Sound Visualized in Sand

Add me on Facebook - (click LIKE on Facebook to add me) http://www.facebook.com/brusspup The song in the video is my latest song. You can find it on iTunes or Amazon. Song name: Dark Wave https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dark-wave/id655667181?i=655667187 http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Wave/dp/B00D3J9TMA/ref=sr_1_18?ie=UTF8&qid=1370527738&sr=8-18 All of the equipment for this experiment was provided by PASCO scientific http://www.pasco.com Leave a comment letting me know what your favorite pattern is.

brusspup on YouTube creates these fascinating patterns called Chladni figures by pouring sand on a metal plate connected to a speaker and tone generator.  Different frequencies create different patterns of sand on the plate, higher frequencies creating more complex figures. 

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This is Shanghai: A Rob Whitworth and JT Singh Timelapse

In 1980 Shanghai had no skyscrapers. It now has at least 4,000 — more than twice as many as New York. ‘This is Shanghai’ explores the diversities and eccentricities of the metropolis that is Shanghai going beyond the famous skyline. Photographer Rob Whitworth and urban identity expert JT Singh joined forces combining deep city exploration and pioneering filmmaking. ‘This is Shanghai’ is a roller coaster ride seamlessly weaving between the iconic, sparkling and mismatched buildings of the financial district travelling by boat and taxi touring Shanghai’s impressive infrastructure whilst glimpsing some of the lesser-known aspects of Shanghai life such as the lower stratum areas or the stunning graffiti of Moganshan road. And of course there is the opportunity to try some of the vast variety of street food and Shanghai’s most popular homegrown delicacy, the pan-fried pork dumplings, the shengjian bao. Wherever you travel in Shanghai the cities skyline is always present. The looming silhouette of the almost constructed Shanghai Tower now dominates and perfectly encapsulates the new heights this city is yet to reach. Once completed, in 2014, it will be the tallest building in China and the second tallest in the world after the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. To understand the city, the team carried out rigorous urban exploration. In the words of JT “we walked, walked and walked, the Jane Jacobs way”. Weibo, China’s main social media platform was used to ask local Shanghainese people to share ideas of different vantage points and what they thought were the over-riding characteristics of the city. Stealth and curiosity were required to find and gain access to rooftops and locations. It became addictive for the team discovering breath-taking vantage points of the city. There was always an adrenaline rush upon reaching the top of a different building to see the vast urban jungle of Shanghai. Rob Whitworth (www.robwhitworth.co.uk/) is a creative time lapse photographer from the UK based in Asia. His previous videos, ‘Traffic in Frenetic HCMC’ and ‘Kuala Lumpur DAY-NIGHT’ have received international attention including being short listed for 7 film festivals, and have had received well over 2 million online views. JT Singh (www.jtsingh.com/) has explored hundreds of emerging cities around the world and is a next generation thinker about the value and impact of 21st century cities. Having grown up in Toronto JT is now based in China. He explains: “The over-riding reason we made this video was to creatively show the world visually how China is rising, in particular Chinese cities. Just as New York City exemplified the strengths and ambitions of emerging America in the 20th century, Shanghai, perhaps more than any old or emerging rival, will personify the power and dreams of rising Asia in the 21st century.” A ThrillingCities Production - www.thrillingcities.com Engineering cutting-edge Identities for Cities on the Rise JT Singh Website: www.jtsingh.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jtssingh Twitter; https://twitter.com/jtssingh Rob Whitworth Website: http://www.robwhitworth.co.uk/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RobWhitworthPhotography Twitter: https://twitter.com/kwhi02 Copyright all images Rob Whitworth 2013 - www.robwhitworth.co.uk | Soundtrack used under license Artist ‘Subscape’ Track ‘Shanghai’ © submergedmusic

Shanghai has been growing as a city for at least a thousand years. The neon signs and skyscrapers are fairly new.  

 

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Song of the Day - Easy Way Out by Gotye

Made by 'Oh Yeah Wow' Like us on facebook: facebook.com/pages/Oh-Yeah-Wow/171680809552599 Directed By Darcy Prendergast Director(s) of Photography Andrew Goldsmith & Jeremy Blode VFX Director Andrew Goldsmith Animators Darcy Prendergast Seamus Spilsbury Assistant Animators Josh Thomas Jeremy Blode Michael Greaney Sam Lewis Andrew Goldsmith Costume Paige Prendergast Lighting Shelley Farthing-Dawe Andrew Goldsmith Jeremy Blode Motion Control Glenn Anderson Art Direction Darcy Prendergast Editor & Colourist Andrew Goldsmith Rotoscoping Andrew Goldsmith Josh Thomas Sound Ben Matthews Model Makers Michael Greaney Josh Thomas Benjamin Aguesse Set Builders Seamus Spillsbury David Pennay Cody Sevedge Benjamin Aguesse Wes Starr Jeremy Blode Production Manager Nicky Pastore Cardboard Flame Painters Fiona Dalwood Shaun Stares Nora Juncker Giulia Sandri James Bailey Music credits: Produced by Wally De Backer Mixing and additional production by Francois Tetaz, assisted by Andy Stewart and Wally at The Mill, Gippsland, VIC Bass guitar: Lucas Taranto Drums, percussion, guitar and orchestra samples, Lead and backing vocals: Wally Contains samples from Echoette as performed by Buddy Merrill. Licensed courtesy of Accent Records

After Gotye's first amazing hit and video "Somebody I used to know", it would take something as fun and clever as this stop-motion video to follow it up.

 

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Fitzcardboardaldo: Cardboard Homage to Fitzcarraldo

An all cardboard Fitzcaraldo. Fabricated shot and edited by Robin Frohardt www.robinfrohardt.com Please watch the making of "The Corrugation of Dreams" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FDfvlO54vg special help from Nick Chatfield-Taylor. p.s. can someone please send this to Werner Herzog? i really want him to see it.

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Fitzcardboardaldo (above... beware the sound is pretty loud) is the work of puppet designer and paper crafter Robin Frohardt. The short video, an all cardboard homage to Fitzcarraldo (below) was shot and edited by Robin with special help from Nick Chatfield-Taylor. 

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From Wikipedia:​

Fitzcarraldo is a 1982 film written and directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski as the title character. It portrays would-be rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman known as Fitzcarraldo in Peru, who has to pull a steamship over a steep hill in order to access a rich rubber territory.


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trailer of the movie "fitzcarraldo" (1982) with klaus kinski and claudia cardinale, directed by werner herzog

Kenyan High Schoolers Doing The High Jump The Hard Way

To donate / get involved visit: https://facebook.com/KenyanHighJump !!! This is at a high school track meet in the Rift Valley of Kenya in the town of Mosoriot. February, 2013. To run a marathon here: http://riftvalleymarathon.com/ If anyone watching this video wants to help get these athletes proper facilities. Please inbox me.

In the town of Mosoriot in Kenya, two high school athletes compete in the high jump. Without a mat to land on, the usual Fosbury Flop isn’t an option.

They land on their feet. Unreal. 

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Behind the Scenes of LightSpin with Eric Paré

This is the story of how I managed to take half a million pictures of contemporary dancers in the dark using light-painting, stop-motion and bullet-time techniques. See full details + tutorials on http://lightspin.ca/documentary Dancers: Angie Cheng, Coralie Muroni, Cori Kresge, Daphnée Laurendeau, Dylan Crossman, Erin Poole, Esther Rousseau-Morin, Kim Henry, Leon Kupferschmid, Lucie Vigneault, Margie Gillis, Maria Simone, Merryn Kritzinger, Michael Watts, Paul-André Fortier, Simon Xavier Lefebvre Project made with the help of Nicolas Foisy, Stéphane Hoareau, Ronin Jah, Jeremy Lloubes, Coralie Muroni, Jean-François Sarrazin Original LightSpin music composed and performed by Eric Paré and Marie-Ève Scarfone http://ericpare.com http://timecodelab.com

We saw LightSpin about a month ago and were blown away with the meticulous effort and clarity of vision from Eric Paré  that were needed to achieve the effect. ​As promised, here is the Behind The Scenes video. 

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"This is the story of how I managed to take half a million pictures of contemporary dancers in the dark using light-painting, stop-motion and bullet-time techniques."

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Robot that 'Draws' in 3D

MATAERIAL is the result of the collaborative research between Petr Novikov, Saša Jokić from the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) and Joris Laarman Studio. IAAC tutors representing Open Thesis Fabrication Program provided their advice and professional expertise. During the course of the research we developed a brand new digital fabrication method and a working prototype that can open a door to a number of practical applications. The method that we call Anti·gravity Object Modeling has a Patent-Pending status. www.mataerial.com Soundtrack: Mémoire - La Mer http://soundcloud.com/memoiremusic

From the project page:

"MATAERIAL is the result of the collaborative research between Petr Novikov, Saša Jokić from the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) and Joris Laarman Studio. IAAC tutors representing Open Thesis Fabrication Program provided their advice and professional expertise. During the course of the research we developed a brand new digital fabrication method and a working prototype that can open a door to a number of practical applications. The method that we call Anti·gravity Object Modeling has a Patent-Pending status."

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light: things v1

Our first version of "things" is now available over on Readymag

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Some of our favorite things that resonate with a specific lens. This version is centered on light and includes original prose, poetry and dance, as well.​

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I would love to hear what you think in the comments and please share if you think there are people who might enjoy it.​

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Thanks,​

Ryan

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Dancing Water: Cymatics Art Installation by Sven Meyer & Kim Pörksen

There are certain amount of vibrational patterns, which are found at different levels: a time of day, an organ, a color, a plant: one sound. The sound image of octaves is a law of nature. In the water sound set by Kymat a water wave surface becomes filmed while being played with music or specific frequencies and tones. So create beautiful sound structures and forms you can find everywhere in nature. www.kymat.de __________________________________________________________________________ Es existieren gewisse Schwingungsmuster, die sich auf verschiedenen Ebenen wieder finden; eine Tageszeit, ein Organ, eine Farbe, eine Pflanze: Ein Ton. Das Klangbild der Oktaven ist ein Naturgesetz. In dem Wasserklang Set von Kymat wird eine Wasserwellenoberfläche abgefilmt, während sie mit Musik oder bestimmten Frequenzen und Tönen bespielt wird. So entstehen wunderschöne Strukturen und Klangformen die man überall in der Natur wiederfinden kann

Sven Meyer & Kim Pörksen created Sonic Water, an art installation exploring cymatics.

Pörksen explains:

“Cymatics is like a magical tool that unveils the substance of things not seen. Sound does have form, and you can see that sound can affect matter and cause form in matter. So maybe in the beginning there was sound, which shaped all matter. Indeed, we think sound has a fundamental influence on the formation of the universe itself.”

Check out the behind the scenes video after the gallery.

SONIC WATER laboratory for water sound images Sven Meyer & Kim Pörksen Sonic Water / cymatics laboratory / vernissage documentation / CREATE YOUR OWN WORLD Olympus OMD Photography Playground 25. April - 24 Mai 2013 / Opernwerkstätten Berlin www.sonicwater.org MUSIC by Kymat - Drop Sound Enlightenment / http://www.kymat.de studies of visible sound and vibrations - drop@sonicwater.org www.greatpieceofcake.com & www.elfenmaschine.de https://omd.olympus.de/site/rooms#sven_meyer_kim_poerksen *** Sonic Water is a cymatics installation. Cymatics is the process of visualizing sound and vibrations through matter, such as for example sand or water. In the beginning there was sound. The reason cymatics exerts such a strong fascination is that we are not conditioned to "see sound". Cymatics is like a magic tool that unveils the true substance of things audible, but conventionally invisible. With it one can recreate the archetypes of different forms of nature. So sound does have form and cymatics enables you to comprehend that it not only affects but causes form in matter. In fact, we think sound had a fundamental influence on the formation of the universe itself. But that is another story. Primarily, we are fascinated by the simplicity of this subject. All it takes is sound and a very basic medium such as water to create... well, what could be (and in our view is) the coolest sound visualizer. How does it work? Our installation at the Photography Playground in Berlin consists of two different areas. A self-running installation and a DIY water-sound-image laboratory where people can experiment with their own cymatics. The setup in both areas is almost identical. The only difference is, that you can use your own camera and create your own soundscapes in the DIY laboratory. The installation is very simple: A sound signal is used to vibrate a speaker. On top of the speaker membrane we have applied a plate and on the plate we have then glued an ordinary bottle cap. The bottle cap (or the whole plate) is filled with water. The water works as a flexible three-dimensional sculpture mass, that translates the sound into pictures. The vibration of the speaker creates one of a kind water-sound-images in response to the respective sound impulse - from chaotic patterns to standing mandala-like waves. The camera films the speaker from above and basically shoots a macro mode live view of the bottle cap action which is projected onto a large screen. When people enter the room they initially just see the big screen cymatics projections. However, once they approach the cube with the speaker they suddenly grasp the setup and have this moment of incredulity and utter bewilderment, that a setup as simple as ours can create such astounding visuals. But this part of our installation is actually just an incentive or an ice breaker. Our actual intention is for the audience to have fun in the laboratory, where they can create and document their own cymatics. In the DIY laboratory you clamp a Olympus OMD camera on the stand, which you get upon entering the exhibition and you can then film or take photos of the water-sound-images you create by means of sound signals from a synthesizer, by using your own voice (via a microphone) or by just playing your favorite song on your smartphone. What does it look like if you hum your favorite tune into the microphone? What does Wagners "Twilight of the Gods" look like in cymatics? The results are images reminiscent of the shape of flowers, the form of a starfish, the patterns of turtleshells, cell division, the golden ratio, the flower of life - all depending on the individual frequency impulse. In the laboratory you become the creator, the big bang and part of the genesis. _____________________________________________________________________________________

Supercut of Dancing in Movies set to Daft Punk's Get Lucky

Read: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/topical-comedy Like: http://www.facebook.com/HuffPostUK Follow: https://twitter.com/HuffPostUK The smash hit of the summer - now set to your favourite famous dance clips from film and TV. What's not to love?!

HuffPo UK put out this fun supercut of dancing scenes in movies through the decades and set it to Daft Punk's Get Lucky.​

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Song of the Day - Karma Police cover by Shefy and Sabbah

Our very own Middle-Eastern version by Radiohead. Inspired by Radiohead's clip, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBH97ma9YiI) and made with great respect and no intentions claming copyrights. Tel Aviv-based musicians Rotem Shefy (vocalist) and Leat Sabbah (cellist/arranger) collaborated to realize an arrangement of Karma Police, a major hit from the alternative rock band Radiohead, third album OK Computer (1997).

This is so stylish and spot on. Love it.

Rotem Shefy (vocalist) and Leat Sabbah (cellist/arranger):

"Our very own Middle-Eastern version" of Radiohead's 1997 hit "Karma Police." What seemed at first a satirical cover transformed into a full-blown middle-eastern version, recorded with oud player Yaniv Taichmann and percussionist Ori Dekel." 
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