Category: Because it’s Friday

It’s festival season in the UK and I would love to see someone pull this stunt:

There are plenty of first-person videos of people climbing-up tall buildings but I’ve always thought that climbing-down is far more scary.

Today’s video is of James Kingston climbing down a high crane (James is the person who climbed the arch over Wembley).

Look away now if you have a problem with heights:

Struggle to get up in a morning?

Are you a fan of Wallace and Gromit who thinks that their bed and clothing contraption would be a wonderful addition to your life?

Well Colin Furze came pretty close:

Do you sometimes wish that you had a magic device that turned off all the screens in your house? That’s what Dolmio did for an advertising campaign in Australia:

Technology has hijacked family dinnertime. So to help bring families together for dinner, Dolmio created the Pepper Hacker. It cracks pepper, shuts down TVs, wipes out WiFi and disables mobile devices. Watch our experiment reclaim family dinnertime.

If you’d like to know more about how this was done there are more details here.

A while back our Friday feature was a visualisation of the skies over the UK every 24 hours, today’s is a more focussed view of the flow of traffic in the skies over London.

Having flown in-to and out-off London several times it always amazes me how many other planes you can see:

NATS handles over 2 million flights in UK airspace every year. Of those, over 1.2 million arrive at or depart from one of the five main London airports. That’s over 3,000 flights every day using just six runways.And 99.8% of flights experience no ATC related delay.

A short while ago I highlighted the WikiDrummer who played the same rhythm on the same drum-kit in multiple locations blended together into one video. The idea behind the experiment is to show the impact of the surroundings on the sound.

The WikiSinger does the same thing in 15 locations with one voice. There’s no artificial reverb, it’s all natural:

A delightful short film that highlights the wonderful array of colours that we are surrounded by everyday in those ordinary things that we don’t even notice.

Via Colossal.

This film is by the same team – The Mercadantes – that introduced us to Breath.

If you were born after 1990 then most of the items in this video are a mystery to you.

For those of us born before that time these objects bring a sense of nostalgia.

I loved playing with marbles as a child.

We’d create channels and races for them as well as playing the traditional marble games, but we never got to this level of sophistication:

Some genius from Hull.

Ever wanted to play every instrument in the orchestra, that’s what Ben Morfitt did. He filmed the 70 different parts against a green screen taking a month to do it.

He also wrote the music:

A fun little experiment this Friday.

If you hold a match above a candle that has just been blown out it will relight the candle, but how? Have a look at it in slow motion:

The following film was created by Stockholm-based filmmaker Kalle Ljung using a DJI Phantom 2 quadcopter while touring Antarctica.

It’s truly beautiful and definitely needs to be watched in high-definition:

via Colossal.