Brian Heater
‘Sesame Street’ Animated Short Explains the Origin of Paper
In the animated short “Where Does Paper Come From?”, Sesame Street gives a brief overview of the origin of the paper that newspapers are printed…
Video From Inside a Sinking Tugboat
Uploaded by Little Deeper Charters Inc, this video shot by on-board cameras captures the last few minutes above water for the Canadian tugboat, The Pocahontas…
The New York Times Profiles Texas Courtroom Sketch Artist Gary Myrick
Filmmaker Ramtin Nikzad created a documentary short for The New York Times profiling Gary Myrick, a sketch artist who has been capturing courtroom cases for…
‘Gorey’, A Feature-Length Documentary About Illustrator Edward Gorey
Gorey is an upcoming documentary about famed illustrator Edward Gorey directed by Massachusetts photographer/filmmaker Christopher Seufert, who captured the artist from 1996 until his death…
Inside the Detroit Silverdome, A Domed Stadium Vacant Since 2012
The Silverdome, former home of the Detroit Lions and Pistons, has been out of commission since 2012, leaving the stadium an empty wreck. In May…
‘Mite’, An Animated Short That Takes Place in the Carpet of Overlook Hotel From ‘The Shining’
In “Mite,” animator Walter Volbers dives into the hallway carpet outside of room 217 (the number from the book, not the movie) in the Overlook…
‘Top Dog’, An Animated Short About a Dog With a Lust for Life Created in 48 Hours
Created for the 48 Hour Film Project by Dutch studio Sjalot Ink, “Top Dog” is a short cutout animation about a dog fed up with…
SciShow Explains How Mummified Human Bodies Are Preserved In European Peat Bogs
On the latest SciShow, host Hank Green gets to the bottom of the uncanny ability for European peat bogs to preserve human bodies for thousands…
Three Strangers Harmonize In a Spontaneous Sidewalk Jam Session
Jaime Tatos Maldonado started recording a video of musician Jesse Rya singing and playing an acoustic guitar in front of a Kroger supermarket in Irving,…
‘Renegades of Bike Culture’, A Brief History of the Counter Cultural Past of Mountain Biking
Sarah McCullough, a cultural studies PhD grad from UC Davis, gives some insight into how mountain biking grew out of the 1970s Northern California counter-culture.…