Rethinking The Education System

While today’s video has little to do with gadgets,movies,music,technology,or any of the usual stuff,it’s quite interesting and engaging. More than that,the animation on the whiteboard done is simply amazing and totally helps build,explain and enhance the message that the speaker is trying to convey in a very fun and visually delicious way. If you have a couple minutes,I highly encourage you to spend it watching this video,without distractions.

Real-Time Inception = Too Cool To Explain

This is just too cool to explain. Someone took the entire dream sequence from Inception,and converted it into a about 5 minute clip,where you can see all the dreams synced up to “real-time”based on the first dream (the van being chased). It’s really awesome to see how time speeds up,but honestly,I can’t seem to tell the difference between the third level and the deep twilight-zone level.

Using Sunlight To Melt Stuff at 3200C!

This is just freaking sweet! Using mirrors,the people at the Solar Furnace Research Facility in France have managed to create a single point of extremley focused sunlight,pushing temperatures up to 3200C. Check Jem Stansfield from the BBC’s Bang Goes The Theory ignite wood and melt steel!

Stunning 100% CGI Commercial

Watch this commercial. Pretty? Gorgeous even. Clean. Simple,but not really. The entire commercial was done using CGI using 3ds MaxV-rayAfter Effects and edited in Premiere. Every. Single. Shot. Not one thing (i.e. the lemon,the apple,the table,the gas flame,the ink in the water,the stove,the room,the view outside the room) is actually real. Zilch. Now how about we watch that commercial again eh? (Found on The Awesomer)

Watch Words Carefully

By far one of my new favorite videos. The complexity yet simplicity of the video is mind-blowing. Watch it carefully if you didn’t get it. (Found on One Cool Thing a Day)

Devour The Best Youtube Videos

Need to kill some time but don’t know what to watch. Then you have to check out Devour.com,the latest site by the guys over at Uncrate. As you may or may not know already,I am a big fan of the work the guys there do,and I have high hopes for the site. Setting themselves up for the task of culling all the videos uploaded to the web (did you know that there is 25 hours of video uploaded to Youtube every MINUTE?!),these guys will be update and post a well-curated collection every weekday. And it’s iPad compatible. Need more reasons? (Found on Uncrate)

OMFG! Parkour+Ladders = ARE YOU CRAZY!?

It’s been a while since I was so shocked by a viral video on Youtube shocked in a good way…),but these guys are straight up crazy. If it is legit,and not a prank…oh my god…are you kidding me?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! This is just too ridiculous to even explain. I am left speechless by the sheer ballsiness these guys show in their stunts. Watch it. Now.

Crazy kiwis.

(Found on OneCoolThingADay)

Drops of Tea Light Candles

Electrabel has taken tea light candles,an every-day item,and transformed if into a breath-taking video using stop motion photography for their TV spot above. The moment you see those drops of light,you know you’re in for something special. (Found on One Cool Thing a Day)

Stop-Motion Light Wars!

Done up stop-motion style (yea…thousands of pictures over a time-delay can be a huge pain) Light Warfare is a ridiculously awesome short clip depicting a street shoot-out through the process of light painting. It’s a must watch honestly. (Found on One Cool Thing a Day)

Colour Up Your World

“Let’s Colour”is a project/marketing campaign being run by Dulux paint. Showcasing their project in the above video,Dulux does a fantastic job of adding colour to people’s lives through the use of paint. I love the time-lapse effect that gives this effect of a wave washing over walls,doors,and buildings.

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