How fireworks get their color.
Good for the kids or any adults who answer their questions: the science behind color found in fireworks.
Music for kicking balls.
A music video for today's World Cup games: "Total Football" by Parquet Courts, from their new album—produced by Danger Mouse, incidentally—Wide Awake!. No apology, and fuck Tom Brady!
Marshall “Major” Taylor is one of the strongest bike racers in history.
Remembering African-American cyclist Major Taylor, who kept winning despite rampant prejudice.
You Could Ride a Bee to Work
An excursion into an imagined future where humans bend biology even more to their wills—such as bees you can drive and plants that can grow buildings. See more sketches and visualizations here.
Erodium Thunk
Ads promising gratification stack one atop the other in this short video directed, animated, and edited by Winston Hacking.
A soundtrack for solitude
For good reason, Max Richter's "On the Nature of Daylight" is everywhere—and now it's a video produced by and featuring Elisabeth Moss.
The indigenous islands divided by the Ice Curtain.
Residents of Little Diomede are American. Their relatives on Big Diomede are Russian. For almost half a century, these icy islands have been out of contact—a relic of Cold War division, just miles apart but 21 hours different by time zone. A 25-minute documentary shows their reunion.
A Neural Remake of "Take on Me"
The classic video recreated shot for shot by an AI finding similar looking archival footage—and apparently without any human edits.
How to bicycle a scarf in five minutes.
A Dutch designer created a human-powered machine that knits a scarf in five minutes. The designer writes: Imagine it's the midst of winter. You are cold and bored waiting for your train at the station. This pedal-powered machine gets you warm by moving, you are making
Beyoncé and Jay Z take the Louvre.
The Carters, Beyoncé and Jay Z, released a new album over the weekend, with a music video shot in a Louvre Museum rarely seen: without crowds.