Brian Heater
‘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.…
GoPro Video of a Baby Swinging
A GoPro was attached to ten-month-old Rasmus Futtrup of Copenhagen as he went for a swing. The camera maker set the smiley, drooling footage to…
Twelve Basketball Players and One Water Jetpack Make an Amazing Trick Shot for Turkish Airlines Ad
Turkish Airlines assembled 12 basketball players around a pool including Euroleague pros Shawn James, Kyle Hines, Robin Benzing and Sergio Rodriguez, along with a water…
100 Pounds of Magnetic Putty Dropped Off a Wall, Chopped With an Ax and Shot With Guns
In order to promote their new Magnetic Thinking Putty, Vat19 has put a big ball of the stuff through its paces, dropping it off a…
‘The Mini Book of Major Events’, A Tiny Book Mapping World History
Created by Denver illustrator Evan Lorenzen, The Mini Book of Major Events is a finger-sized picture book that attempts to distill the major events of…
The Drinkable Book, A Pamphlet Teaching Safe Water Drinking Habits Printed on Filter Paper
Created by the non-profit WATERisLIFE, The Drinkable Book is a pamphlet designed to teach safe water drinking habits to residents of developing nations. The book…