Archive for the 'video' Category

Customizing the appearance of browser-based html5 video players.

Straightforward method to serve HTML5 and automatically fall back to flash if necessary, uses no javascript.

A film on the purpose and techniques of calligraphy. Presented and produced by Hallmark. Filmed at Hallmark cards during a visit by Mr. Zapf. Production manager Noel Gordon. Script outline Peter Seymour. Script editor Richard Rhodes. Camera Direction Frank Robinson. Associate cameraman Heinz Burger. Idea and direction Harald Peter.

"On April 11th 2002, 500 volunteers were called in order to form a line to move a sand dune situated in the surroundings of the city of Lima. This human comb progressed pushing forward a certain quantity of sand with shovels in order to move the dune from its original position. The actual displacement was of an infinitesimal proportion, but not its metaphorical resonance. "

WHOOSH.

May be the ultimate weekend killer.

"after all that we've been through / i know we'll make it after the wait / the question is a truth / there is nothing we can't do / i'll see you along the way baby / the stillness is the move"

Footage mostly of Astaire in "The Band Wagon," with "Smooth Criminal" as the soundtrack.

"I am a philosophic music man, who, long ago, was seduced into musical carpentry."

University of Nottingham site featuring "videos about the symbols of physics and astronomy."

Century+ old fixie tricks by "Neidert."

"Time lapse video of night sky as it passes over the 2009 Texas Star Party in Fort Davis, Texas. The galactic core of Milky Way is brightly displayed. Images taken with 15mm fisheye lens."

Maybe the best part is the video-applied LP label.

TED talk from Aimee Mullins, whom I know primarily as one of Matthew Barney's muses and accomplices in the Cremaster cycle. She discusses the possibilities of prosthetics beyond simply regaining or replacing lost or diminished function.

Ikea Ghillie suits.

I've been meaning to rent/buy/watch this for a while now. and it's on Pitchfork.tv for the next week. Now if they would just post Season 4 of House. I swear I could watch it all in a week, pitchfork!

Video profile of the Earth Room and it's caretaker, Bill.

from Union Square to Grand Central, 1905.