Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Mesmerizing Clones in Animated GIFs by Erdal Inci
Istanbul-based artist Erdal Inci uses the magic of looping animated GIFs and sections of cloned video of himself to create these spectacularly hypnotizing moving image.
You Must Escape: Terrifyingly Simple and Elegant Game
Walking around in the dark, not sure which way is which, and only your less spatially developed sense (hearing) left to guide you. This game is so simple in its visual presentation, eschewing fancy graphics for sensorial clarity. You Must Escape, second place winner in this year’s Ludlum Dare, has me hooked.
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Photos Hungry and Rare White Tigers by Birte Person
Australia-based photographer Birte Person took these astounding photos of the very rare big cats during feeding time at the Singapore Zoo
Person explains:
"They sit in anticipation on the rocks waiting for the first morsel to be thrown. Then it is a huge lunge into the water by all of them. It carries on at a frantic pace until they all get some food."
See also Portraits of Captive Animals
Cheetahs are So Cool and How the words Cheetah and Poem are Etymologically Related
My daughter just finished a report on cheetahs for her kindergarten class. This is one of the videos she found in her research.
Her research spurred me to revisit and understand better something I had come across years ago: The idea that the words cheetah and poem come from the same Indo-European root words.
Bradshaw of the Future explains:
cheetah and poem
The Proto-Indo-European root is *kʷei-, "to pile up, build, make". The o-grade form *kʷoi- became Sanskrit काय kāya "body", which combined with चित्र citra "variegated , spotted , speckled" to formचित्रकाय citrakāya "striped-body, tiger or panther". This became Hindi चीता cītā, borrowed into English ascheetah.
The suffixed form *kʷoiw-eyo- became Greek ποιέω poieō "to create" and ποιημα poiēma, borrowed into Latin as poēma, borrowed into English as poem thru French.
Awesome Animated Nature GIFs
28-year-old Marinus from the Netherlands has been making these animated GIFs, I presume to make the point that animated GIFs are not just awesome and funny, but awesome and more awesome.
"I am bored, therefore I make GIFs" -René Descartes (1596-1650)
These are just a small portion of them. Catch them all on his blog: Head Like an Orange
Song of the Day - Fall Over by Banks
From Banks label's page:
"Effortlessly balancing her gift for honest, poetic perspectives on love and humanity with a voice that gained her overnight attention from the music industry’s most important curators – Banks is poised for massive things in 2013. Drawing from inspirations like Fiona Apple and Miss Lauryn Hill, Banks focuses on the duality of soulful earthly emotion and ethereal atmospheric sounds. The Los Angeles native and self-taught pianist, vocalist, and songwriter will release her debut EP on IAMSOUND in early 2013."
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Luminescent Underwater Sea Creatures from Joshua Lambus
Hawaii-based photographer Joshua Lambus has created this collection entitled Blackwater.
Lambus explains:
"Now being underwater I'm inundated with stories, struggles, triumphs. Seeing our fragile ecosystem inch ever closer to the verge of destruction pushes me to continue my work, not only for artistic value, but for a far greater purpose. I hope to tell a story and ask for help for those without a voice."
Also see Gorgeous Underwater Photos of Vibrant Jellyfish
Incredible 3D Latte Foam Art by Kazuki Yamamoto
Kazuki Yamamoto creates these astounding piles of foam to make three dimensional designs.
Life on a Bike by Guillaume Blanchet
From the filmmaker, Guillaume Blanchet:
"I love being on a bike, it helps me feel free. I get it from my dad. After days and days of cycling the streets of Montreal, come cold or sun, or even a little frightened, I dedicate this film to him."
New Geometric Project Mural from Felice Varini
Know for his large scale projections of geometric forms onto rooms and exterior spaces, Swiss artist Felice Varini's latest work at the Grand Palais in Paris went up just last month.
Gravitational Radius by David Adey
Digital printouts of fashion imagery from various places online, laser-cut and pinned to a foam panel.
Amazing Symmetrical Trees by Oliver Delgado
Oliver Delgado explains that despite seeming unreal, these are genuine photographs not digital montages.
“all images are real. I only adjusted levels in Lightroom”
Funny and Entertaining Animate GIF movies from Guillaume Kurkdjian
They really do play like little looped movies, these animated GIFs from Guillaume Kurkdjian.
Patterns in Urban Spaces in Photos by Jared Lim
Singapore-based Jared Lim on his project:
"Urban Exploration consists of photos I took during the course of my full-time, travel-related career. Since most of the places I travel to are major cities, architecture is the prevailing theme. I have loved geometry since I was a kid. Even when I was young, I loved to create repeated patterns and designs at school."
See also Patterns in Urban Architecture
Young Daughter Models for Photographer's Re-creation of Famous Paintings
Melbourne-based photographer Bill Gekas has his young daughter fulfill a lot of roles in this series of photos re-creating these famous paintings.
The World Seen From Above Captured by Cameron Davidson
Based in Washington D.C., Cameron Davidson is an aerial photographer whose work has been featured in such publications as National Geographic, Vanity Fair and Smithsonian Magazine. To see more of his work, visit camerondavidson.com.
See also Kite Aerial Photography
Sunday 2 pm for The Great Beyond @ Beyond Baroque
If you are in the Los Angeles area this Sunday May 19, you should catch my reading at 2pm as a featured poet for the Great Beyond at Beyond Baroque On Venice Blvd in Venice.
Norman Mailer’s character timeline for Harlot’s Ghost.
Authors' Handwritten Charts and Outlines
A lot of the work of novel making is the handling of an immensely complex imaginary system of people, incidents and actions. Not surprising, a lot of writers resort to charts, outlines and graphs to handle it.
See also Harsh First Reviews of Now Cherished Books
Joseph Heller’s chart outline for Catch-22.
J.K Rowling's chart for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
James Salter’s outline for Light Years.
Sylvia Plath’s outline for The Bell Jar.
William Faulkner’s outline for A Fable — written on his office walls.
Part of Jennifer Egan’s plan for her short story “Black Box.”
Henry Miller’s manuscript plan for Tropic of Capricorn.
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IndieGoGo Projects We Love - W.S. Merwin Doc: EVEN THOUGH THE WHOLE WORLD IS BURNING
From the PROJECT PAGE:
Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin has won almost every major poetry prize that exists, including two Pulitzers. His legacy is based not only upon his writings, however, but also the singular form of environmental activism and land stewardship he embodies.
Now in his 86th year, Merwin has dedicated over three decades to preserving and regenerating native plants and palms on a 19-acre site on the north shore of Maui, Hawaii. Called the Merwin Conservancy, the preserve holds the most comprehensive private collection of palms in the world, with over 800 species. These tangible actions for the environment go hand-in-hand with his poetry, offering important insights for an era marked by environmental degradation, human disconnect with natural processes, and rapid climate change.
Merwin is a vibrant, humorous and challenging subject, and has not been involved in a feature documentary before. EVEN THOUGH THE WHOLE WORLD IS BURNING is an intimate portrait of a man who is often called a “national treasure.”
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