A short documentary on Thailand's bird-singing competitions. From Clive Bell's Wire article on the subject: Many of us probably feel that natural birdsong, encountered in the wild, is a particularly beautiful form of sound, and needs protecting, rather than improving via human intervention. But there
For when you're eating lunch at your desk today: a brief movie about professional ski mountaineer Caroline Gleich. Gleich is a celebrity in the outdoors industry. With over 100,000 followers on Instagram, she's virtually the face of Utah skiing—and is also harrassed online (never
One of the finest early Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers televised performances, this 1978 version of "American Girl" on the BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test shows just how tight the band had already become, having formed just two years prior. You may already know and love
Keir Beck is an award-winning stunt rigger, a career he discovered by early forays in arboriculture ("the cultivation, management, and study of individual trees, shrubs, vines, and other perennial woody plants") and mountain climbing. “Stunt riggers have a broad range of climbing skills—everything from trees to
Thanks to Paul Giamatti's punchy refusal in this clip from 2004's Sideways, merlot's sales tanked, pinot noir's popularity shot up, and California wine growers yanked up about 10,000 acres of merlot grapes. In the industry it became known as "the
After moving across the country, Sean Wang documents the first year of his life in New York—alongside his mother's voicemails.
A video artist spent months pouring metallic and fluorescent paint over his hands, nipples, and lips. This is the result.
A driver and attendant were locked in prideful stillness for over a minute as both refused to reach any further for the driver's payment. The attendant eventually called for backup; apparently, the driver had been teasing her by yanking the card away whenever she reached for it, leading
In case you, like us, are a fan of Dr. Bronner's products and you enjoyed the documentary about the crazy man himself, here's the trailer for the director Sara Lamm's latest film, Thank You for Coming. As an adult, documentary filmmaker Sara Lamm discovered
From our new favorite video series, "Music Machine Mondays," in which different old musical contraptions around the Netherlands are featured on film. (Who knew?) In this installation the host improvises on a 500-year-old carillon. Source credit: things magazine.
