Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Photoshop Beastiary
From wikipedia:
A bestiary, or Bestiarum vocabulum is a compendium of beasts. Originating in the Ancient world, bestiaries were made popular in the Middle Ages in illustrated volumes that described various animals, birds and even rocks. The natural history and illustration of each beast was usually accompanied by a moral lesson. Reminds me of course of Borges' Book of Imaginary Beings.
Redditor gyyp imagines, with the help of photoshop, a compendium of beasts. I would love, as a writing exercise, to come up with a name and moral lesson for each. Anyone help?
Hraffonallard - The wit and temper of a duck with the grace and strength of a mustang, the Hraffonallard learns early on the emotional triggers of its opponents, delivering, on its powerful back, the one person that will undermine the confidence just moments before physical confrontation.
Playmobil Surfing
Super fun stop-motion surfing video.
Wingsuit Flyer Flies Through A Hole In A Rock Wall
The project page describes this crazy-stupid-amazing-daring video as:
Wingsuit / BASE-jump athlete Alexander Polli does the never before done—a tactical flight through a narrow cave on a rugged mountainside. The flight starts with a jump from a hovering helicopter, Alexander reaches speeds of 250 km/h (155 mph) while following a precise trajectory leading to the cave opening, he then fully commits and flies directly through the narrow opening of the "Batman Cave!"
Song of the Day - Ex Factor by Quadron
From wikipedia:
Quadron is a Danish duo consisting of singer Coco Maja Hastrup Karshøj and musician/producer Robin Hannibal. The group calls itself and the music they provide, electronic soul.
Parkour Mid-Action Shots
London-based photographer Andy Day shoots parkour and freerunning and has built up quite a collection of startling images and frozen moments from daring action sequences.
Organic Forms in Glass
Artist Shayna Leib on her Wind and Water series:
"Two of the most powerful elements on our planet are nearly indiscernible to the human eye, yet we are innately aware of their presence, their capacity to soothe and destroy, and their ability to weave patterns where they touch."
Amped Up Jump Roping
Adrienn Banhegyi performs with Cirque de Soleil and holds two world records for jump roping.
San Diego in Vibrant and Crisp Timelapse Detail
Michael Shainblum created this stunning and crisp timelapse of his native San Diego:
"I wanted to showcase San Diego from the eyes of somebody who has lived there their entire life. I have been working on this piece for about four months to really harness the details and create a visually striking Timelapse film. I wanted to make something that was unique to my own perspective of filmmaking. I also wanted to create this video to encourage people to go out and witness how beautiful San Diego really is."
Added to our ever-growing Timelapse Map
Imaginative Photography Lets Boy with Muscular Dystrophy Act Out His Dreams
Slovenian photographer Matej Peljhan's photos from his series ‘The Little Prince’, show 12-year-old Luka, who has muscle dystrophy, doing the things he longs so do but can't. Clever and moving.
Macro Shots of Drops of Water on the Heads of Insects
26-year-old photographer based in Tel Aviv, Dmitriy Yoav Reinshtein has created quite the astounding set of gorgeous macro photos of insects.
Tilt-shift + Timelapse + Animation: Bless You
Mixing tiltshit timelapse footage with animation creates this enormously fun and funny short film: Bless You.
Nyango
Personal Portraits of Apes
Yesterday we looked at James Mollison's Where Children Sleep, and today, we are visiting one of his other amazing series: James & Other Apes.
He traveled to Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia to photograph orphans of the bush meat trade and live pet trade.
Kitwiti
Pumbu
Koto
Gregoire
Wendy
Ominou
Wazak
Simon
Tatango
Talliane
Lulu
Refractographs
Supercut: Characters with their Backs to the Camera
From the Vimeo page:
MOVIES:
00:05 - The Aviator
00:10 - The Legend of 1900
00:12 - Synecdoche, NY
00:15 - The Shining
00:17 - Beyond the Black Rainbow
00:19 - Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
00:22 - Baraka
00:24 - Walk The Line
00:25 - The Runaways
00:26 - The Fifth Element
00:28 - Dark City
00:29 - Hamlet
00:30 - Network
00:31 - Black Swan
00:34 - Lenny
00:35 - Dennis Leary: No Cure For Cancer
00:36 - Bronson
00:37 - Fantasia
00:38 - Southland Tales
00:40 - The Iron Lady
00:41 - Hugo
00:43 - The Searchers
00:45 - Prometheus
00:48 - Event Horizon
00:50 - The Fifth Element
00:53 - Doctor Who: S01E02
00:55 - Sunshine
00:57 - Tron Legacy
01:00 - Stargate
01:02 - Starman
01:04 - Kundun
01:07 - Enter The Void
01:09 - Inglorious Basterds
01:11 - Watchmen
01:14 - Sin City
01:16 - Gangster No. 1
01:18 - L.A. Confidential
01:21 - Christine
01:23 - Hero
01:26 - House of Flying Daggers
01:28 - Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
01:31 - Predators
01:33 - Alexander
01:35 - Kingdom of Heaven
01:37 - There Will Be Blood
01:40 - The Cell
01:42 - Valhalla Rising
01:45 - Snow White and the Huntsman
01:47 - Alexander
01:49 - Immortals
01:52 - John Carter
01:54 - Troy
01:57 - Thor
01:59 - The Matrix Revolutions
02:04 - The Abyss
02:08 - Event Horizon
02:13 - Watchmen
02:18 - Another Earth
02:23 - Take Shelter
02:27 - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
02:32 - Constantine
02:37 - War of the Worlds
02:46 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
02:48 - Knowing
02:51 - Hero
02:53 - 300
02:56 - Take Shelter
03:01 - Beasts of the Southern Wild
03:03 - The Proposition
03:06 - Snow White and the Hunstman
03:08 - Interview with the Vampire
03:10 - Alice in Wonderland
03:13 - Heat
03:15 - Rendezvous with Rama (Vancouver Film School trailer)
03:17 - Star Trek Generations
03:19 - Minority Report
03:22 - Skyline
03:25 - Inception
03:27 - X-Men: First Class
03:30 - Carrie (2002)
03:32 - The Day the Earth Stood Still
03:34 - Hamlet
03:36 - Valhalla Rising
03:39 - Jericho S01E01
03:41 - The Divide
03:44 - Dark City
03:46 - The Day the Earth Stood Still
03:48 - Mission to Mars
03:51 - Life of Pi
03:52 - The Fountain
03:58 - Fight Club
04:03 - Pan's Labyrinth
04:07 - The Empire Strikes Back
04:12 - Gone with the Wind
04:22 - What Dreams May Come
Putty Made of Magnetic Stuff Makes for Some Trippy Putty
Magnetic putty is a lot like ferrofluids (Trippy Watercolor and Ferrofluid Photos July 5, 2012): magnetic particles suspended in a mixture. In the case of magnetic putty, it's thicker: you can mold and shape it with your hands and it will maintain its form.
But put it near a magnet, and look at it come to life. A bit creepy. Totally trippy.
Reading a Poem - Dogfish by Mary Oliver - Read by Brian Yoder
Brian Yoder reads Mary Oliver's Dogfish.
Kinectic Art: Vibrating Rope Reveals the Spectrum
Paul Friedlander, a British artist and physicist, creates these pieces light and motion by rapidly rotating a piece of string through white light. The rope, invisible to the human eye while vibrating so quickly, reveals otherwise invisible bands of color.
Friedlander:
"I decided to focus on kinetic art: a subject in which I could bring together my divided background and combine my knowledge of physics with my love of light. In 1983, at London's ICA, I exhibited the first sculptures to use chromastrobic light, a discovery I had made the previous year. Chromastrobic light changes color faster than the eye can see, causing the appearance of rapidly moving forms to mutate in the most remarkable ways."
ARCHICULTURE: A Film Articulating the Way Architecture Education Can and Does Work
I began my higher education as an architecture student, in love with the notion that form and beauty and structure, human experience, behavior of the materials of the world can all be invoked in a single set of decisions. Still in love with it, apparently: not just the product of architecture, but the process.
Here is the trailer for Archiculture, a film premiering in a few weeks out here in Southern California at the Newport Beach Film Festival.
And, whenever I am given the chance, I like to again share the amazing 6-part BBC documentary from Stewart Brand's book How Buildings Learn. I have watched the whole series scores of times and never get tired of it.
Slo-Mo Video of a Lethal Snake Biting a Water Balloon
From the BBC EARTH youtube page:
"A viper's strike is captured in slow motion, showing how awesome it is. Great HD clip from Deadly 60 series 2, hosted by Steve Backshall."
