It can be hard to talk to your kids about how much they have without falling into the trap of pitying others or a sense of superiority.
Weekly Video Things - August 30
We're back with weekly wrap-up videos, in a different format from most of the 5 things TV. Hope you like it.
Great Mural Made of 1,700 Box Packages
Designers Gerlinde Gruberand Christine Strempel who used over 1,700 packages to created this mural of Mayr-Melnhof Packaging (MMP) for this year’s Interpack processing and packaging trade fair in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Glorious Drone Video of the High Arctic
With a DJI Phantom 2 drone, Peter Cox, a landscape photographer, recently visited Svalbard in the Greenland Sea
Paris Seen Through the Viewfinder of a Pentax
A stylish little take on the Paris video shows us the sights as seen through the iconic Pentax viewfinder.
Huscarl, Battle of Hastings, 1066
The Soldier's Kit through 1,000 years of English History
Photographer Thomas Atkinson has created this photo series, Soldiers’ Inventories, which documents the military kits of English soldiers, from the Battle of Hastings in 1066 up to today.
Mounted Knight, Siege of Jerusalem, 1244
Fighting Archer, Battle of Agincourt, 1415
Yorkist Man at Arms, Battle of Bosworth, 1485
Trained Band Caliverman, Tilbury, 1588
New Model Army Musketeer, Battle of Naseby, 1645
Private Sentinel, Battle of Malplaquet, 1709
Private Soldier, Battle of Waterloo, 1815
Private Soldier, Rifle Brigade, Battle of the Alma, 1854
Sergeant, Battle of the Somme, 1916
Lance Corporal, Parachute Brigade, Battle of Arnhem, 1944
Royal Marine Commando, Falklands Conflict, 1982
Close Support Sapper, Royal Engineers, Helmand Province, 2014
Via Beautiful Decay
Human Water Catapult
Seems like a fun summer thing to do if you've got a houseboat and quadcopter.
More Book Sculptures from Chen Long-Bin
We saw a number of Chen Long-Bin's book carvings last week in the REBOUND DISSECTIONS AND EXCAVATIONS IN BOOK ART. I can't really get enough of them.
“In my artwork I always use printed matter – discarded books, magazines, and computer printouts; the cultural debris of our information society. The sculptures I create reference Eastern and Western icons and intellectual figures, thereby exploring cultural meanings and concepts. I always use text in my work and the content of the texts are relevant to my sculptures. My finished sculptures often seem to be wood or marble, though they consist of paper. They are constructed in such a way that the various parts fit together in a seamless manner.”
Also check out Paper Sculptures That Defy Expectations
Real-time Facemapping - Digital Makeup
Using real-time face tracking, Nobumichi Asai creates eerily transformative “electronic makeup” on a model's face.
More Unbelievable 3D Paintings in Layers of Resin by Keng Lye
It is almost hard to believe but these are NOT real fish. They are painted in three dimensions in layers of resin.
We've seen the works of Keng Lye before, but these again are jaw-dropping.
Soundwaves and Natural Patterns in Juxtaposition
Ukrainian designer Anna Marinenko sees the patterns of sound wave forms in the patterns of nature and movement.
The Treehouse of So Many of Our Dreams
In a series of trees outside Atlanta, architect Peter Bahouth has constructed this network of houses in the trees, with a series of bridges connecting them. The owner named the three rooms ‘Mind,’ ‘Body’ and ‘Spirit’. Photographer Lindsay Appel took these amazing photos of them in her book, My Cool Shed.
The End of the Waterslide - Splash Water by Krista Long
Photographer Krista Long decided to investigate how people come out of waterslides.
Paris in Breathtaking Timelapse
On a recent 3-week trip to Paris, Paul Richardson captured this absolutely breathtaking time lapse of some of the City of Lights most memorable sights.
All the Premier League Kits for the 2014/2015 Season
ESPN has this great feature story that both shows all the 2014/2015 kits for each of the 20 teams, but also details of the deals those sponsors and manufacturers secured. The Premier League starts this weekend.
New York's Greatest Abandoned Movie Theater - Four Years of 5 Things
Closed in 1977, Loew's King Theatre, one of five "Loew's Wonder Theaters", was built on Flatbush Ave in 1929.
This post originally appear April 3, 2011
A History of the World in 100 Seconds - Four Years of 5 Things
This geo-visualization of wikipedia articles through history first appeared March 21, 2011.
Hyper-Realistic Drawing Shown Through Timelapse
Marcello Barenghi has video after video demonstrating in timelapse how he goes from blank page to near photo-realistic by pen, pencil and brush.
