Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Exquisite Ballet Tricks in Slow-Mo
The Washington Post highlights enormous talent of the Washington Ballet dancers on this segment from their Post TV, showing, in gorgeous slow-motion, some of their hardest tricks.
Nearly 4 Years of 5 things I learned today
August 10, 2014 will be 4 years that I've been collecting and sharing things of interest online. Connecting with all of you has been the greatest gift, working with some amazingly talented people, and being introduced to some of the most beautiful, fascinating and interesting creators in the world has made every day worth it.
Some things to point your attention to. First, if you can't tell, I am super excited for the start of the World Cup this month in Brazil, and I for one have already ordered my favorite jerseys. Also, we've recently launched our Calendar of Events, realizing that some of the most amazing things we learn are through in-person experiences, we wanted to add that to our coverage. If you have an event you want included, Submit it here.
In addition to this blog, we have some other projects we are so excited to be working on.
AmyAndDevShow.com
Sketch comedy series starring Amy Urbina & Devereau Chumrau
Poetry + World Cup = Copa Poética
ManipulatedBestiary.com
And beyond just the 5 things I learned today blog, there is 5 Thing TV — from the very first episode, through interviewing Bill Paxton, to inviting readers to share poems they love.
Check out all 5 at: http://5thin.gs/episode-4-3 1. Wow! A realistic dinosaur puppet 2. Portable music players from the 1920s 3. Other than describing how 'foreign' they are, I don't really agree, but... What Are The Hardest Languages To Learn [INFOGRAPHIC] 4. A short video tour of Spain and its architectures 5.
The Very First 5 things I learned today video
Links at http://5thin.gs/1nG9dfA
Bill Paxton - 5 films that influence my career
http://5thin.gs/1nG9m2v
Read by Daniel Dean Demerin See all 5 and links to the texts at http://bit.ly/j33tBz
If you haven't browsed around before, take a look through our stuff.
Poems
![Poem of the Day [VIDEO] — The Ecstasy by Philip Lopate](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5005d21ac4aa55eb76ab5f3b/1472163162494-64Q6LZ82P9ALRIRKAT8B/lopate.jpg)
Amy & Dev Show: Yoga at Home: Hot Yoga
The third sketch from our own Devereau Chumrau's sketch comedy series Amy & Dev Show is here, and it is yogalicious.
Lush and Eery Calavera
British photographer Rankin and beauty editor Andrew Gallimoreto imagined these calavera, skull masks inspired by the Mexican Day of the Dead and Roman Catholic All Souls Day.
Climbing the Shanghai Tower
Just watch. It will help pump some blood through your heart and brain.
Stunning Supercell Timelapse
Basehunters, out of Norman, Okla. captured this dramatic footage.
The First American Color Photographs - The American Odyssey
An American Odyssey reveals the archive of the Detroit Photographic Company from the late 1880s to the early 1920s.
Using a photolithographic technique called Photochrom, black-and-white negatives were reproduced in color.
Colorfully Beautiful Mushrooms - photos by Steve Axford
Australian photographer Steve Axford has been developing a very impressive library of gorgeous mushrooms from around the world.
Amy & Dev Show: Sketch Comedy Series Starring Our Own Devereau Chumrau
Our own Devereau Chumrau premiered her web sketch comedy series, Amy & Dev Show, and here is the first episode. Each week a new sketch with these two former roommates, with guest stars including some of the best stage and television actors in LA. We are so proud of you!
Achingly Beautiful Illustrations for Whitman's Song of Myself
Artist Allen Crawford creates 256 pages of hand-drawn illustrations together to light on the centerpiece of Whitman's titanic Leaves of Grass in his absolutely gorgeous Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself.
Song of Myself
VI
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. Or I guess if is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropt, Bearing the owner’s name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose? Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the vegetation. Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic, And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white, Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive then the same. And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves. Tenderly will I use you curling grass, It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men, It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken, It may be if I had known them I would have loved them, soon out of their mother’s laps, And here you are the mothers’ laps. This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers, Darker than the colorless beards of old men, Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths. O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues, And I perceive they do not come from the roofs of mouths for nothing. I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men and women, And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken soon out of their laps. What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas’d the moment life appear’d. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Eggshell Sculptures
Historic & Contemporary Japan Erupt into Each Other
A Japanese artist classically trained in Yamato-e (traditional Japanese painting), Akira Yamaguchi's large format watercolors demonstrate a refinement on par with the old masters. These paintings, however, take another look. They are of an historic color, bristling with the tools, locations, things and situations of contemporary Japan. Skyscrapers seem clearly the cousins of the Heiji Castles they replaced. Rocket launchers, airplanes. Truly astounding.
Capturing the World's 2nd Largest Tree in a Single Shot
This is so gorgeous on so many levels.
Named “The President” the giant sequoia that was photographed is named “The President” and is located in Giant Forest of California’s Sequoia National Park.
Photographer Michael “Nick” Nichols captured a photograph of the 247-foot-tall tree that scientists estimate is at least 3,200 years old.
Check out the whole Nat Geo story.
Photographing Silly Laws Being Broken
NYC photographer Olivia Locher created this photo series called ‘I Fought The Law’ demonstrating some of the US's sillier laws.
Drone Over Hong Kong
With their Discovery PRO first-person quadcopter Team BlackSheep captured the parts of Hong Kong, green mountains and bays and floating villages, not often captured.
Time-slice Photo of Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse - Photo of the Day
Mike Mezeul II shot this tremendous time-slice photo capturing the process of April 15th's Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse from a blooming field in Ennis, Texas
Close up
Tatio Geyser Field in Chile Photos by Owen Perry
El Tatio in the Chilean Andes is the largest geyser field in the southern hemisphere. British Columbia-based interactive web designer and visual artist Owen Perry took these fantastic shots. Find a lot of his other work at Circa 1983.
Infrared Timelapse of Vietnamese Landscape
Dmitry Pisanko shot this disorienting timelape with an infrared camera.
3D LEGO Chalk Drawing of Terracotta Warriors
The Planet Streetpainting (Leon Keer, Ruben Poncia, Remko van Schaik and Peter Westerink) created this “anamorphic street painting”for the 2011 Sarasota Chalk Festival.
