Lightning Played in Super Slo-Mo

Incredible footage of a lightning strike slowed down. One strike of lightning (1 second) turns into 3 minutes of footage. See what few people ever see! Lightning physicist Vladislav Mazur and meteorologist Tom Warner watch a video of a lightning strike that has been slowed down so 1 second of footage is played back as 6 minutes of film.

Lightning happens in under a sec, but when shot at over 11,000 frames per sec, we can see all of the creeping details as it flashes through in over 3 minutes. Stunning.​

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Gorgeous Road Cycling Film Collection

http://www.rapha.cc/assynt "Well, the only way I see this happening is in an extended ride north. When I say that I mean a long, terrible, trying trip…" Wally Maclean, The Idea of North by Glenn Gould, 1967 Director Mark Jenkinson www.markjenkinson.tv Story Ultan Coyle & Max Leonard Cinematography Jose Gomez & Mark Jenkinson Editor Jose Gomez Producer Vicki Banwell Music & Sound Design Mark Adair, MassiveMusic London Story Read by Brendan McDonnell

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Rapha, a maker of cycling gear, has this ever-growing set of films about their Continentals, long, creative rides. This one, set in Scotland is a love poem both to riding and to the land.​

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All of them are quite good. Some of my favorites below are ​Vietnam, Cymru (Wales) and Australia.

http://www.rapha.cc/sapa-vietnam- Produced, Directed and Edited by Jon Moore. http://www.thedeck.tv Filmed by Jon Moore and Andrew Loiterton (ajlphoto.com), who also deserves thanks for the lenses and extra 5Ds! Sound design is by Aaron D'Arcy (riponstudios.com).

http://www.rapha.cc/the-bryan-chapman-memorial The UK Continental’s first journey of 2013 took our riders to Wales to investigate the route of the Bryan Chapman Memorial, a 600km audax and uniquely British type of endurance ride. The event is named after the late Bryan Chapman, an intrepid long-distance cyclist who often rode across Wales and back just to visit his mechanic. Credits Director: Mark Jenkinson - www.tinyurl.com/mark-jenkinson Shot & Edited by: Jose Gomez & Mark Jenkinson Music: Mark Adair Sound Design: Dan Weinberg Colourist: Mick Vincent Production Manager: Blandine Viollet Thanks too: Rogue Films, Tom Farley, The Mill, Chris Batten, Massive Music London, Paul Reynolds

http://www.rapha.cc/the-snowys The latest film from the Rapha Continental Australia was shot in the Snowy Mountains range, home to Mount Kosciuszko, the highest peak in Australia. Set to a haunting score and produced by The Sweetshop, The Snowys contrasts the traditional transport of the Aussie stockman, the horse, with the modern bicycle. Directed by Joel Harmsworth Edited by Michael Lutman (http://www.thebutchery.com.au) Music by Rob Law (http://www.robthelaw.com.au/) Produced by The Sweet Shop (http://www.thesweetshop.tv)

Oscillation Animation

My thesis animation done at School of Visual Arts, class of 2013, Computer Art MFA. Software used: Houdini (animation), Reason (music), Nuke (comp), After Effects (final render), Processing (pre-viz) A full description of the piece along with some still frames can be found at: dbsierra.com

MFA at the School of Visual Arts student Daniel Sierra made this experiment in animation for his thesis. Oscillate aims  “to visualize waveform patterns that evolve from the fundamental sine wave to more complex patterns, creating a mesmerizing audio-visual experience in which sight and sound work in unison.” 

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This Is Water - David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech at Kenyon College in 2005

In 2005, author David Foster Wallace was asked to give the commencement address to the 2005 graduating class of Kenyon College. However, the resulting speech didn't become widely known until 3 years later, after his tragic death.

In his way, David Foster Wallace cores down to the root of knowledge and knowing by talking about boredom and routine, supermarkets and traffic. His luminous mind, radiating even still. ​​And this is a video made by The Glossary makes it accessible again.

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Bioluminescence Surfing

Man's Best Media is back with another Red Tide video! As seen on ABC's World News Tonight on 9/30/11. Footage was shot in Encinitas, Carlsbad and Oceanside. Surfer: Joel Puckett Music by The Ruse, check em' out here: www.rusemusic.com And Winter Quarters, check em out here: http://www.facebook.com/winterquarters Shot & Edited by Loghan Call & Jonathan Keena. Man's Best Media www.mansbestmedia.com Copyright 2011, all rights reserved. Thanks for checking it out! Cheers!!!

As a grommet it was here,  in Encinitas, Carlsbad and Oceanside, that I cut my surfing teeth. I never got to surf in this glow, but had always heard rumors about it. And here it is. 
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Thanks, Orion Kraus for the find.​

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West of the Moon - The Collective Dreams of Children

Written, Directed, & Animated by Brent Bonacorso www.brentbonacorso.com Loosely based on several hundred interviews with children about their dreams, 'West of the Moon' is the story of one man's lost love and his strange path to redemption, aided along the way by a gambling robot, a wayward monkey, and a healthy dose of determination. Winner of Best Short film @ Santa Barbara International Film Festival Winner of Best Short film @ Aspen Shortsfest Winner of Best Short film @ Rushes Soho Shorts Festival Winner of Best Short film @ Carmel International Film Festival Winner of Best Short film @ Florida International Film Festival. Staring Jacob Whitkin, Michael Garbe, Amber Noelle, Christopher Tomaselli, and Michael Galvin Produced by Thom Fennessey Cinematography by Tarin Anderson Music by the ever-wonderful Devotchka Official Selection @ St. Louis Film Festival Official Selection @ Palm Springs Film Festival Official Selection @ Milwaukee International Film Festival Official Selection @ Worldwide Short Film Festival Official Selection @ Atlanta International Film Festival Official Selection @ Gold Coast International Film Festival Official Selection @ Maui International Film Festival Official Selection @ LA Shortsfest

I am in love with this short, poetic, dream-filled film.

Written, Directed, & Animated by Brent Bonacorso:

"Loosely based on several hundred interviews with children about their dreams, 'West of the Moon' is the story of one man's lost love and his strange path to redemption, aided along the way by a gambling robot, a wayward monkey, and a healthy dose of determination."

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Shooting a Stop-motion Video Through Drops of Water

Entropy is the randomness of the microscopic constituents of a thermodynamic system, and a measure of the loss of information in a transmitted signal or message. It is heat death, it is inevitable social decline and degeneration- in a closed system, it is accountable chaos. 2000 pictures compose this piece- that is, 2000 perfect different water drops into which we mapped an animation. Droplets that behave and look strangely similar at the stage of less entropy, and become more disordely as they splash. You can check out the making of here: vimeo.com/65155966 We have also started a new blog with this piece, with an in-depth post about it. You can read the long version here: In English: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-long-version/ In Spanish: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-version-larga/ or else have a peek to the shorter one: In English: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-short-version/ In Spanish: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-version-corta/ Credits: Direction & Production: Physalia Comissioned: IdN Magazine Audio: Cypheraudio Programming: Jordi Planas & Physalia Making Of Pictures: Albert Treblah ------------------------------------------------------- www.physaliastudio.com Join Physalia: facebook.com/pages/Physalia-Studio/312137322501?ref=ts

We've seen amazing things shot through falling drops of water before.​ But this is something different. Synchronizing  2,000 shots through falling drops of water to create this stop-motion promo for IdN Magazine is truly outstanding.

The video, “Entropy”, was created by Physalia. 

 They built a custom Arduino-based system to capture each drop in precisely the right spot.

The early tests and making-of video shed a lot of light on the amazing process. ​

Entropy is the randomness of the microscopic constituents of a thermodynamic system, and a measure of the loss of information in a transmitted signal or message. It is heat death, it is inevitable social decline and degeneration- in a closed system, it is accountable chaos. 2000 pictures compose this piece- that is, 2000 perfect different water drops into which we mapped an animation. Droplets that behave and look strangely similar at the stage of less entropy, and become more disordely as they splash. We have started a new blog with this piece, with an in-depth post about it. You can read the long version here: In English: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-long-version/ In Spanish: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-version-larga/ or else have a peek to the shorter one: In English: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-short-version/ In Spanish: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-version-corta/ Credits: Direction & Production: Physalia Comissioned: IdN Magazine Audio: Cypheraudio Programming: Jordi Planas & Physalia Making Of Pictures: Albert Treblah ------------------------------------------------------- www.physaliastudio.com Join Physalia: facebook.com/pages/Physalia-Studio/312137322501?ref=ts

Entropy is the randomness of the microscopic constituents of a thermodynamic system, and a measure of the loss of information in a transmitted signal or message. It is heat death, it is inevitable social decline and degeneration- in a closed system, it is accountable chaos. 2000 pictures compose this piece- that is, 2000 perfect different water drops into which we mapped an animation. Droplets that behave and look strangely similar at the stage of less entropy, and become more disordely as they splash. You can check the piece here: https://vimeo.com/59997489 We have started a new blog with this piece, with an in-depth post about it. You can read the long version here: In English: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-long-version/ In Spanish: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-version-larga/ or else have a peek to the shorter one: In English: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-short-version/ In Spanish: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-version-corta/ Credits: Direction & Production: Physalia Comissioned: IdN Magazine Audio: Cypheraudio Programming: Jordi Planas & Physalia Making Of Pictures: Albert Treblah ------------------------------------------------------- www.physaliastudio.com Join Physalia: facebook.com/pages/Physalia-Studio/312137322501?ref=ts