Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Papercut Nudes from Eiko Ojala
An illustrator, graphic designer and art director, Eiko Ojala lives in Tallinn, Estonia. His series Naked uses the barest of materials to create these stunning, sexy and simple figures.
See also The Form of the Body
Clouds in Timelapse Above Japan
Original Pronunciation of Shakespeare - A Short Documentary
Linguist David Crystal and his son, actor Ben Crystal explain the differences between English pronunciation now and how it was spoken 400 years ago.
Poetry Goes Underground - Poems on the LA Metro
On our poetry trip yesterday through the LA Metro system, we were lucky enough to have Luke Gattuso taking tome great photos.
It was such a good day of poems and people.
See his entire set
Paris Apartment turned into a Camera Obscura
We've seen the work of stenop.es before (here: http://5thin.gs/1ethIDc) but are always thrilled to see new videos displaying the simple gorgeous physics of the pinhole camera and the camera obscure.
part of the Poetry Goes Underground tomorrow, Sept 7
POTD - The Figurative Heart by Billy Burgos
The Figurative Heart
by Billy Burgos
We blame the heart so often.
We ask it to bear our guilt like
a wet bag of sand, then to hold
those small boxes of infatuation.
We ask the heart to lie to us
right behind the request to keep
the tune of our spirit playing on.
Yet when it lies, we blame that muscle
for each remembered deception.
At this red hour, with the darkening
city unrolling slowly like a dirty rug,
there is no figurative heart. There is
only this-and-now, the entire machine.
Even the threading of streetlights that
appear to lead off into nothingness eventually
end and come back. The night always brings back.
And maybe another -the heart only
speaks through the juried soul,
that invisible conduit that can bear nothing.
Like faith it is only an assured expectation,
something not-yet-beheld. We cannot
call it a liar, we can only call it god.
Catch Billy at the Poesia Para La Gente event September 7.
Billy Burgos on Writ Large Press
Photo of the Day - Blue Ghost Fireflies
Blue Ghost Fireflies, North Carolina
Photograph by Spencer Black
Surreal GIF art from Bill Domonkos
PHOENIX in a La Blogoteque Takeaway Show Shot With a Drone at Versaille
Shot in one continuous drone shot, and music recorded live, this Concert A Emporter from La Blogoteque is one of my favorites, and certainly being of Phoenix doesn't hurt none, either.
The Thought Process for Making Pershing Square a More Active Town Square
A lot of the processes and decisions I see being made in this urban planning video are familiar to me from User Experience. Fascinating and beautiful.
From the video page:
"Gensler teams around the globe spent the last year re-imagining the concept of a Town Square. This video documents the ideas and efforts of Gensler Los Angeles, who used Pershing Square as a case study for how to re-imagine Town Squares in every community."
Photo of the Day - The Humanity of Frogs
photo by Penkdix Paime via National Geographic
25 Years of Streetfighter - A Documentary
Capcom has put together and extensive documentary about the Street Fighter games, players, history and culture.
See also Animated GIFs of Fighting Game Backgrounds
part of Poesia Para La Gente's Poetry Goes Underground September 7
POTD - Traficante by Abel Salas
TRAFICANTE
por Abel Salas
for my brother Tony. from Chi-town
Because I am a smuggler
soy traficante, I deal in
illicit phraseology, I speak
in illegal tongues
I trade in mad metaphors
recently released from
straightjacket stifling.
I revel in forgotten
memory colored with
ancient glyphs and told
to me by candle-light
under cover of night
by sage poets and
truthtellers too many
are too blind or too vain
to recognize or uncover
Good morning boys and
girls, can you say Burciaga
or Anaya or Anzaldua?
If they're banning me in
Arizona it's because we're
banned from the beginning
Even baby Brown Berets
in East LA are bereft and
have been denied a
birthright writ in the blood
of prison poets like Salinas,
Sanchez and Jimmy Baca
We are born smugglers
of la palabra, predisposed
to papyrus and now grown
numb in front of television
fiction. Malverde smiles on
us nonetheless. Porque
somos traficantes y mi vicio
siempre sera la letra de la
libertad, la metáfora
desencadenada de un
pueblo equipado, armed
with untold history and the
books they try to take, we
are the inevitable song and
lyric they will try to silence,
unable to put aside their fear
and hate, dressing it in a
need to enforce the nation's
laws and protect the borders
imposed at the barrel of a gun.
But bullets will never stop the
stampede of lyrical truth or the
blessing of a barrio bard who
took me under wing to show me
words were sacred like the sweat,
that true traficantes know routes
from underground presses to
university halls like the backs of
their tattooed hands, and we
will slang prose and poetry,
newsprint and blog until they
finally and truly reveal themselves
for the fascist, book burners they
are and will always be, knowing
deep down in their true souls that
despite Manifest Destiny, this land
is not theirs and never was.
Soy traficante orgulloso en idiomas
y sonetos, en el olor del la canción
y el canto de las flores, soy voz
y luna como baile entre mi madre
y el futuro de la tierra maya quiche
I traffic in banned books and
felonious turns of phrase, because
this is all I know.
Catch Abel in Poesia Para La Gente September 7
Time Quilted Photos from Fong Qi Wei
Singapore based photographer, Fong Qi Wei layered different photos of the same spot he shot within 2 to 4 hours, sequencing time in a single image.
See also Airplane Light Trails in Gorgeous Time-lapse from Singapore
Human Animal Photo Hybrids by Ulric Collette
Here Ulric Collette (we've seen his amazing Genetic Patch Portraits before) creates these creepy/awesome half-human/half-animal images in his project Therianthropes. Love them.
Photos of Intricate Nigerian Hairstyles by J.D. Okhai Ojeikere
Nigerian photographer J.D. Okhai Ojeikere project "Hairstyles" captures nearly 1,000 different hairstyles — these "sculptures for a day" he finds on the street, at a weddings or at work.
The UEFA Champions League Finale Stadiums 1993-2013 Illustrated
Italian illustratorJacopo Ferretti has drawn all the stadiums of the UEFA Champions League finals from 1993 to 2013.
Creepy Ferrofluid Explorations
Artist Kim Pimmel created Compressed a series using macro lenses, time lapse photography, and magnetism.
See also Putty Made of Magnetic Stuff Makes for Some Trippy Putty
Base Jumping off Everest
From the video page:
"Nearly 60 years to the day after the first ascent up Mount Everest, Russian extreme sport star Valery Rozov (48) flew off the north face of Mount Everest - the world's highest BASE jump ever - 7220 meters (23,688ft) above sea level."
