This is a project well worth revisiting. Half the face is from one relative, the other half from another. Just creepy and stunning and awesome from French photographer Ulric Collette.
1 - Bodyscapes
Put body forms into landscapes and apply body take pictures. Awesome. Jean Paul Bourdier is the author of Bodyscapes.
2 - Incredible Visualization of Asteroid Discovery
This motion visualization of the discovery of asteroids from 1980 to 2012. Watch it full screen at original resolution if you can.
3 - Stunning Light Projections on La Sagrada Familia
Antoni Gaudí's Barcelona masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia still sits unfinished, but this Saturday saw an amazing light show projected across is organic facade.
4 - Wearable Camera For Documenting Your Day
The Autographer can snap up to 2,000 high-resolution photos of the course of a single day, giving you a visual record of your life experiences. It is like a GoPro but timelapse (and probably less daredevilish).
5 - Animation as a Thought Experiment
One of my favorite things about essays are the opportunities for the writer and for us to suppose things. To think through ideas and concepts in exploration and experiment. Such experimentation can be seen in sketching too. But I have never seen animation be used as a tool for thought experiment. But that is exactly what this is. And it is mesmerizing.
Caution there are flashing lights in the video.
The artisit Phillipe Artus explains:
"The basic idea of the work is inspired by processes of exponential acceleration, which can be observed at different levels. Thus, the evolution of life proceeds at an extremely slow pace for more than 3 billion years, until it suddenly seems to explode in the Cambrian period. The tools of human beings progress relatively little during the Stone Age until there comes a rapid cultural development during the Holocene. Nowadays, a similar acceleration process is generated by the exchange of information through the internet. From this perspective, the exponential spiral on a snail shell may almost appear like a miraculous wink of nature."
Top 5 Things of the Week of Sept. 16, 2012
1 - A YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHER'S VISION
4 - BEVERAGES UNDER A MICROSCOPE
2 - JAPANESE UNDERWATER 'CROP CIRCLES'
3 - THE NORTH OF FINLAND
5 - DESCENDING TO LAVA LAKE
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
1 - Movie Scenes Brought to The World
The worlds in film meet the world at large on FILMography. A very clever idea, an inspiring idea.
Scent of a Woman, 1992
Three Days of the Condor, 1975
Fame, 1980
Any Wednesday, 1966
Maid in Manhattan, 2002
Thomas Crown Affair, 1999
Ghost, 1990
Ghostbusters, 1984
The Hangover Part II (2011)
Muppets Take Manhattan, 1984
Ideas
2 - Descending to Lava Lake
Whao. That is some roiling pool of liquid hot magma. And that guy (and the cameraman for that matter) are awfully close to it.
Ideas
3 - The Shuttle from its Chase Plane
It was pretty amazing to be able to see this flying outside my office window in Santa Monica, but from one of its chase planes, is even better. Feeling nostalgic for the Shuttle already. And here are some videos of its landing at LAX too.
Ideas
4 - The Covers of the Hobbit
The Hobbit was first published in the U.K. in 1937, that's 75 years ago. It was been reprinted a number of times and in a number of languages. The range of the cover styles is pretty interesting and a bit surprising.
And of course with the movies coming, there is a movie tie-in cover (see to the right).
5 - A Young Photographer's Vision
Currently based in Chicago, Amelia Fletcher is a young photographer with a clear vision, and her self-portrait project is both dark and bright, sexy and contemplative, and overall it's interesting.
1 - A Boy, His Train and Space
A father and son team build a rig to send his favorite toy train into space and film the whole thing. In father, Ron Fugelseth’s own words:
"My 4 year old and Stanley are inseparable like Calvin and Hobbes. He’s been attached to him since he was two, and they play, sleep and do everything together. I animated Stanley’s face with After Effects and Photoshop to bring him to life how I imagine my son sees him."
2- Lightning Strikes the Three Tallest Chicago Buildings At the Same Time
Just amazing.
3 - Tilt-shift Timelapse of Singapore
The very beautiful Singapore is presented in this tilt-shift timelapse. The selective focus that is the hallmark of tilt-shift is used pretty aggressively here.
4 - Undercity - Exploring under NYC
The world of the mole people is passed, but there are still amazing things under the city,
5 - Japanese Underwater 'Crop Circles'
What a fantastic answer to the mystery of these underwater 'crop circles' found off the coast of Japan. The whole story is over at Spoon and Tamago.
"While diving in the semi-tropical region of Amami Oshima, roughly 80 ft below sea level, Ookata spotted something he had never seen. And as it turned out, no one else had seen it before either."
It turnes out these mysterious and organic shapes are the work of a small little pufferfish and is probably a mating ritual. And in fact it seems it is a sort of nest building, the mounds and ridges are meant to protect eggs from currents.
1 - Pilot View Timelapse
Really one of the first times I've ever had the urge to learn to fly a plane.
2 - The Story of an Early Color Photographer
A great digital storytelling of an obscure early photographer shooting in color. You should click through to hear the narrated story.
4 - The North of Finland
Well, I guess I need to book tickets to Scandanavia soon, because this in another on the list of the stirring videos of the place. This time of Finland.
