A friend of our here at 5 things, San Francisco-based world traveller and tour guide Orion Kraus shared with us this story today:
About 6 months ago, I wrote a letter, stuck it in a Sailor Jerry bottle and included a $5 bill for postage. I then threw it in the middle of the deep blue sea during our 17-day passage from NZ to Fiji. I am still in wonder, but yesterday, the world just shrank a whole bunch!!!
A revised version of David Bowie's Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station. With thanks to Emm Gryner, Jim Corcoran, Andrew Tidby and Evan Hadfield for all their hard work. Find out more: Twitter: twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield Facebook: www.facebook.com/AstronautChrisHadfield?fref=ts Google+: plus.google.com/113978637743265603454/posts/p/pub
UPDATE: After over a year, the rights have been secured again for this amazing version of Space Oddity. Read the story »
Commander Chris Hadfield has made his own version of David Bowie's Space Oddity, shot and recorded on the International Space Station.
I am so blown away by this guy: photographer, creative as all get out, funny, an ASTRONAUT, doing it all from his tin can. Bad ass!
It is almost hard to believe but these are NOT real fish. They are painted in three dimensions in layers of resin.
We've seen the works of Keng Lye before, but these again are jaw-dropping.
Kazuki Yamamoto creates these astounding piles of foam to make three dimensional designs.
Entropy is the randomness of the microscopic constituents of a thermodynamic system, and a measure of the loss of information in a transmitted signal or message. It is heat death, it is inevitable social decline and degeneration- in a closed system, it is accountable chaos. 2000 pictures compose this piece- that is, 2000 perfect different water drops into which we mapped an animation. Droplets that behave and look strangely similar at the stage of less entropy, and become more disordely as they splash. You can check out the making of here: vimeo.com/65155966 We have also started a new blog with this piece, with an in-depth post about it. You can read the long version here: In English: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-long-version/ In Spanish: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-version-larga/ or else have a peek to the shorter one: In English: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-short-version/ In Spanish: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-version-corta/ Credits: Direction & Production: Physalia Comissioned: IdN Magazine Audio: Cypheraudio Programming: Jordi Planas & Physalia Making Of Pictures: Albert Treblah ------------------------------------------------------- www.physaliastudio.com Join Physalia: facebook.com/pages/Physalia-Studio/312137322501?ref=ts
We've seen amazing things shot through falling drops of water before. But this is something different. Synchronizing 2,000 shots through falling drops of water to create this stop-motion promo for IdN Magazine is truly outstanding.
The video, “Entropy”, was created by Physalia.
They built a custom Arduino-based system to capture each drop in precisely the right spot.
The early tests and making-of video shed a lot of light on the amazing process.
Entropy is the randomness of the microscopic constituents of a thermodynamic system, and a measure of the loss of information in a transmitted signal or message. It is heat death, it is inevitable social decline and degeneration- in a closed system, it is accountable chaos. 2000 pictures compose this piece- that is, 2000 perfect different water drops into which we mapped an animation. Droplets that behave and look strangely similar at the stage of less entropy, and become more disordely as they splash. We have started a new blog with this piece, with an in-depth post about it. You can read the long version here: In English: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-long-version/ In Spanish: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-version-larga/ or else have a peek to the shorter one: In English: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-short-version/ In Spanish: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-version-corta/ Credits: Direction & Production: Physalia Comissioned: IdN Magazine Audio: Cypheraudio Programming: Jordi Planas & Physalia Making Of Pictures: Albert Treblah ------------------------------------------------------- www.physaliastudio.com Join Physalia: facebook.com/pages/Physalia-Studio/312137322501?ref=ts
Entropy is the randomness of the microscopic constituents of a thermodynamic system, and a measure of the loss of information in a transmitted signal or message. It is heat death, it is inevitable social decline and degeneration- in a closed system, it is accountable chaos. 2000 pictures compose this piece- that is, 2000 perfect different water drops into which we mapped an animation. Droplets that behave and look strangely similar at the stage of less entropy, and become more disordely as they splash. You can check the piece here: https://vimeo.com/59997489 We have started a new blog with this piece, with an in-depth post about it. You can read the long version here: In English: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-long-version/ In Spanish: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-version-larga/ or else have a peek to the shorter one: In English: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-short-version/ In Spanish: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-version-corta/ Credits: Direction & Production: Physalia Comissioned: IdN Magazine Audio: Cypheraudio Programming: Jordi Planas & Physalia Making Of Pictures: Albert Treblah ------------------------------------------------------- www.physaliastudio.com Join Physalia: facebook.com/pages/Physalia-Studio/312137322501?ref=ts
Canadian Jason de Graaf creates these acrylic paintings that test your own eyes, so detailed, so attuned to the nuance of perception, light and perspective. They seem almost unbelievably photographic.
This stop motion tribute to my 2 favorite old school arcade games is based on actual recorded game footage. The recordings were printed out, one frame at a time, and transferred by hand to various walls around my office floor using thousands of Post-It Notes.
From the project video:
"This stop motion tribute to my 2 favorite old school arcade games is based on actual recorded game footage. The recordings were printed out, one frame at a time, and transferred by hand to various walls around my office floor using thousands of Post-It Notes. The process consumed weekends and holidays for the past 11 months. Changing background scenery was masked out and replaced with 1 consistent frame throughout the animation, producing an eerie stillness amid the moving images on the walls."
These photo manipulations from Barcelona-based photographer Yago Partal (his Zoo Fashion was another project of his we loved) are part of his series called “Defragmentados”.
Alive Without Breath over on deviantART by Singapore-based artist
Keng Lye presents these life-like animal sculptures of of paint and resin, a technique we've seen before. Here Lye also uses painted pieces for the elements breaking through the surface of the "water."
©2013 Tobias Hutzler, www.tobiashutzler.com This film is copyrighted and protected under United States and international copyright laws. The video, content and images can not be reproduced in any form, uploaded, archived or manipulated without prior written permission from the author. BALANCE is a short film by photographer/director Tobias Hutzler, inspired by Rigolo Swiss Nouveau Cirque artist Maedir Eugster.
Rigolo Swiss Nouveau Cirque artist Maedir Eugster creates this astounding 14 stick balance from the feather down.
Uploaded by maztercray42 on 2013-03-21.
This video from Taiwan... yeah, that'll do it.
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WPAHP on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/wpahp Recommendation: View with headphones or high quality speakers in 1080p. A combination of: ~ The American Museum of Natural History - The Known Universe ~ Hans Zimmer - Time (We Plants Are Happy Plants Remix) From the American Museum of Natural History: The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang.
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"The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010. "
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Syracuse Lava Project On January 22, 2011, the fifth lava pour took place using the #700 gas fired tilt furnace operated by the SU Sculpture Program. This 610lb pour was the most successful to date in terms of material consistency, volume, duration of pour, viscosity, duration of flow, structure of flow, etc. The lava was poured on to a 6” thick block of ice measuring 3.5’ by 10’. This pour was conducted for Prof. Ben Edwards, Dickinson College Earth Sciences Department. Prof. Edwards is a specialist in the area of lava and ice interaction. On February 12, 2011, Pour No. 6 will take place on a large block of ice and through a series of ice tunnels. The SU Lava Project is a joint research venture between SU Earth Sciences and SU Sculpture. For further information please contact Prof. Robert Wysocki, SU Sculpture at rjwysock@syr.edu or Dr. Jeffrey Karson, SU Earth Sciences at jakarson@syr.edu Syracuse University Copyright © 2011
Not sure if this was an experiment or art project, but amazing.
Stunning and gorgeous, these long exposures of fireworks make so evident the comparisons to flowers and sea creatures. David Johnson explains his technique over at Colossal:
The technique I used was a simple refocus during the long exposure. Each shot was about a second long, sometimes two. I’d start out of focus, and when I heard the explosion I would quickly refocus, so the little stems on these deep sea creature lookalikes would grow into a fine point. The shapes are quite bizarre, some of them I was pleasantly surprised with.
Two and a half million gallons of filtered water fill this enormously deep swimming pool in Belgium called Nemo33.
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"Sun Jifa, 51, lost both his hands when a bomb he was creating for blast fishing in Guanmashan, Jilin province, northern China, exploded"
"Could not afford hospital's prosthetic arms so made his own"
FIND THE SONG HERE: http://goo.gl/CTNZm Fred Fugen and Vince Reffet do it all - skydiving, freeflying, BASE jumping, wingsuit flying, swooping, speed riding... See them take off as they train with the help of a wind tunnel in Prague!
There should be an entire cable channel dedicated to wind tunnel acrobatics.
While working as a fishing guide in Tofino, British Columbia I had this humpback calf jump no more than 10 feet away from the boat. On our way in from fishing for halibut we noticed a few humpback whales playing in the distance and we stopped part way in to watch. It was quite an experience to see something completely airborn so close to the boat. The lucky thing was I got the photo I submitted a fellow boat also got a picture of the whale close to mid air and it was also all caught on video. Was an amazing day.
During one of our salmon and halibut fishing charters off the coast of Tofino, this whale breached high and fast right towards our boat. Thankfully this incredible Vancouver Island moment was captured on video for all of us to see.
