Welcome to The Geek Art Gallery's daily Video Round-Up, in which we collect the
geekiest videos from around the web each day for your enjoyment. Why
slog through page after page of kitten and baby videos to find what
you're looking for on video aggregators when you can cut straight to the
chase here? Comedy sketches, countdowns, movie parodies, nerdy music, science in
action, and supercuts - we've got it all!
"A Game of Thrones, Star Wars, and Marvel mashup, in which our three favorite taciturn sidekicks are allowed to express how they really feel."
"Deskloop is a short film presenting a chain reaction that takes place on a desk(top)."
"This set brings you a lot of playability in form of an action packed marble run and brick build dominoes. It’s a challenge every time you set it up. And it’s rewarding to watch the action happen. Two hundred dominos and a feature packed dynamic marble run."
Colin Marshall, author of A Los Angeles Primer, is working on a series of video essays titled The City in Cinema, examining how Los Angeles is presented in different films. Here, Marshall talks about not just what we're seeing on the screen, but also the historical and cultural events that might have arisen in Ridley Scott's alternate future LA. We've always known that the city is central to Blade Runner, but Marshall forces us to consider the city's backstory as well as its current on-screen status.
""Blade Runner"'s future noir, proto-cyberpunk vision of a Los Angeles both post-industrial and re-industrial, both first-world and third-world, has remained in the more than 30 years since its unsuccessful first run the definitive image of the city's future. Using a combination of studio backlots, scale models, matte paintings, and actual Los Angeles architectural landmarks, the film imagines a "retrofitted," Japanified Babel of a megalopolis that, through the name of the film, still stands for a thoroughly realized dystopia — and, increasingly, a tantalizing one.
The video essays of "Los Angeles, the City in Cinema" examine the variety of Los Angeleses revealed in the films set there, both those new and old, mainstream and obscure, respectable and schlocky, appealing and unappealing — just like the city itself."
Above, you can watch a video where Tyson reads his answer aloud, and the makers of Minute Physics provide the rudimentary animation. One thing astrophysicists have is a knack for putting things into a deeper context, often making “big” human questions look remarkably small (if not somewhat absurd). Carl Sagan did it remarkably well in his famous ‘The Pale Blue Dot’ speech. And Tyson picks up right where Sagan left off.
"Neil deGrasse Tyson was asked by the Templeton Foundation to answer the question "Does the Universe Have a Purpose". Then he read his answer aloud and I drew some pictures for it."
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