Guiding Principle

Bret Victor talks about the advantage of finding a guiding principle to aid the design process. It's an inspiring talk with great examples. I highly recommend watching this if you are a designer or in the design field.

Dubstep Dance

Slow motion / stutter edit / fluid dancing.

Cats kill viruses

An informative video showing how cats kill common viruses.

ENHANCE THAT IMAGE!!!!!

A groundbreaking video that demonstrates hyper-complex photo enhancement tools at work. Eeeeek, no one is safe anymore.

Transformers Sound Design

A video about the sound design for the new Transformers movies. The first part is fluff, but It gets good about half way through.

Transformers Sound Design

Erik | MySpace Video

WALL-E Sound Design

A great special feature video about the sound design from the movie WALL-E
Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A6z8QkVHk4
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl7lFPZeIOE&NR=1

Tracing Shapes to Make Sound

Relying on 3D tracking technology developed at the Ishikawa-Komuro Laboratory in 2003, scoreLight uses lasers to trace the outline of a drawing or object. As the laser dances along the contours, scoreLight produces and modulates sound according to the curvature, angle, texture, color, and contrast. An abrupt change in the direction of a line generates a discrete sound (a glitch or percussion sound), resulting in a steady rhythm when the laser follows a looped path (the size and shape of the looped path determines the tempo and structure of the beat). The device creates a layered tapestry of sound when multiple laser points explore different parts of a drawing.

[via Pink Tentacle]

Mechanical Mouse

This motorized mouse set the world record for finding navigating a maze in record time.

Pentatonic Scale [Bobby McFerrin]

Bobby McFerrin shows of the pentatonic scale by proving that every audience inuits it regardless of previous training. No wonder it's such a popular scale historically.

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

What is the internet?

Mash-up of experts describing the internet in fascinating ways that make total sense.

Gimbaled Air Jet

Video of a machine that can levitate objects in the air in three dimensions. Done by a computer-controlled gimbaled air jet, powered by a 620kPa using a direct current motor-controlled valve.

Dvein 2009 Reel

Stunning animation.

Dvein reel 2009 from dorsumi on Vimeo.

http://www.dvein.com

Kitten Surprise

Looks like our cat Franklin when he was a kitten.

Best Reading Device

Taking a magazine / newspaper and showing it off the way we do new electronic devices. This format still rules in many ways.

Nothingness [Alan Watts]

I have always had a strong conviction for nothing. People in the west seem to dislike the idea of nothing or think of it as a starting point. Because of this, they feel threatened. This type of thinking is amateurish and unnecessary because nothing is completely separate and perfectly inverse to something. This means that you cannot have something without nothing, therefore it is not an either or, but an inherent part of life that most ignore. With this new insight, you can stop worrying about nothing and embrace it. I consider this on par with what religions considers blasphemy, because ignoring or worrying about such an inherent part of life will only create problems. And from this, I feel that many problems would be avoided by understanding this undeniable fact.

Alan has us take nothing into consideration:

Geometric Dancer

Performance excerpts from this lecture video:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/260

These bite-size, zero-production-value performances are mostly proof-of-concept things that tie into his lecture about his creative process. The full 40 minute lecture is cool too, but I provide this edited video here since there are not many Michael Moschen performance vids on youtube.

Muppets do Queen [Bohemian Rhapsody]

Cirque du Soleil Trampoline Skills

Video of Oli from Cirque du Soleil doing some surreal trampoline maneuvers.

Burj skyscraper is really really really tall

This video shows the Burj skyscraper in Dubai. Looking down from the top makes the already tall skyscrapers at it's feet look insignificant. Insane at over half a mile high.

Computer Music from 1965

A video of Ray Kurzweil at age 17 in 1965 demoing his home built computer that writes sheet music.