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Werner Herzog Reads 'Where's Waldo'

Not really. But still.

The Indelible Stamp of our Lowly Origin

An eight-minute video that goes about proving—and does so in an extremely compelling, entirely unscientific way—that we’re all pretty apelike.

Plastic Bag

Filmmaker Ramin Bahrani ‘traces the epic, existential journey of a plastic bag (voiced by Werner Herzog) searching for its lost maker, the woman who took it home from the store and eventually discarded it.‘

No, your eyes do not deceive you. Werner Herzog.

via Ebert

Lights Over Norway II

With regards to the Norwegian Sky Spiral: NASA guy Tony Phillips—who runs spaceweather.com—postulates that it was a rocket engine from a secret Russian missile test spinning out of control. (via Wired)

Phillips put together a video explanation. A very convenient video explanation. . .

Here’s a video of the actual event that was uploaded by a Norwegian newspaper.

Dream Big

You’ll recognize the following six films: 9, District 9, Napoleon Dynamite, The Evil Dead, Bottle Rocket and Boogie Nights.

You may not know, however, that they were all originally filmed as shorts by amateur filmmakers—all of whom began their professional careers by turning the short films in question into features.

Check out the roundup—with embedded YouTube videos—on Mental_Floss.

Stafford's Moment

Anybody who is familiar with NFL Films knows the only thing greater than the gripping narrativization is the gratuitous slow-mo footage

In that spirit, here’s Detroit’s Matthew Stafford digging his team into a hole against Cleveland, injuring his shoulder, eluding team trainers to get back on the field and, finally, throwing the game-clinching touchdown at the last second. It’s better than the movies.

Auto Everything

Cargo rockets, auto-driving cars, color-coded freeway lanes, never walking anywhere: Magic Highway USA (or, the future of American infrastructure as imagined by Disney in 1958).