Cars

Living In An Abandoned Auto Factory

Some people take pride in the huge gardens or expansive rooftop decks they have at home. Alan Hill of Detroit, Michigan? He lives in an abandoned automobile factory. And he’s every bit as happy with his home as they are.


February 9, 2012
Online

BBC Puts A Face To Internet Trolls

Trolls are something we all have to put up with online. But a new BBC documentary tried to track them down, and this video shows just how horrible they can be in real life, too.


November 7, 2011
Entertainment

We Are Legion: The Story Of The Hacktivists Trailer

Here’s the trailer for We Are Legion, a documentary featuring members and supporters of the Anonymous hacker collective and various commentators whose names and titles aren’t provided yet, so we don’t know who they are. But they seem knowledgeable enough!


July 17, 2011
Geek Out

A Video Tour Of London’s Dark And Dank Underground Tunnels

We’ve seen the urban spelunkers at Silent UK plumb the depths of London’s abandoned mail train. Now they’ve created Crack the Surface, the first in a series of short films detailing their explorations of London’s underground, an experience one spelunker compares to a real-life roleplaying game.


February 24, 2011
Entertainment

Director Of Helvetica And Objectified Wants Your Help For Third Film

You might’ve heard that Gary Hustwit, director of two of our favourite documentaries Helvetica and Objectified, is making a third doc called Urbanized. It’s the third part of his “design trilogy” and supposed to focus on the design of cities: the issues and strategies behind urban design and the solutions architects and urban planners come up with to accommodate the growing mass of people moving into urban areas. Should be fun.


February 12, 2011
Entertainment

The Invention Of Porn (NSFW)

When and where did hardcore pornography spring forth into glorious existence? You’ll find the answer in the (NSFW) documentary The Smut Capital of America. Spoiler: The Smut Capital is San Francisco! And as a bonus you’ll find out the difference between the Beaver and Split Beaver subgenres.


February 11, 2011
Entertainment

There’s A Silicon Valley Fight Club For Nerds

The Silicon Valley Fight Club has been around for quite a while now, but this documentary shows the grown up nerds actually fighting. They smash keyboards on each other, use vacuums in fights, anything really. It sounds like a joke, I know, but watch the documentary, this club really exists and means a lot to these people.


January 15, 2011
Computing

Everything Worth Knowing About Arduino

Arduino! It’s a wonderful thing, this open source hardware, and it pops up around here quite often. You can’t get much better of an arduino primer – both what it is and where it came from – than this brilliant documentary.


November 30, 2010
Entertainment

Are Humans Turning Into Gods?

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Our friend Jason Silva – writer, filmmaker and founding host/producer of Current TV – is making a new documentary celebrating humans reaching their ultimate potential, the inexorable evolution that is turning us into gods. He’s quite optimistic about it. I’m not so sure – JD.


November 20, 2010
Entertainment

20 Years Of A Guy’s Life In 20 Minutes

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After buying an answering machine in 1985, Mark Craig thought it would be a good idea to save every single message during the next two decades. It turned out to be a really great idea. Warning: Explicit language and sexual innuendo