The next time you get the opportunity to blow some soap bubbles, be sure to take a long, close look at them. Those ever-changing rainbows sliding around
When white light reflects from a soap film, some of
Cylinders, cones, cubes, rectangular pyramids, polygons, right rectangular cones, right rectangular pyramids. When you slice through these three
• Topology, a 1961 Eames film for IBM’s Mathematica
How can you arrange a collection of short interactions with strangers in order to reveal something meaningful about life? In 2006, the UK’s Channel 4
of Age, Birth, Love, Home—”and then chose how each film
In one beautifully-produced, continuous shot, professional mountain biker Brandon Semenuk bombs a freshly built track down and around some magnificent
Research and Anthill Films for the Sony mountain biking film
This epic video postcard features Scottish street trials and mountain bike riding pro Danny MacAskill as he tests his years of skill on the streets of San
that helps him plan, test, practice, re-work, and film
Using images captured by Google Earth, Ireland-based artist Páraic McGloughlin speeds through scheme after scheme of human-made shapes and structures from
and structures from high above in the experimental film
Twenty five years ago, physicist Robert Lang worked at NASA, where he researched lasers. He has also garnered 46 patents on optoelectronics and even wrote
videos, including a clip from Between the Folds, a film
Rube Goldberg Machines are known for accomplishing simple tasks through complex means. In this 1970 Sesame Street clip from season one, Kermit the Frog
Go (Der Lauf der Dinge), a 1987 Rube Goldberg art film
The Hooded Grebe (Podiceps gallardoi) performs an elaborate, Muppet-like dance with its mate. It’s a rarely seen courtship ritual that was captured by
captured by Michael and Paula Webster during a six-month film
The moon isn’t really made of cheese, but in the Oscar-winning short A Grand Day Out (1989), British inventors Wallace and Gromit made the moon look
Park‘s original British stop-motion animated short film
