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5 - Thai Lantern Festival
The most elaborate Thai lantern celebration is in Chiang Mai, thousands of hot-air lanterns launched into the night sky every year in November.
Yang Tee Mon
Yang Tee Mon
Komang Neo
Watcharapong Jingkaujai
Ekachai Jirachuphun
2 - Tokyo Timelapse
3 - Street Art Snarks at Social Media Through Social Media
Parisian artist Above "ironically" is using social media to tell us we are too connected to social media. Very meta.
4 - A Million Unique Bottles of Absolut
"Absolut Unique" requires a total re-design of the Absolut Vodka's production process in Sweden. "Carefully orchestrated randomness," the process involves splash guns and color-generating machines with complex coating, pattern and placement algorithms to ensure that each bottle is absolutly (ha ha) unique.
5 - Pole Dancing Magic - Diplo's Set It Off feat. Lazerdisk Party Sex
Diplo's newest, Set It Off featuring Lazerdisk Party Sex, honors the athleticism, grace, sex appeal and strength of the pole dancer in these fun and astounding visuals.
1 - In Flight
Boston.com's The Big Picture has a great photoset title In Flight.
2 - Hot Lava Poured Over Ice
3 - Moments of Pleasure
Those little, never-spoken-of moments of life that are pleasurable, compiled here in a sweet little video.
4 - Magazine Sculptures
Flowing waves engulf cars, furniture, and airplanes in these sculptural works from Scottish Artist David Mach.
5 - Indian Point of View
A young medical student from France did a lovely job of documenting his recently travels in southern India.
1 - Gorgeous Underwater Photos of Vibrant Jellyfish
We've seen amazing photos of jellyfish before (Jan 18, 2012) and seeing these new shots today makes it perfectly clear how astounding and eery they truly are. Here is just a small sampling of Alexander Semenov's Underwater gallery on flickr.
2 - Kubrick's One-Point Perspective: Supercut
Vimeo user, Kogonada, who also made Tarantino: From Below and Wes Anderson: From Below, raises the supercut to be a visual essay, a way of reasoning and processing using comparison and visual analysis. And such a cool set of shots he's collected here from the oeuvre of Stanley Kubrick.
3 - Sifteo Interactive Cubes
The very cool idea of using physical things as the interface for interactive systems is starting to fulfill its promise. The second generation of the Sifteo Interactive Cubes is more than just a novelty. Now they are a gaming platform.
4 - The World's Shortest Scheduled Flight
Watch the entirety of the 2-minute-long flight from the island of Westray to the island of Papa Westray in the Orkney Isles by Scottish airline Loginair.
5 - A Stop-motion shot a frame a day for 5 years
With so many everday projects after Noah Kilina's it is astounding to be so surprised by the vision and creativity of this one.
1 - Long Exposure Shots of Fireworks
Stunning and gorgeous, these long exposures of fireworks make so evident the comparisons to flowers and sea creatures. David Johnson explains his technique over at Colossal:
The technique I used was a simple refocus during the long exposure. Each shot was about a second long, sometimes two. I’d start out of focus, and when I heard the explosion I would quickly refocus, so the little stems on these deep sea creature lookalikes would grow into a fine point. The shapes are quite bizarre, some of them I was pleasantly surprised with.
2 - Greenland's Icy Beauty
German photography OLAF OTTO BECKER surely was putting his life on the line to get these incredible shots of Greenland's ice.
3 - A Timelapse Love Letter to Los Angeles
4 - Red Bull's Sports in Sequence
Yeah, these multiple exposures showing the motion are pretty cool.