I love a good mashup meme (i.e. Slaughterhouse 90210) and while this one might eventually need to broaden its purview or risk running dry of material, for the time being it is amazing. Kayne West lyrics with Wes Anderson screens or the other way around. Love it.
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Many of these photographs are from a project titled “Wonderland“, which photographer Cade Martin shot for the Washington Ballet in Washington D.C.
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Sailing to Byzantium
by W. B. Yeats
That is no country for old men. The young
In one another's arms, birds in the trees
—Those dying generations—at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unageing intellect.
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.
O sages standing in God's holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.
Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
Or set upon a golden bough to sing
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
Yeats is inarguably a giant in English language poetry, but he can sometimes be less accessible under the layers of dusty age. There are certain poems of his, like this, that shake off all the gathered distance and bring him directly to my life now.
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Kuala Lumpur: super-modern buildings juxtaposed with various cultural enclaves and with a little of Asia’s chaos thrown in. My time lapse explores how the city changes from day to night highlighting how spaces dramatically alter during the course of a few hours. As summarised by Marc Lourdes on Yahoo! Malaysia: “5 months. 400 hours of solid work. 4 cameras. 40 shoots. 640 gigabytes of data. 19,997 photographs.” http://my.news.yahoo.com/time-lapse-photographer-releases-stunning-video-of-kl.html Cameras / lens used, Nikon D800 Nikon D7000 x2 Nikon D3200 (Backup body) Nikon 16-35 f/4G AF-S VR Zoom Nikkor NIkon 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5G ED AF-S DX Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G ED AF-S VR II Nikon 50mm f/1.4G AF-S Nikon 10.5mm f/2.8G ED AF DX Fisheye Special thanks to: Special thanks to Maybank for collaborating with Eco Knights to inspire sustainable living in Malaysia. The shots of KL city in the video were taken from Menara Maybank. EcoKinghts - www.ecoknights.org.my Music: Clams Casino - I'm God facebook.com/clammyclams Copyright © All Images Rob Whitworth 2012 - www.robwhitworth.co.uk
Kuala Lumpur is one of my favorite cities: vibrant, dynamic, high contrasts, great food. Photographer Rob Whitworth explains:
“5 months. 400 hours of solid work. 4 cameras. 40 shoots. 640 gigabytes of data. 19,997 photographs.”
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The Natural History Museum and BBC Worldwide sponsor the 2012 Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest. Around 100 images pulled from 48,000 by an international panel of judges. The amazing photos were shown for the first time yesterday at London’s Natural History Museum and will be on exhibit there through March 2013, before going on a world tour.
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Photo by flickr/add1sun
THE COUPLE
They turn the light off, and its white globe glows
an instant and then dissolves, like a tablet
in a glass of darkness. Then a rising.
The hotel walls shoot up into heaven’s darkness.
Their movements have grown softer, and they sleep,
but their most secret thoughts begin to meet
like two colors that meet and run together
on the wet paper in a schoolboy’s painting.
It is dark and silent. The city however has come nearer
tonight. With its windows turned off. Houses have come.
They stand packed and waiting very near,
a mob of people with blank faces.
Nobel Laureate Tranströmer is one of the most masterful poets of the last century. "His condensed, translucent images give us fresh access to reality" were the words with which the Nobel Prize was awarded to him.
The Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011. His books sell thousands of copies in Sweden, and his poetry has been translated into 60 languages. Born in 1931, grew up in Stockholm, but spent many long summers on the island of Runmarö in the nearby archipelago. Swedish nature and landscape have inspired much of his poetry, especially Runmarö, the Baltic coast and the country's lakes and forests. But Tomas Tranströmer is as much a poet of humanity as he is of nature. He worked as a psychologist for most of his life. He has been married for over fifty years to Monica Tranströmer, who became his voice to the world after he suffered a stroke in 1990. Since then he has only published two poetry collections and a short memoir. The stroke deprived him of most of his speech and left him unable to use his right arm. But Tomas Tranströmer is also an accomplished classical pianist. Unable to speak more than a few words, he can still express himself through music, despite only being able to play left-hand piano pieces. Swedish composers have written several left-hand piano pieces especially for him to play. This film by Pamela Robertson-Pearce and Neil Astley combines contemporary footage of Tranströmer, including his piano playing, with archive film and recordings of his readings. In the archive recordings, he reads the poems in Swedish, and the English translations are by Robin Fulton, from the UK edition NEW COLLECTED POEMS (Bloodaxe Books, 1997, 2011), and the US edition THE GREAT ENIGMA: NEW COLLECTED POEMS (New Directions, 2006); these two books have the same content but have been published for separate readerships. The two left-hand piano pieces Tranströmer plays in the film are by Fibich and Mompou. Swedish poems © Tomas Tranströmer from Dikter och Prosa 1954-2004 (Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2011).
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Inspired by the movies, these stunning, papercut action silhouettes were created by photographer David A. Reeves and are another example of creativity being the only limit.
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Act III, Sc. 2
by Jorie Graham
Look she said this is not the distance
we wanted to stay at—We wanted to get
close, very close. But what
is the way in again? And is it
too late? She could hear the actions
rushing past—but they are on
another track. And in the silence,
or whatever it is that follows,
there was still the buzzing: motes, spores,
aftereffects and whatnot recalled the morning after.
Then the thickness you can’t get past called waiting.
Then the you, whoever you are, peering down to see if it’s done yet.
Then just the look on things being looked-at.
Then just the look of things being seen.
Graham is a powerhouse of contemporary American poetry. When you start to become enamored of her thoughtful and open mind, the turn her words make, you can also begin to sense the vast continent of her work you have to yet encounter reaching out to you through even her simplest of lines.
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Such an outstanding themed personal creative writing project from John Koenig, a freelance designer. I absolutely love it. I think I will bombard all my friends with these (there are 178 pages of them!), and often: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
"The Upper Midwest’s third-largest compendium of the outer spatters of the emotional palette. Its mission is to harpoon, bag and tag wild sorrows, then release them back into the subconscious."
Each word is completely made up and is guaranteed authentic by the author himself. All content is original and intended to be read at night.
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The Leaving
My father said I could not do it,
but all night I picked the peaches.
The orchard was still, the canals ran steadily.
I was a girl then, my chest its own walled garden.
How many ladders to gather an orchard?
I had only one and a long patience with lit hands
and the looking of the stars which moved right through me
the way the water moved through the canals with a voice
that seemed to speak of this moonless gathering
and those who had gathered before me.
I put the peaches in the pond's cold water,
all night up the ladder and down, all night my hands
twisting fruit as if I were entering a thousand doors,
all night my back a straight road to the sky.
And then out of its own goodness, out
of the far fields of the stars, the morning came,
and inside me was the stillness a bell possesses
just after it has been rung, before the metal
begins to long again for the clapper's stroke.
The light came over the orchard.
The canals were silver and then were not.
and the pond was--I could see as I laid
the last peach in the water--full of fish and eyes.
When I heard Pegeen Kelly read, in particular the poem "Song", I was so struck at the voice that seemed to flow through her with words.
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Avanaut (aka Vesa Lehtimäki) and his use of light, perspective and inexpensive props, produced some very cool dramatic scenes full of motion with miniatures and models.
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The City
BY C. P. CAVAFY
TRANSLATED BY EDMUND KEELEY AND PHILIP SHERRARD
You said: “I’ll go to another country, go to another shore,
find another city better than this one.
Whatever I try to do is fated to turn out wrong
and my heart lies buried like something dead.
How long can I let my mind moulder in this place?
Wherever I turn, wherever I look,
I see the black ruins of my life, here,
where I’ve spent so many years, wasted them, destroyed them totally.”
You won’t find a new country, won’t find another shore.
This city will always pursue you.
You’ll walk the same streets, grow old
in the same neighborhoods, turn gray in these same houses.
You’ll always end up in this city. Don’t hope for things elsewhere:
there’s no ship for you, there’s no road.
Now that you’ve wasted your life here, in this small corner,
you’ve destroyed it everywhere in the world.
My first introduction to Cavafy was as the Poet of the City from Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet. And then fairly soon after as the poet whose "Waiting for the Barbarians" became the inspiration for the Nobel Laureate J.M. Coatzee's early standout of the same name: Waiting for the Barbarians.
The Photographer of "VJ Day, The Kiss" liked to put himself in the picture. From Marilyn Monroe and Frank Lloyd Wright to Mia Farrow and J. Robert Oppenheimer, Alfred Eisenstaedt’s photographs have captured some of the most iconic images of our shared imagination. So it is a great deal of fun, and a bit of surprise, to see him put himself in the frame.
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Solar Walk tutorial shows all main features such as Fly to a planet, info, search, connection to 3D TV, educational movies collection.
It's no secret that I like apps (see here), and I am know to wax rhapsodic about them. But this one I am so excited by. It is a powerful, gorgeous 3D model of space on your iPhone or iPad. It's called Solar Walk.
What do you think? Am I right?
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Shortlisted at the Vimeo Awards 2012. Tilt shift of the Carnaval party in Rio de Janeiro. Soundtrack available here: http://tinyurl.com/6mrzndl Made by Keith Loutit and Jarbas Agnelli. Captured during Carnaval of 2011. Music by Jarbas Agnelli. Special thanks to Rede Globo, Liesa and Jodele Larcher. Extra thanks to Aguinaldo Rocca (producer) and Nick Graham-Smith (recording engineer). Thanks also to Guto Vaz, Marcio Avila and Duda M. for supporting us on the ground. keithloutit.com adstudio.com.br
Revisiting this gorgeous tilt-shift timelapse of Rio during the Carnaval.
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These are outstanding ways to traumatize your kids and feel amazingly smart at the same time. Anyone have anything along these lines? Ideas? I am looking for super ideas here...
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The "Empty America" series begins in San Francisco. From the Golden Gate Bridge to Fisherman's Wharf to Lombard Street to Ghirardelli Square to the Bay Bridge - get a good look at some of San Francisco's most iconic landmarks (wiped empty of tourists and traffic).
A timelapse project to capture America's scenes without people in them. The first city to get the treatment is San Francisco.
Produced 2012 by Uncage the Soul Productions Ben Canales, John Waller, Steve Engman, Blake Johnson http://www.uncagethesoul.com To plan your adventure to Portland, visit Travel Portland at http://www.travelportland.com Finding Portland was produced, shot, and edited in 51 days during March and April at the invitation of TEDx Portland, where the video was unveiled to a sell out crowd of 650 and met with a standing ovation. Filmed in Portland and the Columbia Gorge, this time-lapse piece offers a new perspective to the City of Roses. From a Portland Timbers season opening soccer game, to the top of the Fremont Bridge, to an aerial shot of Oneonta Gorge, Finding Portland tells the story of a city and its many faces. Comprised of 308, 829 photographs taken from over 50 unique locations, it took an average of 3.8 hours to make each second of this film. The intent of the project was to place our cameras in unique locations across the city, achieve significant ranges of dynamic camera motion, and pursue cutting edge time-lapse techniques. Behind the scenes video and photos are posted at http://www.uncagethesoul.com/news/finding-portland-timelapse The entire TEDx Portland presentation of Finding Portland by John Waller and Ben Canales will be online in May at http://www.tedxportland.com Many thanks to those who supported us in this project including... Original Music Composition by Peter Bosack http://www.peterbosackmusic.com Pro Photo Supply...still and video camera and audio equipment support http://www.prophotosupply.com Dynamic Perception...motion time-lapse systems http://www.dynamicperception.com Aerial Technology International...remote aerial video and photography http://www.nw-aero-pix.com http://aerialtechnology.com Cam Block Modular Motion Control http://www.camblock.com Reposted Here: Discovery http://dsc.discovery.com/adventure/portland-as-youve-never-seen-it-before-300000-photo-time-lapse-video.html Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/25/new-time-lapse-video-shows-best-of-portland_n_1452680.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009 Social Soundtrack http://socialsoundtrack.com/finding-portland/
Reposting this stunning timelapse of Portland, OR and putting it on the Timelapse Map
Tear It Down
by Jack Gilbert
We find out the heart only by dismantling what
the heart knows. By redefining the morning,
we find a morning that comes just after darkness.
We can break through marriage into marriage.
By insisting on love we spoil it, get beyond
affection and wade mouth-deep into love.
We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.
But going back toward childhood will not help.
The village is not better than Pittsburgh.
Only Pittsburgh is more than Pittsburgh.
Rome is better than Rome in the same way the sound
of racoon tongues licking the inside walls
of the garbage tub is more than the stir
of them in the muck of the garbage. Love is not
enough. We die and are put into the earth forever.
We should insist while there is still time. We must
eat through the wildness of her sweet body already
in our bed to reach the body within the body.
Gilbert hasn't been one of those names that people recognize as a phenomenal poet for most of his career. He will be.
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A close-up view of this amazing bit of our history and technological aspirations!? Yes please.
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