#Videos

Stunning spoken word video with some great imagery and music mixed in by Jason Silva on The Biological Advantage of Being Awestruck .

Definitely one of those full screen, dim the lights and turn the volume way up kinda of things. Some very cool sentiment on what it means to be human and awestruck.

(though personally don’t know if I would have gone for the Hubble as the penultimate written expression of awe, though “mainlining the whole of time through the optic nerve” is definitely something I’m filing away for future conversational use at a swanky cocktail party… =] ).

Pretty fantastic cosmological simulation from the Big Bang to the formation of a Disk Galaxy with “rich merging” and plenty of collisions from NASA’s N-body shop (makers of quality galaxies). Slightly hypnotic to watch and would be much better with a nice soundtrack (and a drink!) to accompany it imho, but cool nonetheless.

Likey? You can also check out a video simulation of a Milky Way like galaxy forming .

Incredible timelapse of ISS photos of our big blue marble. Beautiful. Especially love the way the Aurora Borealis looks with the stitched together shots.

Watch it in full screen in a darkened room with the sound turned way up.

Put together by 18-year-old Croatian Tomislav Safundžić, from photos taken aboard the ISS.

(via Like Cool )

Kinda loving this excellent campaigning video from the Taronga Zoo . Love the wet ink animation style and just the general tone. Great execution (and the zoo is an awesome cause btw. They do fantastic work.).

Only problem is no solid Call to Action on the end.

I am so glad ZeFrank is back on air (ok, yeah… disclaimer: I backed his Kickstarter for “A Show” so evened the odds a little… Ahem…).

Still, it leads to awesomeness like this so worth all the pennies. Enjoy.

Make yours a good self.