Watch this incredible color footage of London in 1927. Filmed by Claude Frisse-Greene, a British filmmaker who was the son of inventor and cinematography pioneer William Friese-Greene, it showcases the cars, buses, boats, parks, monuments, signage, rhythms, style, and the sea of hats that made the London streets during the ’20s. 

More 1920s vids in the archives.

Thanks, @benjohnbarnes.

If you couldn’t see an animal, and only learned what they look like by touch, sound, and a verbal description, what might you imagine? In this clip from the BBC’s Zookeepers, Donna, who has been blind since birth, gets to touch and interact with the elephants at the Paignton Zoo.

Watch more elephant and zoo videos.

From illustrator and animation student Renata Gąsiorowska, a music video for the song Birthday by the UK’s Alphabets Heaven.

Thanks, Reed.

Meet Mantis, an all-terrain hexapod walking machine built by inventor Matt Denton and a team of six.

This 2.2-litre Turbo Diesel-powered, British-designed and -built walking machine can be piloted or remote WiFi-controlled, stands 2.8 metres high with a five meter working envelope and weighing in at just under two tonnes.

The Mantis took four years of research, design, building, and testing, and cost “hundreds of thousands of pounds” to make. It’s for rent as an entertainment vehicle, but Denton hopes to showcase it at science fairs. Read more at the BBC.

via Boing Boing. 

Related vids:A smaller hexapod and more robots.

Pale Blue Dot, a 2-D animation by London-based studio ORDER.

A visual response to Carl Sagan’s famed ‘PaleBlue Dot‘ piece where he muses on our planet’s appearance in a photograph taken by the Voyager 1 space probe. The most distant photograph ever taken of Earth.

More Must-Watch: these Carl Sagan-inspired videos.

via BrainPickings & It’s Okay to Be Smart.