When I first read of the Scythians in Herodotus' Histories, I had such a hard time placing them in a part of the world today. They were such a mysterious mix of cultures, myths and landscapes. I am not sure how well the Ukraine corresponds to the places and peoples Herodotus describes, but this admixture of the Ancient Greeks, Slavs, Goths, Huns, Vikings and Mongols has a wonderous result. Here are the Seven Wonders of the Ukraine.
Even if this is prolly a bit of filmmaking whimsy (I suppose I would be impressed if I could see how it really worked as a musical instrument, and not just a suped up gesture macro interface), it makes for a pretty stunning street display. Immersive and exciting.
This project combines the collective talents of musicians, dancers, programmers, designers and animators to create an amazing visual instrument. Creating music through motion is at the heart of this creation and uses the power of the Kinect to capture movement and translate it into music which is performed live and projected on a huge wall. We created and designed the live visual spectacle with a music video being produced from the results. We wanted it to be clear that the technology was real and actually being played live. The interface plays a key role in illustrating the idea of the instrument and we designed it to highlight the audio being controlled by the dancer. Design elements like real time tracking and samples being drawn on as they are played all add to authenticity of the performance. The visuals are all created live and the music video is essentially a real document of the night. http://www.assemblyltd.com/ Check out the tech behind the project here: www.custom-logic.com/blog/v-motion-project-the-instrument/ Developers: Jeff Nusz Paul Sanderson - http://fugitive.co.nz Music: Joel Little Ableton: James Hayday Dancer: Josh Cesan Agency: Colenso BBDO Client: Frucor
While it doesn't work (as a jet engine) it is an impressive feat of lego magic.
Over 152,000 pieces went into building this 50% size Rolls-Royce Trent 1000
Spain, beautiful Spain. Making you so mini doesn't make you less amazing.
A tilt-shift film by Joerg Daiber. Shot in Seville, Madrid and El Chorro in Spain - broke, but beautiful. WATCH FULL SCREEN! Follow us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MiniatureFilms Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/spoonfilm YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/littlebigworld http://www.spoonfilm.com Shot with Lumix GH2, Gorillapod, 14-140mm and 7-14mm Lumix Lenses. Edited with Final Cut Pro. Postproduction with After Effects.
These lovely and beautiful photos from Anton Surkov use chalk to highlight form and movement to great effect.
That he decided to film the whole thing is pretty phenomenal. I guess that as far as insect infestations go, a bee hive is the one I'd choose.
This entire process took about 5 hours. I was sick so sorry if I sound annoying! If you are in the Los Angeles area you can contact Mike at mikebee1769@yahoo.com You can contact me at Larry@speedhunters.com
Zhang Ke-Chun's photo series, titled and inspired by the poem 北流活活 (Bei Liu Huo Huo), takes along China's rapidly developing industrial waterways.
Pairing images together is a little bit like writing an analogy. Pairing videos together is like writing a metaphor: the points of comparison bleed almost entirely together.
The World Wildlife Foundation has this new promo video which clearly is interested in removing the barriers in our own thinking between the world and the natural world.
We are all connected. Find out how at http://myworld.panda.org/.
Putting modern affectations in their place.
Many wikipedia articles have coordinates. Many have references to historic events. Me (@godawful) and Tom Martin (@heychinaski) cross referenced the two to create a dynamic visualization of Wikipedia's view of world history. Watch as empires fall, wars break out and continents are discovered. This won "Best Visualization" at Matt Patterson's History Hackday in January, 2011. To make it, we parsed an xml dump of all wikipedia articles (30Gb) and pulled out 424,000 articles with coordinates and 35,000 references to events. Cross referencing these produced 15,500 events with locations. Then we mapped them over time. More information and datasets: http://www.ragtag.info/2011/feb/2/history-world-100-seconds/
Ukulele Songs 16 original songs and covers, many of which had been performed live. Also of note is a ukulele version of Pearl Jam’s 2002 track “Can’t Keep”, as well as guest appearances by The Swell Season’s Glen Hansard and Cat Power.
Fiverr is one of the more interesting micro-jobs boards. You get to propose a $5 gig, and people get to hire you to do it. Have fun.
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