Beavers! coal! and tape loops!

• Geronimo was a beaver is the charmingly told true story of the Idaho Beaver Drop by artist Shing Yin Khor and composer Jay Ackley. There's something really charming about the mashup of styles here: there's papercraft, stop-motion, puppetry, live-action, and digital compositing. This is a delight. (Thanks to Ava for sending this over!)
   
• Cecilia Blomdahl goes inside the last coal mine in Svalbard, far up in the High Arctic. This video does a great job of bringing the audience along, and also documenting some of the daily lives and operations in a facility that's due to close next year: it felt much shorter than its 25 minutes.
   
• iturnknobs makes an incredibly long cassette tape loop and proves, once again, that the first video on someone's YouTube channel can absolutely get traction in the world, provided it's really really good. Excellent narration style, solid explanations, 3D-printable files linked in the description. Worth the click. (Thanks Zachary for sending this over!)
   

• Scratch and sniff stickers and the gas panic of '87. A gas company sends out stickers to demonstrate the smell of leaking gas; the obvious happens.
   
• Dan fixes coin-op machines, and if you would like a coin-op machine, he'd like to warn you about what you're getting into. (Strong language.)
   
• The flickering in cheap LED tea lights comes from birthday card speakers, and you can listen to them.

And finally, two recorders at the same time.

All the best,

— Tom