Congrats to Charles Leung for his first time-lapse video of the Milky Way as seen from Hawaii. Shot using a Canon 5D MK2 camera, the video is in stunning HD quality that leaves you awe-inspired and really really small. (Found on Gizmodo)
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Being a fan of tilt-shifted videos and photography, I can watch stuff like this for a very long time and they will still never cease to amaze me. The effect is just so amazing.
I am a huge fan of photography that causes you to pause and just stare into a photo. It can be for many reasons, maybe the photography is doing something different with the subject, with the lighting, or focus. In this case, photographer Jakob Wagner has used long exposure times to create some stunning pictures in his series, Nightscapes. Photographing in Cape Town, Amsterdam and Neustift, Wagner creates a stark contrast between the bright distant cities and the calm empty natural landscape. (Found on The Coolist) No really…the video above (which I strongly urge you to view in glorious HD straight from vimeo’s site), is not real. It is completely CG (computer generated). It is just way to photo-realistic for me to comprehend that someone managed to get the lighting so absolutely spot-on. Just crazy. The tallest structure and building in the world, the Burj Khalifa (formerly known as the Burj Dubai), is finally open, and wow..did it open with a bang! Standing at a staggering 828m, the building beats the next tallest structure in the world (a radio tower/mast) by a good 200 meters! The building is composed of 160 floors (another record), with elevators zipping you up and down at a record 64 km/h or 18m/s! I can’t wait to check out the view from the observation deck at floor 124 (highest outdoor observatory in the world).
Created by Vimeo user saggarmpit, the video is one of her first forays into animated design, or prints involving motion, and it looks just fantastic. Parkour is already amazing enough to watch, but to see it in stop motion through a flipbook (literally a flip book), just makes it looks so much cooler. Love it!
Continuity is a very simple, cleanly designed flash game that quickly becomes very addictive. The basic premise is you play a stick man, and can control him/her/it with your usual arrow keys. Your goal is to get the key and unlock the door. The fun comes into play as you advance, when the key and door are on different panels. Then through a mosaic/puzzle interface, triggered by the space bar, you transport your stickman from one tile to another. However, not all tiles are compatible, preventing your stickman from moving through the wall. It’s a great little game that has been made very well in my opinion. (Found on DownloadSquad) MovieClips.com is a newly launched web service that is currently working with 6 Hollywood production studios through which they are licensing clips from various movies. So the next time you are looking for that clip to send to a friend from that one movie you don’t remember, you know have a legal place to go find it, and not worry about the clip getting taken down 30 minutes later from YouTube. By categorizing them by movies, actor, type of clip, actions, or even mood. From there you can then tweet, email, Facebook or Digg that clip out, so that everyone knows how you are feeling right now. Lastly, as noted by TechCrunch, MovieClips.com may be the first to offer this service, but is not the last with AnyClip.com set to launch soon after it previewed at TC50 earlier this year.(Found on TechCrunch) I think Gizmodo put it best by titling this video “I desperately want this video to be fake”. Check out Cirque de Soliel Oil Lemieux practicing on the trampoline, and it honestly does not look like some of the stuff is possible, but clearly, with his practice, training and skill, he is able to defy logic with some of his stunts and jumps. (Found on Gizmodo) |
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