Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
An illustrator, graphic designer and art director, Eiko Ojala lives in Tallinn, Estonia. His series Naked uses the barest of materials to create these stunning, sexy and simple figures.
See also The Form of the Body
Linguist David Crystal and his son, actor Ben Crystal explain the differences between English pronunciation now and how it was spoken 400 years ago.
We've seen the work of stenop.es before (here: http://5thin.gs/1ethIDc) but are always thrilled to see new videos displaying the simple gorgeous physics of the pinhole camera and the camera obscure.
Blue Ghost Fireflies, North Carolina
Photograph by Spencer Black
Shot in one continuous drone shot, and music recorded live, this Concert A Emporter from La Blogoteque is one of my favorites, and certainly being of Phoenix doesn't hurt none, either.
A lot of the processes and decisions I see being made in this urban planning video are familiar to me from User Experience. Fascinating and beautiful.
From the video page:
"Gensler teams around the globe spent the last year re-imagining the concept of a Town Square. This video documents the ideas and efforts of Gensler Los Angeles, who used Pershing Square as a case study for how to re-imagine Town Squares in every community."
photo by Penkdix Paime via National Geographic
Capcom has put together and extensive documentary about the Street Fighter games, players, history and culture.
See also Animated GIFs of Fighting Game Backgrounds
Singapore based photographer, Fong Qi Wei layered different photos of the same spot he shot within 2 to 4 hours, sequencing time in a single image.
See also Airplane Light Trails in Gorgeous Time-lapse from Singapore
Here Ulric Collette (we've seen his amazing Genetic Patch Portraits before) creates these creepy/awesome half-human/half-animal images in his project Therianthropes. Love them.
Nigerian photographer J.D. Okhai Ojeikere project "Hairstyles" captures nearly 1,000 different hairstyles — these "sculptures for a day" he finds on the street, at a weddings or at work.
Italian illustratorJacopo Ferretti has drawn all the stadiums of the UEFA Champions League finals from 1993 to 2013.
Artist Kim Pimmel created Compressed a series using macro lenses, time lapse photography, and magnetism.
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From the video page:
"Nearly 60 years to the day after the first ascent up Mount Everest, Russian extreme sport star Valery Rozov (48) flew off the north face of Mount Everest - the world's highest BASE jump ever - 7220 meters (23,688ft) above sea level."
This video shot at National Taiwan University (台大) barely seems real, it is so smooth.
Really just astounding. I have no idea how his skills compare to other tumblers, but I am certainly impressed.
I have a hard time conjuring in my mind an image other than a world map when it comes to Greenland.
from Willem Vandoorne:
"Impressions from a 25-day hiking and packrafting expedition through the wilderness of extreme Southern Greenland in july 2013. I started in Narsarsuaq, crossed over all the way to Tasermiut fjord, and continued with an 8-day loop east of Tasiusaq before finally paddling towards Nanortalik."