A Day in India ‘beautifully summarizes the three week tour duo Daniel Klein & Mirra Fine took together under the collective name of The Perennial Plate. Beautiful images of moments of life in India, dating and delicious food are everywhere, along with some truly breathtaking vistas. For anyone who’s been to the subcontinent, these will [...]
As a followup to their Skinemax video, Smash TV has now created Memorex, a 50-minute video composed of 1980s commercials snagged from VHS tapes. It’s described as “the advertising industry’s collective wet dream.” Sourced from over forty hours of 80s commercials pulled from warped VHS tapes, Memorex is a deep exploration of nostalgia and the [...]
RetroGameAddict commissioned an awesome video chronicling the history of Nintendo’s console platform, starting in 1980 with the Game & Watch, the portable computer that introduced us to games like Donkey Kong, all the way through to Nintendo’s most recent Wii U. It’s an amazing video that highlights just how much Nintendo have done in the [...]
Several careful owners. Full service history, approximately 30 million miles on the clock. NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, who has spent almost a year in space, gives us a 25-minute tour of the International Space Station. AKA the nerdiest episode of MTV Cribs ever. In her final days as Commander of the International Space Station, Sunita [...]
Freelance filmmaker Colin Mika scored a viral hit last year with his time-lapse video of Los Angeles shot through a snow globe. This past November, Mika created a followup video as a holiday Christmas card on behalf of Canadian law firm McCarthy Tétrault. He visited six cities across Canada and England: Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Québec [...]
The annual harvesting of cranberries has to be one of the most ingenius methods of fruit farming there is. Every fall after the berries ripen on the vine, instead of being picked by people or machine the fields are flooded with water from a nearby reservoir. Because the berries are filled with air, all it [...]
What’s it like to shoot on the front lines of battle as a military photojournalist? This 15-minute documentary by filmmaker Hannah Hill will tell you. This is a documentary about Staff Sgt. Ryan Crane, a United States Air Force photojournalist, who has deployed to Afghanistan twice. He shares his experiences as a photojournalist in a [...]
There are plenty ‘best-of’ lists flying round the tinterweb at the moment. Easily one of our favourites is this excellent mash-up of films to be released in 2012. It covers everything from big-budget blockbusters, foreign flicks, and indie movies that have done the round this year. Excellent work from Genrocks. Click the pic to watch [...]
You may have seen Birds of Paradise on David Attenborough’s numerous documentaries – but you’ve never seen this many. The Birds of Paradise project is attempting to document all the birds in their myriad forms, as well as capture some of their courting rituals. The project took Tim Laman and Ed Scholes through more than [...]
George Orwell: A Life in Pictures is an Emmy award winning 2003 BBC Television docudrama telling the life story of the British author George Orwell. There is no footage of George Orwell, no recordings of his voice, just assorted photographs, and of course, his writing, his brilliant writing, which forms the basis of this Emmy [...]
