Patrick James
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
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Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
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The Tricky Calculus of Setting a Price for MIT's Online Courses
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Lessons from Prop. 8: Why We Shouldn't Put Our Civil Rights Up for a Popular Vote
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Intermission: The Most Beautiful Valentine Ever Made
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Labor of Love: 4 Lessons From My Imperfect Love Life
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Wastelands Around the World Unite! Cities' Forgotten Spaces Become Artists' Canvases
This video (after the jump) does a really nice job of making Japan seem like the future. Thanks, Will.
When Wernor Herzog Reads Curious George (after the jump), "he" imbues the children's classic with hilarious existential depth, adding such lines...
Here's another gem from Pogo (who created the excellent Upular): Skynet Symphonic is a sweet audio-visual mash-up composed entirely of sounds and...
The adorable "Adobe Photoshop Cook" (after the jump) uses card board, kitchen utensils, and stop motion to simulate a Photoshop tutorial of how...
When a blackout hit parts of the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles in early February, a 2HeadedHorse filmmaker took to the roof of his...
We're still going nuts over Ben Folds's live piano performance ode to Merton, who may or may not also be Ben Folds, wherein he signs into Chat...
This beautifully shot video from Isenseven makes me nostalgic for that year I spent touring the world skateboarding and snowboarding with all my...
To create "Skateboardanimation," Tilles Singer cut out a number of digital and print skateboarding photographs and put them in stop-motion to...
The French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot placed a number of electric guitars and other instruments in an aviary full of zebra finches for his...
Rob Carter's film Metropolis charts the evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, through incredible stop-motion paper animation. Have a look at an...
This time-lapse video condenses the long, cold process of pulling US Airways Flight 1549 from the Hudson into 5 minutes. Complete with...
Do yourself a favor and watch this fantastic music video (after the jump) before Disney yanks it down. It's a composition of chords, bass notes,...
This handmade flipbook-style short (video, by saggyarmpit, after the jump) follows a parkour athlete has he navigates a constantly unfolding city...
And here's another nice film project. Eight Billion Lives is an online platform for documentary films that focus on the world's non-famous...
Derick Childress spent three nights in Raleigh, North Carolina shooting the long exposure (and making of) footage for his Light Writing Proposal...
We're getting a sequel to the Discovery Channel's BBC's breathtaking Planet Earth series. It's called Life, and its focus is more on animate...
Want to get better acquainted with the Canon of Significant Cinema? Want to do it online? You're in luck: The Criterion Collection now has a...
In this adorable 3-minute documentary, filmmaker Mike Figgis captures a group of really sharp British students discussing an inscrutable...
Here's the trailer for Banksy's new documentary, Exit Through the Gift Shop: Notice all the little Banksy-esque culture jamming details?...
Even if you don't care a Spanx about the Academy Awards, Oscar-winning films can serve as a kind of visual barometer of our cultural values. The...
