A subway rider diligently attempts to thwart the circle thief who is taking all of the useful round objects: A Circle Thief (まるどろぼう) by Tokyo-based art and design student Komoto. Watch these next: The Red Thread (赤い糸): A single line tells a story and Osvaldo Cavandoli’s La Linea.
Have a plate, a pool, and some food coloring? In this experiment, Physics Girl makes strange black circles form by briefly dragging a plate through the pool. On a sunny day in still water, those black circles can be seen traveling the length of the pool. What’s creating this unique phenomenon? Fil
Cake-decorating robots! We generally prefer the whimsy and unique details that happen when humans decorate cakes, but this cake finishing equipment from food service manufacturing company Unifiller is interesting to watch. Here’s a longer video featuring more of their decorating equipment: from Th
Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon), the landmark silent film directed by prolific filmmaker Georges Méliès in 1902. And if this video disappears, you can watch it on Amazon. From Wikipedia: Inspired by a wide variety of sources, including Jules Verne’s novels From the Earth to the
This street vendor makes popcorn with an explosive, pressure-cooking, popcorn cannon contraption, a centuries-old method. The video was filmed in Zhengzhou, China, but we’ve watched videos of this in South Korea, too. And of course, Mythbusters has looked into it, video below. Boom! Related wa
A few marble machines are clickity-clacking in our archives, but never have we seen ones that are designed as laser-cut, flat-packed, wood DIY kits! Hopefully on sale soon from RetroTime.org, a hand cranked Kit2 Marble Machine, above, and a hand cranked Modular Marble Machine - Shield no.2, below:
The timelapsed formation of snowflakes in macrofocus by Vyacheslav Ivanov. Music: Aphex Twin - Avril 14th. Update via Colossal: “Ivanov confirms from his home in St. Petersburg that the video is indeed genuine (non digital) and was filmed through a microscope with a ‘lot of effort and patien
An orrery is a mechanical model of the solar system, and The Sanderson Orrery, above, is a beautiful Jules Verne-themed one. It comes complete with a steam engine, a time machine, and a pet dinosaur. The music is Mozart, Clarinet Concerto in A, K633 - Adagio. Watch more videos about gears and auto
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A Circle Thief (まるどろぼう)
How do you make a Crazy Pool Vortex? Physics Girl explains the science
Automated Cake Icing and Decorating Machines
Le voyage dans la lune (1902) by Georges Méliès
Amazing Chinese Popcorn Cannon
Laser-cut, flat-packed, wood DIY modular marble machine kits
Watch snowflakes form in time lapse through a microscope
The Jules Verne-Themed Sanderson Orrery