Thumbs In Place of Guns
Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Yosemite in Achingly Beautiful Timelapse
From the project video:
"A 200+ mile backpacking experience through Yosemite National Park captured by Colin Delehanty and Sheldon Neill. This project was filmed over the course of 10 months. We spent a combined 45 days in the park capturing the images in this video."
Post-Punk Superheros by Billy Butcher
There is something so pitch-perfect about this work from mashup artist Butcher Billy that elevates it. Certainly its style and wit help quite a bit, but even more than that, there is some thing about identity and fame here. Just great.
Visit Billy’s Behance for more work.
See also Super Secret Lives & The Justice League of Parks and Rec
Patterns in Urban Architecture
Munich-based photographer Nich Frank (http://www.iso72.de ) sees geometry all around him and captures images that let us see them too.
“[it's] about self-discovery, finding something new or to interpret it differently, change the own point of view, leaving the rhythm and the usual paths. It’s about time, places, moments, but also technology.”
Beautiful Bird Sculptures Made of Telephone Wires
UK-based sculptor Celia Smith makes these subtle and nuanced bird sculptures with telephone wires.
Celia says:
Birds are my main inspiration; capturing their movement and character is my primary concern. I find that wire has a spontaneity that can give my sculptures a feeling of life and energy.with the wires representing a quality of line.
Star Wars Speeder Bike Quadcopter Mod - A Maker's First Person Video
ADAM WOODWORTH, a hardware engineer at Google has a detailed step-by-step of his mod of a quadrotor to become an Imperial Speeder with a first-person camera to boot. Check out the photos.
5 Apps to Look At - Citymaps, Super, Nutshell & More
Apps that make living in the world easier, more fun and more expressive. Too many good apps out there, and these are the ones I am looking at this week. Stay tuned for more in the weeks to come.
Thanks for all the suggestions for Apps to Look At. Send me yours at twitter.com/5tilt.
Citymaps - citymaps.com
So much of what I ever wanted from Foursquare, Yelp and Google Maps is about places, not locations, but places. Places I've been to, places I've loved, places to share and places to meet at. This is focused way to find and collect those places. You can find my growing maps @rtsnance on Citymaps.
Super - super.me
Visual, fun memes to be made for your friends and the world, Super walks you through building a meme-worthy message. It's a way people love to communicate with their friends, just made easier to find, make and share.
Nutshell - nutshell.prezi.com
Life's little stories, short and sweet
Snap three pictures. Add captions. Choose graphics. And let Nutshell turn it all into a shareable cinematic story.
Reuters TV - www.reuters.tv
TV doesn't mean what it used to mean. It used to be a box you sat in front of. Now it is something that comes streaming through the things we carry around with us. The Reuters TV responds to that in an exciting way: a pre-downloaded, custom-tailored 5 to 30 min selections of news segments, ready for you to watch whenever and wherever you are.
Timeline - Timeline.com
Weaving together the reports that cover events in a quick succession creates a more complex and nuanced story. Such is the essence of Timeline. See how a story evolves over time. Quickly dive into its roots and beginnings. All this helps make sense of the news.
Burma Through the Attentive Lens of Photographer David Heath
Adventure photographer David Heath created this gorgeous photo series of his 5 years of travel in and around Burma.
“From the moment I first set foot in this magical land, I fell under its spell. I found it to be one of the most enthralling and visually captivating countries I have had the privilege to explore – truly a photographer’s paradise,” explains Heath, “I aspired to convey the soul of the beautiful Burmese people, their mystical culture and mysterious customs, in the most artistic way possible”.
The book “BURMA: An Enchanted Spirit” has even more unforgettable photographs.
Superhero Soccer
Super fun to see so many favorite characters in this.
Sculptures On The Land by Nils-Udo
German artist Nils-Udo creates site-specific arrangements using materials around. They are striking and beautiful and provocative.
POTD - Odysseus Hears of the Death of Kalypso by Donald Revell
Odysseus Hears of the Death of Kalypso
All their songs are of one hour
Before dawn, when the birds begin.
I sing another.
In helpless midday, at the hour
Even sparrows have no heart to shrill
Comes news . . . Suddenly, the unimaginable
Needs imagination and finds none.
Violet ocean only nothing.
Smoke of thyme and of cedar,
Ornate birds, nothing.
Even a god who came here,
Hearing a sweet voice,
Would find only old fires now,
Brittle in the blackened trees.
She was mast and sail. She was
A stillness pregnant with motion,
Adorable to me as, all my life,
I have hidden a cruel, secret ocean
In sinews and in sleep and cowardice.
She forgave me. Once, she wept for me.
Our child died then, and she is with him.
From his first book, New Dark Ages, I have found such peering intelligence and vision in Revell's work.
I Put A Spell on You by Nina Simone
“To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.”
from wikipedia:
Nina Simone (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was anAmerican singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, andcivil rights activist widely associated with jazz music. She worked in a broad range of styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop.
Catch Me Reading from Manipulated Bestiary - Poetry Reading March 7 at Gus Harper Studio
On Saturday, March 7th, 2015 at 7 PM, Gus Harper Art (11306 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, Ca. 90066) + HINCHAS (www.hinchasdepoesia.com) would like to invite you to a poetry event.
The poetry event will feature six poets that are set to make their own noise in 2015: Luivette Resto, Rey Macias, Ashaki Jackson, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Ryan Nance, and Yago S. Cura.
Ready for Revoltion by Stokely Carmichael
“There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.”
Get Ready for Revolution by Stokely Carmichael and Stokely: A Life by Peniel E. Joseph
Kwame Touré, once known as Stokely Carmichael(June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998), was a Trinidadian-American activist active in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and later, the global Pan-African movement. Growing up in the United States from the age of eleven, he graduated from Howard University. He rose to prominence in the civil rights and Black Power movements, first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party, and finally as a leader of the All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party.[1]
Aspen groves. Breckenridge, Colorado, USA Photo by Twenty20/Jawill529
POTD - The Problem with Describing Trees by Robert Hass
The Problem of Describing Trees
The aspen glitters in the wind
And that delights us.
The leaf flutters, turning,
Because that motion in the heat of August
Protects its cells from drying out. Likewise the leaf
Of the cottonwood.
The gene pool threw up a wobbly stem
And the tree danced. No.
The tree capitalized.
No. There are limits to saying,
In language, what the tree did.
It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.
Dance with me, dancer. Oh, I will.
Mountains, sky,
The aspen doing something in the wind.
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton
“Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.”
from Wikipedia:
Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936, Depew, New York – February 13, 2010,Baltimore, Maryland)[1] was an American poet, writer, and educator fromBuffalo, New York.[2][3][4] From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. Frequent topics in her poetry include the celebration of her African-American heritage, women's experience, and the female body.
She was also nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
“Okay listen, you think I’m so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I’m not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you. ”
Get Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
More from the Black History Month Reading List
Underdog: Humanized Dog Portraits from Sebastian Magnani
Bern Switzerland based photographer Sebastian Magnani blends his photographs of dogs with their owners digitally to make these humanized dog portraits.
See also Zoo Fashion Photos
Directed by Desire by June Jordan
“And who will join this standing up
and the ones who stood without sweet company
will sing and sing
back into the mountains and
if necessary
even under the sea:
we are the ones we have been waiting for.”
Get Directed by Desire by June Jordan
from Poetry Foundation:
"One of the most widely-published and highly-acclaimed African American writers of her generation, poet, playwright and essayist June Jordan was also known for her fierce commitment to human rights and progressive political agenda. Over a career that produced twenty-seven volumes of poems, essays, libretti, and work for children, Jordan engaged the fundamental struggles of her era: over civil rights, women’s rights, and sexual freedom."