Video: "Manta Ray" - The Whizpops

I can't say that I'm on a first-name basis with Hank Green, the scientist who just seems to have way more time in the day than I do because he runs VidCon, NerdCon, and a whole bunch of other entrepreneurial efforts, even though I did recently attend NerdCon: Stories.

Still, the name "Hank Green" means more to me than it did, say, 18 months ago, and so when I heard that Montana kindie band The Whizpops were featured on a recent SciShow Kids episode of Green's, I figured, it'd be worth checking out.

And so it is!   It's for the song "Manta Ray," and it features some sweet animation and, well, manta rays. Win all around! Go science!

The Whizpops - "Manta Ray" [YouTube]

Video: "Tambourine Submarine" - Recess Monkey

It's auteur phase of Recess Monkey's well-honored video career as for the first video off of their forthcoming Deep Sea Diver​ album they've stolen from, er, delivered an homage to the visual style of Wes Anderson.

I love Wes Anderson's movies (for the most part), so I mean that as high praise and admiration.​  Then again, Anderson is really just aping styles from the '60s, so if the boys from Seattle look like they're going through their Jacques Cousteau phase, maybe they're just going through a Jacques Cousteau phase.

Not sure where Cousteau (or Anderson) stand on rhythm-powered submersibles, though.​

Recess Monkey - "Tambourine Submarine" [YouTube] (via RedTri.com)​