EXPLO.TV - Webcasts, Video Clips, and Podcasts from the Exploratorium

After Dark: Nomadic Communites (Clip)

Running Time:
00:02:43

This week's After Dark event explored the connection between the diverse nomadic communities that thrive in the bay area.

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Date: August 8, 2010
Format: Event
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology

Keywords: burning man, after dark, dust city diner, succulents, ice cream, food carts, nomades, bay, exotic species, exploratorium

After Dark: Geometry Playground (Clip)

Running Time:
00:05:27

The July Exploratorium After Dark explored our newest exhibit, Geometry Playground. Among the highlights of the evening were four aerial performers from TrapezeWorld who challenged spacial reasoning with their gravity defying performances.

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Date: July 8, 2010
Format: Event
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art, general science,

Keywords: performance art, aerial performers, trapezeworld, geometry, playground

After Dark: Time (Clip)

Running Time:
00:02:15

The June Exploratorium After Dark examined time's many faces through activities and presentations featuring honeybees, jump-shot photography, and a performance by Gamelan Sari Raras.

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Date: June 10, 2010
Format: Event
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art, General Science

Keywords: time, clocks, gamelan, pendulums, bees

After Dark: Risk Everything (Clip)

Running Time:
00:03:20

On the scene for Risk Everything, our AFTER DARK event held the first Thursday of every month.

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Date: April 7, 2010
Format: Event
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s):

Keywords: risk, science after dark

After Dark: Thee Oh Sees with Films by Harry Smith (Clip)

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00:01:49

During After Dark: Distortion, San Francisco's notorious band, Thee Oh Sees overlay '60s-era garage pop sounds with punky jitter and surf psychedelia to create a playfully harmonic-yet-chaotic aural disorientation. Long considered one of the best underground bands in San Francisco, Thee Oh Sees's live shows are legendary for their energy. Behind Thee Oh Sees plays films by Harry Smith (1923-1991), a West Coast experimental filmmaker, bohemian, accentric, and musicologist. His abstract animations were mostly made by painting on film and using other methods to directly manipulate celluoid. He is best known for his 1952 six-album "Anthology of American Folk Music."

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Date: March 4, 2010
Format: Event
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art

Keywords: music, band, concert, thee oh sees, harry smith, experimental, art, film, after dark

explo.tv: Science of Cocktails 2010 (Clip)

Running Time:
00:02:13

Science of Cocktails presented the artistry of master mixologists shaken with the science behind the craft. Taking an in-depth, interactive look at the physics, chemistry, and biology of cocktails, this first-time Exploratorium fundraiser engaged guests in an exploration of their favorite libations like they've never experienced before.

Project: explo.tv | Browse All

Date: February 26, 2010
Format: Event
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Chemistry

Keywords: cocktails, after dark, alcohol, event, bartender, adult

explo.tv: RODS & MODS (with Gustav) (Clip)

Running Time:
00:03:57

For three days in February 2010, the Exploratorium showcased the innovations and outlaw aesthetics of custom computer culture. An outgrowth of the hacker community, personal computer modding was born from the need for speed and personal style.

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Date: February 18, 2010
Format: Event
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): art

Keywords: rods, mods, modding, computers

Pi Day: A Taste of Pie! (Clip)

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00:00:46

Celebrate Pi Day— an international holiday born at San Francisco’s Exploratorium. Join us for a live webcast where we examine the nature of everyone's favorite mathmatical constant, 3.1415926535…ad infinitum!

Project: Pi Day | Browse All

Date: February 5, 2010
Format: Event
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): General Science

Keywords: pi

After Dark: Cubatron at the Exploratorium (Clip)

Running Time:
00:01:54

This After Dark event featured a special installation of the Cubatron by Bay Area artist and engineer Mark Lottor. A visually stunning and surprising favorite of music and art festival audiences, the Cubatron is a 3-D light sculpture made from 8-x-8-foot modular cubes, each containing 1,000 individually programmable RGB LEDs. Viewed from any direction—even underneath—the Cubatron's thousands of programmed pixels paint exquisite arrays of color that cascade in spectacularly dynamic patterns.

Project: After Dark | Browse All

Date: January 20, 2010
Format: Event
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art, General Science

Keywords: cubatron, mark lotter, exploratorium, after dark, led art, sculpture

explo.tv: Exploratorium Floor Walk (Clip)

Running Time:
00:06:57

A mouse's eye view of the main floor of the Exploratorium.

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Date: January 5, 2010
Format: Event
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): general science, art

Keywords: tracking shot, museum


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