This page is where I collect links to works of brilliance I find on the web, many of them done for no reason but the joy of creation.
Brilliant Talks
Photography
Stephanie Glaros: Humans of Minneapolis
Paul Barbera: Where They Create
Steve McCurry on What Makes a Good Portrait
Powderhorn 365: One photo every day in the Powderhorn Park neighborhood of Minneapolis
Longfellow 365: One photo every day in the Longfellow neighborhood of Minneapolis
Mihaela Noroc: The Atlas of Beauty | Facebook Page
Dance
Choros – A hallucinatory experimental dance video
Mitchell Rose – Short comedic dance films
People dance to Ben Pearce’s “What I Might Do”
People dance to Perfume Genius “Wreath”
Uptown Funk old movie dance mashup
Christopher Walken dance mashup
Hand Dance, by Up and Over It – the derelict version
Juggling
Art
Artist Simon Beck: Footprint patterns in the snow
Bill Viola: Ocean Without a Shore
Created Equal: A photo series by Mark Laita
Carving Books with Surgical Tools
Paper Sculptures Left Anonymously Around Edinburgh
Figure Drawing from the Skeleton Out
Funny & Absurd
Zach King Does Impossible Things
Miss USA 2011: Should Math Be Taught in Schools? (a spoof)
A Conference Call in Real Life
Five musicians, one guitar: Somebody That I Used to Know
Salut Salon – Competitive Foursome
“Happy Birthday” as it might be played by Beethoven, Brahms, Bach, Chopin, & Mozart
Whimsical Machines
Kinetic Sculptures by Anthony Howe
Street art: Inflatable Bag Monsters
The Ultimate Machine, by Claude Shannon, inventor of information theory
Magic
Flash Mobs
Language
Music
Flight of the Bumblebee: Stop Motion Guitar Performance
79 Instrumental Songs Everyone Knows but no one knows the name of
12-year-old Alma Deutscher improvises a complex piano piece based on four randomly chosen notes
Evolution of Style
Aging: People in Order
Danielle: Watch a child age into an old woman before your eyes
100 Years of Aging: Couple in their 20s is aged by makeup artists into their 50s, 70s, and 90s
Later That Same Life: An 18-year-old Stoney Emshwiller and his actual 56-year-old self have a chat.
Got Talent
Animations
Muto: A wall-painted animation
Sand Animation – Live Performance by Kseniya Simonova
Cool Math and Science
Weather
Good Works
Photographer Richard Renaldi: “Touching Strangers” video and website
All Over the World
One minute Asian vacation: one second per day from a two month trip
Thirty-day time lapse of a cargo ship’s journey
Stand By Me: The Playing For Change, Around the World Version
The Universe
The Overview Effect: Astronauts describe seeing Earth from space
All Alone in the Night: Earth from the International Space Station
One year of the Earth from 1 million miles away – time lapse
Play
Everything Else
Box: Projection magic by Bot & Dolly
The Radio of Songs from People’s Heads
Fall: Time-lapse video of summer into autumn
Our Story in One Minute: From the Big Bang to Skyscrapers
History of the Entire World, I Guess, by Bill Wurtz
Bouncing Superballs in San Francisco: Sony Bravia
Mass sheep herding, from above
Sign language rendition of a rather profane Cee Lo Green song
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