Wow... two hundred and fifty Canon 60Ds make up this light animation:
Video directed by Masashi Kawamura + Qanta Shimizu + Masatsugu Nagasoe -- cool but, why do they need the cameras?... surely you can fire the flash alone with a sync cord. The songs a bit shit as well (IMO) -- Bright Siren by Androp.
Behind the scenes video of how it was done:
Via Strobist
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Grid
Fascinating way of creating an abstract piece... artist Semâ Bekirovic let's three snails crawl over a grid on a piece of paper, their slime-trails dissolved the ink creating an abstract figure:
Friday, July 22, 2011
Space Shuttle Time Lapse
Segment 1: NASA's Shuttle Discovery (STS131), while docked to the ISS, captured these images on April 12, 2010 as it moved from the night side of the Earth to the daytime. In the process the Aurora Borealis can be seen on the Earth's limb. A solar panel from the ISS and a docked Soyuz module can be seen in the foreground.
Segment 2: NASA's Shuttle Discovery (STS131), while docked to the ISS, captured these images on April 16, 2010. The sequence begins as the Shuttle emerges from darkness over the Canadian Rockies, traversing the United States southeast towards Florida. The Bahamas and Hispaniola are seen as the Shuttle continues over Venzuela, Brazil and finally the southern Atlantic ocean before returning to darkness.
Segment 3: The Sun rises behind space shuttle Atlantis in this time-lapse sequence from July 19, 2011, one of the last days of the historic final mission of the shuttle program.
Images courtesy of the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography eol.jsc.nasa.gov
To read more go to: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=51399
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
The Third Reich Trilogy
Great set of covers by Stefanie Posavec - the designer behind the MyFry iPhone app - for the box set of Richard J. Evans' trilogy of history books that charted the downfall of the Third Reich (published by Penguin):
"Designing a series of books that looked beautiful but were still sensitive to the topic was a challenge. The books reference the style of German book design from the time period and in their patterns present stylised themes found within each book in the trilogy. As the story moved towards war, the designs became more hard-edged. Yes, an unusual topic to work with but I'm still pleased with the outcome." – Stefanie Posavec
Available on Amazon: The Third Reich trilogy hardbound box set
"Designing a series of books that looked beautiful but were still sensitive to the topic was a challenge. The books reference the style of German book design from the time period and in their patterns present stylised themes found within each book in the trilogy. As the story moved towards war, the designs became more hard-edged. Yes, an unusual topic to work with but I'm still pleased with the outcome." – Stefanie Posavec
Available on Amazon: The Third Reich trilogy hardbound box set
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Sunday, July 17, 2011
City Silhouettes
Excellent series of photos by photographer Jasper James:
I was trying to figure out how he did these... with a quick glance they appear to be reflections with simply a darker silhouette (which sounds obvious), but on closer inspection I don't think they are. I reckon they're double exposures of sorts, two images superimposed.
I was trying to figure out how he did these... with a quick glance they appear to be reflections with simply a darker silhouette (which sounds obvious), but on closer inspection I don't think they are. I reckon they're double exposures of sorts, two images superimposed.
Saturday, July 16, 2011
The Formula of the Locked Potentials in Universal Ratios
Another crazy cool diagram by the scientific-mystic Walter Russell, from his Periodic Table of Elements:
Walter Russell - Periodic Table of Elements - Flickr set
Walter Russell - Periodic Table of Elements - Flickr set
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Space-Time Cloak Possible, Could Make Events Disappear?
Richard A. Lovett
for National Geographic News
Published July 11, 2011
"It's no illusion: Science has found a way to make not just objects but entire events disappear, experts say.
According to new research by British physicists, it's theoretically possible to create a material that can hide an entire bank heist from human eyes and surveillance cameras.
"The concepts are basically quite simple," said Paul Kinsler, a physicist at Imperial College London, who created the idea with colleagues Martin McCall and Alberto Favaro.
Unlike invisibility cloaks—some of which have been made to work at very small scales—the event cloak would do more than bend light around an object.
Instead this cloak would use special materials filled with metallic arrays designed to adjust the speed of light passing through.
In theory, the cloak would slow down light coming into the robbery scene while the safecracker is at work. When the robbery is complete, the process would be reversed, with the slowed light now racing to catch back up.
If the "before" and "after" visions are seamlessly stitched together, there should be no visible trace that anything untoward has happened. One second there's a closed safe, and the next second the safe has been emptied."
Read the full article here »
Nocturne 113 by CHad Wys
for National Geographic News
Published July 11, 2011
"It's no illusion: Science has found a way to make not just objects but entire events disappear, experts say.
According to new research by British physicists, it's theoretically possible to create a material that can hide an entire bank heist from human eyes and surveillance cameras.
"The concepts are basically quite simple," said Paul Kinsler, a physicist at Imperial College London, who created the idea with colleagues Martin McCall and Alberto Favaro.
Unlike invisibility cloaks—some of which have been made to work at very small scales—the event cloak would do more than bend light around an object.
Instead this cloak would use special materials filled with metallic arrays designed to adjust the speed of light passing through.
In theory, the cloak would slow down light coming into the robbery scene while the safecracker is at work. When the robbery is complete, the process would be reversed, with the slowed light now racing to catch back up.
If the "before" and "after" visions are seamlessly stitched together, there should be no visible trace that anything untoward has happened. One second there's a closed safe, and the next second the safe has been emptied."
Read the full article here »
Nocturne 113 by CHad Wys
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Attributes for <IMG ...>
So, pretty much every time I create a blog post I do a search for the HTML image tag to grab and use... mainly with all the attributes; HEIGHT, WIDTH, ALT. I should remember it really, but it avoids small mistakes with missing quote marks, etc.:
<IMG SRC="image.gif" WIDTH=500 HEIGHT=500 ALT="Planetary Folklore">
I figure if I'm using it so much I ought to add an article - and grab the code from here!
Some info on this tag:
– WIDTH and HEIGHT tell the browser the dimensions of the image. The browser can use this information to reserve space for the image as it contructs the page, even before the image has downloaded.
– WIDTH and HEIGHT are not required:
<IMG SRC="image.gif" ALT="Planetary Folklore">
– WIDTH and HEIGHT do not have to be the same dimensions as the actual picture. If you set different dimensions the image will be stretched or shrunk to accomodate the dimensions.
– You can use percentages instead of pixel widths. Percentages are of the available width or height that the image could fill - when using percentages be sure to enclose the value in quotes:
<IMG SRC="image.gif" WIDTH=500 HEIGHT="50%" ALT="Planetary Folklore">
– You can specify only one of WIDTH or HEIGHT, and generally browsers will render the image so that the ratio of height to width stays the same:
<IMG SRC="image.gif" WIDTH=500 ALT="Planetary Folklore">
– Always use the ALT attribute
HTML Images - HTML Code Tutorial
<IMG SRC="image.gif" WIDTH=500 HEIGHT=500 ALT="Planetary Folklore">
I figure if I'm using it so much I ought to add an article - and grab the code from here!
Some info on this tag:
– WIDTH and HEIGHT tell the browser the dimensions of the image. The browser can use this information to reserve space for the image as it contructs the page, even before the image has downloaded.
– WIDTH and HEIGHT are not required:
<IMG SRC="image.gif" ALT="Planetary Folklore">
– WIDTH and HEIGHT do not have to be the same dimensions as the actual picture. If you set different dimensions the image will be stretched or shrunk to accomodate the dimensions.
– You can use percentages instead of pixel widths. Percentages are of the available width or height that the image could fill - when using percentages be sure to enclose the value in quotes:
<IMG SRC="image.gif" WIDTH=500 HEIGHT="50%" ALT="Planetary Folklore">
– You can specify only one of WIDTH or HEIGHT, and generally browsers will render the image so that the ratio of height to width stays the same:
<IMG SRC="image.gif" WIDTH=500 ALT="Planetary Folklore">
– Always use the ALT attribute
HTML Images - HTML Code Tutorial
Friday, July 8, 2011
Invented Conglomerations
Val Britton makes immersive, collaged works on paper that draw on the language of maps.
The impetus for this body of work was my longing to connect to my father, a truck driver who drove eighteen-wheelers across the country; he died when I was a teenager. Based on road maps of the United States, routes my father often traveled, and an invented conglomeration, mutation, and fragmentation of those passageways, my works on paper help me piece together the past and make up the parts I cannot know.
The impetus for this body of work was my longing to connect to my father, a truck driver who drove eighteen-wheelers across the country; he died when I was a teenager. Based on road maps of the United States, routes my father often traveled, and an invented conglomeration, mutation, and fragmentation of those passageways, my works on paper help me piece together the past and make up the parts I cannot know.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
The Space Shuttle
Lush gallery on the BBC News - In pictures today: The Space Shuttle
Nasa's first space shuttle Colombia took to the skies on 12 April 1981 and 30 years later the last remaining shuttle, Atlantis, is due to makes its final voyage...
Nasa's first space shuttle Colombia took to the skies on 12 April 1981 and 30 years later the last remaining shuttle, Atlantis, is due to makes its final voyage...
Physicists Almost Certain The Universe Is Not A Hologram
By Duncan Geere, Wired UK
By Wired UK July 5, 2011 | 10:27 am
An astrophysicist’s attempt to measure quantum “fuzziness” — to find out if we’re living in a hologram — has been headed off at the pass by results suggesting that we’re probably not...
Read the full article here »
By Wired UK July 5, 2011 | 10:27 am
An astrophysicist’s attempt to measure quantum “fuzziness” — to find out if we’re living in a hologram — has been headed off at the pass by results suggesting that we’re probably not...
Read the full article here »
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Ghostly International
I'm a big fan of Michael Cina's work - widely known for starting YouWorkForThem with Michael Paul Young, who assumed sole directorial and creative control in 2009 when Cina left to start his own design studio, Cina Associates - especially his work for record label Ghostly International, with it's abstract fusion of design, painting, and photography:
Cina, from an interview with Ghostly Founder Sam Valenti IV:
"I feel that artists should have no boundaries when it comes to medium. If you look at the crew from the Bauhaus, they were working in every arts profession and excelling in them all. I think when you work like that, each medium you explore influences the other. It is an artist's role to use everything at his disposal to push thought and limits. I feel capitalism has changed that aspect of art. If you look at the difference between artists today and artists 70 years ago, you will see stark differences in their body of work. Artists used to be so robust in their interests and exploration, and that is what excites and inspires me. We are in an extremely pivotal time where the public is taking back art. This will be a huge shift for every aspect of 'art.'"
Ghostly has made available a back catalog of his artwork to recognize four years of solid contribution to the record label - Michael Cina | The Ghostly Store
Michael Cina links:
http://michaelcinaassociates.com/
http://www.trueistrue.com/
http://www.flickr.com/people/mikecina/
http://cargocollective.com/michaelcinaart
http://www.behance.net/michaelcina
http://ghostly.com/visual/mike-cina
Cina, from an interview with Ghostly Founder Sam Valenti IV:
"I feel that artists should have no boundaries when it comes to medium. If you look at the crew from the Bauhaus, they were working in every arts profession and excelling in them all. I think when you work like that, each medium you explore influences the other. It is an artist's role to use everything at his disposal to push thought and limits. I feel capitalism has changed that aspect of art. If you look at the difference between artists today and artists 70 years ago, you will see stark differences in their body of work. Artists used to be so robust in their interests and exploration, and that is what excites and inspires me. We are in an extremely pivotal time where the public is taking back art. This will be a huge shift for every aspect of 'art.'"
Ghostly has made available a back catalog of his artwork to recognize four years of solid contribution to the record label - Michael Cina | The Ghostly Store
Michael Cina links:
http://michaelcinaassociates.com/
http://www.trueistrue.com/
http://www.flickr.com/people/mikecina/
http://cargocollective.com/michaelcinaart
http://www.behance.net/michaelcina
http://ghostly.com/visual/mike-cina
Electronic Instant Camera
Niklas Roy's ‘Electronic Instant Camera’, is a combination of an analog b/w videocamera and a thermal receipt printer...
"The device is something in between a Polaroid camera and a digital camera. The camera doesn’t store the pictures on film or digital medium, but prints a photo directly on a roll of cheap receipt paper while it is taking it. As this all happens very slow, people have to stay still for about three minutes until a full portrait photo is taken."
I love the prints!:
Via today and tomorrow
"The device is something in between a Polaroid camera and a digital camera. The camera doesn’t store the pictures on film or digital medium, but prints a photo directly on a roll of cheap receipt paper while it is taking it. As this all happens very slow, people have to stay still for about three minutes until a full portrait photo is taken."
I love the prints!:
Via today and tomorrow
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
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