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If YouTube is a wild ocean of videos, Vimeo is a well curated pond. Vimeo was founded back in 2004, and has built itself as the go-to place for indie filmmakers and uploads of high-definition videos and short films—when YouTube has cats, Vimeo has time-lapses. But with more and more videos being uploaded to the network, it might get hard maneuvering through that pond. From artistic documentaries, dance clips, time-lapse looks at cityscapes, and profiles of people and places, we've gathered the 15 Videos on Vimeo You Should Watch Right Now.
As the saying goes, it's quality over quantity.
8 Hours in Brooklyn
8 Hours in Brooklyn is comprised of footage from a high-speed camera, all shot within an eight hour span in Brooklyn, New York. The high-speed footage and the awesome camera work lets us slow down a city that's known for its fast-paced lifestyle. Suddenly, things like shooting hoops and riding your board add much to the beauty of the borough.
Porcelainia
In this short profile, Porcelainia, director David Altizer takes a look at his great uncle, the cool Bobby Jaber, a silver-haired former chemistry and physics teacher who uses his hands to create art inspired by math and science. What Jaber makes is intricate spherical sculptures from porcelain, which are both beautifully molded and decorated.
Girl Walk // All Day
Girl Walk // All Day follows dancers around New York City, as they dance to "All Day" by Girl Talk. From the streets of Brooklyn, to the Staten Island Ferry and catching unsuspecting passengers off guard, Girl Walk // All Day is a dope look around the city and different types of dance.
Stuck
Ever wonder what you would do if you were caught in an airport alone? This situation is exactly what Joe Ayala and Larry Chen found themselves in at Dallas Fort Worth airport when their flights were canceled. To put it short: airports are secret playgrounds for adults.
Whateverest
Whateverest, from Kristoffer Borgil, is a short documentary on the inspiration for the dance tune "Inspector Norse," produced by Todd Terje. "Inspector Norse" is the Internet identity for Marius Solem Johansen, a man who failed as a musician and produced dance videos and drug recipes for YouTube.
Weak Men Pay This Boxing Coach To Tell Them They Are Terrible
And you thought you had a tough time at the gym. This short profile from Animal New York takes a look at Eric Kelly from Church Street Boxing Gym. A tough, hard-knocks former fighter, Kelly now tries to teach older white Wall Street bankers how to fight. But he doesn't make it easy, because, like Kelly says, his goal is to "beat the fuck out of people."
Get on his level.
The Childish Gambino Mixtape
Childish Gambino, actor Donald Glover's alter-ego, gets a mixtape cut by the team over at the Eclectic Method.
Adrift
Adrift is a look at the famous fog of the San Francisco Bay Area. Two years in the making, filmmaker Simon Christen woke up at 5 a.m. when the weather looked right and headed to the Marin County Headlands to lock in a good spot to film. Some days he'd arrive at his destination, and the fog would either be gone, or too low or high. But, with his persistence, he was able to eventually capture the golden glow of the bay's sun illuminating the swiftly moving fog.
The Neptunes Present "8th Planet"
“I hate giving away answers because it stunts the imagination for somebody who’s listening to one of the records. If I tell you too much about it, you won’t imagine … you know what I mean?”
The 8th Planet is an experimental documentary from Jason Goldwatch that features Pharrell, Chad Hugo, the Clipse and Fam Lay.
SubWaltz
Shot by Andrea Allen, SubWaltz is an awesome look at what many New Yorkers (and people from big cities) see all the time: two subway trains traveling next to each other, filled with people who might not even notice the other people traveling only feet away from them.
Everything is a Remix: Kill Bill
We all get inspiration from things, and some of us get it then run with it. Example A: Quentin Tarantino. Robert Wilson cuts Tarantino's Kill Bill and places it next to other films that obviously inspired (some times shot by shot) many of the sequences in Tarantino's own films.
Ghostly International presents Andy Gilmore
Ghostly International presents Andy Gilmore takes a look at artist Andy Gilmore's work, which is often characterized as being kaleidoscopic and hypnotic. The short doc offers an intimate profile of the artist and his digital work.
Modern Ruin: Black Hole
Modern Ruin: Black Hole is a film comprised of 150,000 photographs, and combines them with films of riots, paintings, and stars, all around the idea of creation and destruction. It's a two-part project (this being the first part that concentrates on destruction), with the second part coming later in the year.
The Genius of the Crowd by Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski is known as the Bard of Booze, and is one of the most celebrated poets of the past century. Here, audio from Bukowski reading his poem, "The Genius of the Crowd," is combined with intricate and colorful letterings and animations, bring his poem to life.
The Most Astounding Fact
Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson is one of the most passionate and poetic scientists in the public eye right now, and he was asked by TIME magazine about what he thought was the most astounding fact about the universe. This is his answer.
