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9:07The Great Wave - Part 1
190K views • 11 years ago
David Bull
The first part of a long series documenting Dave Bull's Tokyo woodblock workshop as it produces a reproduction of Hokusai's The Great Wave. It follows the carving, proofing and printing of the reward print for Kickstarter backers.
29:21TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time (4K)
113.3M views • 7 years ago
melodysheep
A 29-minute cinematic timelapse by melodysheep that journeys trillions of years into the future, covering the death of the sun, the end of stars, proton decay, black hole evaporation and the fate of the cosmos.
Topic match · Cosmology & astrophysics
9:01Powers of Ten™ (1977)
9.5M views • 16 years ago
Eames Office
The Eames Office's 1977 film Powers of Ten starts at a picnic in Chicago and zooms out by a factor of ten every ten seconds to the edge of the universe. It then zooms inward to a proton in a carbon atom.
Topic match · Cosmology & astrophysics
7:07To Scale: THE SOLAR SYSTEM
16.5M views • 11 years ago
To Scale:
A short film in which friends build the first true-to-scale model of the solar system, with full planetary orbits, on a Nevada dry lakebed. It conveys the real distances and sizes involved.
Topic match · Cosmology & astrophysics
15:26Kia Boys Documentary (A Story of Teenage Car Theft)
8.8M views • 4 years ago
Tommy G
A Milwaukee vlogger follows teenagers known as the Kia Boys who steal Kia and Hyundai cars after a security flaw went viral on social media. The film includes interviews with participants.
18:45Orkney - Island of the Future | Fully Charged
131K views • 11 years ago
Everything Electric CARS
Fully Charged host Robert Llewellyn visits Orkney, where wind, tidal, wave and solar generation plus community energy schemes power the islands. It presents the archipelago as a model for future energy systems.
2:47Ernst Dickmanns’ VaMoRs Mercedes Van, 1986-2003
38K views • 10 years ago
Computer History Museum
A three-minute Computer History Museum clip showing Ernst Dickmanns' VaMoRs Mercedes van and later VaMP sedan, early self-driving vehicles tested from 1986 to 2003.
4:52Killer Whales Working Together to Hunt Seals on Ice | BBC Earth
2.8M views • 9 years ago
BBC Earth
BBC Earth shows killer whales working as a pod to create waves that wash seals off ice floes, with the producer explaining how the crew captured behavior once thought a myth.