The short film "The Me Bird" is a free interpretation of the homonym poem by Pablo Neruda. The inspiration in the strata stencil technique helps conceptualize the repetition of layers as the past of our movements and actions. The frames depicted as jail and the past as a burden serve as the background for the story of a ballerina on a journey towards freedom. A diversified artistic experimentation recreates the tempest that connects bird and dancer. www.18bis.tv www.facebook.com/18bis Watch the making of: www.vimeo.com/60860949 // O curta The Me Bird é uma livre interpretação do poema homônimo de Pablo Neruda. A inspiração na técnica strata stencil ajuda a conceituar a repetição de camadas como o passado de nossos movimentos e ações. As molduras como jaula e o passado como fardo servem de pano de fundo para a história de uma bailarina em sua jornada rumo à liberdade. Através de variada experimentação artística, recria-se a tormenta que conecta pássaro e dançarina. I am the Pablo Bird, bird of a single feather, a flier in the clear shadow and obscure clarity, my wings are unseen, my ears resound when I walk among the trees or beneath the tombstones like an unlucky umbrella or a naked sword, stretched like a bow or round like a grape, I fly on and on not knowing, wounded in the dark night, who is waiting for me, who does not want my song, who desires my death, who will not know I'm arriving and will not come to subdue me, to bleed me, to twist me, or to kiss my clothes, torn by the shrieking wind. That's why I come and go, fly and don't fly but sing: I am the furious bird of the calm storm. Pablo Neruda
The beautiful Neruda poem, "The Me Bird" inspired this truly awesome stencil cut animation, created by 18bis.
The making-of video is pretty awesome too.
The making of "The Me Bird", animation inspired by a poem by Pablo Neruda. The edit reveals the creative process of the short film. Music: Thee, Stranded Horse - Churning strides Watch the animation: https://vimeo.com/60763684 // Making of de "The Me Bird", animação inspirada em um poema de Pablo Neruda. As imagens contam um pouco do processo de criação do curta. Música: Thee, Stranded Horse - Churning strides Veja a animação: https://vimeo.com/60763684
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Six of my favorites from this great set (47 photos in total) over at the Big Picture.
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Mary Oliver reading three poems at Emory University. She reads 'Tom Dance's Gift of a White Bark Pinecone,' 'Wild Geese,' and 'Peonies.'
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Peonies
by Mary Oliver
This morning the green fists of the peonies are getting ready
to break my heart
as the sun rises,
as the sun strokes them with his old, buttery fingers
and they open —
pools of lace,
white and pink —
and all day the black ants climb over them,
boring their deep and mysterious holes
into the curls,
craving the sweet sap,
taking it away
to their dark, underground cities —
and all day
under the shifty wind,
as in a dance to the great wedding,
the flowers bend their bright bodies,
and tip their fragrance to the air,
and rise,
their red stems holding
all that dampness and recklessness
gladly and lightly,
and there it is again —
beauty the brave, the exemplary,
blazing open.
Do you love this world?
Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?
Do you also hurry, half-dressed and barefoot, into the garden,
and softly,
and exclaiming of their dearness,
fill your arms with the white and pink flowers,
with their honeyed heaviness, their lush trembling,
their eagerness
to be wild and perfect for a moment, before they are
nothing, forever?
Mary Oliver will certainly be a poet I often reach for. She is a fearless and talented student of the world.
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Photographer Kevin Cooley's series called “Lights Edge”: long-exposure photographs of military-grade emergency flares into the night sky.
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Watch the behind the scenes in the link below! http://youtu.be/CpCxIL3r5dM Shay Carl, one of my favorite people in the world, and on youtube was there for the adventure as well! See his vlog that he shot on location in the link below!
On the whole, my adventure index is fairly low. Certainly in comparison with these CRAZIES!
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LIVING AT THE END OF TIME
By Robert Bly
There is so much sweetness in children’s voices,
And so much discontent at the end of day,
And so much satisfaction when a train goes by.
I don’t know why the rooster keeps crying,
Nor why elephants keep raising their trunks,
Nor why Hawthorne kept hearing trains at night.
A handsome child is a gift from God,
And a friend is a vein in the back of the hand,
And a wound is an inheritance from the wind.
Some say we are living at the end of time,
But I believe a thousand pagan ministers
Will arrive tomorrow to baptize the wind.
There’s nothing we need to do about John. The Baptist
Has been laying his hands on earth for so long
That the well water is sweet for a hundred miles.
It’s all right if we don’t know what the rooster
Is saying in the middle of the night, nor why we feel
So much satisfaction when a train goes by.
I read this poem by Bly to my 4 year old son, Jude, on the phone today and he sai: I like that poem.
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Olivier Valsecchi's series, “Klecksography”, builds symmetrical sculptures out of bodies, in a way that evokes the famous inklot tests of times past.
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Ye Flowery Banks (Bonie Doon)
Ye flowery banks o' bonie Doon,
How can ye blume sae fair?
How can ye chant, ye little birds,
And I sae fu' o' care?
Thou'll break my heart, thou bonie bird,
That sings upon the bough;
Thou minds me o' the happy days,
When my fause love was true.
Thou'll break my heart, thou bonie bird,
That sings beside thy mate;
For sae I sat, and sae I sang,
And wist na o' my fate.
Aft hae I rov'd by bonie Doon
To see the wood-bine twine,
And ilka bird sang o' its luve,
And sae did I o' mine.
Wi' lightsome heart I pu'd a rose
Frae aff its thorny tree;
And my fause luver staw my rose
But left the thorn wi' me.
Burn is the most well known poet in the Lallans language (Lowland Scots language).
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Guerlain Chicherit makes a bold and complete John Cooper Works leap of faith, this time in the frigid snowscape of Tignes, France. - Agency: Gravi-T Produced by La Main Productions x PVS Company Directed by Jean-Francois Tatin Music: Sebastien Galiana
Guerlain Chicherit does a backflip in a John Cooper Works MINI as a promo for Monster Energy Drink. Crazy.
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I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.
― Tom Stoppard, Rock 'n' Roll
Want to see how Glass actually feels? It's surprisingly simple. Say "take a picture" to take a picture. Record what you see, hands free. Even share what you see, live. Directions are right in front of you. Speak to send a message, or translate your voice. Get the notifications that matter most.
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Via the San Diego Zoo:
The sociable weaver’s nest sees plenty of guests—a regular Kalahari Desert inn! The South African pygmy falcon Polihierax semitorquatus relies completely on the sociable weavers’ nest for its own home, often nesting side by side with the sociable weavers. The pied barbet, familiar chat, red-headed finch, ashy tit, and rosy-faced lovebird often find comfort in the cozy nesting chambers, too. Vultures, owls, and eagles will roost on the nests’ broad roof. Why are weavers willing to share the huge nest they worked so hard to make? More residents mean more eyes keeping a watch for danger. And the weavers often learn from the other birds where new sources of food can be found.
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Shane Koyczan "To This Day" http://www.tothisdayproject.com Help this message have a far reaching and long lasting effect in confronting bullying. Please share generously. "My experiences with violence in schools still echo throughout my life but standing to face the problem has helped me in immeasurable ways.
To paraphrase Steven Pinker, "stories are empathy technology." And this is a good story for putting the impact of bullying squarely in the mind.
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All 5 photos today are taken by our friend and colleague, David Crawford, one of the developers on the SKYE Weather+Photo app and the SKYE on AOL site, who is also an accomplished photography (as evidenced above).
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Over 800 modern dryplate tintypes were made from b&w film to produce this experimental stop-motion video of a circus. Antonio Martinez created this video to serve as a desired childhood memory of the circus, but through the mind of an adult. The project began in 2005 and was fully completed in early 2010 with the help of sound designer, Ramah (Malebranche) Jihan, and assistant, Sarah (Lathrop) Midkiff. The video has been successfully exhibited in over 23 video art and film festivals.
“Near the Egress”was made by photographer Antonio Martinez and depicts a circus show.
It is eeriy and gorgeous and full of images that feel like memory (at least to me).
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"Hours and even months of change lapses in a matter of seconds, providing the viewer with a rare insight into the ever-changing nature of the landscape."
Wen Fuliang uses a diamond-tipped roto tool to carve these. Adroitness hotness.
Amazing short film titled "Choros":
A chorus of women are borne from the movements of a single dancer in this dreamlike "pas de trente-deux."
"Choros" premiered at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in 2012 and has gone on to play dozens of festivals worldwide. The film is currently broadcast in Europe by Canal+.
Award-winning... damn straight. Moving, fun, lovely.
"...There was never a sound beside the wood but one,
And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground.
What was it it whispered? I knew not well myself;
Perhaps it was something about the heat of the sun..."
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