An interactive film by Chris Milk
Featuring “We Used To Wait" by the Arcade Fire
Built in HTML5
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Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS
Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by Ron Garan, Satoshi Furukawa and the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011, who to my knowledge shot these pictures at an altitude
of around 350 km. All credit goes to them.
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Breaking new ground by filming surfers with digital camera array for the first time ever.
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Rip Curl has again created a technological world-first by capturing full-tilt surfing action using a “30 camera Array” – a line of cameras firing consistently as surfers ride towards and past it. The results are unique “frozen moments of time” - that can be viewed in a combination of angles for a true in the round perspective.
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OLEK AND THE CHARGING BULL ON WALL STREET
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Pete Eckert, blind photographer
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What does it feel like to fly over planet earth?
Liu Bolin The Invisible Man, Paints Himself to Hide in Plain Sight /
photo by Zachary Bako/Eli Klein Fine Art
Chinese artist Liu Bolin poses in photographs after being painted to match the background, in a 10 hour process that renders him nearly invisible. His exhibition, “The Invisible Man,” is on display at the Eli Klein Fine Art gallery in New York City through September 28, 2011. The Business Insider has posted a gallery of 53 of Bolin’s works.
Full story here.
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Amazing stop motion Coldplay music video
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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic was designed to withstand a nuclear bomb and, in the event of an apocalypse, act as a Noah’s Ark for plants. It was designed to be a a beacon, a symbol of hope looking out over the over the Barents Sea. Built in 2008 by the Norwegian government (for $9 million), it houses 526,000 samples of seeds; scientists hope these might be interbred in order to adapt global agriculture to climate change, thereby averting mass starvation. The vault extends 146m into the sandstone mountain; at the end, there are three airlocked refrigerated caverns with space to preserve up to 4.5 million strains of plants. Full story here.
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Lost Generation, one of the most creative videos I have ever seen
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‘Mankind is no island’ is a film shot entirely on a cell phone, using found signage on the streets of NY and Sydney to tell a touching story from the very heart of two cities.
Directed by Jason van Genderen
Winner of Tropfest NY 2008!
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This is pretty amazing. 3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage…
Almost invisible mirrored tree house built in Sweden /
One of six units in a “Treehotel,” which recently opened 40 miles south of the Arctic Circle in Sweden. The units are constructed from sustainably harvested wood and have electric radiant floor heating and “a state-of-the-art, eco-friendly, incineration toilet.” Full story here.
Up-Inspired Floating House /
National Geographic Channel and a team of scientists, engineers, and two world-class balloon pilots successfully launched a 16’ X 16’ house 18’ tall with 300 8’ colored weather balloons from a private airfield east of Los Angeles, and set a new world record for the largest balloon cluster flight ever attempted. The entire experimental aircraft was more than 10 stories high, reached an altitude of over 10,000 feet, and flew for approximately one hour.
The filming of the event, from a private airstrip, will be part of a new National Geographic Channel series called How Hard Can it Be?, which will premiere in fall 2011. Full story here.
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Music video for This Too Shall Pass, performed by OK Go. This is the best and most creative music video I have ever seen.
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MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU. An ambiguous animation painted on public walls.
Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden.
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This is production footage for Tom Lowe’s debut film, “TimeScapes,” a modern portrait of the American Southwest. He is the 2010 Astronomy Photographer of the year and is the time lapse master.
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Absolutely beautiful time lapse footage by Tom Lowe, the time lapse master.