Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Cameroon v. France - World Cup Kit Design Showdown
To my surprise, with an initial lead, France is beating Cameroon pretty handily in the Round of 32 matchup on the World Cup Kit Design Showdown. I do like the French kit's simplicity, but the Cameroon Home Jersey seemed to me an obvious choice.
Do you agree with me? Or with the polling?
Aerial Footage from Photographer Cássio Vasconcellos
We've seen Vasconcellos' Brazilian Scenes from the Air before, but here is a stunning video from his vantage point.
Roomba Light Painting Timelapse from Sunchaser Pictures
We've seen some amazing timelapses from Sunchaser Pictures before: Death Valley Dreamlapse.
But here, they take that same technical prowess and turn it on to a Roomba. Awesome.
Gavin Heffernan of Sunchaser Pictures:
'I recently purchased an awesome IRobot roomba vacuum cleaner (as part of my neverending quest to make household chores tolerable). After watching the cute little circular robot zoom across our floors with endless gusto, I decided to try and attach different lights to the top and shoot some timelapses."
Croatia v. Portugal - World Cup Kit Design Showdown
With a whole universe of World Cup Football Jerseys, it has come time to pick the winner from a design point of view. So we bring you, the World Cup Kit Design Showdown.
So get it there and vote on your picks and get your friends to vote so you can see how your opinions are so much better.
Colored Ink Mixing in High-Speed Photos by Alberto Seveso
Alberto Seveso stunning new series, Blackground, uses high-speed photography to explore the ways different colored inks mix with water that looks almost organic
Fireflies in Timelapse by Vincent Brady
2013 at Lake of the Ozarks and Grand Ledge, Michigan, Vincent Brady shot these gorgeous firefly timelapses.
Post Match by Leo Fitzmaurice
British artist Leo Fitzmaurice has been working on his Post Match for more than a decade, connecting in tiny and witty little football jerseys made of cigarette packs two worlds not that far away: sport and business.
Tiny World Animations
The CG team at Rushes animates ‘Tiny Worlds’, three short films of the hidden worlds under our gaze.
See also Miniature Foodscapes by photographers Pierre Javelle and Akiko Ida »
100,000 Stars - Great Chrome Experiment
From the Project:
"100,000 Stars is an interactive visualization of the stellar neighborhood created for the Google Chrome web browser. It shows the location of 119,617 nearby stars derived from multiple sources, including the 1989 Hipparcos mission. Zooming in reveals 87 individually identified stars and our solar system. The galaxy view is an artist's rendition based on NGC 1232, a spiral galaxy like the Milky Way."
A Breakdancer's Freeze Tour of Paris
Hip-hop dancer Kapstand has begun a plan to get photographed doing a freeze (a sudden stopped motion in breakdancing) handstand in front of the world's landmarks with a tour of his Paris.
Animal Sculptures Made of Ocean Debris by Gilles Cenazandotti
Artist Gilles Cenazandotti collects plastic debris washed ashore and creates a bestiary of recycled waste animals.
Cenazandotti:
"Impressed by everything that the Sea, in turn, rejects and transforms, on the beaches I harvest the products derived from petroleum and its industry. The choice of animals that are part of the endangered species completes this process. In covering these animals with a new skin harvested from the banks of the Sea, I hope to draw attention to this possible metamorphosis - to create a trompe l'oeil of a modified reality."
Beautiful Wooden Stop-Motion Music Video - Colourblind
Australian animation firm Oh Yeah Wow (we've seen their work before for Gotye's Easy Way Out) working with geometric pieces of wood gorgeously illustrate the music video for the single Colourblind by Elliot the Bull.
Europe 24 - A Day of Europe's Air Traffic Beautifully Visualized
The UK's main provider of air traffic control services, NATS, visualizes beautifully how complex and busy European airspace is.
"Airspace might be the invisible infrastructure, but it is every bit as important as the road, rail and utility networks we all rely on everyday. It is the lifeblood of our island economy, connecting the UK to the rest of the world. Getting it right matters and we all have a stake in it. That’s why we created this data visualization showing a typical summer’s day of air traffic from last year. It’s an amalgamation of two data sources – UK radar data from 21 June and European flight plan information from 28 July – and it clearly highlights the structure of airspace across the continent. A few highlights include the North Atlantic tracks that connect Europe with North America, the airways that run up the spine of the UK, the holding stacks at London’s capacity stretched airports and the military manoeuvres off Anglesey in Wales. We hope you enjoy it and that is acts as a small reminder of the incredible work air traffic controllers, working with pilots and ground crew, do every single day."
Walking up 30 Meters of High Mast at High Speed - The Mast Walk by Alex Thomson
Alex Thomson is a solo-round-the-world yachtsman, so the 30-meter climb up the high mast of the moving ship is probably no big thing for him.
He is after all the same guy in the very iconic Keel Walk image from a year or so ago [below].
Fun and Delicious Food Maps by Henry Hargreaves and Caitlin Levin
New Zealand artist Henry Hargreaves American stylist Caitlin Levin created these well styled maps out of foods that are in some way connected with the lands they represent.
Henry:
"These maps show how food has traveled the globe - transforming and becoming a part of the cultural identity of that place. Who doesn't know the saying 'throw some shrimp on the barbie' and not think of Australia? Who goes to France without eating bread and cheese? And who makes a Brazilian caipirinha without a fistful of limes?
"These maps are a playful representation of our interpretation of food from around the world, painstakingly created with real unadulterated food. This project speaks to the universality of how food unites people, brings us together and starts conversation - just as we hope these beautiful maps will do too."
Animating The World - Hombre McSteez
With, as he say on his tumblr, a little transparency, a sharpie and some whiteout, Hombre McSteez (aka Marty Cooper) brings his wit and humor into the ordinary day. I can't wait to see where he goes with this.
International Football Transfers Visualized from 1900 - 2013
Powered by data of ten of thousands of international player transfers, this INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION lets you browse the history of the global football market.
As we focus on all the teams of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, understanding the international experience of each squad is an important bit of information.
Korea Football Association (대한축구협회) - World Cup Country in Focus
FIFA Ranking: 53
GROUP H: with Algeria, Belgium and Russia
- 6/17 v. Russia
- 6/22 v. Algeria
- 6/26 v. Belgium
Captain - Lee Chung-Yong
Top Scorer - Park Chu-Young
46 Koreans playing abroad
Korean Poets
Korean Artists
Tires Recycled into Sinister and Sinewy Sculptures by Yong Ho Ji
Mechanical Buddhas by Zong Zi Won
Angkor Mandala Sequence - A Kaleidoscopic Video Tour By Antal Gabelics
From the project page:
"Originally reserved for religious activities, these structures are now some of the greatest tourist attractions in the world. These timelapse-loop videos meld the experience of tourism at Angkor into surreal, kaleidoscopic images and sequences inspired by Theravada Buddhist mandalas, in which the frenetic activity of backpack-toting tourists passes like the shadows of ever moving clouds over the weathered, ancient stones."
