A robot, "There's Waldo," can find a Waldo in about four and a half seconds. From the Verge: Matt Reed, a Creative Technologist at Redpepper who led the project, got 62 Waldo heads and 45 full-body Waldos from Google image search, then fed the data
Coming soon from E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin: Free Solo, in which Alex Honnold becomes the first person to climb Yosemite's El Capitan without a rope. From a National Geographic story about the achievement: It’s hard to overstate the physical and mental difficulties of a free
The Silence Project records time-lapse videos of stunning natural sights, accompanied only by nature's ambient sounds.
"Please don't throw up blood." Kids react to videos of Swans performances.
Hong Kong has less than 30 years of semi-autonomy left. A short film by Johnny Harris on how the region is dealing with the looming deadline and China’s early moves.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman explains macroeconomics on a rollercoaster. It's Krugman's first rollercoaster ride.
Shanghai’s Urban Planning Exhibition Center contains a 1:500 scale model of the city, showing all existing and approved buildings according to the city’s master plan for 2020. The model does contain a miniature replica of its own building, but it's unclear if the miniature replica
From the filmmaker: "Taking inspiration from my favorite designers of all time, Fortunato Depero, Enzo Mari, Bruno Munari, I tried to create, like them, an uncommon product for children and grownups." The result is a buoyant, illustrated underwater journey—that's accompanied by a modular card game.
President Trump kicks off his Putin summit with a friendly wink.
A stunning new longform video for one of our favorite albums of 2018 (so far), Kate NV's для FOR.
