guitar, a guitar with a rapidly spinning disk that strums the strings, so a performer only has to fret. There are also buttons that activate various effects, and the guitar is MIDI and DAW compatible. Some more info about
This is a video of two ring-necked parakeets having a sweet, humanlike conversation with each other and making kissy sounds. They sound like lovebirds! Like, two people in love, not actual lovebirds because lovebirds generally aren’t talkers. Man, birds are nuts. It’s almost hard to believe the government went through