The Aboriginal Cherry Blossom Festival brings together a large number of visitors to the Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village to see their 2,000 cherry blossom trees.
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Yeah these lego recreations of movie scenes and characters from 21-year-old Alex Eylar are so much fun.
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A collage of existing film fragments, released into my paper-folded version of Utrecht. Shot on a 7D and processed in After Effects.
Gideon van der Stelt collaged film fragments, superimposing them onto a paper model of the Dutch city of Utrect (where I was lucky enough to spend about half a year) in a video titled Verknipte tijden (Distorted Times).
The winch crew travel to Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin, for one of the most aesthetically pleasing wakeskating sessions you will ever see. Watch what happens when some of the world's best wakeskaters take over a cranberry bog. Don't worry, no Cranberries were wasted, or destroyed making this episode.
The whole process of harvesting cranberries is in of itself fascinating. That someone thought to flood the fields to take advantage of the float that healthy cranberries have is pretty ingenious.
And of course, Red Bull thought to film some star wakeboarders being winched across the bogs. Mesmerizing and amazing.
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A former software architect from Voronezh, Russia, Alexander Safonov currently lives and works in Discovery Bay, Hong Kong. His favorite spot is the yearly sardine run off the South African coast. More of his work on Flickr and 500px.
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Follow me: http://www.facebook.com/EdisProductions this video compiles all my favorite beautiful scenes from YouTube in recent of 2 months. Beautiful moments from nature, scenery, animals and action sports for Motivational and Inspirational purposes! #Soundtracks: 1. Steve Jablonsky - My Name Is Lincoln 2.
A compilation of the beautiful moments from the last 2 months of YouTube.
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Antony has written a new song about the corals 'RISE'. CORAL REKINDLING VENUS is major work for fulldome digital planetariums by acclaimed artist Lynette Wallworth. It is an extraordinary journey into a mysterious realm of fluorescent coral reefs, bioluminescent sea creatures and rare marine life, revealing a complex community living in the oceans most threatened by climate change. Website www.coralrekindlingvenus.com Download via donation or for free www.coralrekindlingvenus.com/rise Connect with us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/coralrkv Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/coralrekindling
Lynnete Wallworth made this beautiful video installation Coral, Rekindling Venus , which was selected to screen at the Sundance Film Festival this year.
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Photographer Tom Kualii brings us "Lava meets Ocean " an extraordinary series from the big island of Hawaii.
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On the 40th anniversary of the famous ‘Blue Marble’ photograph taken of Earth from space, Planetary Collective presents a short film documenting astronauts’ life-changing stories of seeing the Earth from the outside – a perspective-altering experience often described as the Overview Effect. The Overview Effect, first described by author Frank White in 1987, is an experience that transforms astronauts’ perspective of the planet and mankind’s place upon it. Common features of the experience are a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life, and a renewed sense of responsibility for taking care of the environment. ‘Overview’ is a short film that explores this phenomenon through interviews with five astronauts who have experienced the Overview Effect. The film also features insights from commentators and thinkers on the wider implications and importance of this understanding for society, and our relationship to the environment. CAST • EDGAR MITCHELL – Apollo 14 astronaut and founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences • RON GARAN – ISS astronaut and founder of humanitarian organization Fragile Oasis • NICOLE STOTT – Shuttle and ISS astronaut and member of Fragile Oasis • JEFF HOFFMAN – Shuttle astronaut and senior lecturer at MIT • SHANE KIMBROUGH – Shuttle/ISS astronaut and Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army • FRANK WHITE – space theorist and author of the book ‘The Overview Effect’ • DAVID LOY- philosopher and author • DAVID BEAVER – philosopher and co-founder of The Overview Institute ———- CREW Produced by: GUY REID, STEVE KENNEDY, CHRISTOPHER FERSTAD Director: GUY REID Editor: STEVE KENNEDY Director of Photography: CHRISTOPHER FERSTAD Original Score: HUMAN SUITS Dubbing Mixer: PATCH MORRISON ———- TECHNICAL INFORMATION Filmed with Canon 5D Mk ii. Additional footage from NASA / ESA archives Duration: 19 minutes ———- Planetary Collective: http://www.planetarycollective.com/ Overview Microsite: http://www.overviewthemovie.com/ Human Suits (original score): http://www.humansuits.com/ For more information: The Overview Institute: http://www.overviewinstitute.org/ Fragile Oasis: http://www.fragileoasis.org/
The original Blue Marble photo (to the right) is 40 years old now. I find it and this video extremely moving and oddly comforting.
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'Manhattan breaking apart in front of your eyes', says filmmaker James Balog. The largest iceberg calving captured on film.
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See how the world searched with Google's 2012 Zeitgeist: http://google.com/zeitgeist Music: "All I Want" by Kodaline Produced by Whirled Creative
Apparently, according to Google Zeitgeist the top most popular search for 2012 in the world are:
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When design is used not just to sell more widgets but to solve problems of the world, I am filled with a great deal of optimism. Here for example is the Gravity Light, meant to cleanly, safely and sustainably replace kerosene lamps.
"GravityLight is a revolutionary new approach to storing energy and creating illumination. It takes only 3 seconds to lift the weight which powers GravityLight, creating 30 minutes of light on its descent. For free."
GravityLight is a revolutionary new approach to storing energy and creating illumination. It takes only 3 seconds to lift the weight which powers GravityLight, creating 30 minutes of light on its descent. For free. Following the initial inspiration of using gravity, and years of perspiration, we have refined the design and it is now ready for production. We need your help to fund the tooling, manufacture and distribution of at least 1000 gravity powered lights. We will gift them to villagers in both Africa and India to use regularly. The follow-up research will tell us how well the lights met their needs, and enable us to refine the design for a more efficient MK2 version. To achieve this we launched a fundraising campaign on Indiegogo and we have been thrilled by the support shown during the first 24 hours of the campaign start. But it's not yet over we still need your support by contributing to the project and spreading the word. Contribute to this effort here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/282006/x/1848870
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These stunning photos were taken by University of Washington graduate student Jeff Bowman and his professor Jody Deming as the worked to combine oceanography, microbiology, and planetary sciences into their study in the the central Arctic Ocean on frost flowers, an amazing instance where frost grows in extreme sub-zero temperatures nearing -22C or -7.6F
from imperfections in the surface ice.
These spiky structures house microorganisms, not unlike a coral reef.
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Storytelling in photographs of Lego Men.... yeah, I love it.
Life's a S#!t sandwich is the side project of commercial photographer Bryan McLean.
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A visual response to Carl Sagan's famed 'Pale Blue Dot' monologue, where he muses on our planet's appearance in a photograph taken by the Voyager 1 space probe. The most distant photograph ever taken of Earth. A personal project designed and created in After effects with extensive sound work created in addition to the music from Cosmos and spoken word from Sagan. Have wanted to bring visuals to something by Sagan for some time and finished this after working on it periodically over the last 3 months. (Edit: Now with added grammar!) Thanks for taking the time to view. twitter.com/thisisorder www.facebook.com/thisisORDER www.thisisorder.com
"From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Consider again that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives."
A remarkable animation by studio ORDER.
Austria-based photographer Edgar Moskopp uses HDR to amazingly colorful effect.
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I was fortunate to view the eclipse from "The Granite' in far north Queensland this November. Inspired by Joe Cali's short but spectacular footage of the 2008 event (https://vimeo.com/51646602), I sought a high vantage point to capture the sweep of the shadow. Clear views north and east proved difficult to find, so I had to hike an 850m peak the night before and sleep on a rock ledge. The clip includes 3 timelapses at various focal lengths. The first used a constant exposure, while the latter 2 tracked the light in the final 2 minutes either side of C2/C3, using bulb scripting. Eclipse Orchestrator software managed the light curve, while the cameras were triggered by a custom microcontroller built by Thomas Bethel. Many thanks to Fred Bruenjes and Thomas Bethel. You can find out more about my eclipse experience here: https://www.facebook.com/ColinLeggPhotography
Australia had a solar eclipse last month. Photographer Colin Legg made this outstanding timelapse of it.
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Back in 1989, as the Berlin Wall fell, Gunther Holtorf and his wife Christine set out on what was meant to be an 18-month tour of Africa in their Mercedes Benz G Wagon. Now, with more than 800,000km (500,000 miles) on the clock, Gunther is still going.
With more than 800,000km on the odo,Gunther Holtorf is still going.
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about 2 or 3 hours drawing, not really sure about the duration. 12 x 12" , Finecolour marker, sakura micron pen and faber castell classic colour on 300gsm papper. recorded with iPhone 4s. song credit : The Wombats - Moving to new york ( Kyte remix )
27-year old Indonesian artist Elfan Diary draws a new portrait using art markers, Sakura Pigma Micron pen and Faber-Castell colored pencils.
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Kummakivi means "strange rock." It's an extremely rare natural phenomenon in Valtola Savoni, Finland. One enormous rock balanced on another, in the middle of the forest? Yeah, "strange".
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