Normally I only post videos on my Pinterest, but this video is too adorable not to share everywhere: Penguin falls down (by brandonorr06)
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Filmmaker Chris Tangey happened to be in the right place at the right time with his camera to capture this rare fire tornado in Mt. Collins, Australia.
Tangey on his experience:
It was like a dance of giants in front of me. It was awe-inspiring. I’ve never seen anything like it… You would have paid $1000 a head if you knew it was about to happen.
As incredible as the still images are, it’s really best viewed in motion:
Outback fire tornadoes-Australia from chris tangey on Vimeo.
Mariner 9 by Kelly Richardson is a 3-channel HD video installation that will appear in Whitley Bay’s historic Spanish City Dome until August 19, 2012. She used images and data from the NASA archive to make the surface of Mars as accurate as possible.
About the piece:
Mariner 9 presents a panoramic view of a Martian landscape set hundreds of years into the future, littered with the rusting remains from various missions to the planet. Despite its suggested abandoned state, several of the spacecraft continue to partially function, to do their intended jobs, to ultimately find signs of life, possibly transmitting the data back to no one.
This is just a quick note to let you know that I will no longer be posting videos on my blog. Instead, I will be posting them to several Pinterest boards I have created entirely for that format. Videos can be quite a time suck, so I thought it made sense to put them all together in one place for optimal time wasting management. So when you’re ready, find your biggest screen hooked up to the internet, turn up the volume and click here.
Mécaniques Discursives [work in progress] 2 (by Yannick Jacquet (Legoman)) is a Rube Goldberg machine with shadow puppets. How cool is that?
Prie Dieu (by Cokau) was the 2012 winner of the Experimental Vimeo award.
About the video:
“Prie Dieu” (Pray to God in french) is one of the designations in France for the praying mantis. Welcome in a world where insects are connected to a divine power by threads until they decide to commit the sin and break this link.
Egyptrixx - Start from the Beginning (by A. N. F.) has been shortlisted for the 2012 Vimeo Video Awards. Watch to see why.
Cornell University’s gallery of time-lapse videos can get a little a little silly (Homer Simpson growing mold as hair, for instance) but they’re all very interesting.
#16. Østersøen (Ödland, Sankta Lucia) (by Lorenzo Papace) is a papercraft stop motion video that will take you on a fun and fantastical journey from under the sea to the outer reaches of space.
This underwater stop-motion animated video for “Bounce Bounce” by Hilary Hahn and Hauschka (by Hayley Morris) is beautifully executed and lots of fun.
If you’ve only seen this photo and haven’t watched the video yet, stop what you’re doing and press play:
About:
A beautiful time elapse image of the Earth, taken in a single shot by Russia’s latest weather satellite Electro-L, has enchanted Internet users around the world.
The images are a combination of visible and near-infrared wavelengths, depicting the Earth in a way not visible to the human eye. For example, the planet’s vegetation looks red.
So far, these 21 megapixels depict the highest resolution Earth images ever made. That’s 60 miles of the earth’s surface packed into every pixel.
Man O War by Morphologic Studios is part of an interesting series of videos that are a little bit like visiting an aquarium with a special soundtrack for each creature.
About this video:
In this special installment of our Natural History film series, Geologist (of Animal Collective) soundtracks a macroscopic view of a Portuguese man-o-war’s beautiful, yet highly venomous tentacles.
The man-o-war is often mistaken as a jellyfish, but this is not the case. It does not swim, but is instead propelled by the winds, tides and currents across the ocean’s surface. In fact, a man-o-war is not even a single organism, but an entire colony of organisms called siphonophores, that live together as a singular unit. They are found floating across all of the world’s tropical and subtropical oceans. Even more impressive is that the man-o-war colony is comprised of four different types of polyps, called zooids, that each serve a different purpose to the overall functioning of the colony.
About the series:
Our recent work pairs HD videography of coral reef inhabitants with interpretive sound design.
Watch more videos from the series here.
Space Monkey is a music video created as a collaboration between Ben Lee and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). It’s a great reminder of the importance of “home”. See it here:
Yosemite Range of Light is an astonishingly beautiful time-lapse video by Shawn Reeder.
About the project:
Yosemite National Park, the High Sierra, and the Eastern Sierra are some of the most beautiful places on earth. Ever since I serendipitously won a trip to Yosemite when I was 18, the beautiful Range of Light has captured my heart and become my home. Nothing brings me more joy than to share this life changing beauty with others.
Ever since I became fascinated with timelapse photography almost 2 years ago, after seeing the work of Tom Lowe, I’ve wanted to do a piece on Yosemite and the Sierra. Now after almost 2 years of shooting, I’m thrilled to share. I hope you enjoy my vision of my home, the majestic Yosemite & Sierra. Best viewed Full Screen with Sound :)
The numbers and patterns in nature come alive in Nature by Numbers, a truly gorgeous video by Cristóbal Vila.
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