5 things I learned today TV - 2-1
1. These high school kids reciting Gertrude Stein's "Patriarchal Poetry" (and his awesome explanation about sound and meaning after their recitation) do a super fantastic job with it
2. An incredible project, How I explain it to my parents, wherein abstract artists try to explain to their parents what it is that they do
3. Young Me, Now Me is a great project
4. Process videos are fascinating to me, and this one, of a reverse glass sign gilder is no exception
5. Why you should shut down your computer at the end of a day of work
1 - Map of London Olympic Venues
With the Opening Ceremonies just minutes away, this interactive map of the Olympic Venues in London should come in handy.
There is also a great gallery of photos and images of the venues.
CGI IMAGE OF THE LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC STADIUM AT SUNSET
AERIAL VIEW OVER THE OLYMPIC PARK
VIEW OF THE EXCEL CENTRE AND THE NORTH GREENWICH ARENA
2 - Samsara
Director and cinematographer Ron Ficke (Koyaanisqatsi, Baraka) has been hard at work on Samsara for 5 years. The entire film is shot in stunning 70mm. It is a film that relies completely on its visual impact and cinematographic juxtaposition, as there isn't any dialogue.
Putting stunning sequences near each other creates a visual narrative, an essay that uses vision, motion, color and light as its sentences, nouns, verbs and phrases. The trailer (below) has be pretty excited for the theatrical release.
Samsara is the Sanskrit word for "continuous flow" but often refers to the never ending cycle of life-death-rebirth, physical and figurative, so often thought through in Hinduism and Buddhism.
3 - Amazing Aerial Photos of Beautiful Beaches
LA-based photographer Gray Malin has this perfect for summer series of the world's beautiful beaches seen from above.
California beach
Photo credit: Gray Malin
5 - The Best of Derecho - NYC's storms
July 26th saw a battery of amazing storms roll into NYC. Here are some of the best videos of the day.
Lightning of 2nd Avenue
Famous Literary Meals
A graphic designer named Dinah Fried has decided to recreate famous meals from famous works of Lit.
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2 - Robbie
Robbie is a short film, made up entirely of NASA archival footage.
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3 - Olympic Vermin
With the Olympic Torch Relay coming to an end, someone else needs to pick up where it left off and carry the torch, so to speak. Here is a great short animation showing a different torch relay.
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4 - Kayak rolls in slow motion
With the easy and afforable GoPro HD Hero 2 we get to see things we may never have seen before. Here, this flatwater kayaker shows us what it's like to roll underwater and pop back up.
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5 - Disasterland from José Rodolfo Loaiza Ontiveros
Pop culture worlds tear at on another in José Rodolfo Loaiza's Disasterland show at La Luz de Jesus gallery in Los Angeles.
The reimagining of Frida Kahlo's iconic painting is perhaps my favorite. But really quite an astounding range here.
Reencuentro –The Two Snow Whites
The Two Fridas, 1939, Oil on canvas, 67" x 67", Collection of the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
1 - Olympic Stadium – London 2012, Animated
The London Games began today, and the Opening Ceremonies are later this week. If you are interested, here is a video (with great fly-in animation of its construction) to introduce you to the new Olympic Stadium.
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Landsat satellite snaps one complete photo of the Earth’s surface every 16 days
2 - Time-Lapse Videos Show Changes to Earth’s Face
The Landsat program has reach its 40th year. So much of how we understand our world and our planet has been informed from this satellite's imagery.
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4 - Nike: Find your greatness
Sure, it's an ad. Sure it isn't saying anything new. It is moving though. Makes me remember what sport feels like.
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5 - A foot-powered washing machine that could change the world
It becomes enormously clear that good design is about problem solving when an innovatively simple and flexible product comes on to the scene.
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1 - AP Robotic Cameras at Summer Games
AP is using a fleet of robotic cameras to get stunning action video and photography for the London Olympic Games, starting tomorrow (july 25)
2 - Abstract light photos
Amazingly, these abstract light photos from Rick Giles are entirely free of digital manipulation.
3 - Glorious time-lapse video of the effort to recreate an old and famous photo
Royal College of Art graduated Maisie Broadhead and filmmaker Jack Cole come together to document the recreation of this 19th photo from Hill and Adamson
The Secret City of London inside of London City
4 - The Secret City of London
The City of London, which predates London, isn't really a part of London. Whao this is fascinating.
5 - Murals Created with Thousands of Buttons, Pins and Beads
A stunning hybrid of painting and sculpture, these murals from Ran Hwang involve thousands and thousands of pins, beads and buttons.