video of the day

A local NBC reporter, Bobbie Wygant, posted her interview with Harrison Ford, shot just after the release of Star Wars.

Bobbie Wygant Interviews Harrison Ford for Star Wars 1977 from Atombomb.tv on Vimeo.

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NPR’s RadioLab team created this beautiful montage to accompany their episode on “Words.” Enjoy.

Canadian Filmmaker Andrea Dorfman creates a hypnotic and beautiful short film of spoken word artist Tanya Davis’ “How to be alone.” Kudos for the seamless integration of animation, music, visuals and performance.

The ad team behind the uber viral Old Spice ad “I’m on a horse” (Wieden + Kennedy) is at it again with an epic commercial in the same one take style. You can’t watch just once.

Woot.com, always a reliable outfit for clever videos, announces their acquisition by Amazon.com with a video of their signature plush monkey rapping.

The video of the day: This Japanese unmanned spacecraft called Hayabusa returned from a seven-year, 1.25 billion-mile trip, and plunged to earth in spectacular fireball … all captured from a NASA DC-8 airborne laboratory. The video is a fireball of its own now on YouTube. Take a look.

The good news, the samples and research the Hayabusa gathered from a comet called Itokawa, returned safely in a canister that survived the reentry and landed in South Australia.