Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Macro Shots of Drops of Water on the Heads of Insects
26-year-old photographer based in Tel Aviv, Dmitriy Yoav Reinshtein has created quite the astounding set of gorgeous macro photos of insects.
Tilt-shift + Timelapse + Animation: Bless You
Mixing tiltshit timelapse footage with animation creates this enormously fun and funny short film: Bless You.
Nyango
Personal Portraits of Apes
Yesterday we looked at James Mollison's Where Children Sleep, and today, we are visiting one of his other amazing series: James & Other Apes.
He traveled to Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia to photograph orphans of the bush meat trade and live pet trade.
Kitwiti
Pumbu
Koto
Gregoire
Wendy
Ominou
Wazak
Simon
Tatango
Talliane
Lulu
Refractographs
Supercut: Characters with their Backs to the Camera
From the Vimeo page:
MOVIES:
00:05 - The Aviator
00:10 - The Legend of 1900
00:12 - Synecdoche, NY
00:15 - The Shining
00:17 - Beyond the Black Rainbow
00:19 - Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
00:22 - Baraka
00:24 - Walk The Line
00:25 - The Runaways
00:26 - The Fifth Element
00:28 - Dark City
00:29 - Hamlet
00:30 - Network
00:31 - Black Swan
00:34 - Lenny
00:35 - Dennis Leary: No Cure For Cancer
00:36 - Bronson
00:37 - Fantasia
00:38 - Southland Tales
00:40 - The Iron Lady
00:41 - Hugo
00:43 - The Searchers
00:45 - Prometheus
00:48 - Event Horizon
00:50 - The Fifth Element
00:53 - Doctor Who: S01E02
00:55 - Sunshine
00:57 - Tron Legacy
01:00 - Stargate
01:02 - Starman
01:04 - Kundun
01:07 - Enter The Void
01:09 - Inglorious Basterds
01:11 - Watchmen
01:14 - Sin City
01:16 - Gangster No. 1
01:18 - L.A. Confidential
01:21 - Christine
01:23 - Hero
01:26 - House of Flying Daggers
01:28 - Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
01:31 - Predators
01:33 - Alexander
01:35 - Kingdom of Heaven
01:37 - There Will Be Blood
01:40 - The Cell
01:42 - Valhalla Rising
01:45 - Snow White and the Huntsman
01:47 - Alexander
01:49 - Immortals
01:52 - John Carter
01:54 - Troy
01:57 - Thor
01:59 - The Matrix Revolutions
02:04 - The Abyss
02:08 - Event Horizon
02:13 - Watchmen
02:18 - Another Earth
02:23 - Take Shelter
02:27 - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
02:32 - Constantine
02:37 - War of the Worlds
02:46 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
02:48 - Knowing
02:51 - Hero
02:53 - 300
02:56 - Take Shelter
03:01 - Beasts of the Southern Wild
03:03 - The Proposition
03:06 - Snow White and the Hunstman
03:08 - Interview with the Vampire
03:10 - Alice in Wonderland
03:13 - Heat
03:15 - Rendezvous with Rama (Vancouver Film School trailer)
03:17 - Star Trek Generations
03:19 - Minority Report
03:22 - Skyline
03:25 - Inception
03:27 - X-Men: First Class
03:30 - Carrie (2002)
03:32 - The Day the Earth Stood Still
03:34 - Hamlet
03:36 - Valhalla Rising
03:39 - Jericho S01E01
03:41 - The Divide
03:44 - Dark City
03:46 - The Day the Earth Stood Still
03:48 - Mission to Mars
03:51 - Life of Pi
03:52 - The Fountain
03:58 - Fight Club
04:03 - Pan's Labyrinth
04:07 - The Empire Strikes Back
04:12 - Gone with the Wind
04:22 - What Dreams May Come
Putty Made of Magnetic Stuff Makes for Some Trippy Putty
Magnetic putty is a lot like ferrofluids (Trippy Watercolor and Ferrofluid Photos July 5, 2012): magnetic particles suspended in a mixture. In the case of magnetic putty, it's thicker: you can mold and shape it with your hands and it will maintain its form.
But put it near a magnet, and look at it come to life. A bit creepy. Totally trippy.
Kinectic Art: Vibrating Rope Reveals the Spectrum
Paul Friedlander, a British artist and physicist, creates these pieces light and motion by rapidly rotating a piece of string through white light. The rope, invisible to the human eye while vibrating so quickly, reveals otherwise invisible bands of color.
Friedlander:
"I decided to focus on kinetic art: a subject in which I could bring together my divided background and combine my knowledge of physics with my love of light. In 1983, at London's ICA, I exhibited the first sculptures to use chromastrobic light, a discovery I had made the previous year. Chromastrobic light changes color faster than the eye can see, causing the appearance of rapidly moving forms to mutate in the most remarkable ways."
ARCHICULTURE: A Film Articulating the Way Architecture Education Can and Does Work
I began my higher education as an architecture student, in love with the notion that form and beauty and structure, human experience, behavior of the materials of the world can all be invoked in a single set of decisions. Still in love with it, apparently: not just the product of architecture, but the process.
Here is the trailer for Archiculture, a film premiering in a few weeks out here in Southern California at the Newport Beach Film Festival.
And, whenever I am given the chance, I like to again share the amazing 6-part BBC documentary from Stewart Brand's book How Buildings Learn. I have watched the whole series scores of times and never get tired of it.
Slo-Mo Video of a Lethal Snake Biting a Water Balloon
From the BBC EARTH youtube page:
"A viper's strike is captured in slow motion, showing how awesome it is. Great HD clip from Deadly 60 series 2, hosted by Steve Backshall."
New Zealand in Gorgeous Timelapse
New Zealand sure is pretty...
Equipped with Canon 5D Mark II, photographer Bevan Percival brings us this absolutely gorgeous landscape timelapse of the country.
Old Photos of China
The Library of Congress has a putting extensive collection of photos of China and Chinese migrants from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Thread and Nail Portraits by Kumi Yamashita
Artist Kumi Yamashita made this portrait from ONE length of thread wrapped aroung a series of nails. She also mead Mother #2, a panel of black denim with threads carefully cut from the fabric to form an image.
Stunning Night Sky Photos from Aaron Groen
Aaron Groen (and his GREAT 500px portfolio: http://500px.com/AaronGroen), Souix Falls based photographer, has an outstanding collection of photos of the night sky.
PSY's new video: Gentleman
The uber-mega-pop star continues his satirical ways with Gentleman.
Layers of Cut Paper Create Unfathomable Forms
Paper artist Charles Clary lays strata after strata of carefully cut paper to create these organic 3-dimensional forms.
From the artist: “I use paper to create a world of fiction that challenges the viewer to suspend disbelief and venture into my fabricated reality. By layering paper I am able to build intriguing land formations that mimic viral colonies and concentric sound waves. These strange landmasses contaminate and infect the surfaces they inhabit transforming the space into something suitable for their gestation. Towers of paper and color jut into the viewer’s space inviting playful interactions between the viewer and this conceived world. These constructions question the notion of microbial outbreaks and their similarity to the visual representation of sound waves, transforming them into something more playful and inviting.”
Sun Light Sculptures from James Nizam
Artist James Nizam precisely cut the exterior of the house, employed small mounted mirrors on ball joints, and studied the summer sun's movement to create these light sculpture and capture these normal exposure images.
Crisp Photos of Liquid Art
German photographer Markus Reugels has developed a process that lets him capture these stunning, vibrant and sharp photos of splashes of colored liquid.
Arcade Games Animated in Post-It Notes
From the project video:
"This stop motion tribute to my 2 favorite old school arcade games is based on actual recorded game footage. The recordings were printed out, one frame at a time, and transferred by hand to various walls around my office floor using thousands of Post-It Notes. The process consumed weekends and holidays for the past 11 months. Changing background scenery was masked out and replaced with 1 consistent frame throughout the animation, producing an eerie stillness amid the moving images on the walls."
Animals Having Or Becoming Dinner
The circle of life makes for some dramatic photos, from some fantastic photographers...
