Carpenter Andy Stewart learned boat-building as a young age because that was his family’s trade. To hear him talk about his craft and the process of hand-making a wooden boat will make you ache for a bygone era that only exists in your mind. Just as easily, though, Stewart could be discussing boats and boat-building [...]
the process
Synergy! Just came across two very thematiclly similar and interesting videos. From cherry to cup: The first comes from NPR examining how the third wave of specialty coffee is impacting the farmers growing the beans and how that coffee bean ends up as a tasty morning beverage. What happens when you drop a package off [...]
Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Lawrence Kasdan met over several days in 1978 to spitball ideas for a movie about an adventurous archaeologist whose weapon of choice was a bullwhip. The New Yorker has a nice recap of the transcript of that spitballing session for what eventually became Indiana Jones, obviously. I love the quote [...]
“How do you create an experience that neither frustrates users with its complex possibilities nor bores them with repetitive dullness? That goal was made even more complicated because I didn’t want the app to use any words to explain what users should do. [...] Simplicity is not about making something without ornament, but rather about [...]
From Endpaper: “The entry dates back to the early-60?s when Kubrick was trying to come up with a name for the movie he was in the process of making. This is fascinating for a number of reasons – the opportunity to look at a genius’ brainstorming process, the chance to imagine the classic film existing [...]
Pablo Morales de los Rios illustrates the history of music. I love that this video takes something so monumental like the history of fucking music and makes it all seem so effortless — like how a bajillion small moments that could have gone astray led from Mozart to the Beatles is a no-brainer. It’s also [...]
The BBC is to trial selected TV shows online first before putting them on the network rotation. Up to 40 hours of original material will be tested on the corporation’s iPlayer in this manner. Until now, the BBC’s online-only content has been limited to comedy pilots and one-off shows such as the Doctor Who web series Pond Life, [...]
At the outset of the final battle in ‘The Avengers’, there’s this long single tracking shot of our heroes all kicking ass and taking names. It’s an impressive piece of filmmaking, all the more impressive to understand what it took to put it together. According to ILM, “rather than frames, this single shot is measured [...]
First they showed us how they advertise its food, then they revealed how the Big Mac sauce gets made, now, the third video from McDonald’s Canada reveals the industrial magic behind the company’s famous french fries from farm to fryer. They obviously left out the part where the fries are sprinkled with crack on them. [...]
Anthony Bourdain’s new PBS show, The Mind of a Chef, drops Nov. 9. It looks like the entire first season will focus on Momofuku mastermind David Chang and the process behind his cooking. It’s almost like a long-form documentary. If this is just the first season then I hope there are others with a similar [...]
