The Web’s Best Video Clips: Videos With A Brain

LA to York in about 5 days…reduced to a 4-minute time-lapse video.

He apparently passes right through a pane of glass in the front of a pizza store. Impressive illusion!

From ABC’s Master of Champions. This 14-year-old girl from South America, known at Princess Elaine, is impressive alone as a contortionist. But this is her most eye-popping feat. She holds a bow-and-arrow in her legs/feet, aims and shoots at a target 20 feet away…BLINDFOLDED…and nails it! Judges for the show included Oksana Baiul and Steve [...]

One of Lost’s most compelling characters: John Locke (as played by Terry O’Quinn). Drawn in Photoshop by Nico Di Mattia in about 3 hours, but sped up to just 5 minutes for our viewing enjoyment. More about Nico’s art at speed-painting.com.

Filmed at Quick Sushi & Bubble Tea…Belle River, Ontario, Canada.

A compilation of news and amateur footage of the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001. The music is “Hearts Stronger Than Steel”, by Chuck Brown. A free MP3 download of the song is available at HealingPiano.com.

Not sure where the original video came from, but we added some music to make it move along a bit more smoothly. The music is “Some Things (Are Better Left Unsaid)”, by Chuck Brown (HealingPiano.com).

LZ 129 Hindenburg was a German zeppelin. Along with its sister-ship LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II, it was the largest aircraft ever built. During its second year of service, it was destroyed by a fire while landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA, on May 6, 1937. Thirty-six people died in [...]

…and that may not always be a good thing. Are you aware of the lifeforms that exist on and around your skin…such as dust mites, lice, scabies and bacteria? Invest a bit over 3 minutes to find out more. Might not be recommended for those who are easily given to nightmares.

Created/directed by Lasse Gjertsen. This is a music video for the italian cellist Giovanni Sollima (www.sonzogno.it), on two of his compositions; “Terra Aria” and “Concerto Rotondo”. Here is his description of the making of Part 2: We went out into this very weird forest outside Milan, Italy, at 5 in the morning to catch the [...]

Truly one of the most amazing music videos I’ve ever seen, and one you’ll want to share with your friends. Here is the description of Part 1 of the video, in the words of its creator/director, Lasse Gjertsen. This is a music video for the italian cellist Giovanni Sollima (www.sonzogno.it), on two of his compositions: [...]

Interesting concept and animation by the Swedish studio Pistachios. More about them at Pistachios.se.

A reporter from CNN meets up with autistic savant Kim Peek at the City Library in Salt Lake City. Peek was the inspiration for Dustin Hoffman’s role in the movie Rain Man.

A look at the remarkable talents of two autistic savants (both blind) who have mental impairments which cause them difficulty with basic day-to-day activities…but powerful gifting in the area of music.

An interesting video clip from the 1960s, featuring two autistic savants. They handle the date/month/year questions with ease, but stumble on small everyday facts.

A prodigious savant who is compelled to fashion animals from modeling clay…perfectly-shaped animals.

More on Daniel Tammet, the high-functioning British autistic savant.

Daniel Tammet is a high-functioning autistic savant from the UK. He can calculate huge sums in his head in seconds and instantaneously recognize prime numbers, but he finds emotions difficult to understand and has trouble telling left from right. One of fewer than fifty such people living worldwide, Daniel is unique in his ability to [...]

Daniel Tammet is a high-functioning autistic savant from the UK. He can calculate huge sums in his head in seconds and instantaneously recognize prime numbers, but he finds emotions difficult to understand and has trouble telling left from right. One of fewer than fifty such people living worldwide, Daniel is unique in his ability to [...]

Daniel Tammet is a high-functioning autistic savant from the UK. He can calculate huge sums in his head in seconds and instantaneously recognize prime numbers, but he finds emotions difficult to understand and has trouble telling left from right. One of fewer than fifty such people living worldwide, Daniel is unique in his ability to [...]

Daniel Tammet is a high-functioning autistic savant from the UK. He can calculate huge sums in his head in seconds and instantaneously recognize prime numbers, but he finds emotions difficult to understand and has trouble telling left from right. One of fewer than fifty such people living worldwide, Daniel is unique in his ability to [...]

Daniel Tammet is a high-functioning autistic savant from the UK. He can calculate huge sums in his head in seconds and instantaneously recognize prime numbers, but he finds emotions difficult to understand and has trouble telling left from right. One of fewer than fifty such people living worldwide, Daniel is unique in his ability to [...]

Daniel Tammet appears on the Late Show with David Letterman (4-27-05). He describes himself as a prodigious savant, recently diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome. He discusses his feat of recounting the pi number, and the nature of synesthesia.

The life of Kim Peek, the remarkable man upon whom the movie Rain Man was based, is explored in this documentary.

The life of Kim Peek, the remarkable man upon whom the movie Rain Man was based, is explored in this documentary.