Simone Giertz is one of the most amazing people on YouTube if you’re into building and making. You might remember Simone from her Shitty Robots fame, but more recently she’s actually been building stuff that actually works and, well, she’s pretty entertaining. And sometimes adorable. In this video, Simone decides to build her dog, Scraps, a fully automated pedal-operated, treat-dispensing, doggy selfie booth. Simone’s early attempts at getting her dog to shoot a selfie with her phone didn’t turn out too well....

Whether commercially or simply for Instagram, photographing food has become pretty huge over the last few years. And one man’s passion for food and travel has made him one of the world’s best food photographers. Created by Anton Lorimer at SmugMug Films, this almost 22 minute film follows food photographer and former baker, Eric Wolfinger. We see how he captures the unique stories behind incredible food creations. In this case, chocolate....

Movie and shot breakdowns are always a lot of fun to watch. Even breakdowns for bad movies are often quite interesting. That’s the case here, as film boffin Patrick Willems describes in this particular video. It describes a particularly bad movie (The Bonfire of the Vanities) by a particularly good director (Brian De Palma). It was widely regarded as a pretty bad movie when it was released and it still is today....

I follow quite a few YouTube channels. Some of them are purely for the visually stunning creations they post. Others are for the information they provide. Occasionally, though, you come across a channel that does both. That’s Ant Lab, the channel of Dr Adrian Smith at the Evolutionary Biology & Behavior Research Lab. Dr Smith’s content focuses primarily on bugs, and we’ve featured him here on DIYP before. A few times, actually....

No matter what the lens, when I see people asking for opinions on one online, I see a pretty wide mix of “It’s awesome, it never leaves my camera!” and “It sucks, I sold it within a week” type responses. If you’ve ever wondered why there are such polarising opinions on any given lens, then wonder no more. In this video, Michael the Maven discusses one of the things that’s rarely spoken about when it comes to lenses, and that’s manufacturing tolerances....