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Topic: spinning
Zoetrope pottery
Clay shaped on the potter's wheel. Patterns mapped on the computer and transferred. Shapes painstakingly cut. The resulting shallow bowl is baked in a kiln, then spun and filmed at just the right speed. In this Zoetro...
Stroboscopically animated tree ornaments
Created with an open source EggBot Pro kit, Jiří Zemánek of Advanced Algorithms for Control and Communications designed stroboscopically animated tree ornaments with custom patterns. The team also included Martin Gurt...
Blaze Tarsha: A Portrait of an Aerialist
Aerialist Blaze Tarsha began pursuing a life in the circus arts when her mother, a professional chef, first cooked for a juggling convention. To keep herself busy, schoolgirl Tarsha learned how to ride a unicycle in a...
Is it impossible to skip a stone 89 times?
"Skipping a stone might seem like a simple thing, but it's actually this beautifully complex mix of skill, athleticism, and fascinating physics." And in what might be one of the more comprehensive stone skipping video...
How to perform a pirouette and a French fouetté
How do ballet dancers pirouette? Warm up your feet, prepare into fourth position, practice the motion, spot, and then pirouette. Then repeat, repeat, repeat. Alexandra Macdonald, first soloist with The National Ballet...
The high-flying, gravity-defying Kukkiwon Taekwondo Demonstration Team
In feat after feat of skill, precision, and teamwork, the men and women of the Kukkiwon taekwondo demonstration team astonish their audience with 19 minutes of high-flying gymnastic martial arts. This performance, whi...
North Carolina’s Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park and Museum
In the small town of Wilson, North Carolina, the Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park and Museum is attracting visitors from near and far. In the video above, UNC-TV's North Carolina Weekend shows off the 31 restored wind-po...
The Bat Volcano of Calakmul, Mexico
The Bat Volcano of Calakmul, Mexico is not actually a volcano, and it might be more like a tornado, but it's famously called Volcán de los Murciélagos. In Calakmul, there's a limestone cave full of almost four million...
The longest fidget spinner spin ever + the world’s smallest fidget spinner
With a wheel-shaped fidget spinner that was specially made by 50 people at Mitsubishi over the course of six months, a Guinness World Record was set for Longest Duration Spinning a Fidget Spinner on One Hand. The acco...
Gâteau Gato, a cat-themed chocolate zoetrope cake
Gâteau is the French word for cake. Gato is the Spanish word for cat. And artist Alexandre Dubosc is known for his chocolate cake zoetropes, spinning devices that create the illusion of animation. In this video, he's ...
Making clay pots and bowls on a pottery wheel with Mister Rogers
"One of the fun things about clay is it's like mud, and when I was young, I used to play in mud and make shapes. It's very similar." In this episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood from 1991, Mister Rogers visits th...
Dance & the physics of rotation – PBS Kids’ What’s Good
Dance, twirl, flip, extend, spin, twist, leap, defy gravity and get to know the science of movement that drives it all. Breakdancers B-Girl Eren and Tori Torsion talk about why they love to dance, and how practice, ha...
Emmanuelle Moureaux’s gridded rainbow installations
Tokyo-based French architect and artist Emmanuelle Moureaux visualized a decade of 'the future'—2017 to 2026—as a numerical rainbow forest in an installation for The National Art Center in Tokyo. The 2017 commission, ...
How A Children’s Toy Led To An Essential Medical Device
"We were out in a primary health center talking to health care workers [in Uganda] and we found a centrifuge used as a doorstop because there's no electricity." The workers said that they really needed a powerful cent...
4-Mation 3D Zoetropes: Fish Eating Fish and Jumping Frogs
Fish endlessly eat fish in this 3D zoetrope by 4-Mation, a UK-based modular kit from toymaker Kevin Holmes. The piece was printed on a Form 2 3D printer. The visual animation is achieved in person by using precisely t...
A fidget spinner in space
Fidget spinners are everywhere... including the International Space Station. Watch as NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik and Mark T. Vande Hei, ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli, and NASA astronaut in training Joseph M. Acaba sp...
Hydrodynamic Levitation
Light balls, disks, and cylinders will levitate on a stream of water in a surprisingly off-center way. In this episode of Veritasium, Derek Muller teams up with Blake from InnoVinci, with some help from aerospace engi...
A 3D printed mechanical laser show machine
Engineer, maker, and 3D printing enthusiast Evan Stanford has created a 3D printed, hand-cranked mechanical laser show machine that 'draws' with projected light. The drawn shapes are created with two rotating cams tha...
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