Wandering a dark forest, a solitary creature encounters something unknown with only curiosity to lead the way. Gloam is a short film by David Elwell & Gareth Hughes. Character / Shot Breakdowns - https://vimeo.com/50518068 David - https://twitter.com/davidelwell Gareth - https://twitter.com/goodworkson
If you are a fan of Hayao Miyazaki's great films, especially ones like Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away, then I bet you'll like this animated sequence called GLOAM. It's got a lot of the creepy wonderful imagery I love so much from Miyazaki.
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Archaic Torso of Apollo
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
We cannot know his legendary head
with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso
is still suffused with brilliance from inside,
like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low,
gleams in all its power. Otherwise
the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could
a smile run through the placid hips and thighs
to that dark center where procreation flared.
Otherwise this stone would seem defaced
beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders
and would not glisten like a wild beast's fur:
would not, from all the borders of itself,
burst like a star: for here there is no place
that does not see you. You must change your life.
The steady eye of RIlke and his ability to bring the invisible just to the edge of visibility have always made him some one I always feel I can feast on.
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Faint Music
by Robert Hass
Maybe you need to write a poem about grace.
When everything broken is broken,
and everything dead is dead,
and the hero has looked into the mirror with complete contempt,
and the heroine has studied her face and its defects
remorselessly, and the pain they thought might,
as a token of their earnestness, release them from themselves
has lost its novelty and not released them,
and they have begun to think, kindly and distantly,
watching the others go about their days—
likes and dislikes, reasons, habits, fears—
that self-love is the one weedy stalk
of every human blossoming, and understood,
therefore, why they had been, all their lives,
in such a fury to defend it, and that no one—
except some almost inconceivable saint in his pool
of poverty and silence—can escape this violent, automatic
life’s companion ever, maybe then, ordinary light,
faint music under things, a hovering like grace appears.
As in the story a friend told once about the time
he tried to kill himself. His girl had left him.
Bees in the heart, then scorpions, maggots, and then ash.
He climbed onto the jumping girder of the bridge,
the bay side, a blue, lucid afternoon.
And in the salt air he thought about the word “seafood,”
that there was something faintly ridiculous about it.
No one said “landfood.” He thought it was degrading to the rainbow perch
he’d reeled in gleaming from the cliffs, the black rockbass,
scales like polished carbon, in beds of kelp
along the coast—and he realized that the reason for the word
was crabs, or mussels, clams. Otherwise
the restaurants could just put “fish” up on their signs,
and when he woke—he’d slept for hours, curled up
on the girder like a child—the sun was going down
and he felt a little better, and afraid. He put on the jacket
he’d used for a pillow, climbed over the railing
carefully, and drove home to an empty house.
There was a pair of her lemon yellow panties
hanging on a doorknob. He studied them. Much-washed.
A faint russet in the crotch that made him sick
with rage and grief. He knew more or less
where she was. A flat somewhere on Russian Hill.
They’d have just finished making love. She’d have tears
in her eyes and touch his jawbone gratefully. “God,”
she’d say, “you are so good for me.” Winking lights,
a foggy view downhill toward the harbor and the bay.
“You’re sad,” he’d say. “Yes.” “Thinking about Nick?”
“Yes,” she’d say and cry. “I tried so hard,” sobbing now,
“I really tried so hard.” And then he’d hold her for a while—
Guatemalan weavings from his fieldwork on the wall—
and then they’d fuck again, and she would cry some more,
and go to sleep.
And he, he would play that scene
once only, once and a half, and tell himself
that he was going to carry it for a very long time
and that there was nothing he could do
but carry it. He went out onto the porch, and listened
to the forest in the summer dark, madrone bark
cracking and curling as the cold came up.
It’s not the story though, not the friend
leaning toward you, saying “And then I realized—,”
which is the part of stories one never quite believes.
I had the idea that the world’s so full of pain
it must sometimes make a kind of singing.
And that the sequence helps, as much as order helps—
First an ego, and then pain, and then the singing.
This video is a collaboration between Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty. All timelapses were shot on the Canon 5D Mark II with a variety of Canon L and Zeiss CP.2 Lenses. Project Yosemite Website: http://projectyose.com Facebook Page: http://facebook.com/projectyose Twitter: twitter.com/projectyose Contact info: info@projectyose.com Thanks to Dynamic Perception for their motion controlled dolly and continued support! Dynamic Perception Website: http://dynamicperception.com Track: Outro Album: Hurry Up, We're Dreaming Artist: M83 Site: http://ilovem83.com Publishing: http://emimusicpub.com Licensing: http://bankrobbermusic.com This whole project has been an amazing experience. The two of us became friends through Vimeo and explored a shared interest in timelapsing Yosemite National Park over an extended period of time. We'd like to expand this idea to other locations and would appreciate any suggestions for a future project. Project Yosemite was featured as a main story on Yosemite National Park's Spring Newsletter.: http://www.yosemitepark.com/timelapse-sprnews-2012.aspx To view this in 2K, visit: http://youtu.be/OwFbjJasW3E Be sure to change the quality settings to 'Original'. Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/SheldonNeill https://twitter.com/#!/delehanty Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sheldon.neill http://www.facebook.com/delehanty Behind The Scenes: http://vimeo.com/35223326 By Dalton Runberg Our hearts go out to the families of Markus Praxmarer who lost his life while climbing Half Dome on September 19th, 2011 and Ranger Ryan Hiller, who was crushed by a tree January 22nd 2012. They will be missed. (A photo of Ranger Ryan Hiller can be found to the right, above the statistics counter)
Actually reposting this from 5thin.gs/january-23-2012. It was one of the first timelapses that just seemed to begged to be placed on a map like this.
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apnea / freediving in Regensburg - Westbad ;-) ich bedanke mich für die Hilfe von Eddy ;-)))
Why have I never learned to do this?
This video shows the result of a photographic journey to berlin from 12 may - 18 may 2012. I´ve spent 6 days in Berlin with excessive work, but the last 4 months were even harder. Whenever I had some time, I had to import and customize the NEF files before I equalized them with the great LR-Timelapse from Gunther Wegner. (Adobe Lightroom is necessary) The observed jpeg had then to be droped into virtual dub and were rendered as avi. When this was done, I had to stabilize the sequenzes manually frame by frame (AE motion tracker) and rendered each of them in 3 different sizes: (4928x3264 pixels, 1920x1080 pixels, 1024x768 pixels) Last but not least the snippets were edited fitting to the beautiful title "Diving Through The Blue" by the respectable composer and musician Valentin Boomes. requests for licensing footage: www.b-zOOmi.com facebook.com/b.zOOmi requests for licensing music: www.valentin-boomes.de facebook.com/ValentinBoomes.Composer equipment: -Nikon D7000 -lense 18mm - 105mm -lense 70mm - 300mm -simple tripod great thanks to Thanit Areerasd _____________________________________________________________________________________ deutsch: Dieses Video zeigt das Resultat einer Fotoreise nach Berlin vom 12.Mai - 18.Mai 2012. Ich verbrachte dort 6 Tage mit intensiver Arbeit, jedoch waren die letzten 4 Monate sogar noch härter. Immer wenn Zeit war, galt es die NEF Dateien zu importieren und zu bearbeiten, und mit dem wunderbaren LR-TIMELAPSE von Gunther Wegner anzugleichen, (Adobe Lightroom notwendig) anschließend als jpeg rauszurechnen, die jpeg danach in VIRTUAL DUB zu laden, die Sequenzen als avi rauszurendern, die avis manuell frame für frame noch zusätzlich zu stabilisieren, (AE motion tracker) dann jeweils in 3 Auflösungen (4928x3264 pixel, 1920x1080 pixel, 1024x768 pixel) rauszurendern um sie dann zu guter Letzt auf den schönen Titel "Diving Through The Blue" vom ehrenwerten Komponisten Valentin Boomes zu schneiden.. Videolizens nach Anfrage: www.b-zOOmi.com facebook.com/b.zOOmi Musiklizens nach Anfrage: www.valentin-boomes.de facebook.com/ValentinBoomes.Composer Ausrüstung: -Nikon D7000 -Objektiv 18mm - 105mm -Objektiv 70mm - 300mm -Einfaches Stativ Großer Dank an Thanit Areerasd
6 days in Berlin from b-zoomi.
The Gate by Marie Howe
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Turn up your speakers. enjoy. ---------------------------------------------- When I started timelapse photography a year ago I thought it would be something I could just jump right into and master, as I've been taking stills for nearly a decade now. But I was quickly humbled by the medium as I struggled to put together worthwhile footage after repeated early attempts. This, I realized, was a whole other animal. Over and above all the technical challenges — motion control gear, constantly changing light, aperture flicker — shooting a timelapse forces you to look inside: after setting up your shot, there’s often not much you can do for hours, but sit up there and ponder while the camera does it's thing. The relationship between the cold glass, steel and concrete below coupled with the often majestic clouds, sky and sun/moon never ceases to be a source of wonder. And so the purpose of what you’re doing becomes a frequent question in your mind. With City Rising I wanted to bring others up to this perspective, and from here, show them the city as they have never seen it before — where the boundary between earth and sky is unclear and the placid beauty of the city lays spread out below, quietly humming along. City Rising takes the viewer straight through rush hour traffic to the highest urban peaks and the clouds above it all, all in under four minutes. Music- Hans Zimmer - Journey to the Line https://www.facebook.com/blursurfing http://www.tomryaboi.com/ https://twitter.com/R00ftopper
Tom Ryaboi brings us this stunning timelapse video shot from way up high in Toronto.
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Hua Tunan (画图男) is a rising artist in China. With a name that roughly translates to "Painter Man", and by combining traditional Chinese art elements with a brash pop of color and culture, Hua is grabbing attention in a lot of circles, including Volvo (see below):
This June 2012 Volvo Switzerland turned Zurich Main Station into an open street art studio for the second time. Seven Chinese artists were painting, spraying and restyling the new Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid. At this extraordinary art event they expressed their interpretation of tomorrow's sustainable mobility, while also giving an exciting insight into China's contemporary art scene.
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"Between 1922 and 1932, Soviet architects enjoyed one of the most fruitful decades of the century. Commissions were plentiful (some called it the “golden season”), and architects had amazing freedom to experiment with new ideas about how Socialism expressed itself at home and in the workplace. That all came to a severe halt in 1932, when Stalin consolidated Russia’s architects into one centralized, neoclassical school."
Chicago’s Graham Foundation hosts a new exhibit, The Lost Vanguard, collecting the images of Richard Pare, a photographer who sniffed out the fragments of this lost school of architecture in the fallen Soviet Union. More than 15,000 shots have been exhibited at MoMA and published in Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture 1922-1932.
A extended focus was put on the work of Konstantin Melnikov, his personal home--a cerebral, elegant cylinder punctured with diamond-shaped windows-- a favorite subject.
Richard Pare comments on Russian architect Konstantin Melnikov's house in Moscow. He made these comments in April of 2009 during the exhibition The Lost Vanguard, held at Lumiere in Atlanta Georgia. The exhibition was first shown at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, 2007. All color images of the Melnikov house are photographs by Richard Pare ©, and are available for purchase. Please contact Lumiere with all inquires, info@lumieregallery.net, or 404-261-6100. Photo and Model credit: Konstantin Melnikov’s Soviet Pavilion at the Paris International Exhibition of Decorative Arts 1925 Model reconstruction by Henry Milner
Def Summer Promo - Shot entirely on the Phantom Camera by Daryl Habraken and Hamish Trott at phantomeffect.com Directed by Gilda Kirkpatrick and Leighton Dyer at Rascals.co.nz Edited by Shane Lin Starring Toby Locke and Brett Band at def.co.nz
Being able to see all the time and movement details is one of the benefits of filming with an amazing Phantom HD camera. It makes this skateboarding downright magical.
Once upon a time, in almost every city, many rivers flowed. Why did they disappear? How? And could we see them again? This documentary tries to find answers by meeting visionary urban thinkers, activists and artists from around the world. Written & Directed by Caroline Bâcle Produced by Katarina Soukup Catbird Films, Inc (Montreal, Canada) http://facebook.com/LostRiversDoc
Here is a trailer for what looks like a fascinating exploration of the relationship between urban centers and the rivers that once supported them.
"Once upon a time, in almost every city, many rivers flowed. Why did they disappear? How? And could we see them again? This documentary tries to find answers by meeting visionary urban thinkers, activists and artists from around the world."
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"We spend our morning
in the flower stalls counting
the dark tongues of bells
that hang from ropes waiting
for the silence of an hour."
A collection of portraits taken in India by Irish photographer Kevin Goss-Ross.
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I have mixed feelings about laying a speech from Bobby Kennedy over this beautiful timelapse treatment of NYC. It IS stirring and inspiring. My feelings about the music are NOT mixed.
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"...I think
I am supposed to look. I am not supposed
to turn away. I am supposed to see each detail
and all expression gone..."
SUBSCRIBE to Pitchfork.tv: http://bit.ly/MgXoZp MORE Music Videos: http://bit.ly/J27abt Neil Young & Crazy Horse share a clip of archival footage and psychedelic imagery.
Mid-20th-Century archival footage of driving has the tone that is recognizable to anyone who has listened to and loved Neil Young's music.
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PHILIP GAWTHORNE
A screenwriter and playwright from the United Kingdom, Gawthorne has written extensively for BBC television, his stage plays have been performed throughout London and New York, and he is now working primarily in film.
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