Black Art: In The Absence of Light

Excellent HBO Documentary explores two centuries of art by African-Americans, and the path they forged for contemporary Black artists. / via Brian Hill

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Black Art

Bridge Over Troubled Water

"Everywhere I went led me where I didn’t want to be, so I was stuck." How Paul Simon wrote 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' / via Creative Mornings

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Paul Simon on Dick Cavett

What is Figma

I'm just going to send folks to this intro video by Tori Hinn and Enle Li when trying to extoll the awesomeness of this collaborative design application

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Geometric shapes in pretty colors

Love is a verb

It's not a permanent state of enthusiasm, it's an actual practice

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A drawing of two folks at a piano, one hugging the other

Speedriding Through An Alpine Resort

Valentin Delluc and Red Bull make something that's like, whoa. / via MetaFilter

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Speed skiing and parachuting

Ted Lasso VFX Breakdowns

Always bends the mind seeing how these things come together. Great work by Barnstorm VFX. / via @mathowie

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Green screen scene of soccer players

Noga Erez “VIEWS”

Featuring Reo Cragun & ROUSSO. Currently watching this video from the beginning to the end whenever I need a transition.

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People on stairs choreographed for a music video

Cold Hog Dog Pie

WARNING: This 50 second Youtube video is gross and hilarious. I blame my friend Tom for sharing it with me.

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You and the Thing That You Love

A film by Nicholas Maher. A worthwhile 10 minutes.

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A title card for a movie with a man wiping sweat from his brow with a t-shirt

The moon in real time

This might be a nice screensaver on the TV when trying to zone out or zone in on something / via Paul Bausch

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Virtual Tour Of New Orleans’ Garden District

What a great way to feel slightly human than by enjoying a nicely put together walking tour.

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We’re Not Really Strangers

Fascinating set of prompts to inspire deeper relationships. Invest in the video and give it a watch.

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Mixtape for the Milky Way – Video Games

This is a terribly sweet, well done and moving song + animation about video games / via Waxy

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a paper version of Tetris

Air Conditioned Dork

This music video definitely captures a vibe, feelings and beauty / via yewknee

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Andy Shauf – “Clove Cigarette”

This music video was shot with LiDAR. Dig it. / via Yewknee

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Snap Camera

I didn't realize you can use SnapChat filters on your desktop cam. I am so old.

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Walking in Heavy Thunderstorm at Night in NYC

I've been putting rain videos for naps. This one is super pretty to watch and makes me not want to nap.

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walking at night in the rain in NYC

The Stunt Double

A vertically shot short film made with an iPhone 11 Pro by Damien Chazelle

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A vertical video called The Stunt Double

EXP TV

Broadcasting an endless stream of obscure media / via MeFi

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Vimeo OTT

Launch Your Own Video Subscription Channel on most all the top platforms, web, set-top, mobile

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Vimeos platform for creators as seen on many devices

How We Made “Slack WFH”

The behind the scenes is fascinating. The actual video has a great ending.

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Stimulus [ ] Response

Final video and process. Lovely! All of it!

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Pink clay shapes on a soft green background

“F Major” by Hania Rani

Video worth watching. I quite loved the song and juxtaposition of the style of dance.

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Something About You

Relink: Powerful music video for Elderbrook & Rudimental. Directed by Luke Davies and choreographed by Jacob Holme. (Thanks for the reminder Sean!)

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A Guide to Hosting Virtual Events with Zoom

And how to prevent Zoombombing. / via Swissmiss

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A Joyful Flash Mob Plays Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9

Thank you Jason Kottke. I needed to see this exactly.

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Symphony on the street

The Books – Playall

A collection of 17 music videos by The Books. To put on in the background when doing something / via MeFi

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hands on old tape recorder

Mug

When you see a link show up 5 times, it's probably good. This is the case for this short film about potters James and Tilla Waters

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hands on clay

‎Vimeo Create

Social video creation tool for iOS.

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App Store preview of video creation app

How to shoot an interview

11 minute video on how to set up a video interview shot and light it.

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Man lighting a woman for a video

Daughter

Apple's Chinese New Year short film (shot on an iPhone, naturally).

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A woman changing a taxi tire

Tomorrow’s On Fire

Powerfully good animated short by Darcy Prendergast / via WAXY

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I Was in The Black Eyed Peas. Then I Quit.

16 minutes well worth spending hearing Kim Hill's perspective.

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My friend Benedict Cumberbatch

THIS IS DISTURBING. (My "friend" Tom texted this video link to me. I blame him. A lot.)

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Making weird go viral

With Hi Stranger creator Kirsten Lepore. Natural History Museum is a new delight.

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Exercise bike not included

Ryan Reynolds and his team are heroes

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Moment – Anamorphic Lens for iPhone

Making a list of video tools

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Follow the Blue Ball

Chain Reaction Machine

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Joywave – Obsession

Not as emotionally poignant as the last music video, but if you like movie titles, you'll like this video

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These behind the scene videos for ads by @stevegiralt are insane.

Another Twitter link but this one is good too! Whoa!

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Hong Kong Ballet 40th Anniversary Season Brand Video

I want videos like this to be what's on my TV all the time. / via BrandNew

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Lil Dicky – Earth (Official Music Video)

Stick with it. I tip my hat intensely to Lil Dicky and everyone that helped make this happen.

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Grandaddy “Nature Anthem”

I got lost exploring the music tag on my OLD blog and this 240p music video from 2007 emerged and I want to rewind 12 years and be there as they filmed this.

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Show Us Your Junk! Ep. 23 – Steve Albini

Yup, 30 minutes seeing a recording engineer go through what's in his studio is very entertaining. / via Rob Weychert

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True Facts: The Lemur

This is Brenda's little tree now.

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In a Nutshell

Fabio Friedli uses 3,000 pictures in a montage that distills the story of human existence in just under five minutes and delivers a profound and moving thesis on this thing we call life.

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Every Single Video Prince Ever Made

Many of these I have never seen.

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F it up – Louis Cole (Live Sesh)

Stick with it. Don't scrub ahead. / via Joseph

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Studio Drift Burning Man

flying sculpture performed by hundreds of drones

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Creative is not a noun

A talk by Austin Kleon

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Neko Case – “Curse of the I-5 Corridor”

This music video is cutely bonkers and decidedly not really safe for some work situations? Probably.

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UNSATISFYING on Vimeo

Parallel Studio captures "the frustrating, annoying, disappointing little things of everyday life, that are so painful to live or even to watch." / via Mike Essl

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When u babysit ur annoying sibling

Just a lil Instgram video of a cat chillin'

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Sunday Sketching – Christoph Niemann

Either I never watched this 20 minute talk from Christoph or I spaced on it. I love this Sunday Sketching, so it's nice to get perspective of how it came to be, and why.

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Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind

I'm looking forward to this, but honestly? I wish I wasn't. I wish Robin Williams was still on this earthly plane. And I wish the world wasn't so hard, for so many.

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The Groundbreaking Design Work of Barbara Stauffacher Solomon

"To design is to see, as in foresee; to draw visions not previously seen." / via Bruce Hartman 

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Mailboxes against a white wall with red and black geometric painting

Minimalist YouTube

Search for a video, be pleased at the lack of crap. This likely won't be around forever.

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Tame Impala / Let It Happen

"Taking Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, broccoliboys cut out about 153 minutes, streamlining the film to fit the song length without sacrificing the narrative. The video is an excellent edit that changes both the film and the song in an interesting way."

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The Making of Welcome Home, the Spike Jonze Apple HomePod longform commercial

So much work went into this. I'd like to have seen more about the sets, but it is great to see some of the process. (PS, I want a movement coach)

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