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Surfer, Designer, Video Guy, Traveller, Dancer, Yogi, Golfer, Comedian, Screenwriter, Director, Runner, SCUBA Diver, Architect, Journalist, Photographer.
3 - Vibrant Under Sea
Lynnete Wallworth made this beautiful video installation Coral, Rekindling Venus , which was selected to screen at the Sundance Film Festival this year.
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APP of the Day - Solar Walk 3D Solar System Model
Between the smooth, slick and responsive UI and the stunning visualizations and astounding information, there isn't much about SOLAR WALK I don't like. I actually feel like it is a steal at $2.99. And as amazing it is on the iPhone, on the iPad it is truly astounding.
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4 - Lava Meet Ocean
Photographer Tom Kualii brings us "Lava meets Ocean " an extraordinary series from the big island of Hawaii.
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5 - The Earth - Overview Effect
The original Blue Marble photo (to the right) is 40 years old now. I find it and this video extremely moving and oddly comforting.
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1 - A Humongous Iceberg Calving
'Manhattan breaking apart in front of your eyes', says filmmaker James Balog. The largest iceberg calving captured on film.
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APP of the Day - Flickr
Flickr, under the hands of new Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer, is trying to revive itself. This new mobile app is surely part of the strategy.
With batch uploading, a simple and easy way to manage your sets, groups and more, and FILTERS, Yahoo is trying to leverage the immense user value that Flickr has accumulated into the new world of smart phone photography. While not as pretty as the new 500px app, it (unlike the 500px app) is actually usable and useful.
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2 - How Google sees 2012
Apparently, according to Google Zeitgeist the top most popular search for 2012 in the world are:
- 1. Whitney Houston
- 2. Gangnam Style
- 3. Hurricane Sandy
- 4. iPad 3
- 5. Diablo 3
- 6. Kate Middleton
- 7. Olympics 2012
- 8. Amanda Todd
- 9. Michael Clarke Duncan
- 10. BBB12
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3 - Gravity Light
When design is used not just to sell more widgets but to solve problems of the world, I am filled with a great deal of optimism. Here for example is the Gravity Light, meant to cleanly, safely and sustainably replace kerosene lamps.
"GravityLight is a revolutionary new approach to storing energy and creating illumination. It takes only 3 seconds to lift the weight which powers GravityLight, creating 30 minutes of light on its descent. For free."
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POTD - Arbolé, Arbolé by Federico Garica Lorca
Arbolé, Arbolé
(scroll down for English translation by W.S. Merwin)
Arbolé, arbolé,
seco y verdí.
La niña del bello rostro
está cogiendo aceituna.
El viento, galán de torres,
la prende por la cintura.
Pasaron cuatro jinetes
sobre jacas andaluzas,
con trajes de azul y verde,
con largas capas oscuras.
"Vente a Córdoba, muchacha."
La niña no los escucha.
Pasaron tres torerillos
delgaditos de cintura,
con trajes color naranja
y espadas de plata antigua.
"Vente a Córdoba, muchacha."
La niña no los escucha.
Cuando la tarde se puso
morada, con lux difusa,
pasó un joven que llevaba
rosas y mirtos de luna.
"Vente a Granada, muchacha."
Y la niña no lo escucha.
La niña del bello rostro
sigue cogiendo aceituna,
con el brazo gris del viento
ceñido por la cintura.
Arbolé, arbolé.
Seco y verdé.
Arbolé, arbolé
Tree, tree
dry and green.
The girl with the pretty face
is out picking olives.
The wind, playboy of towers,
grabs her around the waist.
Four riders passed by
on Andalusian ponies,
with blue and green jackets
and big, dark capes.
"Come to Cordoba, muchacha."
The girl won't listen to them.
Three young bullfighters passed,
slender in the waist,
with jackets the color of oranges
and swords of ancient silver.
"Come to Sevilla, muchacha."
The girl won't listen to them.
When the afternoon had turned
dark brown, with scattered light,
a young man passed by, wearing
roses and myrtle of the moon.
"Come to Granada, muchacha."
And the girl won't listen to him.
The girl with the pretty face
keeps on picking olives
with the grey arm of the wind
wrapped around her waist.
Tree, tree
dry and green.
Lorca was a bit of a pilgrimage for me. First his time with his cohorts of the Generación del 27 at the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, and then his room at Columbia. His surrealistic vision has always been thrilling and moving to me.
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4 - Frost Flowers
These stunning photos were taken by University of Washington graduate student Jeff Bowman and his professor Jody Deming as the worked to combine oceanography, microbiology, and planetary sciences into their study in the the central Arctic Ocean on frost flowers, an amazing instance where frost grows in extreme sub-zero temperatures nearing -22C or -7.6F
from imperfections in the surface ice.
These spiky structures house microorganisms, not unlike a coral reef.
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APP of the Day - Buffer
Buffer pushed out a new update today making the already useful and powerful app even more so.
It is literally a buffer where all your links you want to share on Facebook, twitter and Linked in are stored until the timing is right. The app then automagically posts it, avoiding the flood of links washing out the nuggets of awesomeness you've found.
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5 - Life's a S#!t sandwich
Storytelling in photographs of Lego Men.... yeah, I love it.
Life's a S#!t sandwich is the side project of commercial photographer Bryan McLean.
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1 - Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot in Animation
"From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Consider again that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives."
A remarkable animation by studio ORDER.
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POTD - Rocks By Lynne McMahon
Rocks
These rocks, plucked like rusty fruit from the granite field
at the construction site, were never so inviting as today
when, heaped into a momentary rockery, they gave
each hand-sized face to light as if this height of summer,
Solstice Celebration Day, meant to make a pink-lit temple
at the lip of our ravine.
It seemed a different thing
to take them down, reground them into useful lines
runneling the creekbed to the wash. To hold erosion
to a human pace, though a necessity,
could not assuage our sense that monuments
heap up, not down, and should stay visible from
the back porch steps. The heft and loft of each rock
we heaved to disappear into the snarl
of vines reclimbed the aching musculature to settle
in our heads. Rocks mark the place the living
cede the dead, but our garden Buddha, calm
at the head of the rocked-in creek, repeats instead his scholar
protégé Wang Wei: No one can tell which way
may flow the stream of paradise.
McMahon was first introduced to me in undergraduate, and is one of the poets I reach for, without prompting.
2 - Vibrant Skies
Austria-based photographer Edgar Moskopp uses HDR to amazingly colorful effect.
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3 - Timelapse of the Australian Solar Eclipse
Australia had a solar eclipse last month. Photographer Colin Legg made this outstanding timelapse of it.
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4 - Traveling for 23 Years around the World in the Same Car
With more than 800,000km on the odo,Gunther Holtorf is still going.
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My Pick - 5 things to buy an aspiring journalist - Chris Gardner
Chris Gardner currently serves as an Editor for Wonderwall, overseeing breaking news coverage and social media pages, as well as hosting a web series called Celebs Gone Social. During his career, he has covered film, fashion, celebrities, nightlife and entertainment as an editor, reporter and columnist. Prior to Wonderwall, Gardner was on staff at People, Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. He also launched a celebrity blog for Cosmopolitan.com and has held editorial positions for such publications as FashionWeekDaily, Movieline's Hollywood Life and MediaBistro. He also wrote a relationship advice column for The Des Moines Register's Juice newspaper.
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