Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Celebrity Actors Reading Poetry
It is often a discussion around our house: poetry as performance vs. poetry as enactment. Actors perform a poem in place of the reader enacting it for themselves. A bit like the difference between watching tennis and playing tennis. Both are moving and amazing. This is a fantastic collection: Speak Celebrity. It's an ongoing project, so I am definitely subscribing to see what new gems there are to be enjoyed.
“My Dream” by Christina Rossetti
Read by Helena Bonham Carter
“Love’s Philosophy” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Read by Keira Knightley
“Like This” by Rumi
Read by Tilda Swinton
“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
Read by Christopher Walken
“To a Stranger” by Walt Whitman
Read by Kenneth Branagh
“Daffodils” by William Wordsworth
Read by Jeremy Irons
“I Like For You To Be Still” by Pablo Neruda
Read by Glenn Close
“In Vain” by Emily Dickinson
Read by Meryl Streep
“Sonnet 150” by William Shakespeare
Read by Al Pacino
![“[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]” by e.e. cummingsRead by Heath Ledger](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5005d21ac4aa55eb76ab5f3b/1349445756230-5Z63DSGBWYQLWQI9J0LC/tumblr_lu9i12EdAS1r3v0zho1_1320621466_cover.png)
“[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]” by e.e. cummings
Read by Heath Ledger
Stunning 24-Hour Infographic of the Productivity Habits of our Intellectual Heroes
RJ Andrews of Info We Trust used the information from “Daily Rituals: How Artists Work” by Mason Currey to create this Creative Routines illustrated poster which shows how our intellectual and artistic heroes divvied up their days.
Philosophers, composers, poets, physicists... everybody's got to sleep.
Witty Animated GIFs with a Science Flavor from Hugo Germain
An engineering student in France, Hugo Germain, uses After Effects or Cinema 4D to create this fun and funny sciency GIFs.
Germain:
“Each gif has its own story but mainly it’s a way for me to provide inspiration and make people question basic things we take for granted. I often wonder “What if this or that was different/existed ? What would that look like ?”. Being able to actually create an answer to that question is very exciting for me, and I guess that’s also what people like about it.”
Argentia v. USA - World Cup Kit Design Showdown
Does anyone disagree with the way Argentina is trouncing the US Men's National Team's jersey in the World Cup Kit Design Showdown?
There are 16 other first round matchups waiting for your votes.
Breathtakingly Vibrant Close-up Timelapse of Coral and Sponges
Daniel Stoupin has made this stunning timelapse of what he refers to as "slow" marine creatures — coral and sponges whose wild movements are barely perceptible on our timescale.
This is definitely one to hit the FULL SCREEN on the video.
Cameroon v. France - World Cup Kit Design Showdown
To my surprise, with an initial lead, France is beating Cameroon pretty handily in the Round of 32 matchup on the World Cup Kit Design Showdown. I do like the French kit's simplicity, but the Cameroon Home Jersey seemed to me an obvious choice.
Do you agree with me? Or with the polling?
Aerial Footage from Photographer Cássio Vasconcellos
We've seen Vasconcellos' Brazilian Scenes from the Air before, but here is a stunning video from his vantage point.
Roomba Light Painting Timelapse from Sunchaser Pictures
We've seen some amazing timelapses from Sunchaser Pictures before: Death Valley Dreamlapse.
But here, they take that same technical prowess and turn it on to a Roomba. Awesome.
Gavin Heffernan of Sunchaser Pictures:
'I recently purchased an awesome IRobot roomba vacuum cleaner (as part of my neverending quest to make household chores tolerable). After watching the cute little circular robot zoom across our floors with endless gusto, I decided to try and attach different lights to the top and shoot some timelapses."
Croatia v. Portugal - World Cup Kit Design Showdown
With a whole universe of World Cup Football Jerseys, it has come time to pick the winner from a design point of view. So we bring you, the World Cup Kit Design Showdown.
So get it there and vote on your picks and get your friends to vote so you can see how your opinions are so much better.
Colored Ink Mixing in High-Speed Photos by Alberto Seveso
Alberto Seveso stunning new series, Blackground, uses high-speed photography to explore the ways different colored inks mix with water that looks almost organic
Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbalbond - World Cup Country in Focus
FIFA Ranking: 10
GROUP B: with Australia, Chile and Spain
- 6/13 v. Spain
- 6/18 v. Australia
- 6/23 v. Chile
Captain and Top Scorer - Robin Van Persie
Second Highest Scorer - Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
104 Dutch playing abroad
Fireflies in Timelapse by Vincent Brady
2013 at Lake of the Ozarks and Grand Ledge, Michigan, Vincent Brady shot these gorgeous firefly timelapses.
Ghana Football Association - World Cup Country in Focus
FIFA Ranking: 35
GROUP G: with Germany, Portugal and USA
- 6/16 v. USA
- 6/21 v. Germany
- 6/26 v. Portugal
Captain and Top Scorer - Asamoah Gyan
Second Top Scorer - Sulley Muntari
27 Ghanaians playing abroad
Post Match by Leo Fitzmaurice
British artist Leo Fitzmaurice has been working on his Post Match for more than a decade, connecting in tiny and witty little football jerseys made of cigarette packs two worlds not that far away: sport and business.
Tiny World Animations
The CG team at Rushes animates ‘Tiny Worlds’, three short films of the hidden worlds under our gaze.
See also Miniature Foodscapes by photographers Pierre Javelle and Akiko Ida »
100,000 Stars - Great Chrome Experiment
From the Project:
"100,000 Stars is an interactive visualization of the stellar neighborhood created for the Google Chrome web browser. It shows the location of 119,617 nearby stars derived from multiple sources, including the 1989 Hipparcos mission. Zooming in reveals 87 individually identified stars and our solar system. The galaxy view is an artist's rendition based on NGC 1232, a spiral galaxy like the Milky Way."
A Breakdancer's Freeze Tour of Paris
Hip-hop dancer Kapstand has begun a plan to get photographed doing a freeze (a sudden stopped motion in breakdancing) handstand in front of the world's landmarks with a tour of his Paris.
Animal Sculptures Made of Ocean Debris by Gilles Cenazandotti
Artist Gilles Cenazandotti collects plastic debris washed ashore and creates a bestiary of recycled waste animals.
Cenazandotti:
"Impressed by everything that the Sea, in turn, rejects and transforms, on the beaches I harvest the products derived from petroleum and its industry. The choice of animals that are part of the endangered species completes this process. In covering these animals with a new skin harvested from the banks of the Sea, I hope to draw attention to this possible metamorphosis - to create a trompe l'oeil of a modified reality."
Beautiful Wooden Stop-Motion Music Video - Colourblind
Australian animation firm Oh Yeah Wow (we've seen their work before for Gotye's Easy Way Out) working with geometric pieces of wood gorgeously illustrate the music video for the single Colourblind by Elliot the Bull.