Tattoos 4 U
A young woman is covered in tattoos and her parents have no idea, so she made a video—complete with choir—to show her parents what she's been hiding. Made by Bianca Giaever for This American Life. There's plenty of Giaever's work in the
One Hundred Acres Underground
Swedish filmmaker Petter Ringbom takes us on a tour of the Lowline. It's a former trolley terminal under the streets of New York's Lower East Side, that's being turned into a one-hundred acre park—the world's first park that's
Gentle Angry People
In response to Orlando, America's deadliest mass shooting, "We are a gentle angry people" indeed.
Elegize the Arctic
Italian composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi elegizes the Arctic from a floating piano at the edge of a melting glacier.
How to Turn Pixels Into Pulitzers
An unbearable video about the “future of media”—complete with endless buzzwords and nonsense—is not, in fact, a joke. From the Observer: Earlier this month Michael Ferro, chairman of Tribune Publishing, announced that the legacy media group was rebranding as tronc, or 'Tribune Online Content' (though the
On Memory
Our Glorious Leader
Finally, the Japanese Donald Trump commercial we’ve all been waiting for.
Onbashira Matsuri
Footage from Japan’s Onbashira festival—reputed to have continued, uninterrupted, for 1,200 years—where young men prove their mettle by riding enormous logs down a hill.
Have the Monks Stopped Meditating?
Trailer for the new Werner Herzog documentary about the internet, Lo And Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, in which monks are found to tweet. See also: "Be Not Afraid," the private diaries of Werner Herzog
Rise of the Lion City
Australian filmmaker Keith Loutit spent three years filming Singapore’s rapid growth, including rarely seen night scenes and the rapid progress of construction sites. “The goal of all my work is to help people see their surroundings with fresh eyes as if for the first time,” Mr. Loutit told Channel