Great Big Story
Go Green With Mochi, Green Tea, and Cold, Hard Cash
- Title
- Go Green With Mochi, Green Tea, and Cold, Hard Cash
- Runtime
- 11:37
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- rom an artist in Brooklyn who is obsessed with one hue to the fastest mochi maker in Japan, every story in this reel is connected by one wonderful thing—the color green.
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#green #colors #verde
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- Making Summer Camp Affordable for Everyone
- Runtime
- 3:22
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Erica Blue’s family couldn’t afford to send her to overnight summer camp. Then a friend paid for her to go the summer between sixth and seventh grades. The experience was transformational. “It changed my perspective on life,” she says. So much so that today, Blue is the CEO of Austin Sunshine Camps. The organization makes summer camp—and all the swimming, s’mores and new friends that go along with it—possible for kids from low-income families in central Texas as well as those in foster care. The camp is completely funded by donations and relies heavily on the generosity of others to help kids have the summer fun they deserve.
Find out more information about Austin Sunshine Camps right here: https://www.sunshinecamps.org/donate-now/
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#SummerCamp #SunshineCamp #texas
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- Meet the Transgender Wrestling Champion
- Runtime
- 3:10
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- When Nyla Rose started transitioning in 2007, she wasn’t sure if she would continue to be accepted in the wrestling world. Today, Rose is a member of the All Elite Wrestling (AEW) league’s active women’s roster. She’s also the first openly trans wrestler signed to a major promotion—she kicked off 2020 by winning the AEW Women’s World Championship. Rose, who goes by the name Native Beast in the ring, shows us some of her trademark moves.
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#NativeBeast #wrestler #transgender
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- The Origins of Fake Blood and the Hottest Pepper In the World
- Runtime
- 10:03
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Seeing red doesn't need to be a bad thing. This hue-specific compilation features fake blood, the world’s hottest pepper and millions-upon-millions of migrating crabs.
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#red #colors #hue
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- He Could be the First American Amputee in the Olympics
- Runtime
- 5:17
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Being born without lower legs didn’t keep Blake Leeper from playing baseball and basketball when he was a kid. After being fitted with prosthetic limbs, Leeper took a lot of falls, but he always got right back up. In college, he discovered running, the sport that would become his lifeblood. After winning silver and bronze medals in the Paralympic Games, Leeper is now training with one goal in mind—to compete against able-bodied athletes in the Olympics. His bid to compete in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics was denied by World Athletics, track and field’s international governing body in February 2020. The organization maintains the prosthetic blades Leeper runs on give him an unfair advantage. But Leeper hasn’t stopped there—he has filed an appeal to the committee.
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#BlakeLeeper #runner #athlete
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- Stories of Women Changing Music, the Justice System and the World
- Runtime
- 14:47
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- We’ve traveled the world chronicling the accomplishments of women. So in honor of International Women’s Day on March 8, here are five stories about women innovating and excelling in areas ranging from science to music.
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#WomenPower #WomensDay #March8
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- 5 of the Best Street Food Finds in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- Runtime
- 4:50
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, is a sprawling city with a street food scene that’s enjoyed by the locals as well as tourists. Curious? We sampled several of the city’s sweet, savory and spicy delights. Join us as we try akor ktis (that’s rice cake), flaming beef, fried banana, fried balut (fertilized eggs) and banh chaef (a crepe stuffed with pork, chicken and shrimp).
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#PhnomPenh #Cambodia #StreetFood
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- How Ancient Palestinian Soap Is Made
- Runtime
- 2:24
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Ahmed Darwish el Fakhouri spends his days surrounded by olive oil soap stacked up high—each precious bar waiting to be wrapped and sold after a drying out period of two to three months. He is the third generation of his family to run one of the oldest soap-making factories in Nablus, Palestine. All of the soap is made by hand, and only three ingredients go into it. El Fakhouri takes us through the production process and explains why people have sworn by olive oil soap for centuries.
This Great Big Story was inspired by Genesis.
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#soap #OliveOil #palestine
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- A Celebration of Blue
- Runtime
- 12:11
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- From butterflies to volcanoes to ancient indigo, we’re seeing the world through blue-tinted glasses in this reel.
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#blue #indigo #dye
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- Meet the NFL’s First Male Cheerleaders
- Runtime
- 3:11
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- College and high school cheerleading teams have been co-ed for years. But NFL cheerleaders were always only women (with the exception of some male stuntmen) until 2018. That’s the year professional dancers Quinton Peron and Napoleon Jinnies auditioned for the L.A. Rams cheerleading team, made the squad and led the way for other men to follow. Peron and Jinnies capped off their first cheer season by making history yet again when the L.A. Rams played in the Super Bowl, and they became the first male cheerleaders to perform at the big game. We talk to the guys, who are both gay, about the audition process, the thrill of breaking boundaries and the responsibility they feel as role models for men as well as the LGBTQ+ community.
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#MaleCheerleader #NFL #LGBTQ
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- How to Make a Record-Setting Paper Plane
- Runtime
- 7:11
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- If you want to make the best paper planes, you need to learn from a master. So we asked John Collins, who set the Guinness World Record for farthest flight by a paper aircraft in 2012, to teach us a thing or two about the squash fold and perfect winglets. In this tutorial, he shows us how to fold three planes:
The Suzanne—the plane he set the world distance record with, named after his wife.
The Tube—a tube-shaped plane you throw like a football.
And, finally, the Boomerang—a stunt plane capable of circling left and right and performing loops.
Ready to fly? Grab a stack of paper, press play (pause as often as you need to) and fold away.
You can watch our original video with John Collins here: https://youtu.be/b4RvMo-RjxY
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#PaperAirplanes #tutorial #DIY
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- A Deep Dive Into the Lives of Sharks and Whales
- Runtime
- 13:39
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Join us for a deep dive into the world of sharks and orcas. In this reel, we meet people who study, swim with and photograph these fascinating mammals, from the warm waters of Bimini to the frigid Arctic Ocean.
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#sharks #orcas #ocean
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- Why Drinking Chai in Clay Cups Is So Much Better
- Runtime
- 2:43
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Shankar Pandit is a potter in Kolkata, India. He makes clay cups called “bhar” that are used just once, and then thrown away. It sounds wasteful, but it’s actually good for the environment. Unlike plastic and steel, Pandit’s cups are biodegradable—made by hand out of clay dug up from the banks of the Ganges River.
This Great Big Story was inspired by Genesis: https://www.genesis.com/
#india #cups #bhar
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- Title
- Dragons Are Everywhere If You Know Where to Look
- Runtime
- 11:26
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Fascinated by dragons? From Dungeons & Dragons to “Puff the Magic Dragon” to flying dragons—we’ve got all the dragons in this reel except for the dragons from “Game of Thrones.” But they are mentioned in one of the stories. So there’s that.
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#dragon #creature #mythical
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- Explore Georgia’s Martvili Canyon
- Runtime
- 2:52
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- There was a time when the exquisite blue-green waters of Martvili Canyon were only open to Georgian nobles, who would visit to bathe. Now, everyone is welcome to boat and swim here. The picturesque natural wonder is located in Samegrelo, a coastal region of Georgia known for being a historical center of the country’s cuisine and culture. The two-level canyon is thick with moss and other plant life and dotted with waterfalls and caves. And even on the hottest days of summer, the water that pools in the lower level of the canyon is refreshingly cool.
This Great Big Story is by Georgia National Tourism Administration: https://georgia.travel/
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- Title
- The Best Little Person Basketball Team in the US
- Runtime
- 19:10
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- What’s life like for a little person, living in a world built for taller people? The short documentary “The Towers,” directed by Oliver Arnoldi and Maria Chiu, was born out of that question. “I was very interested in how they interact with a city like New York, how they live in it, how they get around physically,” Arnoldi says. Arnoldi and Chiu spent months with the the Towers, a basketball team made up of athletes who are little people. They followed them to Boston to film the team competing at the 2016 Little People of America National Conference. Read our interview with the filmmakers right here: https://www.greatbigstory.com/stories/spotlight-the-towers/?xrs=Distro_YT
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When we’re not making films, we’re watching them. Introducing “Great Big Spotlight,” Great Big Story’s latest series highlighting our favorite documentaries from some of the best filmmaking talent out there. “The Towers” was directed, produced, shot and edited by ...
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- Meet the Shortest Member of the Harlem Globetrotters
- Runtime
- 3:01
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- “I’m 4-foot-5. But I carry myself like I’m 6-foot-5.” Jahmani Swanson doesn’t just talk a good game. This basketball player, who goes by the nickname Hot Shot, plays to win. Born in the Bronx and raised in Harlem, Swanson is the shortest Harlem Globetrotter in the team’s history. People typically see height as the ultimate advantage in basketball. But players who underestimate Swanson because he is a little person soon regret it.
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#JahmaniSwanson #globetrotters #basketball
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- Title
- Everything You Didn’t Know About Eagles
- Runtime
- 11:12
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- We’re soaring with the eagles—as in the birds of prey, not the band or the football team—in this reel. There are 60 species of eagleroaming the skies from North America to Africa.
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#eagle #NorthAmerica #Africa
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- Title
- Japan’s Master Sword Maker
- Runtime
- 3:07
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- In just one week, Yuya Nakanishi can produce a weapon any samurai would be proud to carry. The master swordsmith handcrafts Japanese swords of the finest quality—they don’t break or bend, and they gleam with perfection. We visit Nakanishi in Kyoto to see how he shapes chunks of watetsu (Japanese iron) into strong, beautiful blades.
This Great Big Story was made possible by ANA: https://wearejapan.com/post/187514142518/discover-what-makes-a-seat-japanese-with?cid=EMEAEXTERNALad20190912ENENCNNGBSKK
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#swordsmith #handcraft #kyoto
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- Title
- A Master Craftsman Makes the Perfect Dagger
- Runtime
- 3:01
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- If you live in Oman, and you’re a man, you own a khanjar. Dating back to the 16th or 17th century, the curved daggers are not so much weapons today as they are strikingly beautiful symbols of pride worn for ceremonial occasions. While some have been handed down in families through the generations, Mohammed Abdullah Ismail Al Sayegh is a master craftsman who produces these blades at his workshop in Sur, Oman. Intricately handcrafted, each khanjar is designed to meet customer specifications.
This Great Big Story was inspired by Genesis.
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#khanjar #handcraft #oman
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- Title
- From Slot Cars to Hot Rods, Meet 5 Racing Enthusiasts
- Runtime
- 12:04
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- This reel will speed by fast. It’s full of stories about car racing. It begins with a story about the man keeping slot-car racing alive in Brooklyn and ends with cops who drag race high school kids in Sonoma, California. In between, we meet an 11-year-old Formula Three driver, a Le Mans racer who lost his limbs and the old-fashioned gentlemen racing hot rods on the beach.
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#racing #driver #cars
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- How Equine Therapy Helps Veterans Cope With PTSD
- Runtime
- 4:14
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Dennis is a Purple Heart recipient who struggled to get help dealing with PTSD. Then he discovered equine-assisted psychotherapy at Miles Ranch in Fort Myers, Florida. Founded by Gail Doxie—REALTOR®, a member of the National Association of REALTORS®—who works as both a real estate professional and mental health counselor, this facility uses equine-assisted psychotherapy to help veterans heal. Dennis quickly bonded with the horse he was assigned to work with. “It’s a matter of respect with an animal,” he says. “Words don’t need to be said to express who you are.”
This Great Big Story is by the National Association of REALTORS®: https://www.realtor.com/thats-who-we-r/
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- Kids Impersonate Spike Lee, Rosa Parks and More Black History Icons
- Runtime
- 3:14
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- In 2013, Eunique Jones Gibson snapped photos of Black children dressed as icons like Muhammad Ali, Harriet Tubman, Spike Lee and Rosa Parks. The photos were released during Black History Month that year in a campaign she dubbed Because of Them We Can. The goal was to teach kids to embrace their cultural heritage and history. It wasn’t meant to be a long-term project, but the images resonated with people of all ages in a big way. Today, Because of Them We Can is still going strong. The multimedia platform produces photo series and videos shoots celebrating Black excellence. And Gibson never runs out of creative ideas for positive, uplifting content. We go behind-the-scenes of her latest news-themed video shoot, which casts an adorable bunch of little ones as Don Lemon, April Ryan, Angela Rye, Bakari Sellers and Andrew Gillum.
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#BlackExcellence #BlackHistory #BecauseofThemWeCan
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- Title
- Sushi Around the World
- Runtime
- 13:40
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Are you sitting down? This reel begins with a shocking revelation about the origins of the California roll and ends with the most massive sushi roll you’ve ever seen.
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#sushi #CaliforniaRoll #maki
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- Title
- Afghanistan’s Blue Mosque Is Surrounded by White Doves
- Runtime
- 1:35
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- The Blue Mosque is a tranquil oasis in the center of Mazār-i-Sharīf, the fourth-largest city in Afghanistan. As its name implies, the sacred structure is famed for its brilliant blue hues. Worshippers and doves flock to this beautiful landmark. A symbol of love and peace, the birds have been raised on the property since the 12th century.
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#BlueMosque #Afghanistan #worship
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- Title
- Helping New Moms Feel Less Alone
- Runtime
- 4:55
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Just a few weeks into being a new mother, Karey Trusler felt overwhelmed by the demands of breastfeeding a newborn. At one point, Trusler went six days without sleep. Exhausted, depressed and feeling like a failure, the Mesa, Arizona, mom was in a dark place. Then she attended a support group for pregnant and postpartum women run by Gia Snooks at Dignity Health’s Mercy Gilbert Medical Center in Gilbert, Arizona. It was there that Trusler felt supported in acknowledging that motherhood isn’t easy, nobody is perfect, and that’s okay.
This Great Big Story is by Dignity Health: https://www.dignityhealth.org/hello-humankindness
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- Title
- Why One Man Owns 2,371 Cell Phones
- Runtime
- 3:04
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Jayesh Kale owns over 2,300 old cell phones, most are Nokias, and all of them still work. It’s the largest collection of its kind in India, but Kale doesn’t want to stop there. His dream is to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records. When you visit his home in Thane, India, you will see cell phones everywhere—in the living room, bedroom, in kitchen drawers, even in his wife’s wardrobe (frankly, she’s not happy about it). But Kale loves his phones dearly. “These are my babies,” he says. He takes us back to his college years to explain how his obsession began.
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#collector #CellPhone #india
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- Title
- For the Love of Horses
- Runtime
- 12:55
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Love horses? Who isn’t fascinated by these beautiful creatures? This reel features horses who fish, a history-making female jockey and more from our stable of stories.
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#horses #HorseRiding #LoveHorses
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- Title
- This Café Serves Indian Food You’ve Never Heard Of
- Runtime
- 3:20
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- At Café Lota, Head Chef Udit Maheshwari is on a mission to introduce diners to regional Indian cuisine they may have never sampled before. The outdoor café at the National Crafts Museum in New Delhi specializes in lesser-known dishes, like chingri kamranga khatta (prawn curry with star fruit), a guava vegetable dish, and a curry with roasted papadum. With the café, Chef Maheshwari hopes to showcase the depth, variety and complexity of overlooked Indian dishes.
This Great Big Story was made possible by Incredible India: www.incredibleindia.org
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#CafeLota #NewDelhi #IndianCuisine
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- Title
- The Secret to Making the Best Candied Fruit
- Runtime
- 2:08
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Sweet dreams are made of Pierre Lilamand’s candied fruit. He is the fifth-generation member of his family making this delectable treat in the quaint village of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France. The confectioner shows us how to preserve cantaloupe, apricots, strawberries, and oranges in sugar syrup. His recipes go way, way back—candied fruit fans Nostradamus and Olivier de Serres swore by them four centuries ago.
This Great Big Story was inspired by Genesis.
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#CandiedFruit #FamilyBusiness #France
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- Title
- How 4 Photographers Find New Ways to Capture the World
- Runtime
- 9:33
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- There are so many ways to look at our world. From an artist who paints with light, to a photographer who found a way to continue the craft he loves after losing his sight, to an undersea adventurer who swims alongside humpback whales, go behind the lens with four photographers who are pushing the limits of their art.
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#camera #photographer #light
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- Title
- Saving the World’s Oldest Languages
- Runtime
- 11:01
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- While there are more than 7,000 languages spoken around the world, many are in danger of dying out. In this reel, we’re learning new tongues and meeting people trying to save languages ranging from Osing to Quechua.
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#OldLanguages #quechua #osing
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- Title
- This Couple Races 750-Miles On a Tandem Bike
- Runtime
- 5:23
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Ann and John Jurczynski are in it for the long haul. This married couple is one of the fastest long-distance tandem bicycle teams in the world. They’ve competed together in events that require 50-plus hours of cycling with no sleep. How’s that for togetherness? We join the tireless duo as they train for and compete in Paris-Brest-Paris, a 750-mile race through the French countryside.
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- Title
- This Family Has Driven 5,000 People to the Hospital for Free
- Runtime
- 3:11
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Karimul Haque has safely transported over 5,000 people to the hospital in the last 19 years—all free of charge. After his mother passed away because she couldn’t get to a hospital in time, Haque turned grief into action and started his free ambulance service in a remote area of India. He couldn’t bear the thought of another mother suffering the same fate. Today, Haque’s entire family has joined his efforts, saving lives day and night.
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#ambulance #emergency #FreeService
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- Title
- Stay Sharp With $35,000 Scissors and Knife Massages
- Runtime
- 12:23
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- There isn’t a dull moment in this reel. From a Parisian knife grinder to the maker of pricey bonsai scissors in Japan, only the sharpest stories about knives and scissors made the final cut.
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#knife #scissors #blade
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- Title
- Couples Together 30+ Years Give Us Love Advice
- Runtime
- 12:13
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- There are over 6,500 languages in the world. But the one language we all share is sometimes the most complicated to understand—love. We traveled around the world to meet couples whose love has stood the test of time. Each of our couples have been together for at least 30 years (some as many as 61!) and they’ve picked up plenty of wisdom about life and love and marriage along the way. From Ghana to Brazil, from St. John, Indiana, to the Philippines, this is what love looks like around the world.
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#LoveStories #AroundTheWorld #CoupleGoals
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- Title
- Yoga Meets Pole Dancing With India's Mallakhamb
- Runtime
- 3:19
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Mallakhamb is an ancient Indian sport that combines yoga poses with the athleticism of gymnastics—all performed while perched atop a vertical wooden pole. Uday Deshpande teaches Mallakhamb in Mumbai’s Shivaji Park. Anyone who aspires to master this practice, needs to possess mental and physical strength, flexibility and a certain amount of fearlessness.
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#mallakhamb #mumbai #gymnastics
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- Title
- 5 Stories Celebrating South Korea
- Runtime
- 13:35
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Join us as we eat hangover soup, brew makgeolli, practice the ancient martial art of Taekkyeon, shop at Korea’s oldest street food market and learn how to make letterpress prints.
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#SouthKorea #StreetMarket #Taekkyeon
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- Title
- This Couple Rode Over 2,000 Roller Coasters
- Runtime
- 10:01
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Cheryl and Martin Lewison’s marriage has seen a lot of ups and downs. Which isn’t surprising. The couple travels the world riding roller coasters together, after all. On a recent 3-day trip through the midwest, the Lewisons visited nine parks and rode 13 roller coasters. We were alongside this daring duo, holding on for dear life while capturing every moment.
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#RollerCoaster #adrenaline #CoupleGoals
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- Title
- These Farmers Grow Everything From White Strawberries to Furniture
- Runtime
- 13:51
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- We planted seeds, and these stories about farming and gardening sprouted right before our very eyes. We’re cultivating unusual strawberries in Japan, rescuing plants in South Carolina and so much more. Come grow with us.
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#farming #grow #gardening
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- Title
- One of the World’s Largest Film Studios Is in This Moroccan Desert
- Runtime
- 1:28
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- It’s not a mirage—there is indeed a medieval castle and a Buddhist temple in the middle of the desert in Ouarzazate, Morocco. These structures are among the massive sets at Atlas Studios. TV shows like “Game of Thrones” and “Prison Break” and films such as “Gladiator” and the live-action “Aladdin” have shot some of their most epic scenes on this property. If you’re up for an excursion, tourists are invited to walk among the sets when they aren’t in use.
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#AtlasStudios #morocco #desert
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- Title
- The Chinese Village Where Everyone Skis
- Runtime
- 2:28
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Some residents of Hemu Village practically live on skis. Winter lasts seven months in this remote part of China, and it’s really the best way to travel up and down the mountains and through the forest. Ma Liqin, a herder, zips around on a pair made out of wood and horsehair—a design that dates back more than 10,000 years.
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#skiing #snow #winter
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- Title
- Stories of People With Unbelievable Memory
- Runtime
- 11:54
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- From the woman who never forgets a face to the London taxi drivers who have to know all of the city’s streets, we’ve included five of our most memorable stories in this reel.
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#memory #brain #remember
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- Title
- Making History as Miss Universe’s First Transgender Contestant
- Runtime
- 3:08
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Ángela Ponce is a trailblazer. A professional model in Madrid, she was the first transgender woman to be crowned Miss Universe Spain in 2018. She would go on to represent her country in the Miss Universe pageant in Bangkok, Thailand, that same year. Ponce didn’t win, but she broke boundaries and shattered misconceptions as the first transgender woman to ever participate in the global competition. Today, she has a powerful platform, and Ponce takes great pride in representing her country and being an activist for LGBTQ+ people and human rights in general.
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#AngelaPonce #transgender #pageant
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- Title
- This Turkish Ice Cream Doesn’t Melt
- Runtime
- 2:43
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Ankara might be the capital city, but Kahramanmaraş is Turkey’s undisputed ice cream capital. Atilla Kanbur is the fourth generation in his family to make delicious Turkish ice cream, churning out 5 tons of the sweet stuff a day. What’s so special about Turkish ice cream? It’s stretchy, it’s sticky, oh, and it doesn’t melt.
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#TurkishIceCream #IceCream #scoop
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- Title
- The Extreme DIY-ers
- Runtime
- 11:25
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- You never know what you can build until you put your mind to it. In this reel, we meet the production designer behind the iconic “Friends” apartment, an 18-year-old who built his own prosthetic arm out of Lego blocks, an architect who constructs life-size military tanks that shoot confetti and adults who create cardboard fighting costumes and weapons and battle it out in Boxwars.
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#diy #build #boxwars
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- Title
- This Buddhist Monk Is a Celebrity Makeup Artist
- Runtime
- 3:54
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Born in Tokyo to parents who were monks, Kodo Nishimura wasn’t interested in Buddhism when he was younger. But his thinking changed. Today, this out and proud gay man is both a monk and a professional makeup artist who has worked with the likes of singer Christina Milian and model Halima Aden. Nishimura uses his religion and his makeup skills to encourage LGBTQ people to feel good about themselves. “I want people to feel that they are equal, they are powerful, they can be who they are and be proud,” he says.
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#makeup #buddhism #monk
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- Title
- 5 Stories About the Power of Hair
- Runtime
- 12:57
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- From a colorist who works with stars like Kanye West and Katy Perry to a caterpillar with a uniquely presidential ’do, we trimmed this reel about hair to the most flattering length. Not too long. Not too short.
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#hairstyle #colorist #hairy
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- Title
- The Mysterious Origins of Maiden’s Castle
- Runtime
- 1:26
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Although it appears to be floating on the Mediterranean, Maiden’s Castle sits on a tiny island off the coast of Kizkalesi, Turkey. The structure dates back to the 12th century, but no one knows who constructed the ancient relic. Many tell a legend, however, involving a Byzantine king, his daughter and a fortune teller’s frightening prediction.
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#Turkey #Fortress #Byzantine
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- Title
- Behind Georgia’s 8,000-Year-Old Winemaking Tradition
- Runtime
- 2:31
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Wine has been produced in Georgia for 8,000 years, making it the oldest winemaking country in the world. Like her ancestors, winemaker Baia Abuladze ferments grapes with their skins intact, in big clay pots known as kvevri. This traditional technique—not to mention access to 525 varieties of indigenous grapes—makes Georgian wine unlike any other.
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#wine #GeorgianWine #grapes
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