Mr. Rogers: How Crayons Are Made
Mr. Rogers: How Crayons Are Made

Who remembers this classic trip to the crayon factory with Mister Rogers? I was so excited to share this bit of magic from my childhood with my kids this week! Melted wax, saturated pigments, and a hardening agent get poured into tiny cylinders to make this everyday...

See how sci-fi movies get laser sound effects by skating on thin ice
See how sci-fi movies get laser sound effects by skating on thin ice

Listen to the otherworldly sounds made as Mårten Ajne skates over the thin, black ice of this lake outside Stockholm, Sweden. Nordic skating is both an art and a science, as skaters look for the most black, most thin ice in order to make the most high-pitched laser...

Crazy, epic Rube Goldberg machine
Crazy, epic Rube Goldberg machine

Seven builders collaborate to make this epic Rube Goldberg machine, a complex chain reaction that travels through the kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, office, living room, patio, and backyard, using everyday objects to automatically pour lemonade for the entire team of...

Winter Magic: Soap and corn syrup bubbles freezing
Winter Magic: Soap and corn syrup bubbles freezing

Using a mixture of 6 parts water, 2 parts dish soap and 1 part white corn syrup, Don Komarechka filmed ice crystals forming across the thin walls of freezing bubbles. The corn syrup is an important ingredient as it allows the bubble to thicken on the bottom and acts...

NEBULAE: A Cosmic Meditation
NEBULAE: A Cosmic Meditation

Watch this stunning footage taking you deep inside a space nebulae. "A cloud that veils one of nature's secret places. This is a stellar nursery, a place where stars are born. They condense by gravity from gas and dust until their temperatures become so high that they...

A Million Things That Make Your Head Spin: A Rainbow Tape Timelapse
A Million Things That Make Your Head Spin: A Rainbow Tape Timelapse

Los Angeles-based artistMegan Geckler builds a "six-story hurricane of color" in the atrium of the Sydney, Australia’s Customs House. The art piece was designed using flagging tape, which is used in construction, forestry, and mining. Six colors of flagging tape swirl...

Drawing Faces From Shadows of Paper Wads
Drawing Faces From Shadows of Paper Wads

Artist and film maker Guy Larsen shows how to get a jumpstart on creativity by using crumpled paper as a starting point. He jumpstarts his drawings of imagined people from the shadows of crumpled paper pieces. We dare you to try this and tag...

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