Kiel Johnson and his trademark uses of cardboard as material to erect very detailed cities, masks and objects has allowed him to travel the world under the giant creative wing of TED, the now international idea spreading speaking and activity series.
1 - Illuminated Landscapes
I feel that these photos from a series by Montreal-based photographer Benoit Paillé are begging to be made into an animated GIF. In fact let me do that now. See below.
2 - Holographic Water Show
3 - Simple Life Hacks
4 - “Faces: 105 of Cinema’s Most Beautiful Close-Ups”
Flavorwire and Flavorpill have made this little video essay:
“Faces: 105 of Cinema’s Most Beautiful Close-Ups”
Some of my favorites include Wong Kar-Wei's In the Mood For Love, The Tree of Life (cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki) and Hitchcock's Vertigo.
5 - Multiple Exposure Olympians
"And armed with Canon’s new DX camera that’s able to take 14 pictures a second, the robots are able to capture multiple-exposure shots of what the athletes actually do. "
1 - Capturing extreme skiing
2 - How do you and an Olympian compare?
What a fun interactive way to explore the physical data of this year's Olympics. Yay BBC Olympic Body Matcher.
Yao Ming
4 - Stylish Aerial Photography
“Michael Light is a San Francisco-based photographer, bookmaker, and pilot whose focus is the environment and how contemporary American culture relates to it.”
5 - Dubstep
Wait, wait! This is I what I always thought dubstep sounded like: angry androids arguing over fluorescent juice.
1- A 100-year Old Camera for Contemporary Portraits of Olympians
4×5-inch field camera and a 100+-year-old Petzval lens.
“Each black-and-white portrait was exposed onto black-and-white photographic paper, processed in a darkroom and scanned into a computer.”
2 - The 8-bit Games
3 - The Art of War: A graphic novel
The Art of War, the classic Chinese text from Sun-tze (孫子) has a graphic novel reboot with some truly stunning visuals in The Art of War: A Graphic Novel.
4 - Brick by Brick: Lego Reconstruction of USA v. France
"An animated reconstruction of highlights of the USA's first match of the tournament, in which the favourites beat France 98-71. The American team of multimillionaires includes Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony, and (with his trademark white headband) LeBron James, while the French side features fellow NBA stars Kevin Seraphin, Nicolas Batum, Boris Diaw and the goggles-wearing Tony Parker"
5 - Danse: Painted Animated GIFs
1 - Behind the scenes of famous movies
2 - Colorful Olympic Illustrations
Vivid and bright illustrations from Athens-based visual designer Charis Tsevis.
3 - Underwater Olympics Photography
A fleet of robotic underwater cameras are catching some of the best shots of the Olympics.
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4 - Gorgeous Paris Timelapse
5 - Ai Wei Wei: never sorry
You'd think that those folks in charge of handling dissidents and artists would learn early on that tactics meant to silence actually just amplify. Ai Wei Wei for example has reached a height as an international art figure not just on his work, but on what his work is opposed by. His complaints (even after being jailed for a couple of months) are available in English on https://twitter.com/aiwwenglish/
Here, American Alison Klayman, a first-time filmmaker living in China decided to follow Ai on film. It is a tale as much about his art as his way of being handled by the National government.
First-time American filmmaker Alison Klayman decided to follow Ai.