Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Virtual Motion Sculptures of Street Fighter 2 Movements
From the video page:
"I did it in order to teach myself Cinema 4D and Vray in my spare time, the renders aren't perfect but the best I could get out of my machine. While I setup up most of the geometry using tracers, Xpresso and Thinking Particles, I had some help along the way from the following great resources..."
The Sugar Cube Mission
Georgios Papaioannou took a cup of coffee and made it an occasion for a miniature cinematic adventure.
Wondrous Photo Series to Celebrate a Wonderful Life
What began as a retreat behind the lens of her camera as a small summer project, grew into a fantasy land inspired by her late mother's imaginative stories and plays.
Kirsty Mitchell's mother Maureen was an English teacher who spent her life inspiring generations of children. When Maureen died from a brain tumour in 2008, Kirsty channelled her grief into her passion for photography. And this Wonderland series is its full expression.
See also Imaginative Photography Lets Boy with Muscular Dystrophy Act Out His Dreams
APP of the Day - Plonk
With a great bit of modern UI visuals and a quick and responsive set of details on types and varietals, it is an app you might bring out at the table. I do wish you could log specific labels in each, so it could become a personal wine tool. But still really great.
What do you think? Do you have a better wine app? I'd love to hear about it.
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Baby Blackboard Adventures
Anna Eftimie explains:
"We used everything around [them] for inspiration," including their daughter's skateboard, or the "Alcatraz costumes you can buy from San Francisco's Pier 39." Soon, they had a "whole story wrapped around" their sleeping baby boy.Eftimie's boy is five days old in the stork picture and three months of age in the underwater wedding portrait.
See also The Flying Baby
City Series: Seattle
Synopsis:
"Inspired by the avant-garde city symphony films of the early 20th century, such as Paul Strand's "Manhatta" and Dziga Vertov's "The Man With the Movie Camera," CITY SERIES: SEATTLE paints a masterful portrait of the beautiful city of Seattle, Washington. Utilizing experimental editing techniques, time-lapse, and beautiful cinematography, the film explores the poetic mode of documentary film to convey the experience of this iconic, Pacific Northwestern metropolis.
Get the Music: Alone in Kyoto by Air.
Subtle Surrealism from Kyle Thompson
This 20-year-old photographer from Chicago, Kyle Thompson has a subtle surrealistic vision that pushes its way into these stylish and crisp photos.
The Adjustable Cosmos
I am just in love with this animated short that imagines an early space program.
From the video description:
"In the fifteenth century, three worthies come together to tackle the Emperor's disastrous horoscope. They lift themselves to space in their medieval vessel, braving the terrors and wonders of the of the Ptolemaic universe, to reach for the stars..."
Based on a short story by Adam Browne
Norwegian, Scottish and Icelandic Landscapes
Kilian Schoenberger’s beautiful images of the Norwegian, Scottish and Icelandic landscapes.
Timelapse: Hawaii Volcanoes National Park from sea to summit
QT Luong a prolific National Parks photographer covers the lava hissing into the ocean at sea level to the peak of Mauna Loa at 13,700ft.
Sound Visualized in Sand
brusspup on YouTube creates these fascinating patterns called Chladni figures by pouring sand on a metal plate connected to a speaker and tone generator. Different frequencies create different patterns of sand on the plate, higher frequencies creating more complex figures.
This is Shanghai: A Rob Whitworth and JT Singh Timelapse
Shanghai has been growing as a city for at least a thousand years. The neon signs and skyscrapers are fairly new.
Song of the Day - Easy Way Out by Gotye
After Gotye's first amazing hit and video "Somebody I used to know", it would take something as fun and clever as this stop-motion video to follow it up.
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Pilot/Photographer Karim Nafatni Stunning Cockpit Views
Being a photographer AND a commercial pilot gives Karim Nafatni some great opportunities to capture these outstanding images of the cockpit.
Fitzcardboardaldo: Cardboard Homage to Fitzcarraldo
Fitzcardboardaldo (above... beware the sound is pretty loud) is the work of puppet designer and paper crafter Robin Frohardt. The short video, an all cardboard homage to Fitzcarraldo (below) was shot and edited by Robin with special help from Nick Chatfield-Taylor.
From Wikipedia:
Fitzcarraldo is a 1982 film written and directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski as the title character. It portrays would-be rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman known as Fitzcarraldo in Peru, who has to pull a steamship over a steep hill in order to access a rich rubber territory.
Song of the Day - March of the Pigs (NIN cover) by Superhumanoids
Cameron, Sarah and Max have been making music as the Superhumanoids since 2008 it seems. This is an awesome and surprising cover of the NIN classic (get the original).
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Aerial Photos of Rural Landscapes
An architect by trade, Alex MacLean has photographing the rural landscape since 1975 as his way of performing site analysis.
MacLean:
“There’s nothing like flying in a small aircraft with the window open and watching the dramatic and quickly changing landscape evolve. You can go from a dense urban area to wilderness in a matter of moments”.
See also Kite Aerial Photography
Kenyan High Schoolers Doing The High Jump The Hard Way
In the town of Mosoriot in Kenya, two high school athletes compete in the high jump. Without a mat to land on, the usual Fosbury Flop isn’t an option.
They land on their feet. Unreal.
