This Is Water - David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech at Kenyon College in 2005

In 2005, author David Foster Wallace was asked to give the commencement address to the 2005 graduating class of Kenyon College. However, the resulting speech didn't become widely known until 3 years later, after his tragic death.

In his way, David Foster Wallace cores down to the root of knowledge and knowing by talking about boredom and routine, supermarkets and traffic. His luminous mind, radiating even still. ​​And this is a video made by The Glossary makes it accessible again.

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Bioluminescence Surfing

Man's Best Media is back with another Red Tide video! As seen on ABC's World News Tonight on 9/30/11. Footage was shot in Encinitas, Carlsbad and Oceanside. Surfer: Joel Puckett Music by The Ruse, check em' out here: www.rusemusic.com And Winter Quarters, check em out here: http://www.facebook.com/winterquarters Shot & Edited by Loghan Call & Jonathan Keena. Man's Best Media www.mansbestmedia.com Copyright 2011, all rights reserved. Thanks for checking it out! Cheers!!!

As a grommet it was here,  in Encinitas, Carlsbad and Oceanside, that I cut my surfing teeth. I never got to surf in this glow, but had always heard rumors about it. And here it is. 
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Thanks, Orion Kraus for the find.​

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West of the Moon - The Collective Dreams of Children

Written, Directed, & Animated by Brent Bonacorso www.brentbonacorso.com Loosely based on several hundred interviews with children about their dreams, 'West of the Moon' is the story of one man's lost love and his strange path to redemption, aided along the way by a gambling robot, a wayward monkey, and a healthy dose of determination. Winner of Best Short film @ Santa Barbara International Film Festival Winner of Best Short film @ Aspen Shortsfest Winner of Best Short film @ Rushes Soho Shorts Festival Winner of Best Short film @ Carmel International Film Festival Winner of Best Short film @ Florida International Film Festival. Staring Jacob Whitkin, Michael Garbe, Amber Noelle, Christopher Tomaselli, and Michael Galvin Produced by Thom Fennessey Cinematography by Tarin Anderson Music by the ever-wonderful Devotchka Official Selection @ St. Louis Film Festival Official Selection @ Palm Springs Film Festival Official Selection @ Milwaukee International Film Festival Official Selection @ Worldwide Short Film Festival Official Selection @ Atlanta International Film Festival Official Selection @ Gold Coast International Film Festival Official Selection @ Maui International Film Festival Official Selection @ LA Shortsfest

I am in love with this short, poetic, dream-filled film.

Written, Directed, & Animated by Brent Bonacorso:

"Loosely based on several hundred interviews with children about their dreams, 'West of the Moon' is the story of one man's lost love and his strange path to redemption, aided along the way by a gambling robot, a wayward monkey, and a healthy dose of determination."

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Shooting a Stop-motion Video Through Drops of Water

Entropy is the randomness of the microscopic constituents of a thermodynamic system, and a measure of the loss of information in a transmitted signal or message. It is heat death, it is inevitable social decline and degeneration- in a closed system, it is accountable chaos. 2000 pictures compose this piece- that is, 2000 perfect different water drops into which we mapped an animation. Droplets that behave and look strangely similar at the stage of less entropy, and become more disordely as they splash. You can check out the making of here: vimeo.com/65155966 We have also started a new blog with this piece, with an in-depth post about it. You can read the long version here: In English: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-long-version/ In Spanish: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-version-larga/ or else have a peek to the shorter one: In English: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-short-version/ In Spanish: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-version-corta/ Credits: Direction & Production: Physalia Comissioned: IdN Magazine Audio: Cypheraudio Programming: Jordi Planas & Physalia Making Of Pictures: Albert Treblah ------------------------------------------------------- www.physaliastudio.com Join Physalia: facebook.com/pages/Physalia-Studio/312137322501?ref=ts

We've seen amazing things shot through falling drops of water before.​ But this is something different. Synchronizing  2,000 shots through falling drops of water to create this stop-motion promo for IdN Magazine is truly outstanding.

The video, “Entropy”, was created by Physalia. 

 They built a custom Arduino-based system to capture each drop in precisely the right spot.

The early tests and making-of video shed a lot of light on the amazing process. ​

Entropy is the randomness of the microscopic constituents of a thermodynamic system, and a measure of the loss of information in a transmitted signal or message. It is heat death, it is inevitable social decline and degeneration- in a closed system, it is accountable chaos. 2000 pictures compose this piece- that is, 2000 perfect different water drops into which we mapped an animation. Droplets that behave and look strangely similar at the stage of less entropy, and become more disordely as they splash. We have started a new blog with this piece, with an in-depth post about it. You can read the long version here: In English: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-long-version/ In Spanish: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-version-larga/ or else have a peek to the shorter one: In English: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-short-version/ In Spanish: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-version-corta/ Credits: Direction & Production: Physalia Comissioned: IdN Magazine Audio: Cypheraudio Programming: Jordi Planas & Physalia Making Of Pictures: Albert Treblah ------------------------------------------------------- www.physaliastudio.com Join Physalia: facebook.com/pages/Physalia-Studio/312137322501?ref=ts

Entropy is the randomness of the microscopic constituents of a thermodynamic system, and a measure of the loss of information in a transmitted signal or message. It is heat death, it is inevitable social decline and degeneration- in a closed system, it is accountable chaos. 2000 pictures compose this piece- that is, 2000 perfect different water drops into which we mapped an animation. Droplets that behave and look strangely similar at the stage of less entropy, and become more disordely as they splash. You can check the piece here: https://vimeo.com/59997489 We have started a new blog with this piece, with an in-depth post about it. You can read the long version here: In English: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-long-version/ In Spanish: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-version-larga/ or else have a peek to the shorter one: In English: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-short-version/ In Spanish: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-version-corta/ Credits: Direction & Production: Physalia Comissioned: IdN Magazine Audio: Cypheraudio Programming: Jordi Planas & Physalia Making Of Pictures: Albert Treblah ------------------------------------------------------- www.physaliastudio.com Join Physalia: facebook.com/pages/Physalia-Studio/312137322501?ref=ts

Cloud Terrace in Hokkaido

雲海テラス　無料体験版　雲海の美しさや感動が伝わる・・・ 雲海テラスへのゴンドラと雲海テラスからのゴンドラから見る雲海の中の様子も体験できますよ・・・ゴンドラが雲霧の中から湧き出るように出現する様子や雲霧の中に消失する様子なども鑑賞できます・・・雲海を満喫して運開といきましょう・・・ ...

On the island of Hokkaido, the Unkai Terrace is a scenic spot that because of the natural hot springs in the area and the differences in temperature a sea of clouds cover the mountainous region.

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Ice Breaker in Antarctica's Ross Sea in Timelapse

Time-lapse of our icebreaker, the Nathaniel B. Palmer, traveling through the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Two months of sequences, condensed into less than five minutes, with a surprise at the end. Enjoy!

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Marine scientist Cassandra Brooks  spent months on the enormous Nathaniel B. Palmer, an ice breaker in the Ross Sea, and she has this gorgeous and fascinating timelapse to prove it. 

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Thank you, Matt, for the find.​

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