The Video List www.videovium.com

www.videovium.com aims to become the most comprehensive collection of video treasure online. We search high and low for the funniest, most inspiring, extraordinary and illuminating videos. The Video List allows you to keep track of our new content on your Tumblr dashboard. At the moment we are in the process of adding our videos to this list, so you'll see newer ones appearing here as well as a steady stream of links to all of our existing content. Know of a video that should be on our site? Contact us at [email protected]

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Trippy abstract animation

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Brutal violence from a field in Gloucester.

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thebadslackliners.fr film their exploits on a line between Paris’ two tallest buildings.

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Proof, if proof be need be, that giving animators drugs can only be a good thing.

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Clip from the Channel 4 documentary Concrete Circus showcasing Danny Macaskill’s marvellous talent as he takes his bike around an industrial train yard and some derelict buildings in the Scotish countryside. Filmed by Stu Thompson of Cut Media (see www.cutmedia.com and www.dannymacaskill.com). Music: “Wolves” by Ben Howard.

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If you haven't seen this yet, prepare for a treat: it's the Cookie Monster's rendition of Tom Waits' God's Away on Business.

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The Videovium team have made their first iPhone game. If you’ve got an iPhone you should try it, it’s a lot of fun. You can buy it form the App Store via this link.

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Collection of beautiful images taken by Spirit, one of the Mars rovers. Courtesy of Nasa’a Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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“Nearly 50 square miles of ice broke off the Sulzberger Ice Shelf on the coast of Antarctica, resulting from waves generated by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011.”

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Short clip from Sir David Attenborough’s Planet Earth about the peculiar fungi Cordyceps and its remarkable effect on the unsuspecting ant.

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Ben Folds and Rufus Wainwright team up to sing George Michael’s Careless Whisper at Central Park, New York, in 2004.

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Nasa video about the Juno spacecraft, launched August 5th 2011 and now on route to Jupiter.

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The Crab Canon from Bach’s The Musical Offering is a single line of music played forwards, backwards, and then both simultaneously. This video provides a marvellous visualisation of the piece as written on a mobius strip.

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Ben Goldacre at Nerdstock: 9 Lessons and Carols for Godless People in December 2009, talking about placebo and nocebo effects.

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Conjurer and skeptic James Randi has long offered a $1m prize for anyone who can prove their paranormal abilities under test conditions. This video shows him debunking fradulent “psychic” Uri Gellar and “faith-healer” Peter Popoff, and includes a clip of Gellar being exposed on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

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Sri Lanka’s Angelo Mathews and Mahela Jayawardana combine to take an awesome catch against Australia’s David Warner. With the ball apparently heading over the boundary rope for six, Mathews collects the ball but has the presence of mind to release the ball before he disappears over the boundary himself. Jayawardana follows up to complete the catch and Sri Lanka go on to win the match.

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A short film by Marcus O’Brien on the recent big waves at Bronte Beach, the people who watch them and the people that ride them. Music by Emiliana Torrini.