A new self-hosting framework called Saga is giving artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers and other creatives more control over the way their content is shared. Saga works similarly to YouTube or any other embeddable media viewer, but it also offers a back-end dashboard where project owners can alter or restrict the use of their work if they don’t agree with the context of its use. For …
Upon realizing that scale photos of the solar system are basically impossible to come across, a group of friends—led by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh—set out to create the ultimate planetary representation in the middle of the desert. Using a marble to represent the size of Earth, the team needed a whopping seven-mile-long area to encompass the entire orbit of Uranus—the solar system’s farthest planet. …
10 of Vimeo’s “Staff-Picked” filmmakers have teamed up with Samsung to create “The Connected Series”—a series of original short films that examines the bond between humans, technology and modern communication. From animation to drama to a mini-documentary on a completely colorblind man who uses an antenna to “hear” colors, each film challenges viewers to explore the human-technology relationship through various perspectives and formats of film. …
