The very beautiful Singapore is presented in this tilt-shift timelapse. The selective focus that is the hallmark of tilt-shift is used pretty aggressively here.
The world of the mole people is passed, but there are still amazing things under the city,
What a fantastic answer to the mystery of these underwater 'crop circles' found off the coast of Japan. The whole story is over at Spoon and Tamago.
"While diving in the semi-tropical region of Amami Oshima, roughly 80 ft below sea level, Ookata spotted something he had never seen. And as it turned out, no one else had seen it before either."
It turnes out these mysterious and organic shapes are the work of a small little pufferfish and is probably a mating ritual. And in fact it seems it is a sort of nest building, the mounds and ridges are meant to protect eggs from currents.
Really one of the first times I've ever had the urge to learn to fly a plane.
A great digital storytelling of an obscure early photographer shooting in color. You should click through to hear the narrated story.
Well, I guess I need to book tickets to Scandanavia soon, because this in another on the list of the stirring videos of the place. This time of Finland.
A fan of Star Wars took it upon himself to make this awesome animated sequence (without sound right now).
Eric Holubow is an urban photographer who seems to believe in the beauty of abandoned things, or perhaps in the persistance of beauty. Either way, its easy to get lost in these photos.
Superheros (and superstars like Marilyn and Rocky) have bad days too, sadly.
Also take a look at SadSportsFaces
Macro shots of eyes are simultaneously beautiful and creepy, these from Armenian photographer Suren Manvelyan.
This one's been making the rounds, and with good reason: well-timed buckets of water and bald gentlemen make for some stunning images.
via The Atlantic Master Feed:
"In Ascendance, nature photographer Henry Jun Wah Lee documents the Perseid meteor shower at its peak in August, before a backdrop of Joshua Tree National Park and the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest. It's worth watching the video full screen to appreciate the crisp cinematography and magical details -- rainbows, stars, and more. "
Harvest time is here for places all around the Northern Hemisphere. It is amazing how different it can look and how similar.
The city of Bratislava (the capital and largest city of Slovakia) was the backdrop for
photographer Benjamin Von Wong shoot with the Slovak National Ballet.
If consonants are the bones of a sound, then vowels are the muscles. And one of the features of English that makes it such a muscular and expressive language is the relatively large array of vowels, shades of vowels available to us.
This poetic and perhaps surprisingly moving film is based on a 1945 Linguaphone instructional recording and brought to us by filmmaker and visual storyteller Temujin Doran.
The very interesting tech--instrument, the Tenori On seems like a toy, until in the hands of a talent. Here, for example, is Little Boots making music all on her own. It is so great to see here layer elements on, and hear it come together.
Sweet animal origami from Marc Fichou with some notions of reference and identity in art.
Demonstrated here by Equinox’s Briohny Smyth and her husband Dice Iida-Klein.
Here are 4 of the amazing 40 lightning shots over on Gencept.
