Actually reposting this from 5thin.gs/january-23-2012. It was one of the first timelapses that just seemed to begged to be placed on a map like this.
The Gate by Marie Howe
A Hot Yogi - Kelly Prince
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5 - Blowing Underwater Bubble Rings
Why have I never learned to do this?
1 - Women's Water Wigs
2 - Berlin Hyper-lapse
3 - Toronto Rooftop Timelapse
Tom Ryaboi brings us this stunning timelapse video shot from way up high in Toronto.
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4 - Bright Young Chinese Artist
Hua Tunan (画图男) is a rising artist in China. With a name that roughly translates to "Painter Man", and by combining traditional Chinese art elements with a brash pop of color and culture, Hua is grabbing attention in a lot of circles, including Volvo (see below):
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5 - Russia's Avant-Garde Architecture
"Between 1922 and 1932, Soviet architects enjoyed one of the most fruitful decades of the century. Commissions were plentiful (some called it the “golden season”), and architects had amazing freedom to experiment with new ideas about how Socialism expressed itself at home and in the workplace. That all came to a severe halt in 1932, when Stalin consolidated Russia’s architects into one centralized, neoclassical school."
Chicago’s Graham Foundation hosts a new exhibit, The Lost Vanguard, collecting the images of Richard Pare, a photographer who sniffed out the fragments of this lost school of architecture in the fallen Soviet Union. More than 15,000 shots have been exhibited at MoMA and published in Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture 1922-1932.
A extended focus was put on the work of Konstantin Melnikov, his personal home--a cerebral, elegant cylinder punctured with diamond-shaped windows-- a favorite subject.
1 - Phantom HD for Skating
Being able to see all the time and movement details is one of the benefits of filming with an amazing Phantom HD camera. It makes this skateboarding downright magical.
2 - Lost Rivers: The Documentary
Here is a trailer for what looks like a fascinating exploration of the relationship between urban centers and the rivers that once supported them.
"Once upon a time, in almost every city, many rivers flowed. Why did they disappear? How? And could we see them again? This documentary tries to find answers by meeting visionary urban thinkers, activists and artists from around the world."
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3 - Ten Rupees: Portraits from India
A collection of portraits taken in India by Irish photographer Kevin Goss-Ross.
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There She Is by Linda Gregg
Lush Game of Thrones painted portraits
5 - NYC Timelapse (Complete with Heroic Speech and Music)
I have mixed feelings about laying a speech from Bobby Kennedy over this beautiful timelapse treatment of NYC. It IS stirring and inspiring. My feelings about the music are NOT mixed.
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There She Is by Linda Gregg
A Screenwriter - Philip Gawthorne
The Ancient Silk Road
2 - Art.sy - A Genome Project for the World of Art
Much like Pandora uses an analytical approach to mapping your tastes to their music offering, the new Art focused site Art.sy aims to map your taste in art to its art offerings.
"Art.sy’s goal is to expose as many people as possible to art. Currently, our growing collection comprises 17,000+ artworks by 3,000+ artists from leading galleries, museums, private collections, foundations, and artist estates. Art.sy works with 300+ of the world’s leading galleries, museums, private collections, foundations, and artist estates from New York to London, Paris to Shanghai, Johannesburg to São Paulo."
3 - Harsh First Reviews of Now Cherish Books
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
“It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.” – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The Atlantic, “Literature as an Art,” 1867
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The Great Gatsby is an absurd story, whether considered as romance, melodrama, or plain record of New York high life.” — L.P Hartley, The Saturday Review, 1925
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
“Mr. Melville is evidently trying to ascertain how far the public will consent to be imposed upon. He is gauging, at once, our gullibilty and our patience. Having written one or two passable extravagancies, he has considered himself privileged to produce as many more as he pleases, increasingly exaggerated and increasingly dull…. In bombast, in caricature, in rhetorical artifice — generally as clumsy as it is ineffectual — and in low attempts at humor, each one of his volumes has been an advance among its predecessors…. Mr. Melville never writes naturally. His sentiment is forced, his wit is forced, and his enthusiasm is forced. And in his attempts to display to the utmost extent his powers of “fine writing,” he has succeeded, we think, beyond his most sanguine expectations… We have no intention of quoting any passages just now from Moby-Dick. The London journals, we understand, “have bestowed upon the work many flattering notices,” and we should be loth to combat such high authority. But if there are any of our readers who wish to find examples of bad rhetoric, involved syntax, stilted sentiment and incoherent English, we will take the liberty of recommending to them this precious volume of Mr. Melville’s.” — New York United States Magazine and Democratic Review, 1852
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
“[American Psycho] is ”throughout numbingly boring, and for much of the time deeply and extremely disgusting. Not interesting-disgusting, but disgusting-disgusting: sickening, cheaply sensationalist, pointless except as a way of earning its author some money and notoriety.” — Andrew Motion, The Observer, 1991
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
On Where the Wild Things Are: “The plan and technique of the illustrations are superb. … But they may well prove frightening, accompanied as they are by a pointless and confusing story.” — Publisher’s Weekly, 1963
4 - Timelapse Along the Silk Road
Chris Northey shot these timelapses along the ancient Silk Road from China to Uzbekistan. Beijing and Xi'an in China, Turpan and Kashgar. Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Bukhara and Samarkand.
Read More5 - Chasing Ice, Offical Trailer
From PetaPixel:
In the spring of 2005, National Geographic photographer James Balog headed to the Arctic on a tricky assignment: to capture images to help tell the story of the Earth’s changing climate.
[...] Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet. Within months of that first trip to Iceland, the photographer conceived the boldest expedition of his life: The Extreme Ice Survey. With a band of young adventurers in tow, Balog began deploying revolutionary time-lapse cameras across the brutal Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers.
[...] It takes years for Balog to see the fruits of his labor. His hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate. Chasing Ice depicts a photographer trying to deliver evidence and hope to our carbon-powered planet.
1 - Surreal Photo Mosaics
There is something about these Composites by Patrick Winfield, (made up of individual instant photographs) that feel a lot like memory, shifting slightly with your gaze, fitting all together, the same and different. Lovely.
2 - The Neurology of Storytelling
From Brain Pickings coverage of The Moral Molecule: The Source of Love and Prosperity:
"Stories are powerful because they transport us into other people’s worlds but, in doing that, they change the way our brains work and potentially change our brain chemistry — and that’s what it means to be a social creature."
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3 - The Boy Who Wanted To Be A Lion
Animation has certainly shown itself to be capable of rich imagination and subtle expression (もののけ姫 (Princess Mononoke), for example) . This short animation from Alois Di Leo is moving and amazing:
"Max is a seven-year-old deaf boy growing up in the 1960s. One day he goes on a school trip to the zoo, where he sees a lion for the first time. A feeling begins to grow inside him that will change his life forever."
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Wall Toons
Created by the talented Joanne Lurie, in a street-animation style reminiscent of the legendary film Muto by Blu. joannalurie.com.
Truly outstanding, each frame has the same characters, in a different moment, on a different wall about Paris.
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1 - Charting All of LOST
“I think the ultimate motivation is to continue enjoying something that has already finished. Lostalgia…. On the other hand is a research about how information visualization can be used to tell stories,” Ortiz, the creator of the visualization tells us. “That idea (infoviz as storytelling tool) is not new at all, but in this project the use of storytelling is much more obvious because it’s actually a story re-telling (with summit in the view mode called 'reenactment’).”
View the Project: LOSTALGIA
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