The Kid Should See This.

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There's just so much science, nature, music, art, technology, storytelling and assorted good stuff out there that my kids (and maybe your kids) haven't seen. It's most likely not stuff that was made for them...

But we don't underestimate kids around here.

Kid-friendly not-made-for-kids videos for all! Collected by Rion Nakaya and her three four year old co-curator.

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A Caterpillar 319D LN excavator climbs onto a rail car to unload crushed rock… and I don’t think either the kid or I would have believed it if we hadn’t watched it!

Thanks, @tdierks.

A promotional video by a Canadian ink maker, this video not only explains the behind the scenes of how ink colors are made, but its artful presentation makes the process actually feel inspirational. (The music helps, too.)

Thanks, @focusmitch.

“This,” said roboticist Raffaello D’Andrea, is the “first installation to be built by flying machines.”

…four helicopterish thingies swooped through the air, somehow avoiding each other, and one by one, settled on some “brick dispensers.” Using small plungers they then plucked one brick at a time, carried each to the “building site” and slowly created a wall. It took a few days, but what emerged is a twisting, undulating tower, designed by Swiss architects Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler.

via Krulwich Wonders.

The problem with showing young kids some of these videos is that they might not realize how INSANE these sights actually are. They often just take it in stride as neat!

But yikes! It’s a robot riding a bicycle. 

Via @cosentino. 

Big loud machines that make delicate beautiful things! Nick Sambrato introduces his 2000lb cast-iron Kluge Letterpress machine from his small print shop in Florida. Also don’t miss this letterpress primer vid that walks us step by step through printing on a smaller Vandercook proof press.

We love videos about how things are made, and factories can be amazing sights: all of that automation and machinery and movement… the marvel of mass production.

So we especially love videos about how crayons are made. And this Sesame Street classic has it covered!

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