Dodgers fan Bobby Crosby films himself catching a home run at a Major League Baseball game. Over the past few years, he has filmed himself catching tens of home runs during the batting practice prior to games, holding his baseball glove in one hand and his camera in the other.
2 - An R/C Drone Mountain Climbing
A remoted-controlled quad-rotor drone follows climbers ascending Pakistan’s 20,623 foot Trango Tower. WIth accesible gear like this, actual mountain climbing expeditions can look as cinematic and gorgeous as theatrical ones.
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3 - 21-year Timelapse
A photo-a-day project for the first TWENTY-ONE YEARS of this kid's life. Take that Noah Kalina.
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POTD - The Kingfisher by Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver
The Kingfisher
by Mary Oliver
The kingfisher rises out of the black wave
like a blue flower, in his beak
he carries a silver leaf. I think this is
the prettiest world—so long as you don’t mind
a little dying, how could there be a day in your whole life
that doesn’t have its splash of happiness?
There are more fish than there are leaves
on a thousand trees, and anyway the kingfisher
wasn’t born to think about it, or anything else.
When the wave snaps shut over his blue head, the water
remains water—hunger is the only story
he has ever heard in his life that he could believe.
I don’t say he’s right. Neither
do I say he’s wrong. Religiously he swallows the silver leaf
with its broken red river, and with a rough and easy cry
I couldn’t rouse out of my thoughtful body
if my life depended on it, he swings back
over the bright sea to do the same thing, to do it
(as I long to do something, anything) perfectly.
Mary Oliver will certainly be a poet I often reach for. This first POEM OF THE DAY from Oliver shows her greatest strength: being a fearless and talented student of the world.
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4 - How A Whiskey Barrel is Made
Brown Forman Cooperage in Louisville, Kentucky where Jack Daniel’s whiskey barrels are made.
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5 - Van Gogh's Starry Night Recreated With Hubble Telescope Images
Harvard PhD student Alex Parker use the top 100 images from the Hubble telescope and a mosaic-making program to make this stunning version of Van Gogh’s masterpiece.
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1 - Hyperlapse
Panning, rotating, zooming, tilting, zooming alongside a speeding train, flying. These are not ordinary shots for a timelapse. Hyperlapse is apparently the term for such awesomeness.
The music being The Alley by DeVotchKa certainly helps in creating an impactful and moving experience. Put the video in full-screen HD if you can.
2 - Multiple Exposure Landmarks
German photographer Christian Ruhm transforms the familiar forms of world landmarks through multiple exposures.
3 - Urban Elements
Buildings and other various objects found in inner city surroundings are placed into a sketch paper blank backdrop in Urban Elements, a series of images by German photographer, Boris Loder.
4 - Trash Art
French artist Bernard Pras puts together trash and other found objects to make these big visual construction "paintings" .
5 - Duelling Photographers
"This is a photographic collaboration between photographers Timothy Burkhart and Stephanie Bassos. This double exposure project allows us to step back from having full control of the image making process and trust in one another while allowing coincidences to happen naturally on film. Stephanie exposes a full roll of 35mm film of only "people," and Timothy reloads the film again into the same camera, to imprint only "places" and locations to the same roll. These images are all the end result of our ongoing series and are unedited negatives straight from the camera."
I love this idea and love the images.
1 - Slow Motion Dancing for Peace
Genki Sudo a MMA UFC fighter/ Buddhist/ Writer/ Actor/ Dancer/ Musician has utilized all of his talents to create a music video smooth over the conflicts between Japan, Korea and China.
2 - Architecture Experiments
I began my educational career as an architecture student, and have always had a great deal of interest and affection for architecture, it's processes and materials, it's thought process and mindset.
This video details the goals and point of view of the MIT School of Architecture.
3 - Amazing African Wildlife Photography
German-born Klaus Tiedge's astounding set of wildlife photos from South Africa, Namibia and Botswana.
4 - Lots of Things I did not know but find interesting
These may or may not be facts, but if they ARE facts, they are interesting.
5 - Star Trail Timelapse
North Carolina-based photographer Daniel Lowe explains:
These scenes are created by stacking a sequence of long-exposure, high-resolution digital photographs in Adobe After Effects and allowing each photograph to linger on the screen for a short duration of time before fading.
1 - Literary Canon as Graphic Novels
Oh what a joy it is (for me anyway) to see some of my most loved stories, poems and novels given the graphic treatment. The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2: From "Kubla Khan" to the Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray brings together such favorites as Huck Finn, Moby Dick and Leaves of Grass. I think that for the ones I haven't read, the visuals rob me of the opportunity of imagining them myself. But for the ones I have read and imagined, it is so much fun to see a radical and fresh image.
Moby Dick, for example (perhaps my favorite of the bunch) is so radically different in the hands of artist Matt Kish, It is almost an invitation to have a conversation about what it is I did imagine on my own.
2 - Princess Bride Cast 25 years later
Well, I guess the opening SNES Baseball game scene DOES indicate it was a long time ago, but 25 years? Sheesh.
3 - Timeslice Composite Photos
This is a cool execution of the timeslice photos from photographer Richard Silver.
4 - Lightpainting Greatness from pre-digital 1970s
Decades ago American artist Eric Staller would find spots in the empty streets of New York City to use his Nikon 35mm SLR camera, sparklers and a set of Christmas lights.
He explains:
"New York City at night was an enchanting place for me. The plazas, bridges, parks and monuments, empty and eerily quiet at night, were dramatic stage sets waiting to be transformed. Transformed by my magic wand: the 4th of July sparkler. Late at night I drove around in a beat-up station wagon, looking for places and ideas to jump out at me. When the moment was right I set up my Nikon on a tripod and planned a choreography with light. Each sparkler lasted about a minute, so that was the amount of time I had to make the drawing. I would lock the camera shutter open, light the sparkler and quickly walk down the street, holding the sparkler at curb level, to complete the composition before the sparkler went out. I felt a strong sense of exhilaration, like running the 100-meter dash with a flaming torch! Getting the film back from the lab was even more exhilarating: it was magic, my presence was invisible! There was just this trail of liquid fire.
Suddenly I was drunk with the possibilities. I proceeded to outline everything for my photos: cars, trucks, streets, monuments. The energy was packed into one-minute performances. I worked through the night and although I was alone and even lonely, my romance for the city was sweet indeed. At dawn I would go to Fulton Street to watch the fishermen come in, or to the Lower East Side for the first hot bagels of the day."