Eighty-six Year-old Irish Fisherman Still Fishing

We went to southern Ireland trying to find an interesting story to capture. While we were in Castletownbere, Ireland, the name Pat Murphy kept coming up around town. The locals said that if we wanted to get an interesting story, we had to interview him. So we went on a journey to find him. We had to wait in the town three days before we could meet him, because he was out at sea. This is the story we got from him when he returned. Special thanks to the town of Castletownbere, Ireland. Filmed on the Canon 5D. Zeiss 85mm f/1.4, Canon 24mm f/1.4, Canon 50mm f/1.8. 3' slider. Glidecam 2000. You can visit more of our work at www.wearefilmsny.com www.twitter.com/wearefilms www.facebook.com/wearefilms

The Oldest Man In The Sea from We Are Films profiles Pat Murphy who still makes a living doing what he has done for so long. 

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Return to the Sea - Saltworks by Motoi Yamamoto

Motoi Yamamoto is an internationally acclaimed contemporary Japanese artist from Hiroshima, Japan, who creates elaborate, site-specific installations made entirely out of salt. Often in the form of large-scale labyrinths or aerial projections of typhoons, Yamamoto takes one of the earth’s oldest, most sought-after mineral elements to cover the entire gallery floors during a two-week residency at the Monterey Museum of Art—Pacific Street location. Traditionally used as a symbol for purification and mourning in Japanese culture, the artist’s use of salt emanates from a powerful personal experience in working through the death of his sister. His artwork is rooted in themes of life, death, and rebirth, and his process with salt has helped him cleanse his grief. Return to the Sea, Saltworks by Motoi Yamamoto is organized by the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston School of the Arts. Video produced by John Greenwald

From the video page: 

Motoi Yamamoto is an internationally acclaimed contemporary Japanese artist from Hiroshima, Japan, who creates elaborate, site-specific installations made entirely out of salt. Often in the form of large-scale labyrinths or aerial projections of typhoons, Yamamoto takes one of the earth’s oldest, most sought-after mineral elements to cover the entire gallery floors.

 

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Macro Flower Timelapse from Daniel Csobot

Kamera und Schnitt: Daniel Csobot www.danic.me www.novalapse.com Technik: Canon 7D Kessler CineSlider Canon EF 100mm Macro Canon 15-85mm Fotozelt Tageslichtlampen Lizenzierung von Sequenzen auf Anfrage möglich. Licensing for sequences available on request. Musik: Daniel Gautreau - Digital Heartbeat - www.audionetwork.com

From Daniel Csobot

Canon 7D, Kessler CineSlider, Canon EF 100mm Macro, Canon 15-85mm. Awesome.

 

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Shunpo - An Agile Dance Video

What if we could escape our daily routine for a moment ? A Step, just one, that could move us miles away from here, in a second; a flash step. A Shunpo. Shunpo was shot in 6 days in 13 different locations in Paris plus one in Turkey at "Tuz Gölü" salt lake. The camera used was a Canon 5D Mark III with 16-35 L, 24-70L and 70-200L lenses. Directed by Steven Briand - briand.steven@gmail.com With Juliette Nicolotto Choreographer Fabrice Domenet Cinematographer Kanamé Onoyama Steadycam Operator Johan Leclaire Bottarelli recording supervisor Benoît Maerens Original Music by Grégoire Letouvet Sound Design Moritz Reich Additional Beats Nodey Produced By Nathalie Lapicorey & Zeynep Gizem De Loecker with the support of Dailymotion

Shunpo  (瞬歩) is a step or movement faster than the eye can detect. And this dance video evokes shunpo in clever ways. 

 

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56,000 km - films by Kares Le Roy

56 000 kilomètres au coeur de l'Asie a film by Kares Le Roy music by The Cinematic Orchestra ► [website] www.karesleroy.com ► [blog] www.bykares.com ► [fb] www.facebook.com/bykares *Acheter le livre sur le site de la Fnac : livre.fnac.com/a3817330/Kares-Le-Roy-56-000-kilometres-un-continent-et-des-hommes © Amu Darya

French photographer, Kares Le Roy spent the last two years in Asia traveling over 56000km. These two short videos ("Into the heart of Asia", and "A Continent and its People") were the result.

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56000 kilomètres - un continent et des hommes Photographs by Kares Le Roy ► [website] www.karesleroy.com ► [blog] www.bykares.com ► [fb] www.facebook.com/bykares *Acheter le livre sur le site de la Fnac : livre.fnac.com/a3817330/Kares-Le-Roy-56-000-kilometres-un-continent-et-des-hommes Photography by Kares > www.karesleroy.com Motion by Slimane Aniss > www.slimotion.com Music by Woodini > www.woodini.fr © Amu Darya

100 Best First Lines from Novels from American Book Review

There is a great list over on American Book Review of first lines of novels in English.  

Here's the top ten (and a few other favorites)... 

1. Call me Ishmael. —Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)

2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)

3. A screaming comes across the sky. —Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

4. Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. —Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude  (1967; trans. Gregory Rabassa)

5. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. —Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955)

6. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. —Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877; trans. Constance Garnett)

7. riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. —James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (1939)

8. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. —George Orwell, 1984  (1949)

9. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. —Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

10. I am an invisible man. —Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)

31. I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground (1864; trans. Michael R. Katz)

65. You better not never tell nobody but God. —Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982)

68. Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden. —David Foster Wallace, The Broom of the System (1987)

 

Poesia Para La Gente - Poetry on the LA Metro Red Line

On Sunday afternoon, June 30th, several poets met to ride the LA Metro and at each stop and along the way shared their poems and spoken word with fellow Angelenos. There were many poems and tales, but for the sake of expediency I chose just one poem from each poet to include in the video.

Poesia Para La Gente (Poetry for the People) is a program that brings poetry to the people of the community, in non-traditional places. Some of these places have been affected, in one way or another, by economical hardship or various forms of social stigmas. All locations are unique in providing a safe setting for uninhibited artistic expression.

Poesia Para La Gente is a program of the Avenue 50 Studio's monthly La Palabra Poetry. The program has been made possible by a grant from The James Irvine Foundation.
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WHY THE LA METRO? 

Our goal is to share poetry with the community, outside of our choir and into the streets in order to encourage, nurture, and stimulate artistic expression every which way we can, and every where we can. By providing a welcoming, and non-traditional public platform for sharing the power of the spoken word, we hope to stimulate cultural understanding within the diverse population of the North East Los Angeles area...and beyond. 
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featuring:
Billy Burgos
Yago Cura
Sean Hill
Karineh Mahdessian (email)
Ryan Nance (me, here)
Conney Williams

Hosted by Jessica Ceballos 

Cidade Cinza (Grey City) Trailer

http://www.facebook.com/cidadecinzasp Sinopse: Nas ruas de uma das maiores e mais desorganizadas metrópolis do mundo nasceu uma nova forma de graffiti, na qual o hip hop americano foi substituído pela cultura regional brasileira. Rapidamente, as obras d'Osgemeos, Nunca e Nina se espalharam pelas ruas de São Paulo e depois pelas galerias do mundo.

Shot over 6 years Grey City is about the back and forth between Sao Paulo’s street art community and the city government.

There are English captions, so make sure those are turned on if you don't understand Portuguese.

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Best Of Web 5 - Supercut of Super Videos

The list of 187 videos used for this compilation: http://bit.ly/12ViEMZ Editing and Selection: Zapatou (Luc Bergeron) Facebook page: http://on.fb.me/Y4bgqH Facebook personnal: http://on.fb.me/10bfylt Twitter: http://bit.ly/stqeOj Music: Hold On (Vicetone Extended Edit) - NERVO YouTube: http://bit.ly/14fcLa9 Site: http://www.nervomusic.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nervomusic Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nervomusic Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/nervomusic Best of Web 1: http://bit.ly/u25R3f Best of Web 2: http://bit.ly/syiEWc Best of Web 3: http://bit.ly/Ueb6Bb Best of Web 4: http://bit.ly/12jlYRG Best of Web 5: http://bit.ly/132vsTb

Official list of Best Of Web 5
http://bit.ly/132vsTb

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