Learn guitar from Moroccan masters
We're a little late to discovering the pretty great Guitar Moves with Matt Sweeney—e.g., with Dan Auerbach, with Scarface—but this desert footage suits our Monday armchair traveling lust.
How fire is basically stored sunshine
Famed physicist Richard Feynman clearly gets a lot of joy from explaining how fire is basically stored sunshine, and why trees come out of the air, not the ground. From Kottke's "If you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t understand it."
New York City, from the nineteen-thirties and present day.
A fun journey into then and now New York City, from the nineteen-thirties and present day. See also: Sarah Hepola's "Here is Everything I Learned in New York."
Oh bois
Mesmerizing stop-motion animations of hardwood cross-sections.
READY: Just some wild tracking technology and VR stuff
Just some wild tracking technology and VR stuff for your Thursday afternoon, courtesy Theoriz, via coudal.
To understand Canadian humor try listening to American idiots
From 2001, Canadian comic Rick Mercer tries “Talking to Americans,” in which he interviews Americans about Canada-related topics (bombing Saskatchewan, for one thing). It became the most-watched special in Canadian television history.
Video tour of the world's largest collection of whale bones
Your Tuesday conversation starter: The world's largest collection of whale bones lives in the Smithsonian's museum support center, in Suitland, Maryland.
TORRES, "Skim"
As the video for "Skim," the wonderful new song by TORRES, depicts: Sometimes you just can't let go of a relationship. (Kind of NSFW. It's fleshy.)
"Poet on the Shore" is an adorable autonomous robot
Multidisciplinary designer and artist Yuxi Liu has created "Poet on the Shore," an AI-empowered autonomous robot that roams the beach and occasionally writes poetry in the sand. The robot has a number of sensors that enable it to sense the world around it: the sea, the wind,
17 years later Terry Gilliam finishes shooting Don Quixote
To celebrate the news that, 17 years later, Terry Gilliam has finally finished shooting The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, here's a trailer for the 2002 documentary about some of the many times the film fell apart.