Category Archives: Video

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Early 20th century footage of Tokyo as Japan emerged from the chaotic Meiji period toward a new era of militarism and industrialisation.

The footage has been corrected for speed with ambient sound added by EYE Film Museum in Amsterdam.

Earlier: Reel Time New York

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Iain Miller writes:

On the 30th April 2018, Nikki Bradley climbed to the summit of Bristi Sea Stack,  this is a technical rock climb on the seaward face of the stack. The climb involved two pitches of technical rock climbing and a 100ft abseil from the summit to the base of the stack.

Nikki Bradley diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer (Ewing’s Sarcoma) at sixteen and the receiver of a second total right hip replacement at the age of twenty six, Nikki has been on a truly unique journey. So unique in fact, she has been informed by her consultant that she is currently one of less than ten people worldwide to have lived through what she has.  Nikki is currently in training for her hardest challenge yet

Not quite as appealing as your outside voice. To wit:

This real-time MRI film shows live the movements in the mouth and pharynx during speech: The spatio-temporal coordination of the lips, tongue, soft palate and larynx becomes visible, which is necessary to form vowels, consonants and coarticulations

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Sisyphus – a record breaking Kickstarter funded kinetic table consisting of a lit bed of sand upon which a magnetised steel marble traces programmable mandalas, random geometries or custom messages.

The tables are available to pre-order in a variety of finishes in metal (starting from around €1,100) and wood (from €6,200).

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