Tag Archives: informative

Tuesday, June 26th, 2012

how to cut a bagel into a link

Feel like showing off at brunch? Check out this video and learn how to cut your bagel into two interlinking slices. [VIA]

Tuesday, June 19th, 2012

evolution of 8-bit art

PBS’s Off Book series put together a mini documentary about the evolution of 8-bit art. Starting with early Atari and Nintendo games and moving through the current interpretations of the art form. [VIA]

Thursday, June 7th, 2012

augmented reality – projection mapping

Here is a little mini-documentary about projection mapping, which allows for projections on any type of surface.

Monday, May 21st, 2012

how a bicycle is made

This is an instructional film from 1945 showing how Raleigh bicycles are made – from start to finish.

Saturday, March 17th, 2012

how they dye the chicago river green

This is an interview from 1992 where three guys explain how they dye the Chicago River green for St. Patrick’s Day.

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

leap year explained

Today is Leap Day! This video will tell you all you ever wanted to know about Leap Years and why that sometimes extra day isn’t a perfect fix.

Thursday, February 16th, 2012

everything is a remix 4 – system failure

This is the fourth installment of the “Everything is a Remix” series and explores how ideas are seen as property and how that isn’t so cut and dry. [VIA]

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

van halen and brown m&ms

David Lee Roth explains just what that “No Brown M&Ms” clause was in their riders – and you just might be surprised by what it was all about. [VIA]

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

14 years of us weather

This animation covers 14 years of weather in the United States. What you are seeing is 120,900 individual frames that each are 1 hour apart and shows the changing patterns of the weather. [VIA]

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

learn colors with ok go!

Internet darlings OK Go decided to team up with Sesame Street to give some lessons on the primary colors. Now you can’t have a primary color lesson without learning about mixing the colors, so that happens too. [VIA]