5 - Duelling Photographers

Ryan Nance September 28, 2012

"This is a photographic collaboration between photographers Timothy Burkhart and Stephanie Bassos. This double exposure project allows us to step back from having full control of the image making process and trust in one another while allowing coincidences to happen naturally on film. Stephanie exposes a full roll of 35mm film of only "people," and Timothy reloads the film again into the same camera, to imprint only "places" and locations to the same roll. These images are all the end result of our ongoing series and are unedited negatives straight from the camera."

I love this idea and love the images.

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1 - Slow Motion Dancing for Peace

Ryan Nance September 27, 2012

Genki Sudo a MMA UFC fighter/ Buddhist/ Writer/ Actor/ Dancer/ Musician has utilized all of his talents to create a music video smooth over the conflicts between Japan, Korea and China.

via Visual News

2 - Architecture Experiments

Ryan Nance September 27, 2012

I began my educational career as an architecture student, and have always had a great deal of interest and affection for architecture, it's processes and materials, it's thought process and mindset.

This video details the goals and point of view of the MIT School of Architecture.

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3 - Amazing African Wildlife Photography

Ryan Nance September 27, 2012

German-born Klaus Tiedge's astounding set of wildlife photos from South Africa, Namibia and Botswana.

via My Modern Met

4 - Lots of Things I did not know but find interesting

Ryan Nance September 27, 2012

These may or may not be facts, but if they ARE facts, they are interesting.

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5 - Star Trail Timelapse

Ryan Nance September 27, 2012

North Carolina-based photographer Daniel Lowe explains:

These scenes are created by stacking a sequence of long-exposure, high-resolution digital photographs in Adobe After Effects and allowing each photograph to linger on the screen for a short duration of time before fading.

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1 - Literary Canon as Graphic Novels

Ryan Nance September 27, 2012

Oh what a joy it is (for me anyway) to see some of my most loved stories, poems and novels given the graphic treatment. The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2: From "Kubla Khan" to the Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray brings together such favorites as Huck Finn, Moby Dick and Leaves of Grass. I think that for the ones I haven't read, the visuals rob me of the opportunity of imagining them myself. But for the ones I have read and imagined, it is so much fun to see a radical and fresh image.

Moby Dick, for example (perhaps my favorite of the bunch) is so radically different in the hands of artist Matt Kish, It is almost an invitation to have a conversation about what it is I did imagine on my own.

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2: From "Kubla Khan" to the Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray

By Russ Kick

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2 - Princess Bride Cast 25 years later

Ryan Nance September 26, 2012

Well, I guess the opening SNES Baseball game scene DOES indicate it was a long time ago, but 25 years? Sheesh.

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3 - Timeslice Composite Photos

Ryan Nance September 26, 2012

This is a cool execution of the timeslice photos from photographer Richard Silver.

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4 - Lightpainting Greatness from pre-digital 1970s

Ryan Nance September 26, 2012

Decades ago American artist Eric Staller would find spots in the empty streets of New York City to use his Nikon 35mm SLR camera, sparklers and a set of Christmas lights.

He explains:

"New York City at night was an enchanting place for me. The plazas, bridges, parks and monuments, empty and eerily quiet at night, were dramatic stage sets waiting to be transformed. Transformed by my magic wand: the 4th of July sparkler. Late at night I drove around in a beat-up station wagon, looking for places and ideas to jump out at me. When the moment was right I set up my Nikon on a tripod and planned a choreography with light. Each sparkler lasted about a minute, so that was the amount of time I had to make the drawing. I would lock the camera shutter open, light the sparkler and quickly walk down the street, holding the sparkler at curb level, to complete the composition before the sparkler went out. I felt a strong sense of exhilaration, like running the 100-meter dash with a flaming torch! Getting the film back from the lab was even more exhilarating: it was magic, my presence was invisible! There was just this trail of liquid fire.

Suddenly I was drunk with the possibilities. I proceeded to outline everything for my photos: cars, trucks, streets, monuments. The energy was packed into one-minute performances. I worked through the night and although I was alone and even lonely, my romance for the city was sweet indeed. At dawn I would go to Fulton Street to watch the fishermen come in, or to the Lower East Side for the first hot bagels of the day."

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5 - Genetic Patchwork Portraits

Ryan Nance September 26, 2012

This is a project well worth revisiting. Half the face is from one relative, the other half from another. Just creepy and stunning and awesome from French photographer Ulric Collette.

1 - Bodyscapes

Ryan Nance September 25, 2012

Put body forms into landscapes and apply body take pictures. Awesome. Jean Paul Bourdier is the author of Bodyscapes.

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2 - Incredible Visualization of Asteroid Discovery

Ryan Nance September 25, 2012

This motion visualization of the discovery of asteroids from 1980 to 2012. Watch it full screen at original resolution if you can.

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3 - Stunning Light Projections on La Sagrada Familia

Ryan Nance September 25, 2012

Antoni Gaudí's Barcelona masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia still sits unfinished, but this Saturday saw an amazing light show projected across is organic facade.

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4 - Wearable Camera For Documenting Your Day

Ryan Nance September 24, 2012

The Autographer can snap up to 2,000 high-resolution photos of the course of a single day, giving you a visual record of your life experiences. It is like a GoPro but timelapse (and probably less daredevilish).

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5 - Animation as a Thought Experiment

Ryan Nance September 24, 2012

One of my favorite things about essays are the opportunities for the writer and for us to suppose things. To think through ideas and concepts in exploration and experiment. Such experimentation can be seen in sketching too. But I have never seen animation be used as a tool for thought experiment. But that is exactly what this is. And it is mesmerizing.

Caution there are flashing lights in the video.

The artisit Phillipe Artus explains:

"The basic idea of the work is inspired by processes of exponential acceleration, which can be observed at different levels. Thus, the evolution of life proceeds at an extremely slow pace for more than 3 billion years, until it suddenly seems to explode in the Cambrian period. The tools of human beings progress relatively little during the Stone Age until there comes a rapid cultural development during the Holocene. Nowadays, a similar acceleration process is generated by the exchange of information through the internet. From this perspective, the exponential spiral on a snail shell may almost appear like a miraculous wink of nature."

via Kuriositas

Top 5 Things of the Week of Sept. 16, 2012

Ryan Nance September 24, 2012

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) — *Lara Croft: Tomb Raider* (2001)

1 - Movie Scenes Brought to The World

Ryan Nance September 23, 2012

The worlds in film meet the world at large on FILMography. A very clever idea, an inspiring idea.

Scent of a Woman, 1992 — *Scent of a Woman*, 1992

Three Days of the Condor, 1975 — *Three Days of the Condor*, 1975

Any Wednesday, 1966 — *Any Wednesday*, 1966

Maid in Manhattan, 2002 — *Maid in Manhattan*, 2002

Ghostbusters, 1984 — *Ghostbusters*, 1984

The Hangover Part II (2011) — *The Hangover Part II* (2011)

Muppets Take Manhattan, 1984 — *Muppets Take Manhattan*, 1984

via Feel Desain

Ideas

North by Northwest (Two-Disc 50th Anniversary Edition)

Scent of a Woman

The Hangover Part II (Combo Pack: Blu-ray and DVD - Ultraviolet Digital Copy)

Lara Croft - Tomb Raider (Special Collector's Edition)

2 - Descending to Lava Lake

Ryan Nance September 23, 2012

Whao. That is some roiling pool of liquid hot magma. And that guy (and the cameraman for that matter) are awfully close to it.

via The Awesomer

Ideas

Volcanoes! (National Geographic Readers)

By Anne Schreiber

National Geographic - Volcano!

National Geographic Video

The Best Book of Volcanoes

By Simon Adams

4M Volcano Making Kit

Toysmith

3 - The Shuttle from its Chase Plane

Ryan Nance September 23, 2012

It was pretty amazing to be able to see this flying outside my office window in Santa Monica, but from one of its chase planes, is even better. Feeling nostalgic for the Shuttle already. And here are some videos of its landing at LAX too.