22 videos to start 2022
22 videos to start 2022
Animations, short films and video essays; including one produced by us!
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Below are some eclectic links for the first week of 2022.
Table of Contents
‘The Second Psychedelic Renaissance’ video essay - @ESpacewalk
A Gathering of the Tribe - @ceisenstein w/ @Jon_Hopkins_ & @AubreyMarcus
Provocation: Redesigning Artificial Intelligence - From Australia Out - Produced by @EllenBroad
Democracy and the Epistemic Commons via @ConsilienceNews
Learn the Language of Power - Ha-Joon Chang & @INETeconomics
exam for humans - @Exurb1a
Forgetting Nature - @rossharrisonfilm
the Intersection - @Superflux
Tailor Made City | CCF Nagari 2021 via @repaircafebang (@The_Maintainers fellows)
A Sustainable Future Filled With Kelp - @NoemaMag
The Good Ancestor - The Legacies We Leave - @romankrznaric
Global Extinction: How Long Do We Have Left? - Koranos
Simulation of a Nuclear Blast in a Major City - @neilhalloran
How Politics Became Pro Wrestling | Part 1 & 2 - @JakeOrthwein
@davidcrosss: Why America sucks at everything - @GravelInstitute
WHERE THE CITY CAN'T SEE - @liamyoung & @timmaughan
How 4 companies control the (US) beef industry - @voxdotcom
TRUE Limits Of Humanity – The Final Border We Will Never Cross - @Kurz_Gesagt
Paradoxes That No One Can Solve - Pursuit of Wonder
The Most Successful Scientific Theory Ever: The Standard Model - @QuantaMagazine
The ancient 'computer' that simply shouldn't exist - @BBC_Reel & @HConstable
The Insane Engineering of James Webb Telescope - @TheBrianMcManus
1 — The Second Psychedelic Renaissance video essay - Eclectic Spacewalk Productions
“Credits:
Producer, Director, and Writer - Nicholas McCay (https://www.eclecticspacewalk.com/)
Producer and Cinematographer - Christine Adams (https://camerachristine.com/)
Editor - Lauren Tatman (https://www.laurentatman.com/)
Animator - Shane Allen (https://www.carmellovision.com/)
Sources, Images, Additional Footage: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/...”
2 — A Gathering of the Tribe | POWERFUL Short Film by Charles Eisenstein w/ Jon Hopkins & Aubrey Marcus
“My tears always come from a revelation of hidden truth. As if the frames of perception themselves liquidate out of my eyes so I can see clearly again. This story made me cry the first time I read it in Charles Eisenstein’s book, “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible” and every time I have watched it since. Because to me, it is a true story. Whether actually true or metaphorically true, it doesn’t matter.
It is time for us to come together. To gather, to rise, to love, to LIVE! You are not alone. I promise you, you are not alone.”
3 — Melbourne Design Week 2021: Provocation: Redesigning Artificial Intelligence - From Australia Out
“A provocation film produced by @EllenBroad for the Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series Keynote 2021
Every technology comes from a time and place. For the development of artificial intelligence (AI), that place over the past seventy years has primarily been the northern hemisphere, and in particular, the United States. But what if over the next seventy years, the future of AI design was driven by someplace else?
As we contemplate a world transformed by a global pandemic, by climate change, by increasingly sophisticated digital systems, the values and expectations driving technology development are being re-examined and ‘Normal’ is up for debate. So what could an ‘Australian’ approach to AI design look like? How might it look different from the way AI is designed today? Where could we draw inspiration?”
4 — Democracy and the Epistemic Commons via @ConsilienceNews
“Based on our feature article: https://consilienceproject.org/democr...
Democracy cannot function without an epistemically healthy public sphere that makes it possible for democratic self-government to achieve successful outcomes, maintain its legitimacy, and avoid runaway concentrations of power in society. The institutional structures responsible for maintaining our epistemic commons have faltered. Only a new movement for cultural enlightenment can harness the energy needed to reboot and revamp our ailing institutions—or generate new ones entirely—and thereby restore our democracy.”
5 — Learn the Language of Power - Ha-Joon Chang & @INETeconomics
““They’ve never met a poor person. They’ve never lived in deprived areas.”
Ha-Joon Chang explains why economics is too important to be left to economists.
Produced by Matthew Kulvicki, Nick Alpha & Ryan Scammell”
Other great videos:
6 — exam for humans - @Exurb1a
“Oh and merry Christmas :) (If you're reading this after Christmas, please consider it a very early well-wishing for the next one.)
Books what I wrote ►
I also make horrendous music ►
https://soundcloud.com/exurbia-1
Help me to do this full-time if you're deranged enough ►
https://www.patreon.com/exurb1r?ty=h”
Other great videos:
7 — Forgetting Nature - @rossharrisonfilm
“Forgetting Nature is a reminder to protect the richness of nature in our lives. Join in #RememberingNature and find out more at http://www.forgettingnature.com/remem...
We have never been more disconnected from wild nature. And as wildlife is declining, we are becoming numb to what we’ve lost. This film is a catalyst to get more people thinking and talking about the importance of connection to wild nature. Then acting on it.”
8 — the Intersection - Superflux
Website: http://the-intersection.io/
Making of: https://superflux.in/index.php/work/the-intersection/#
“Set in the near future, our film the Intersection journeys from a violent present to a cooperative future. Telling stories of active hope from those who have fought to reimagine extractive technology, to serve community, support nature, and value planetary relationships…
the Intersection situated within a possible hopeful future, several years after growing inequality and the splintering of reality reached a critical mass. Influenced by Ken Burns’s documentary ‘The Dust Bowl’, it features a diverse series of protagonists individually recounting their personal past experiences and their place in the emergence of the future they now live in — both the chaos and the hope that surfaced afterwards. Certain events and aspects of the larger world overlap, and are witnessed and described through more than one of our protagonists' lenses, helping to build a rich, interconnected world and history. As we reach the final act of the film, more is revealed about the isolated individuals and where they are now, in the present, and how their journeys have changed - together.”
9 — Tailor Made City | CCF Nagari 2021 via @repaircafebang
“Annaji, Sridhar and Jaya are 3 tailors who operate in very different spaces of the city. Yet they share the same set of skills. They found ingenious ways to survive. This film traces those stories of self-respect and pride. The tailors are a tribe which contributes to the maintenance of the city and its people. They are omnipresent. A film by Purna, Himadri Das, Arvind Dev, Montry Thaalavattam, Karthik Murali and Ravikumar A.S Mentor: Bina Paul”
10 — A Sustainable Future Filled With Kelp - @NoemaMag
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1568141886882804
“From food to bioplastics, sustainably harvested seaweeds are a remarkable alternative to destructive extractive industries.”
11 — The Good Ancestor - The Legacies We Leave - @romankrznaric
“This animation explores the legacies we might leave for future generations and humanity's place in the cosmic story.
https://www.romankrznaric.com/
Video credit: Tom Lee at Rocket Visual -
http://www.rocket-visual.co.uk/
About the book: How can we be good ancestors? In The Good Ancestor, leading public philosopher Roman Krznaric explores how we can overcome the frenetic short-termism of the modern world by revealing six profound ways in which we can all learn to think long term. Drawing on radical innovations from around the globe, and describing uniquely human talents like 'cathedral thinking' that our expand our time horizons and sharpen our foresight, Krznaric celebrates the time rebels who are reinventing democracy, culture and economics so that we all have the chance to become good ancestors and create a better tomorrow.”
12 — Global Extinction: How Long Do We Have Left? - Koranos
“In the last 500 million years, five mass extinctions, known as the Big Five, have nearly annihilated life on Earth. But according to the National Academy of Sciences, the Sixth Mass Extinction has already begun. It started in the middle of the 20th century, during a period called the Great Acceleration. From pollution to the rapid increase in carbon dioxide emissions, humans have severely impacted the Earth. Can we work against the tide of destruction?”
Another great video: Visualizing the World in 2090
13 — Simulation of a Nuclear Blast in a Major City - @neilhalloran
“A collaboration between documentary filmmaker Neil Halloran and Nobel Peace Prize - Research and Information, this short data-driven film simulates a nuclear blast in a major city in order to tally the estimated deaths that would result. Using data from leading researchers and highlighting present day technology developments, the film illustrates the very real danger nuclear weapons still pose to humanity and life on Earth.”
14 — How Politics Became Pro Wrestling | Part 1 & 2 - @JakeOrthwein
“The first of a three-part series on Eric Weinstein's ideas about growth, stagnation, and political fakery.
WEBSITE: https://frameproblems.com/”
15 — @davidcrosss: Why America sucks at everything - @GravelInstitute
“America: the greatest, richest, freest country in the world – or is it? David Cross, of Mr. Show, Arrested Development, and The Dark Divide, joins us to discuss why Americans, despite living in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, have a much worse standard of living than people who live in poorer countries. The "American Dream" isn't just dying: it's dead and buried. Cross tells us why.
Citations: https://rb.gy/bag6d5”
Other great videos:
16 — WHERE THE CITY CAN'T SEE - Liam Young & Tim Maughan
“Directed by speculative architect Liam Young and written by fiction author Tim Maughan, ‘Where the City Can’t See’ is the world’s first narrative fiction film shot entirely with laser scanners, designed in collaboration with Alexey Marfin. The computer vision systems of driverless cars google maps, urban management systems and CCTV surveillance are now fundamentally reshaping urban experience and the cultures of our city. Set in the Chinese owned and controlled Detroit Economic Zone (DEZ) and shot using the same scanning technologies used in autonomous vehicles, we see this near future city through the eyes of the robots that manage it. Exploring the subcultures that emerge from these new technologies the film follows a group of young car factory workers across a single night, as they drift through the smart city point clouds in a driverless taxi, searching for a place they know exists but that the map doesn’t show. They are part of an underground community that work on the production lines by day but at night, adorn themselves in machine vision camouflage and the tribal masks of anti-facial recognition to enact their escapist fantasies in the hidden spaces of the city. They hack the city and journey through a network of stealth buildings, ruinous landscapes, ghost architectures, anomalies, glitches and sprites, searching for the wilds beyond the machine. We have always found the eccentric and imaginary in the spaces the city can’t see."
Other great video: Liam Young's Planet City could tackle climate change by housing 10 billion people in one metropolis
17 — How 4 companies control the (US) beef industry - @voxdotcom
“Corporate consolidation is making it impossible for cattle ranchers to stay afloat.
Cattle auctions happen every day throughout the US; they serve a crucial purpose for the cattle markets. Inside one of these auctions, like the one we profile in St. Onge, South Dakota, you can see how a competitive market functions. There are multiple producers and buyers competing for a commodity, which results in a value, or price, for that commodity. But over the past 40 years, the meatpacking sector — made up of the companies that buy and slaughter cattle for consumption — has undergone a dramatic degree of corporate consolidation. In the 1980s, the US relaxed its approach to antitrust enforcement, one tool the government uses to rein in market concentration. Today, only four companies process 85 percent of all the cattle produced in the US. Cattle ranchers say this is affecting their ability to compete for good prices and make a living. This is one way industrialized agriculture is making it difficult for independent farmers and ranchers to stay in business in America.”
18 — TRUE Limits Of Humanity – The Final Border We Will Never Cross - @Kurz_Gesagt
“If you want to support kurzgesagt and get something beautiful in return check our shop: bit.ly/3dRJj71
Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources...
Is there a border we will never cross? Are there places we will never reach, no matter how hard we try? It turns out, there are. Even with sci-fi technology, we are trapped in a limited pocket of the Universe and the finite stuff within it. How much universe is there for us and how far can we go?”
Other great videos:
19 — Paradoxes That No One Can Solve - Pursuit of Wonder
“In this video, we look at the three different categories of paradoxes defined by philosopher W.V. Quine and explore what they reveal about the nature of the human understanding and its limitations.”
Other great videos:
20 — The Most Successful Scientific Theory Ever: The Standard Model - @QuantaMagazine
“The Standard Model of particle physics is the most successful scientific theory of all time. It describes how everything in the universe is made of 12 different types of matter particles, interacting with three forces, all bound together by a rather special particle called the Higgs boson. It’s the pinnacle of 400 years of science and gives the correct answer to hundreds of thousands of experiments. In this explainer, Cambridge University physicist David Tong recreates the model, piece by piece, to provide some intuition for how the fundamental building blocks of our universe fit together. At the end of the video, he also points out what’s missing from the model and what work is left to do in order to complete the Theory of Everything.”
Other great videos:
21 — The ancient 'computer' that simply shouldn't exist - @BBC_Reel & @HConstable
“A hundred and twenty years ago, divers discovered a shipwreck off the island of Antikythera in Greece. What they found changed our understanding of human history.
The mysterious Antikythera Mechanism has captured the imagination of archaeologists, mathematicians, and scientists ever since. Now, using the latest 3D x-ray and modelling technology, experts are unravelling the secrets of what this machine may have been capable of. Video by Harriet Constable”
Another great video:
22 — The Insane Engineering of James Webb Telescope - @TheBrianMcManus
“Credits:
Writer/Narrator: Brian McManus
Editor: Dylan Hennessy (https://www.behance.net/dylanhennessy1)
Animator: Mike Ridolfi (https://www.moboxgraphics.com/)
Sound: Graham Haerther (https://haerther.net/)
Thumbnail: Simon Buckmaster https://twitter.com/forgottentowel”
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