just...watch it. you'll thank me

vi hart 12 tones

Very long but quite good.  It more or less singlehandedly convinced me that 12-tone is not complete nonsense.

You might also want to reference the Wikipedia page.

(Hat tip to Ron)

Digging

Seamus Heaney died a few months ago. He was probably the greatest living poet in the English language---or in any case the only one whose work was known at all outside academic circles. Here is his poem "Digging" which I think is understandable to almost anyone who can read. I think it is quite amazing. Notice how he constructs something deep out of short firm physical words.


He talks about his grandfather "cutting turf." I had some idea but I had to google it.

Digging

Between my finger and my thumb  
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.

Under my window, a clean rasping sound  
When the spade sinks into gravelly ground:  
My father, digging. I look down

Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds  
Bends low, comes up twenty years away  
Stooping in rhythm through potato drills  
Where he was digging.

The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft  
Against the inside knee was levered firmly.
He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep
To scatter new potatoes that we picked,
Loving their cool hardness in our hands.

By God, the old man could handle a spade.  
Just like his old man.

My grandfather cut more turf in a day
Than any other man on Toner’s bog.
Once I carried him milk in a bottle
Corked sloppily with paper. He straightened up
To drink it, then fell to right away
Nicking and slicing neatly, heaving sods
Over his shoulder, going down and down
For the good turf. Digging.

The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap
Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge
Through living roots awaken in my head.
But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.

Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests.
I’ll dig with it.

ihavealwayswantedtoknowthisandnowicanwatchsomethingforliterally2minutesandnowiknowthoughimayhavetowatchittwicebutimeanholycow2013isprettyawesome!

vi hart knows how to draw circles

i can do almost as well freehand...

mongoose!

This is incredibly cool.  The mongoose plays the snake just like a bullfighter playing a bull: lures it into a lunge, dodges, and then comes around incredibly fast to take the snake behind the head

Your eyes and brain do not work the way you think they do

http://www.buzzhunt.co.uk/2009/06/22/green-and-blue/

forest ambassador

http://forestambassador.com/

a "video game site for people who don't like video games."  simple, arty games that only take a few minutes to play.  amadea/orion: let me know if you come across NKA stuff here...at a scan it seems ok.

snowflake

A modern-day Snowflake Bentley

http://chaoticmind75.blogspot.ru/2013/08/my-technique-for-snowflakes-shooting.html

two dots

Lusine - "Two Dots" from Ghostly International on Vimeo.

I really liked this one...for poky but also everyone.  There is real math here!

kagemono

Looked pretty cool, at least for poky!