Nat Geo Traveler's 2012 Photo Contest winners.
2 - Light Painting Photo Mosaic
So, these light painting photo mosaics are beautiful. Also, the drawing in photos with light and then assembling into mosaics is about 3 levels of abstraction from the basic idea of photography. The artist Brian Matthew Hart has compiled quite a library of these phenomenal and laborious images.
3 - Video Projections Made Amazing with Cardboard Boxes
French artist Stéphane Malka put together this installation called BoomBox featured at the Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona. The simple and low-tech have amazing impact.
4 - Maniacal Laugh Supercut
5 - Wind Tunnel Acrobats
1 - Curiosity's Mars Landing Site in Pano
Remarkable hi-def 360-degree panorama of Mars Rover Curiosity's landing site.
3 - Secret Lives
Just love this photo series found on santlov.tumblr.com. A seemingly endless roll of funny and surprising action figures put in surprising situations. Great stuff.
4 - The Wizard of Meh: New From Pogo
Pogo makes a lot of fans very quickly with his catchy, clever, uncanny video mixing music making. Here is his latest. We've covered him before, and below are some of our favorites.
More Pogo Magic
Pogo's Take on Monster's Inc.
Pogo's Take on Pulp Fiction
Pogo Takes on Disney
5 - Children lay 1.8 million LEGOs to create map of Japan
Over 5,000 people in 6 different regions collaborated to create a gigantic map of Japan, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of LEGO's introduction into Japan.
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1 - An Airborne Humpback Whale
While working as a fishing guide in Tofino, British Columbia I had this humpback calf jump no more than 10 feet away from the boat. On our way in from fishing for halibut we noticed a few humpback whales playing in the distance and we stopped part way in to watch. It was quite an experience to see something completely airborn so close to the boat. The lucky thing was I got the photo I submitted a fellow boat also got a picture of the whale close to mid air and it was also all caught on video. Was an amazing day.
2 - Handcut Stop-motion Love Story
Technique and process have such a tremendous impact on the end result. The 7 months and 3,000 photos cut by hand required a different kind of commitment to decisions, big and small, than had the filmmakers simply popped the files into a program and rendered in a day.
3 - Martian Panorama
This astounding hi-def pano of Mars was taken by the Mars Rover Opportunity in July of this year.
4 - Blue - Dolphins up close
5 - Stunning St. Petersburg Timelapse
Other than its connection to Dostoyevsky and Coatzee, St. Petersburg has never registered high on my travel lists. This video just moved it up more than a few spots.
5 of the (roughly) 3,500 things I've learned these last two years
The very first 5 things post was two years ago today (August 11, 2010 in case you are interested). In that time we've met an incredible set of people, been priviledged enough to work with some of the most talented photographers and video folk. Thank you. For your talent, intelligence, support, encouragement and interest. All the best things are in front of us.
(McFadden Creative; DevereauChumrau.com; Aren't We Clever Productions; SethSherman.com; SouloVisual; Gabriel Hernandez Photos)
Here are the 5 most visited links from all of the posts we've made.
1. Star Wars Paintings
(from April 3, 2011)
2. Cinemagraphs
(from June 12, 2011)
3. Photoshopped Celebrity Body Art
(from June 26, 2011)
4. History of the World According to Wikipedia in 100 Seconds
(from March 21, 2011)
5. Abandoned Buildings of Paris
1 - Kinetic Toy Reactivated with Light
Just awesome. Tokyo art student Yasutoki Kariya created this sculpture/toy as part of his senior thesis exhibition at Musashino Art University.
2 - Photo-Palimpsestual Trees Look Like Impressionist Paintings
This isn't the first photo project where multiple images of the same subject are overlayed in a palimpsest - images bleeding through one another. (see the gorgeous composite self-portrait ).
These trees are stunning and are so remarkably like a painting. I want to see the same technique applied to lots of other things: cars, elephants, sailboats. Yeah.
3 - The Flying Baby
The flying baby is back. This is the second project I've seen from photographer Rachel Hulin.
4 - Upside-down Underwater Synchronized Swimmers
Such a simple little trick, but does entirely reorient the whole view.
5 - Journey Through Iceland
Iceland has long be on my list. And this timelapse piece by Henry Jun Lee Wah just moved it up a few slots.
