LauraJul- London Grammar – Wasting My Young Years
- Life Sized Barbie Dreamhouse Tour Experience in Florida and Berlin
- It seemed like a good idea at the time
- A Facebook Update In Real Life
- Google Map Pin-Shaped Birdhouses
- People Growing Up With Their Pets
- First Taste
- Survivors by Ken Hermann and Tai Klan
- Giant Trees Repurposed Into Garden Tree House
- You Can’t Sleep?
Category Archives: Culture
First Taste
First Taste captures the reactions of different children in slow motion as they each taste various foods for the first time. The video was created by Saatchi & Saatchi and Heckler for TEDxSydney 2013.
Posted in Advertising, Culture, Education
Tagged Baby, Child, Children, First Taste, First Time, Food, Heckler, Kid, Kids, Saatchi, Slow Motion, Sour, Sweet, Taste, TED, TEDx, TEDxSydney
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The History of Typography
Canadian Designer Ben Barrett-Forrest cut nearly 300 paper letters to make this stop-motion animation about five centuries of typefaces.
Posted in Creativity, Culture
Tagged Animation, Ben Barrett-Forrest, Blackletter, Canada, Canadian, Centuries, Cut, Designer, Helvetica, History, Jenson, Letter, Letters, Stop Motion, Stopmotion, The History of Typography, Type, Typeface, Typography
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What Makeup Can Do
Yes. This is what makeup can do in half an hour…
Oh. And if you think some of these women look familiar,
I can let you know, that all of them are pornstars.
Posted in Culture, Photography
Tagged After, Appearance, Before, Eye makeup, Eyeliner, Lipstick, Look, Make up, Makeover, Makeup, Normal, Ordinary, Photography, Porn, Porno models, Pornstar, Pornstars, What makeup can do, Woman, Women
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TED Talk: Elaine Lui – The Sociology of Gossip
Such a cool talk!
Lainey isn’t looking to impress anyone, especially celebrities. The ETALK Reporter and scribe of the immensely popular celebrity gossip blog, LaineyGossip.com, does what she does for one reason – to provide a gossip education to the Canadian public. The Toronto-born, self-proclaimed gossip maven got into the gossip game in a very roundabout way. What started as an email to two friends grew to a website with active followers from around the world. More than one million people now read LaineyGossip.com every month, making it a leading international celebrity news source. Elaine’s years of experience in the media, celebrity entertainment and blogging space have helped her shape a fascinating TED talk about gossip and it’s critical place within modern pop culture.
Shards of Turquoise Ice Jut Out of the World’s Largest Lake
Unbelievably beautiful!
Lake Baikal, located in the southern part of eastern Siberia in Russia, is an incredible natural wonder of the world that one can only hope to visit at least once in their lifetime. It’s not just the oldest freshwater lake on Earth, at 20 to 25 million years old, it’s also one of the largest and deepest, holding an astounding one-fifth of the world’s freshwater.
In the winter, for about five months or from January to May, the lake freezes over but the water is so clear that, from the surface, you can see an astounding 130 feet below you. A photographic worthy natural phenomenon occurs around a very specific time of year, March. Wind, temperature differences, frost and sun in the ice crust cause cracks and ice hummocks to form. Transparent and shining in a turquoise color, these masses of broken ice look like shards of glass rising into the sky. They are caused by the slow and unequal pressure in the main body of the packed ice as well as by the unequal structure and temperature.
Posted in Architecture, Arts, Culture, Photography
Tagged Alexey Trofimov, Architecture, Arts, Cracks, Crust, Culture, Deepest, Earth, Form, Freshwater, Frost, Glass, Hummocks, Ice, Lake, Lake Baikal, Landscape, Largest, Mikki Fox, Natural Woder, Nature, Photography, Russia, Scenery, Shape, Shards, Siberia, Structure, Sun, Temperature, Turquoise, Water, Wind, Wonder
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Overview
Stunningly beautiful. And super inspiring video.
On the 40th anniversary of the famous ‘Blue Marble’ photograph taken of Earth from space, Planetary Collective presents a short film documenting astronauts’ life-changing stories of seeing the Earth from the outside – a perspective-altering experience often described as the Overview Effect.
The Overview Effect, first described by author Frank White in 1987, is an experience that transforms astronauts’ perspective of the planet and mankind’s place upon it. Common features of the experience are a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life, and a renewed sense of responsibility for taking care of the environment.
‘Overview’ is a short film that explores this phenomenon through interviews with five astronauts who have experienced the Overview Effect. The film also features insights from commentators and thinkers on the wider implications and importance of this understanding for society, and our relationship to the environment.
CAST
Edgar Mitchell: Apollo 14 astronaut and founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences
Ron Garan: ISS astronaut and founder of humanitarian organization Fragile Oasis
Nicole Stott: Shuttle and ISS astronaut and member of Fragile Oasis
Jeff Hoffman: Shuttle astronaut and senior lecturer at MIT
Shane Kimbrough: Shuttle/ISS astronaut and Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army
Frank White: Space theorist and author of the book ‘The Overview Effect’
David Loy: Philosopher and author
David Beaver: Philosopher and co-founder of The Overview Institute
CREW
Produced by: Guy Reid, Steve Kennedy, Christopher Ferstad
Director: Guy Reid
Editor: Steve Kennedy
Director of Photography: Christopher Ferstad
Original Score: Human Suits
Dubbing Mixer: Patch Morrison
Thanks to @mortensax for finding this!
Posted in Culture, Education
Tagged Astronaut, Author, Blue Marble, Care, Caring, Christopher Ferstad, Culture, David Beaver, David Loy, Down, Earth, Edgar Mitchell, Education, Environment, Experience, Film, Fragile Oasis, Frank White, Guy Reid, Human Suits, ISS, Jeff Hoffman, Lecture, Life, Look, Mankind, MIT, Movie, Nicole Stott, Noetic Sciences, Overview, Patch Morrison, Perspective, Phenomenon, Philosopher, Philosophy, Photograph, Photography, Planet, Planetary Collective, Responsibility, Ron Garan, Science, Shane Kimbrough, Shuttle, Space, Steve Kennedy, The overview effect, The Overview Institute, Theorist, Theory, Video, View
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Bring your best friend
Posted in Culture, Photography
Tagged Best friend, Bring, Bring your best friend, Child, Computer, Culture, Friend, Kid, Mouse, Pet, Photography, Street, Toy, Walk
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A Bird Ballet
“We were shooting for a commercial with my D.O.P, waiting for an helicopter flying into the sunset, when thousands and thousands of birds came and made this incredible dance in the sky. It was amazing, we just forgot our job and started this little piece of poetry…”
Made by: Neels Castillon
DOP: Mathias Touzeris
Music: Hand-made – Alt J
Location: Marseille, France
Posted in Culture, Photography
Tagged A Bird Ballet, Alt J, Ballet, Bird, Black Sun, Culture, France, Hand made, Marseille, Mathias Touzeris, Nature, Neels Castillon, Phenomenon, Photography
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Feeding The Homeless Prank
Posted in Culture, Humor
Tagged Car, Culture, Delivery, Feed, Feeding the homeless, Food, Hidden Camera, Homeless, Humor, Phone Call, Pizza, Prank
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Brave – The Blind Skateboarder Tommy Carroll
Meet Tommy Carroll. He has been skating since he was ten, but has been blind since the age of two…
Video production: EyEFORcE
Director: Arthur Neumeier
Director of Photography/Editor: Rakhal Heijtel
Agency: The Odd Shop
Creative Directors: Niels de Wit, Robert van der Lans
Production: Josefien Homan
Music: ”Where The Heart Is”
Written by Marijn van der Meer and Jorrit Kleijnen
Performed by Marijn van der Meer
Produced by Alexander Reumers and Jorrit Kleijnen
Featured Guitarist: Lourens van Haaften
Client: VeiligheidNL, Perry Sport
Posted in Culture
Tagged Alexander Reumers, Arthur Neumeier, Blind, Brave, Culture, EyeForce, Holland, Jorrit Kleijnen, Josefien Homan, Lourens van Haaften, Marijn van der Meer, Niels de Wit, Perry Sport, Rakhal Heijtel, Robert van der Lans, See, Seeing, Skate, Skateboard, Skateboarder, Skating, Teenager, The Odd Shop, Tommy Carroll, VeiligheidNL, Where the heart is
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21 Musical Light Swings on the Streets of Montreal
When I first saw the photos from this lovely installation in Montreal I smiled. I absolutely love, when a city allows artists to put up installations that makes the citizens use the their city. But the I saw the video!
It made me love this installation even more!
21 Balançoires (21 Swings) is a recent project by Canadian design collective Daily Tous Les Jours, known for their wide variety of interactive public installations and experiences. Surrounded on both sides by a new music complex and science center, designers Mouna Andraos and Melissa Mongiat chose to bridge the gap between the two by converting a narrow strip of land into an enormous interactive instrument.
Pre-recorded sounds from a xylophone, piano, and other instruments were programmed into color-coded swings that when in use play various notes, however when swung in unison with careful cooperation, more complex melodies and harmonies arise. An additional “secret mode” was programmed to only play when all 21 swings were in use.
Posted in Arts, Creativity, Culture, Music
Tagged 21 Balançoires, 21 Musical Light Swings on the Streets of Montreal, 21 Swings, Arts, Canada, Canadian, Creativity, Daily Tous Les Jours, Design, Harmony, Installation, Instrument, Interactive, Light, Melissa Mongiat, Montreal, Mouna Andraos, Music, Musical, Piano, Programmed, Public, Science Center, Street, Technology, Urban, Xylophone
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A Toy Train in Space
You might have seen this kind of ‘stunt’ before. But this time, the boy adds a cute layer to the idea.
On Aug 24th 2012 Ron Fugelseth and his 4-year-old son sent the son’s favorite train “Stanley” to space in a weather balloon with a HD camera and an old cell phone for GPS. He was recovered 27 miles away in a corn field.
Ron Fugelseth explains: “My 4-year-old and Stanley are inseparable like Calvin and Hobbes. He’s been attached to him since he was two, and they play, sleep and do everything together. I animated Stanley’s face with After Effects and Photoshop to bring him to life how I imagine my son sees him.”
Watch another cute video Ron made when his son was 2.
Posted in Creativity, Culture
Tagged 27 miles away, A toy train in space, After Effects, Animated, Animation, Camera, Cell, Cell Phone, Child, Corn field, Creativity, Culture, Face, Field, Film, Found, Fugelseth, GPS, HD Camera, Imagination, Imagine, Kid, Photoshop, Ron Fugelseth, Smiling, Son, Space, Stanley, Stratosphere, Tech, Toy, Train, Video
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See businesses inside and out on Google Maps
This is extremely cool – and so useful!
Go inside your favorite places and explore new ones like never before. Google Business Photos uses Street View technology to provide 360-degree, interactive tours of businesses so you can check them out before you go.
Posted in Advertising, Culture, Gadgets
Tagged 360-degree, Advertising, Business, Check out, Culture, Digital, Gadgets, Google, Google Business Photos, Google Maps, Inside, Interactive, Maps, Out, Photos, Store View, Street View, Technology, Tour, View
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