GoPro, Circa the 1960s

Back in the olden days, you just tied your cameraman right to the car: Looks almost as goofy as Google Glass. Legendar

The World's Best Audition (for Elliott in E.T.)

I’ve never seen a better audition tape than this improvised scene by Henry Thomas for the part of Elliott in E.T. The

How Pixar almost deleted Toy Story 2

Taken from the Studio Stories series included on the Blu-ray versions of Toy Story 1 & 2, here’s a short story abo

Dorothea Lange's Photos of Japanese Americans' Imprisonment During WWII

In 1942, the US government hired Dorothea Lange (of Migrant Mother fame) to take photos of the removal and imprisonme

A Tour of the Accents of the British Isles

Using Google Earth, dialect coach Andrew Jack gives a tour of the accents of Great Britain and Ireland. The audio is o

Self-Portrait of a Tree As a Young Sapling

This is Cedro di Versailles, a sculpture by Giuseppe Penone, carved out of a five-ton cedar log from Versailles. To cr

The Putter Togetherer

A person who makes scissors by hand is called a putter, short for putter togetherer. The Putter is a four-minute silen

The Surprising Ages of the Founding Fathers on July 4, 1776

For the Journal of the American Revolution, Todd Andrlik compiled a list of the ages of the key participants in the Rev

Face Flapping Photography

Tadao Cern sets people up in front of powerful fans and takes their pictures. Instant fun house: Many more of Cern’s p

A Deeper Metaphor

Former Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch on approaching problems head on: That might be the best answer to

A Brief Sabbatical Update

It’s been about five months since I announced I was taking a sabbatical and lately I’ve been getting messages from memb

Ocean Gravity

Free diver Guillaume Néry looks like an astronaut floating around in space in this underwater video. See also this sur