Category Archives: Video

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Ring of Fire

Photographer Colin Legg captured these images of an annular solar eclipse at sunrise from three different vantage points in Western Australia using Canon 5D Mark II cameras for time-lapse and a Canon 1D C for 4K video. "Hard gig shooting … more »

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Visual Arabia 2013

Animator Juan Behrens drew on Arabic calligraphy to create a series of strikingly original graphic motifs for the opening titles of Visual Arabia 2013, a creative and design conference held this March in Dubai. Read more about it at Forget … more »

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Trailer: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Can executive producer Joss Whedon successfully shepherd Marvel's blockbuster film franchises to the small screen? If so, expect the Avengers-derived Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which debuts Tuesday nights in September, to usher in an era of crossovers from movies to … more »

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12 Years of DFA: Too Old to Be New, Too New to Be Classic

You may know James Murphy's former group, LCD Soundsystem, but how much do you really know about the history of the DFA record label that predated (and eventually outlived) the band? This highly entertaining short, written, shot and directed by Max … more »

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Space Oddity

Is this cover version of "Space Oddity," recorded by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station, the first music video made in space?

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Trailer: The World’s End

This summer, director Edgar Wright completes his "Blood and Ice Cream" trilogy, reuniting with actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost from the genre-homage comedies Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz for The World's End. Per Wright's Twitter feed, DP Bill … more »

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This Is Water

The book-oriented videographers at L.A.'s The Glossary hoped to bring David Foster Wallace's 2005 commencement address at Kenyon College to a broader audience by setting an abridged version to video. With more than 1.5 million hits on YouTube, the mission … more »

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Zachary Quinto vs. Leonard Nimoy: The Challenge

When did car commercials get genuinely funny? When did Star Trek geekdom become cool enough to sell an Audi? Whose idea was it to get Old Spock (Leonard Nimoy) together with New Spock (Zachary Quinto) for this sly exercise in … more »

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The History of Typography

Curious about the meaning of terms like "Old Style," "Modern," and "Humanist Sans?" Type geeks will already know this stuff, but everyone else may benefit from this five-minute crash course on the history of typography, from Gutenberg to Comic Sans, … more »

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Maker vs Marker

Getting a little tired of those ubiquitious whiteboard videos? Animator Jonny Lawrence brings it on, pitting an animated character against its animator with this combination of Street Fighter II and the Looney Tunes classic "Duck Amuck."