5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)
5 things I learned April 24, 2012
1. Land art [11 photos] http://5thin.gs/J7Lhqs
2. Early modernist Chinese literature set to hip-hop paired with vintage ping-pong footage [video] http://5thin.gs/JlXZ9x
3. Sugar murals [10 photos] http://5thin.gs/K6bPsW
4. Infrared Tokyo [12 photos] http://5thin.gs/IBKfpu
5. Storm photography [8 photos] http://5thin.gs/HQn7mn
5 things I learned April 20, 2012
1. 24 hours in one photo http://5thin.gs/I8zYCL
2. Abandoned places [91 photos] http://5thin.gs/I5Vg1T
3. How folding paper can get you to the moon [video] http://5thin.gs/HTpCTH
4. Water shots [4 photos] http://5thin.gs/I8ACjD
5. Hot Wheels Gymkhana [video] http://5thin.gs/I8BnsT
5 things I learned April 19, 2012
1. Video of NASA's footage from Casini and Voyager [3 photos and a video] http://5thin.gs/I7pmzV
2. Stop-motion of massive street art being made [video] http://5thin.gs/I7mgMm
3. Fly over the Swiss Alps from your iPhone [iOS app] http://5thin.gs/J9sS14
4. Motorcycle gymkhana [video] http://5thin.gs/I9dIrC
5. Visceral and visually inventive video [music video] http://5thin.gs/J9s1xb
5 things I learned April 18, 2012
1. Jetman [video] http://5thin.gs/HSS3mR
2. Sculpture made from cut willow branches [3 images] http://5thin.gs/HSS36p
3. Photographer creates ‘Desert Clouds’ [6 images and 1 video] http://5thin.gs/JaCtWy
4. North Korea seen from an American tourist's train seat [1-hour video] http://5thin.gs/HQIMtw
5. Classic album covers recreated using Pantone color swatches [11 images] http://5thin.gs/HQJirI
5 things I learned April 17, 2012
1. Kid forts [9 photos] http://5thin.gs/IWg263
2. Movie title color quizzing animation [video] http://5thin.gs/I2nGI0
3. Year 3 of the Cloud 365 Project [site] http://5thin.gs/HMgZzc
4. Remaining facades of an older NY [21 photos] http://5thin.gs/HNrIcF
5. Celebrities reading famous poems aloud (the best to read them IS aloud) [10 videos] http://5thin.gs/IYcWfl
2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner: 5 poems I read April 16, 2012 Tracey K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_K._Smith) wins 2012 Pulitzer for her book Life on Mars (http://5thin.gs/HNQhoA). Full details here: http://5thin.gs/HNPYKv
5 poems from the winner:
1. My God, It's Full of Stars http://5thin.gs/JrI7hS
2. Sci-Fi http://5thin.gs/JrJmxw
3. Duende [audio of poet] http://5thin.gs/jVbB8F
4. A Hunger So Honed http://5thin.gs/JrKcdu
5. New Road Station [audio of poet] http://5thin.gs/HNPzry
5 things I learned April 16, 2012
1. Portraits cut from wire mesh [9 photos and videos] http://5thin.gs/HOgnKj
2. Shipping routes plotted by hand and animated [2 videos] http://5thin.gs/Jqnrqp
3. Intersections seen from above [15 photos] http://5thin.gs/HNqblw
4. 600 million tons of salt in the Dead Sea [20 photos] http://5thin.gs/HO1zHY
5. Time for a Cycle-skate revival [video] http://5thin.gs/HNdaIG
Things that inspire me week of April 1st -8th
1. Ricky Allman: http://rickyallman.com
2. Stupid horsey on the beach and shit.
3. Becca Scott and Nick Bylsma
4. Alex Niedt: http://myspace.com/alexniedt
5. Angela Schroder-Dill: full song can be heard here http://vimeo.com/39683309
"55 is a weekly collection of 5 second clips taken 5 days out of the week. It is a project meant to deepen my appreciation of the world around me and broaden my visual palate."
Zac Eubank is an artist currently residing in Koreatown Los Angeles California. He graduated from the University of Missouri Kansas City with a masters in painting and is pursuing a career in filmmaking. You can check out his work at www.thezaceubank.com
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5 things I learned April 12, 2012
1. Music and neurology [video] http://5thin.gs/HOfzlq
2. "Strict Color Palette" [video] http://5thin.gs/HuHtkZ
3. Iconic photos from history (including this one, the world's FIRST photo from 1826) [45 images] http://5thin.gs/HOqFDM
4. The desktops of digital artists [51 images] http://5thin.gs/HzK6B1
5. Top 10 Google Project Glass parodies [10 videos] http://5thin.gs/HORkAl
5 things I learned April 11, 2012
1. Pilot/Photographer seems an awesome job description [20 photos ] http://5thin.gs/HxsDxS
2. 100(ish) First World Problems [video] http://5thin.gs/HKEg2d
3. Toy photos [20 photos] http://5thin.gs/HHtytZ
4. Map of the Dead [zombie survival interactive map] http://5thin.gs/HrZzE4
5. Gorgeous spaceman art [6 images] http://5thin.gs/ICiQSb
5 things I learned April 10, 2012
1. Loving Chicago timelapse [video] http://5thin.gs/IBwXtQ
2. Mysterious Italy [21 photos] http://5thin.gs/IBHxRD
3. Paris in shadows [25 photos] http://5thin.gs/IBGEbL
4. A DSLR as a crash cam [video] http://5thin.gs/HyRL4w
5. An ad that tries really hard not to be http://5thin.gs/Hz2Hz3
5 things I learned April 9, 2012
Happy Birthday to our Devereau Chumrau (http://devereauchumrau.com )! 5 things wouldn't be the same without you!
1. PAC-MAN the movie [video] http://5thin.gs/HBzGTV
2. Awesome animations made of Victorian photos [6 images] http://5thin.gs/HSkgGZ
3. Beautiful Myanmar [8 pictures] http://5thin.gs/HvC6Ti
4. Waves [6 images and a video ] http://5thin.gs/HrMTMD
5. Empty cities [9 photos] http://5thin.gs/HskZ7H
5 things I learned April 6, 2012
1. Gorgeous microscopic cinema reveals a terrifying world [5 videos ] http://5thin.gs/IeKzrg
2. Historical events covered a la Perez Hilton: Perez Hamilton [tumblr blog] http://5thin.gs/Hnyd2Y
3. Movies and TV shows as retro video games [12 images] http://5thin.gs/HjzNWj
4. Watch Jim Henson's original pitch for The Muppet Show to TV execs [video] http://5thin.gs/Hnlvka
5. Richard Phillips stylish video shoots [two videos] http://5thin.gs/Hk12LB
5 poems I read April 5, 2012
1. praise song by Lucille Clifton http://5thin.gs/HQRmh0
to my aunt blanche
who rolled from grass to driveway
into the street one sunday morning.
i was ten. i had never seen
a human woman hurl her basketball
of a body into the traffic of the world.
Praise to the drivers who stopped in time.
Praise to the faith with which she rose
after some moments then slowly walked
sighing back to her family.
Praise to the arms which understood
little or nothing of what it meant
but welcomed her in without judgment,
accepting it all like children might,
like God.
2. Patience by Kay Ryan http://5thin.gs/HxJ5aZ
3. The Journey by Mary Oliver http://5thin.gs/HQQby0
4. Sediments of Santa Monica by Brenda Hillman http://5thin.gs/HQQEAe
5. The Glass Essay by Anne Carson http://5thin.gs/eyY8C3
5 things I learned April 5, 2012
1. Childhood of a Circle
[images and video] http://5thin.gs/HglwVm
2. Disassembled flowers
[7 photos] http://5thin.gs/Hrjq4l
3. The palettes of famous painters
[7 photos] http://5thin.gs/HiLZHB
4. Pogo turns his remix magic to Monsters, Inc.
http://5thin.gs/HZUe9l
5. Li Bo-Lin hides in a JR piece http://5thin.gs/HiUMcD
5 poems I read April 4, 2012
1. The Rain by Robert Creeley http://5thin.gs/HKBEk4
All night the sound had
come back again,
and again falls
this quiet, persistent rain.
What am I to myself
that must be remembered,
insisted upon
so often? Is it
that never the ease,
even the hardness,
of rain falling
will have for me
something other than this,
something not so insistent—
am I to be locked in this
final uneasiness.
Love, if you love me,
lie next to me.
Be for me, like rain,
the getting out
of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi-
lust of intentional indifference.
Be wet
with a decent happiness.
Robert Creeley, “The Rain” from Selected Poems of Robert Creeley. Copyright © 1991 by the Regents of the University of California. Reprinted with the permission of the University of California Press.
Source: Selected Poems of Robert Creeley (University of California Press, 1991)
2. The Clasp by Sharon Olds http://5thin.gs/HmSQsD
3. The Gift by Li-young Lee http://5thin.gs/HmSt13
4. What the Bones Know by Carolyn Kizer http://5thin.gs/HdGnNK
5. Duende by Tracey K. Smith http://5thin.gs/jVbB8F
5 things I learned April 4, 2012
1. Photographer in space (and his stunning images of earth)
[33 photos] http://5thin.gs/Hj0OYf
2. Amazing macro shots of dew-soaked dandelion
[8 photos] http://5thin.gs/HmXTcD
3. Hey You! You and your renaissance face!!
[10 images] http://5thin.gs/HmY8En
4. Synchronized Canon flashes to amazing effect
[video] http://5thin.gs/HfWiw3
5. Los Angeles 1860-1886
[15 photos] http://5thin.gs/HK1rsv
5 poems I read April 3, 2012
1. Odysseus Hears of the Death of Kalypso by Donald
Revell http://5thin.gs/HbKPYL
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.
Source: Poetry (June 2008).
2. I Do Not by Michael Palmer http://5thin.gs/HbNZf5
3. Fiction by Rae Armantrout http://5thin.gs/Hc63uo
4. I'm Over the Moon by Brenda Shaughnessy http://5thin.gs/Hc6rsT
5. Blue Statuary by Priscilla Becker http://5thin.gs/Hc821G
5 things I learned April 3, 2012
1. Decommissioning the Space Shuttles http://5thin.gs/HO6oBR
2. Jumbo jets and the beach http://5thin.gs/HldqcJ
3. 5 old actors looking old…and awesome http://5thin.gs/HHq2OM
4. Birth of a Book http://5thin.gs/Hd6eGu
5. Fascinating Photos From Frida Kahlo’s Personal Collection http://5thin.gs/Hd6lli
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