Educator, industrial design fabricator and Myth Busters cohost Adam Savage is driven by curiosity. Science gets his wheels turning faster than the notched disc Hippolyte Fizeau used to measure the speed of light in 1849. In his TED-Ed talk on how simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries, above, Savage zips across the centuries to share the work of three game changers - Fizeau, Eratosthenes, and Richard Feynman (one of the de facto patron saints of science-related TED talks). I found it difficult to wrap my head around the sheer quantities of information Savage shoehorns into the seven minute video, giving similarly voluble and omnivorous mathmusician Vi Hart a run for her money. Clearly, he understands exactly what he’s talking about, whereas I had to take the review quiz in an attempt to retain just a bit of this new-to-me material. I’m glad he glossed over Feynman’s childhood fascination with inertia in order to spend more time on the lesser known of his three subjects. Little Feynman’s observation of his toy wagon is charming, but the Nobel Prize winner’s life became an open book to me with Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick’s excellent graphic biography. What’s left to discover? How about Eratosthenes? I’d never before heard of the Alexandrian librarian who calculated the Earth’s circumference with astonishing accuracy around 200 BC. (It helped that he was good at math and geography, the latter of which he invented.) Inspiration fuels the arts, much as it does science, and I’d like to learn more about him. Ditto Fizeau, whom Savage describes as a less sexy scientific swashbuckler than methodical fact checker, which is what he was doing when he wound up cracking the speed of light in 1849. Two centuries earlier Galileo used lanterns to determine that light travels at least ten times faster than sound. Fizeau put Galileo’s number to the test, experimenting with his notched wheel, a candle, and mirrors and ultimately setting the speed of light at a much more accurate 313,300 Km/s. Today’s measurement of 299792.458 km/s was arrived at using technology unthinkable even a few decades ago. Personally, I would never think to measure the speed of light with something that sounds like a zoetrope, but I might write a play about someone who did. Related Content: Neil deGrasse Tyson Delivers the Greatest Science Sermon Ever The Feynman Lectures on Physics, The Most Popular Physics Book Ever Written, Now Completely Online Sam Harris: Science Can Answer Moral Questions Ayun Halliday is an author, illustrator, and Chief Primatologist of the East Village Inky zine. Her play, Fawnbook, opens in New York City later this fall. Follow her @AyunHalliday Adam Savage’s Animated Lesson on the Simple Ideas That Lead to Great Scientific Discoveries is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.

Appreciators of the finest works in cinema history often liken their images to paintings. In the case of Akira Kurosawa, maker of quite a few entries on that grand list of the finest works in cinema history, that makes professional sense: he began as a painter, only later turning filmmaker. "When I changed careers," he writes, "I burnt all the pictures that I had painted up until then. I intended to forget painting once and for all. As a well-known Japanese proverb says, ‘If you chase two rabbits, you may not catch even one.’ I did no art work at all once I began to work in cinema. But since becoming a film director, I have found that drawing rough sketches was often a useful means of explaining ideas to my staff." That comes quoted on "Akira Kurosawa: From Art to Film," a roundup of such paintings by the Emperor (a nickname Kurosawa earned through his on-set manner), set beside the resulting frames from his movies. "As a painter and filmmaker, Kurosawa stuck to his own style," writes Popmatters‘ Ian Chant in an examination of this facet of his career, "informed heavily by traditional Japanese painting as well as European impressionists and expressionists, another arena of art where he answered to both eastern and western influences. These painstakingly crafted paintings formed the visual backbone of some of Kurosawa’s most lasting achievements." The most vivid examples of canvas-turned-celluloid come from Kurosawa’s later works, such as 1980’s Kagemusha, 1985’s Ran, 1990’s Dreams, and 1993’s Madadayo, selections from each of which you see in this post. "I cannot help but be fascinated by the fact that when I tried to paint well, I could only produce mediocre pictures," continues the Emperor himself. "But when I concentrated on delineating the ideas for my films, I unconsciously produced works that people find interesting." Holding the painted work up against his film work, only the strictest cinema purist could deny that, ultimately, Kurosawa caught both rabbits. Juxtapose more painted storyboards and frames from films here. Related Content: The Paintings of Akira Kurosawa Akira Kurosawa’s 80-Minute Master Class on Making "Beautiful Movies" (2000) Akira Kurosawa’s List of His 100 Favorite Movies Akira Kurosawa & Gabriel García Márquez Talk About Filmmaking (and Nuclear Bombs) in Six Hour Interview Colin Marshall writes elsewhere on cities, language, Asia, and men’s style. He’s at work on a book about Los Angeles, A Los Angeles Primer, the video series The City in Cinema, and the crowdfunded journalism project Where Is the City of the Future? Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall or on Facebook. Akira Kurosawa Painted the Storyboards For Scenes in His Epic Films: Compare Canvas to Celluloid is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.

Who owns Star Wars, George Lucas or the fans? The short answer now, of course, is… Disney… and maybe J.J. Abrams. Given the explosion of franchising and merchandising begun by the coming tidal wave of new Star Wars films under Disney’s aegis, it will someday be difficult to convince youngsters that things were ever otherwise. But in my day [insert old man wagging finger here] the critical debate was between Lucas and the fans. I’m pretty sure the fans won. The world-building of Star Wars will outlast its creator and its first couple generations of devoted viewers, and the grand tradition of Star Wars fan films—begun almost immediately after the first Star Wars’ release with the fond parody "Hardware Wars"—will live on. Star Wars fan films even have their own annual awards program. There are many micro-genres of Star Wars fan film: Anime, Silent, Crowd-sourced, Action Figure, etc. Today we bring you perhaps the best example in the Documentary category, a "Complete Filmumentary" by filmmaker Jamie Benning. Although presented here in order of the first three Star Wars movies, this stellar example of fan craft and devotion actually began in 2006 with the film right above, Building Empire, which offers over two hours of "video clips, audio from cast and crew, alternate angles, reconstructed scenes, text facts and insights into the development and creation of The Empire Strikes Back. Next, in 2007, came Returning to Jedi, another exhaustive presentation of outtakes, behind-the-scenes moments, audio commentary, technical details, and trivia from the first trilogy’s final film. Finally, in 2011, Benning completed his fan documentary trilogy with Star Wars Begins at the top. "If you’ve never seen the deleted scenes of Jabba the Hutt or Biggs Darklighter on Tatooine, or heard David Prowse saying Vader’s dialogue," says the film’s press release, "then you will get a real kick out of this. Many reviews and comments have centered on the fact that it’s like watching your favourite movie but from an entirely different perspective." It’s also at times like watching what Star Wars might look like in an alternate universe. Some deleted scenes and early demo footage show us plot points and characters we never knew existed. In Star Wars Begins, for example, we see an early black and white silent edit, known as the "Lost Cut," and featuring a droid named "Treadwell" who resembles Short Circuit’s Johnny 5. As fan films demonstrate, again and again into seeming eternity, the Star Wars universe is infinitely malleable—despite constant bickering over canon—and offers endless riches for imaginative plunder. And for that we’ll always have the films’ original creators to thank. Benning’s painstakingly-edited documentaries show us the incredible amount of work that went into building the world of Star Wars, a world that shows no signs of ever coming to an end. Jenning’s filmumentaries will be added to our list of Free Documentaries, a subset of our collection 725 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc.. via Mental Floss Related Content: The Making of The Empire Strikes Back Showcased on Long-Lost Dutch TV Documentary Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers Break Down Star Wars as an Epic, Universal Myth Hardware Wars: The Mother of All Star Wars Fan Films (and the Most Profitable Short Film Ever Made) Star Wars Uncut: The Epic Fan Film Freiheit, George Lucas’ Short Student Film About a Fatal Run from Communism (1966) Josh Jones is a writer and musician based in Durham, NC. Follow him at @jdmagness The Complete Star Wars "Filmumentary": A 6-Hour, Fan-Made Star Wars Documentary, with Behind-the-Scenes Footage & Commentary is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.

Joseph Herscher, a kinetic artist from New Zealand, has a knack for making some pretty imaginative Rube Goldberg machines. Back in 2012, we showed you The Page Turner, a device that gives creative assistance to anyone still reading newspapers in a print format. Next week, we’ll hopefully get a chance to feature his most recent contraption. (Stay tuned for more on that.) But for now, as we head into the weekend, let’s admire The Falling Water, Herscher’s cocktail-making machine that plays on the name of a famous Frank Lloyd Wright creation. You can watch it go above. And for those who want to play along at home, here is the recipe for the drink: - 30mls (1Oz) 42BELOW Feijoa Vodka - Ch’i or Lemonade - Long slice of seedless cucumber - Ice Cut a long thin piece of cucumber on a diagonal. Rest it against the inside of a Highball glass. Fill the glass with ice, add 42BELOW Feijoa. Top with Ch’i or Lemonade. Enjoy! Related Content: An Animated Tour of Fallingwater, One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Finest Creations The Page Turner: A Fabulous Rube Goldberg Machine for Readers F. Scott Fitzgerald Conjugates "to Cocktail," the Ultimate Jazz-Age Verb (1928) The Falling Water: A Rube Goldberg Machine That Makes a Fine Cocktail is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.

From Andreas Hykade, the Director of the Animation and Visual Effects program at Germany’s Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, comes a short animated film called Nuggets. Things start off innocuously, with a kiwi taking a casual stroll down a road, eventually encountering and tasting some golden nuggets. The nuggets are delicious, it turns out, too delicious to resist. Then [spoiler alert!] things take a dark turn, as we watch our friendly kiwi sink into addiction and despair. In an interview conducted by the Animation World Network, Hykade says that he created the film for young teenagers who might be tempted one day (presumably by drugs). And when that day comes, he hopes they’ll think about Nuggets and its striking, stripped-down message about addiction and the life it brings. You can watch more animations by Hykade on his web site. And find more thought-provoking Animations in our collection, 725 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc.. via io9 Related Content: The Coffee Pot That Fueled Honoré de Balzac’s Coffee Addiction Bela Lugosi Discusses His Drug Habit as He Leaves the Hospital in 1955 How a Young Sigmund Freud Researched & Got Addicted to Cocaine, the New "Miracle Drug," in 1894 Free Online Psychology Courses A Short, Powerful Animation on Addiction: Watch Andreas Hykade’s Nuggets is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.

It’s getting close to that time of the year again, when the flu starts to wreak havoc. And so, with the help of NPR’s Robert Krulwich and medical animator David Bolinsky, we’re taking an animated look at what actually happens when a virus invades your body and tricks a single cell into making a million more viruses, and how your immune system eventually deals with the whole mess. It’s a nice demystification of phenomena that affects our everyday lives. If you feel inclined to get a flu shot after watching this clip, I can’t say that I blame you. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter and share intelligent media with your friends. Or better yet, sign up for our daily email and get a daily dose of Open Culture in your inbox. And if you want to make sure that our posts definitely appear in your Facebook newsfeed, just follow these simple steps. Related Content: Free Online Biology Courses What Makes Us Tick? Free Stanford Biology Course by Robert Sapolsky Offers Answers Carl Sagan Explains Evolution in an Eight-Minute Animation How a Virus Invades Your Body: An Eye-Popping, Animated Look is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.

In all of our minds, the word "Orwellian" conjures up a certain kind of setting: a vast, fixed bureaucracy; a dead-eyed public forced into gray, uniform living conditions; the very words we use mangled in order to better serve the interests of power. We think, on the whole, of the kind of bleakness with which George Orwell saturated the future England that provides the setting for his famous novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Almost seventy years after that book’s publication, we now use "Orwellian" to describe the views of the political party opposite us, the Department of Motor Vehicles — anything, in short, that strikes us as brutish, monolithic, implacable, deliberately stripped of meaning, or in any way authoritarian. We use the word so much, in fact, that it can’t help but have come detached from its original meaning. "I can tell you that we live in Orwellian times," writes the Guardian‘s Sam Jordison. Or that "America is waging Orwellian wars, that TV is Orwellian, that the police are Orwellian, that Amazon is Orwellian, that publishers are Orwellian too, that Amazon withdrew copies of Nineteen Eighty-Four, which was Orwellian (although Orwell wouldn’t like it), that Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, David Cameron, Ed Milliband, Kim Jong-un and all his relatives are Orwellian, that the TV programme Big Brother is both Orwellian and not as Orwellian as it claims to be, that Obama engages in Obamathink, that climate-change deniers and climate change scientists are Orwellian, that neoclassical economics employs Orwellian language. That, in fact, everything is Orwellian," Jordison continues. Here to restore sense to our usage of the most common word derived from the name of a writer, we have the Ted-Ed video at the top of the post. In it, and in the associated lesson on Ted-Ed’s site, Noah Tavlin breaks down the term’s meaning, its origin, the failings of our modern interpretation of it, and how truly Orwellian phenomena continue to invade our daily life without our even realizing it. "The next time you hear someone say ‘Orwellian,'" says Tavlin, "pay close attention. If they’re talking about the deceptive and manipulative use of language, they’re on the right track. If they’re talking about mass surveillance and intrusive government, they’re describing something authoritarian, but not necessarily Orwellian. And if they use it as an all-purpose word for any ideas they dislike, it’s possible that their statements are more Orwellian than whatever it is they’re criticizing" — an outcome Orwell himself might well have foreseen. Related Content: George Orwell Explains in a Revealing 1944 Letter Why He’d Write 1984 Huxley to Orwell: My Hellish Vision of the Future is Better Than Yours (1949) George Orwell and Douglas Adams Explain How to Make a Proper Cup of Tea For 95 Minutes, the BBC Brings George Orwell to Life George Orwell’s 1984: Free eBook, Audio Book & Study Resources George Orwell’s Five Greatest Essays (as Selected by Pulitzer-Prize Winning Columnist Michael Hiltzik) Colin Marshall writes elsewhere on cities, language, Asia, and men’s style. He’s at work on a book about Los Angeles, A Los Angeles Primer, the video series The City in Cinema, and the crowdfunded journalism project Where Is the City of the Future? Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall or on Facebook. What "Orwellian" Really Means: An Animated Lesson About the Use & Abuse of the Term is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.

The Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest narratives in the world, got a surprise update last month when the Sulaymaniyah Museum in the Kurdistan region of Iraq announced that it had discovered 20 new lines of the Babylonian-Era poem of gods, mortals, and monsters. Since the poem has existed in fragments since the 18th century BC, there has always been the possibility that more would turn up. And yet the version we’re familiar with — the one discovered in 1853 in Nineveh — hasn’t changed very much over recent decades. The text remained fairly fixed — that is, until the fall of Baghdad in 2003 and the intense looting that followed yielded something new. Since that time, the History Blog notes: the [Sulaymaniyah] museum has a matter of policy paid smugglers to keep artifacts from leaving the country, no questions asked. The tablet was acquired by the museum in late 2011 as part of a collection of 80-90 tablets sold by an unnamed shady character. Professor Farouk Al-Rawi examined the collection while the seller haggled with museum official Abdullah Hashim. When Al-Rawi saw this tablet, he told Hashim to pay whatever the seller wanted: $800. That’s a pretty good deal for these extra lines that not only add to the poem’s length, but have now cleared up some of the mysteries in the other chapters. These lines come from Chapter Five of the epic and cast the main characters in a new light. Gilgamesh and his companion Enkidu are shown to feel guilt over killing Humbaba, the guardian of the cedar forest, who is now seen as less a monster and more a king. Just like a good director’s cut, these extra scenes clear up some muddy character motivation, and add an environmental moral to the tale. The History Blog article has an in depth description of the translation, with links to a scholarly paper on this very important find, and prompts the question, how much more is there to be discovered? In the video above, Hazha Jalal, manager of the tablet’s section of the Sulaymaniyah Museum talks (in Kurdish) about the new discovery, saying (in translation): "The tablet dates back to the Neo-Bablyonian period, 2000-1500 BCE. It is a part of tablet V of the epic. It was acquired by the Museum in the year 2011 and [then] Dr. Farouk Al-Raw transliterated it. It was written as a poem and many new things this version has added, for example Gilgamesh and his friend met a monkey. We are honored to house this tablet and anyone can visit the Museum during its opening hours from 8:30 morning to noon. The entry is free for you and your guests. Thank you." In the meantime, if you’ve got a few minutes to spare, you can click here to Hear The Epic of Gilgamesh Read in the Original Akkadian and Enjoy the Sounds of Mesopotamia. You can also find the epic in our twin collections, 700 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free and 700 Free eBooks for iPad, Kindle & Other Devices. via The History Blog Related content: Hear the World’s Oldest Instrument, the "Neanderthal Flute," Dating Back Over 43,000 Years Hear the "Seikilos Epitaph," the Oldest Complete Song in the World: An Inspiring Tune from 100 BC Hear Homer’s Iliad Read in the Original Ancient Greek Download 55 Free Online Literature Courses: From Dante and Milton to Kerouac and Tolkien Ted Mills is a freelance writer on the arts who currently hosts the FunkZone Podcast. You can also follow him on Twitter at @tedmills, read his other arts writing at tedmills.com and/or watch his films here. 20 New Lines from The Epic of Gilgamesh Discovered in Iraq, Adding New Details to the Story is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.

The Apollo program, launched in 1961 by John F. Kennedy, flew its first manned mission in 1968, and the following summer, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin met the program’s mandate, making their historic Apollo 11 Moon Landing. In the ensuing few years, several more spacecraft and crews either orbited or landed on the Moon, and for a brief moment, popular magazines and newspapers regularly featured photographs of those expeditions on their covers and front pages. Looking every bit the authentic vintage Hasselblad photos they are, the images you see here were taken by Apollo astronauts on their various missions and sent home in rolls of hundreds of similar pictures. These astronauts snapped photos inside and outside the spacecraft, in orbit and on the moon’s surface, and in 2004 NASA began digitizing the resulting cache of film. Luckily for the public, devoted space enthusiast and archivist, Kipp Teague—an IT director at Lynchburg College in Virginia—has posted a huge number of these photos (8,400 to be exact) on his Project Apollo Archive Flickr account. Teague initially began acquiring the photos in collaboration with Eric Jones’ Apollo Lunar Surface Journal, "a record of the lunar surface operations conducted by the six pairs of astronauts who landed on the Moon from 1969 to 1972." Understandably, so many people expressed interest in the photographs that Teague reformatted them in higher resolution and gave them their own home on the web. The Planetary Society informs us, "every photo taken on the lunar surface by astronauts with their chest-mounted Hasselblad cameras is included in the collection." While Teague and Jones’ other sites use photos that have been processed to increase their clarity, lighting, and color, the photos on Project Apollo Archive remain in their original state. "Browsing the entire set," writes the Planetary Society, "takes on the feeling of looking through an old family photo album." Indeed, especially if you grew up in the late-sixties/early-seventies at the height of the space program’s popularity. A good many of the photos are rather procedural shots of craters and clouds, especially those from earlier missions. But quite a few frame the breathtaking vistas, technical details, and awestruck, if exhausted, faces you see here. So many photos were taken and uploaded in succession that clicking rapidly through a photostream can produce an almost flipbook effect. You can browse the archive by album, each one representing a reel from different Apollo missions—including that famous 11th (top, and below)—though Teague has yet to post high resolution images from Apollo 8 and 13. It seemed after Apollo’s demise in the mid-seventies that photographs like these documented a lost age of NASA exploration, and that the once-great government agency would cede its innovative role to private companies like Elon Musk’s Space X, who have been much less forthcoming about releasing media to the public, making proprietary claims over their space photography in particular. But thanks in part to Space X and the cooperation of Canadian, European, Russian, and Japanese space programs, NASA’s International Space Station has raised the agency’s public profile considerably in the past several years. Though still painfully underfunded, NASA’s cool again. Even more profile-raising is the Mars Rover program, whose recent finding of water has refueled speculations about life on the Red Planet. As films like the recent, astronaut-approved The Martian and a raft of others show, our collective imagination has long bent toward human exploration of Mars. Establishing a base on Mars, after all, is Space X’s stated mission. Looking at these stunning vintage photos of the Apollo Lunar missions makes me long to see what the first astronauts to walk on Mars send back. We probably won’t have to wait long once they’re up there. We’ll likely get Instagram uploads, maybe even some with fake vintage Hasselblad filters. It won’t be quite the same; few current events can compete with nostalgia. But I like to think we can look forward in the near future to a renaissance of manned—and woman-ed—space exploration. See many hundreds more Apollo Lunar Mission photos at Project Apollo Archive and follow the archive on Facebook for updates. via The Planetary Society Related Content: Landing on the Moon: July 20, 1969 Mankind’s First Steps on the Moon: The Ultra High Res Photos Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins Go Through Customs and Sign Immigration Form After the First Moon Landing (1969) Josh Jones is a writer and musician based in Durham, NC. Follow him at @jdmagness 8,400 Stunning High-Res Photos From the Apollo Moon Missions Are Now Online is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.

Art is speech. Art is what life is about.  Bernie Sanders, Democratic Candidate for President of the United States A rousing sentiment, and one rarely expressed by those running for the nation’s highest office. Once a candidate has been safely elected, he may feel comfortable betraying a deeper affinity, or ceding to the tastes of an arts-inclined First Lady. Sanders isn’t waiting, pledging in the video above, that he will be an Arts President. The Americans for the Arts Action Fund tracks the candidates’ records with regard to arts advocacy, and it appears that Sanders has been walking the walk for quite some time. He filmed a half-hour long documentary about labor leader Eugene Debs. He recorded a 1987 folk album with the help of 30 Vermont musicians, stoutly pronouncing the lyrics to "This Land is Your Land" and "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" a la Rex Harrison. Vice’s Paul Best made a compelling case for how Bernie Sanders shaped the northeast punk scene. If Allen Ginsberg could vote from beyond the grave, I’m pretty sure I know which lever he’d be pulling… With regard to living celebrities, it’s no big surprise to see that Will Ferrell, Susan Sarandon, and John C Reilly are among the artists supporting Bernie Sanders. Hollywood has long embraced liberal candidates. They are joined on the ever growing list of Artists and Cultural Leaders for Bernie Sanders by musicians Jello Biafra and The Red Hot Chili Peppers, comedians Margaret Cho and Sarah Silverman, and graffiti artists Ron English and Shepard Fairey, creator of the Obama Hope poster. As Sanders fans wait to see whether Fairey will perform a similar service for his 2016 pick, Stencils for Bernie is taking up the slack with downloadable images for the DIY-inclined. I presume that it’s only a matter of time before some young animator puts him or herself at Sanders’ disposal, though I kind of hope not. The candidate’s short video is reassuringly devoid of the snappy visuals that have become a staple of the form, thanks to such popular series as Crash Course, CGP Grey, The School of Life, and TED Ed. via Hyperallergic Related Content: Bernie Sanders Sings "This Land is Your Land" on the Endearingly Bad Spoken Word Album, We Shall Overcome Allen Ginsberg’s Handwritten Poem For Bernie Sanders, "Burlington Snow" (1986) Ayun Halliday is an author, illustrator, and Chief Primatologist of the East Village Inky zine. Her play, Fawnbook, opens in New York City later this month. Follow her @AyunHalliday Bernie Sanders: I Will Be an Arts President is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.