Tag: song
AsapScience: The NEW Periodic Table Song
How fun is this AsapScience video written, directed and performed by Mitchell Moffit? Based on the famous can can piece from Orphée aux enfers by Jacques Offenbach, The NEW Periodic Table Son...
Tom Lehrer performs The Elements live (1967)
Watch singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician Tom Lehrer perform The Elements live from Copenhagen in 1967. Set to the melody, ”I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-Ge...
We Can Be Ghosts Now by Hiatus featuring Shura
Director Tom Jobbins and team bring us on the epic journey of two colorful triangles in We Can Be Ghosts Now by Hiatus featuring Shura. More shapes and patterns in the archives.
Commander Hadfield: Wringing out Water on the ISS and Space Oddity
To celebrate Commander Chris Hadfield's return to earth today, Monday, May 13, Scientific American has collected the Top 10 Commander Hadfield Videos from the International Space Station. Ex...
Plane Geometry – Angle Dance
Math + 80s glamrock = Angle Dance. The rock group “Plane Geometry” singsplains angles in this clip from Children’s Television Workshop's Square One Television, a show dedicated to teaching math....
OK Go: This Too Shall Pass (2010)
Even if you’ve seen This Too Shall Pass, the 2010 instant classic from inventive band Ok Go, it’s a great video to watch again (and again). With the help of SyynLabs, director James Frost, and the suppor...
A-Trak & Tommy Trash’s Tuna Melt
Toast slices as dominoes? Yes, please. This domino-driven Rube Goldberg-esque video may not be all in one shot — and maybe some of it is helped with some digital post-production? I’m looking at you, parach...
Sesame Street: Pinball Countdown
Has the kid seen this 1977 Sesame Street classic? Pinball Countdown, featuring the Pointer Sisters. Related: animator Abbey Luck’s remake.
More (The Hunter Pixilation Project) + Joey Ramone’s New York City
Inspired by Joey Ramone's posthumous love letter to New York City, directed by Greg Jardin, high school student Kevin Chiu spent two months taking 1991 photos of 140 Hunter College HS peers and teachers to create his...
Alexander Chen’s Viola through Glass
Google Creative Director Alexander Chen composes a song by filming some solo viola melodies on Google Glass and then weaving the video clips together in overlapping loops. What results is n...
Glowing, all-weather bicycle: Firefly by Geospace Studio
If you could mix your bicycle with your car, you might get something like the Firefly by Geospace Studio. With a protective shell that illuminates with LEDs for knight night riding, could the Firefly become a fun, e...
The Count
A 26-second homage to The Count, featuring the 1992 remix of the Sesame Street theme by the English group Smart E’s. Animation by Ireland-based director, animator and designer Chris O...
iPhone Marimba Remix
Perhaps you’ve heard the iPhone marimba ring many times, but have you heard it like this? iPhone Marimba Remix by France’s KIZ Musique. via UFunk.net. In the archives, two must-see vids: Reggie Watts an...
Slim Goodbody: The Digestion Song
Slim Goodbody was something I used to watch on tv as a kid in the 1970s, but I hadn’t quite remembered the dated mix of strange and wonderful that makes the bodysuit so iconic… until we watched this clip. ...
Gene Kelly: Singin’ in the Rain.
A clip of Gene Kelly from Singin’ in the Rain. Classics 101.
Schoolhouse Rock! Counting by Fives
The very catchy Counting by Fives from Schoolhouse Rock!
The Human Piano
The Human Piano. (This also seems like a great DIY video project, yes?) More than 300 random people on the streets of Israel, each repeating one single note, creating together one harmonious melody. No Auto-tune w...
Beethoven’s Ode to Joy (a sort of flashmob)
In this 2012 viral commericial out of Sabadell, Spain, a street musician plays Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. And then something starts to happen… Thanks, @kvetchup.
