5 things I learned July 22 - Quotes, Poems, Favorites, Videos and Flashbacks

“Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”

— T. S. Eliot

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Nearly 4 Years of 5 things I learned today

August 10, 2014 will be 4 years that I've been collecting and sharing things of interest online. Connecting with all of you has been the greatest gift, working with some amazingly talented people, and being introduced to some of the most beautiful, fascinating and interesting creators in the world has made every day worth it.

Some things to point your attention to. First, if you can't tell, I am super excited for the start of the World Cup this month in Brazil, and I for one have already ordered my favorite jerseys. Also, we've recently launched our Calendar of Events, realizing that some of the most amazing things we learn are through in-person experiences, we wanted to add that to our coverage. If you have an event you want included, Submit it here.

In addition to this blog, we have some other projects we are so excited to be working on.

AmyAndDevShow.com

Sketch comedy series starring Amy Urbina & Devereau Chumrau

copapoetica.us

Poetry + World Cup = Copa Poética

ManipulatedBestiary.com

And beyond just the 5 things I learned today blog, there is 5 Thing TV — from the very first episode, through interviewing Bill Paxton, to inviting readers to share poems they love.

Check out all 5 at: http://5thin.gs/episode-4-3 1. Wow! A realistic dinosaur puppet 2. Portable music players from the 1920s 3. Other than describing how 'foreign' they are, I don't really agree, but... What Are The Hardest Languages To Learn [INFOGRAPHIC] 4. A short video tour of Spain and its architectures 5.

The Very First 5 things I learned today video

Links at http://5thin.gs/1nG9dfA

Bill Paxton - 5 films that influence my career
http://5thin.gs/1nG9m2v

Read by Daniel Dean Demerin See all 5 and links to the texts at http://bit.ly/j33tBz

If you haven't browsed around before, take a look through our stuff.

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History Told Through Instragrams

The Justice League Of Parks and Rec

Family Guy Voices Rap "Look at Me Now"

Neeson Season: The Liam Neeson Musical

5 Favorite Photography Posts - Feb 2014

Human Chalk Explosions

Portraits of Homeless People by Lee Jeffries

Thai Photographer's Vision

Tilt-shifted Hong Kong Timelapse

Year in Review

So many good things. What a good year it's been. Thank you so much for coming along with me. 

I hope you have a great 2014, and would, as always, love to hear from you!

Ryan

Movie Trailer Mashups for 2013

FULL LIST OF MOVIES AVAILABLE HERE: http://sleepyskunk.tumblr.com/ 1. 'Brooklyn Go Hard (Instrumental)' - Performed by Jay-Z (Roc-A-Fella Records) 2. 'Save The World (Knife Party Remix)' - Performed by Swedish House Mafia (EMI Records) 3. 'The Opening' - Composed by François Paul Aïche (from The Fifth Estate trailer / DreamWorks SKG) Please respect copyrighted material of talented artists by visiting iTunes.

FULL LIST OF MOVIES AVAILABLE HERE:http://sleepyskunk.tumblr.com/

1. 'Brooklyn Go Hard (Instrumental)' - Performed by Jay-Z (Roc-A-Fella Records)
2. 'Save The World (Knife Party Remix)' - Performed by Swedish House Mafia (EMI Records)
3. 'The Opening' - Composed by François Paul Aïche (from The Fifth Estate trailer / DreamWorks SKG)

Top 5 things for July 2013

NSFW - Gorgeous 'Calligraphy on Girls' from Molotow Markers

A collaboration between Molotow Markers and Fierce Frog Films, brings us the calligraphy of Russian Pokras Lampas. Using script size and lettering density in response to the curves and contours of the models leads to some gorgeous patterns and gorgeous images.

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Cut Food Photos that Show You the Inside of the Food That We Never See 

Showing cross-sections of popular food, Beth Galton's Cut Food uses gelatin in place of liquid to get this great, surprising and interesting point of view.

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Flowers X-Ray Photos - Two Ways

These two project ( by British photographer Nick Veasey;  and  Singapore-based Brendan Fitzpatrick) each have a stunning beauty. I love them each.

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Anxiety-Ridden Images from John William Keedy

 John William Keedy‘s artist statement:

“It’s Hardly Noticeable explores the world of a character who navigates living with an unspecified anxiety-based mental illness. He negotiates situations constructed to highlight the impacts and implications of his differences on his thoughts and behaviors, and by doing so raises question of normalcy. Through constructed tableaus and metaphorical still lifes, the series reveals the relationship between reality and perception, and highlights issues of pathology while questioning stereotypes of normalcy.

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POTD - Viking Ships in Los Angeles by Brandon Brown

"Each time I cup your face in my hand, I know that I’ll be with you 
as my hair grows longer and my clothes become old."

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Stuff You Can See On Earth

Sometimes it's enough just to take a look around and see what there is.​

via CrackTwo

5 most astounding Timelapses from 2012

In no particular order, here are the 5 most astounding timelapses we've featured.

1. STUNNING ST. PETERSBURG TIMELAPSE

vk.com/arixonix (c) Vitaly Karpovich http://vk.com/framearixonix Canon 600D Canon 18-55 mm 3.5-5.6 IS Canon 50 mm 1.4 USM Sigma 10-20 mm 4-5.6 music: Linkin Park - Lost In The Echo (Enmary Remix) http://vk.com/kondrashov09 p.s. sorry for the muddy matrix and poor quality

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2. ACHINGLY BEAUTIFUL YOSEMITE TIMELAPSE

This video is a collaboration between Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty. All timelapses were shot on the Canon 5D Mark II with a variety of Canon L and Zeiss CP.2 Lenses. Project Yosemite Website: http://projectyose.com Facebook Page: http://facebook.com/projectyose Twitter: twitter.com/projectyose Contact info: info@projectyose.com Thanks to Dynamic Perception for their motion controlled dolly and continued support! Purchase gear used in this video here: http://www.dynamicperception.com/#oid=1004_1 Dynamic Perception Website: http://dynamicperception.com Track: Outro Album: Hurry Up, We're Dreaming Artist: M83 Site: http://ilovem83.com Publishing: http://emimusicpub.com Licensing: http://bankrobbermusic.com This whole project has been an amazing experience. The two of us became friends through Vimeo and explored a shared interest in timelapsing Yosemite National Park over an extended period of time. We'd like to expand this idea to other locations and would appreciate any suggestions for a future project. Project Yosemite was featured as a main story on Yosemite National Park's Spring Newsletter.: http://www.yosemitepark.com/timelapse-sprnews-2012.aspx To view this in 2K, visit: http://youtu.be/OwFbjJasW3E Be sure to change the quality settings to 'Original'. Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/SheldonNeill https://twitter.com/#!/delehanty Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sheldon.neill http://www.facebook.com/delehanty Behind The Scenes: http://vimeo.com/35223326 By Dalton Runberg Our hearts go out to the families of Markus Praxmarer who lost his life while climbing Half Dome on September 19th, 2011 and Ranger Ryan Hiller, who was crushed by a tree January 22nd 2012. They will be missed. (A photo of Ranger Ryan Hiller can be found to the right, above the statistics counter)

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3. VIBRANT RIO TIMELAPSE

Time of Rio is a taste of our project about Rio de Janeiro, nature, city and life. Produced using different image production techniques, like slow motion sequences, Time Lapse, Hyper Lapse, Rails and Motion Controllers. Captured along the last months is the beginning of our first movie. Edited in Lightroom, After Effects, Final Cut X. Music "Oh Wee" by Immortal Beats and "Whispering Through" by Asura Thanks for everyone that help us specially our wives for the patience! Contact us for footage license or request your production. Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/imagemoov Time of Rio é uma breve amostra do nosso projeto sobre o Rio de Janeiro, a cidade, sua natureza e vida. Produzido com diferentes técnicas de captura de imagem, como seqüências de slow motion, time lapse, hyper lapse, trilhos e controladores de movimento. Capturados ao longo dos últimos meses é o início de nosso primeiro filme. Editado em Lightroom, After Effects, Final Cut X. Música "Oh Wee" por Immortal Beats e "Whispering Through" por Asura Obrigado por todos que nos ajudaram e especialmente nossas esposas pelo apoio e paciência! Entre em contato para licenciamento de imagens ou solicitar algo especial para sua produção. Siga-nos no Facebook: facebook.com/imagemoov

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4. ANCHORAGE BY WINTER

So this is what I did over this past winter when I was not making people coffee. It's all time-lapse footage shot in and around Anchorage, Alaska, with the emphasis on the nature around the city rather then on the people and buildings. This is a collection of the nicer stuff I shot of the northern lights, stars, sunset, and the tide. All of this was shot between October 2011 and April 2012. The music is Aston's Classical Cover of the song You've Got The Love by Florence & The Machine. http://www.youtube.com/astonmusic Music used with the bands permission. : ) Equipment used: Canon 5D Mark II Canon Rebel xTi (modified to full spectrum) Canon EF 24 - 105 mm Sigma DC 18 - 200 mm Sigma 8mm EX DG Fisheye (a thoroughly epic lens) Dynamic Perception Stage Zero Dolly (kinda beyond epic) Orion TeleTrack AZ-G Mount (really good for astrophotography) Motorcycle and Car batteries from my locale battery store And a lot of wires that connect everything together. Adobe Bridge CS4 and CS5 Adobe Photoshop CS4 Adobe Lightroom 3 LRTimelapse (pretty much the most amazing software ever) Hugin (for unwrapping the 8mm shots) Final Cut Pro 5.1.4 (for making the stills move) (Please note that the colours look different (like a lot) on different screens. The colours here look desaturated from the original file on my screen. But the colours look like the original on other screens, but not all, I'm not sure why.)

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5. SPIRITS OF NORWAY

This film was shot mainly around the Tromvik area of Northern Norway at approximately 70 degrees North. Tromvik is located right in the heart of the aurora belt and because of this even quiet displays of the Aurora Borealis will always be visible overhead on clear nights. I was very lucky in the time that I visited in that a CME (coronal mass ejection) from the sun hit on the first night I arrived. The earths magnetic field reverberated for the entire week that I was there and I was lucky to witness strong displays every night. The Aurora Borealis is the most beautiful natural phenomenon I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing. I love astronomy, and for me there is nothing more tranquil that watching our own galaxy rise but the Northern lights was quite a different experience, one that was in some ways even more humbling. I was fascinated with how the aurora changed so quickly, from rolling like a never ending curtain of soft light stretching, weaving and contorting itself across the Arctic sky, to sharp fingers of green and red piercing the black to its own percussive rhythm. A friend of mine spoke to a native Norwegian shortly before I embarked on this trip and he told him that Norway "is good for the soul" And after visiting I could not agree more. All footage Copyright © 2012 Nicholas Buer All Rights Reserved Music composed by Fieldscarecrow: http://soundcloud.com/fieldscarecrow Motion control Dynamic Perception Stage Zero: http://dynamicperception.com/

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Picks

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5 Old Books for History: From the Ancients, Through The Rise of England to the Fight Against the Witches

about 7 years ago

5 Video Gadgets for the iPhone Videographer

about 10 years ago

Ideas, Art, Aesthetics - 5 Books I Love to Share

about 10 years ago

Timelapse

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Stunningly Crisp Los Angeles Timelapse

about 7 years ago

The Face of the Sun in Timelapse

about 7 years ago

Full Moon over Downtown LA

about 8 years ago

Animated Time Quilts by Qi Wei Fong

about 8 years ago

Rio de Janeiro and Iguazú Falls in Time-Lapse

about 8 years ago

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5 Most Beautiful Posts of 2012

Not in any particular order, the 5 most beautiful posts we've made this year.

1. Van Gogh's Starry Sky Remade with Images from Hubble Telescope

Harvard PhD student Alex Parker use the top 100 images from the Hubble telescope and a mosaic-making program to make this stunning version of Van Gogh’s masterpiece.

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2. The Form of the Body

On Body Forms: Photos by Klaus Kampert

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3. Samsara

SAMSARA is in theaters now in the USA, UK, Germany, Canada, and more. FULL THEATER INFO HERE: http://www.barakasamsara.com/theaters ABOUT SAMSARA: Prepare yourself for an unparalleled sensory experience. SAMSARA reunites director Ron Fricke and producer Mark Magidson, whose award-winning films BARAKA and CHRONOS were acclaimed for combining visual and musical artistry. SAMSARA is a Sanskrit word that means “the ever turning wheel of life” and is the point of departure for the filmmakers as they search for the elusive current of interconnection that runs through our lives. Filmed over a period of almost five years and in twenty-five countries, SAMSARA transports us to sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial sites, and natural wonders. By dispensing with dialogue and descriptive text, SAMSARA subverts our expectations of a traditional documentary, instead encouraging our own inner interpretations inspired by images and music that infuses the ancient with the modern. Expanding on the themes they developed in BARAKA (1992) and CHRONOS (1985), SAMSARA explores the wonders of our world from the mundane to the miraculous, looking into the unfathomable reaches of man’s spirituality and the human experience. Neither a traditional documentary nor a travelogue, SAMSARA takes the form of a nonverbal, guided meditation. Through powerful images, the film illuminates the links between humanity and the rest of nature, showing how our life cycle mirrors the rhythm of the planet.

Director and cinematographer Ron Ficke (Koyaanisqatsi, Baraka) has been hard at work on Samsara for 5 years. The entire film is shot in stunning 70mm. It is a film that relies completely on its visual impact and cinematographic juxtaposition, as there isn't any dialogue. 

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4. The Art of the Letterpress

A short film about letterpress and one of the few remaining movable-type printing workshops in the UK, situated at Plymouth University, featuring Paul Collier. www.plymouth.ac.uk Subtitles available here: http://goo.gl/iuaKY A film by Danny Cooke www.dannycooke.co.uk Soundtrack by Tony Higgins www.tonyhiggins.org (Available to download here: http://goo.gl/exGL1) Follow us on twitter @dannycooke @junior85

Beautifully shot short film on the letterpress.

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5. Timelapse of Meteor Shower Over Joshua Tree

via The Atlantic Master Feed:

"In Ascendance, nature photographer Henry Jun Wah Lee documents the Perseid meteor shower at its peak in August, before a backdrop of Joshua Tree National Park and the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest. It's worth watching the video full screen to appreciate the crisp cinematography and magical details -- rainbows, stars, and more. "

Play full screen so you can count the meteors! Shot in Joshua Tree National Park and the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest during the Perseid meteor shower. Features ancient trees, lightning, rainbows, meteors, the Milky Way, and lots of stars. Enjoy! Download the soundtrack for free, courtesy of Justin Durbin: http://www.edgenmusic.com/edgen_fields_of_honor.mp3 Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/evosiastudios Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/evosia Website: www.evosiastudios.com Music is Fields of Honor by Justin R. Durban, www.justindurban.com Ascendance is a tribute to nature's unpredictable power and beauty. I went out to film the Perseid meteor shower but I encountered so much more. When you are out there, you never know for sure what nature will bring. Always be ready for a magical experience. :) Film is shot, directed and edited by Henry Jun Wah Lee Available in 4K Henry is a Kessler sponsored shooter. http://www.kessleru.com

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More Photos

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The Stunningly Beautiful Photojournalism of Sebastião Salgado

about 5 years ago

Hollywood Through an African Lens by Omar Victor Diop and Antoine Tempé

about 6 years ago

Beautiful Underwater Shots of Freediving in the Cenotes of Tulum

about 6 years ago

Things Come Apart - Disassembled and Assembled

about 6 years ago

Vibrant Landscapes Seen from Space

about 6 years ago

More Videos

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Ink - Written by Hand

about 6 years ago

Surfers on Portugal's Beautiful Giant Waves at Nazaré - a video by Kylian Castells

about 7 years ago

Million flamingos

about 8 years ago

At the right time, Kenya's Great Rift Valley is a riot of flamingo pink.

Michelle Obama in Carpool Karaoke

about 8 years ago

Mesmerizing Calligraphy Pen by King Blotto III

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4 - Super Supercut of Cinema 2012

Celebrate our final night on earth. Happy Apocalypse! List of music and films used in the description. Our last night on earth; what better way to spend it than with Cinema. Avengers assembled, dark knights rose and odds were in our favor in a fantastic year in film.

For the past five years, film student Kees van Dijkhuizen Jr. has made a supercut of the year in film. This is lovely and moving. Better in fact that a lot of the films he includes.

via ChromeYellow

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More Supercuts

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5 of Our Favorite Funny Things

about 10 years ago

Mega Ultra Action Epic - Eterna - A Supercut Trailer of Action Epics

about 11 years ago

Best Of Web 5 - Supercut of Super Videos

about 11 years ago

Supercut of Dancing in Movies set to Daft Punk's Get Lucky

about 11 years ago

Supercut: Characters with their Backs to the Camera

about 11 years ago

Gift Guide

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My Pick - 5 things to buy an aspiring Videographer - Stephen McFadden

about 12 years ago

Video is the new reading, the new literacy. And that makes videographers (camera operators, directors of photography, etc etc) the new scribes, wielding immense power in the capturing and communication of ideas and experiences. 

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