Neat time-lapse of a painting being created.
Sunrise, by Yeasayer
Goat Yells Like Man
On the subject of Antarctica, here’s a video trailer for DJ Spooky’s Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica…
Photographer Richard Mosse discusses his work with Geoff Manaugh over at BLDGBLOG. Here’s an excerpt that explains the video above:
I met an extraordinary Dutchman out in Thailand who is known in wreck-chasing circles as the Dakota Hunter. He very generously let me gatecrash his shoot of a Thai-organized project sinking Dakota aircraft into the waves off Phuket. These aircraft were vintage American military bombers (and Sikorsky attack helicopters) from the Vietnam War that had been donated to the Thai Army upon America’s withdrawal from Saigon. They had been flown by the Thai Air Force until they could fly no longer, and have since lain rusting in the jungle.
But the diving clubs of Phuket, struggling to re-stimulate the dive-tourism industry as well as the coral reef environment that had been virtually wiped out by the recent tsunami, came up with the idea of sinking these decommissioned aircraft onto the ocean floor.
I pulled this footage from Thailand together with a second video showing the 2009 US Airways crash in the Hudson River. In this piece, I became fascinated by themes of tourism, disaster, globalization, the military-industrial complex, and history. But most of all, I’m drawn to the aesthetic power of the air disaster, and the majesty of watching airplanes be submerged and re-emerge from water, like a kind of baptismal rite. The sea has a wide array of psychoanalytic and mythic associations which I feel produce sparks of meaning when they coincide with the airplane’s modern form.
It’s interesting- for me, the video transported my mind to Antarctica, though I know the footage is from New York and Thailand. From there, I started thinking about Vaughan Williams’ Sinfonia Antarctica. So, I opened up my iTunes and am listening to it right now…
ROBOT ATTACK!
intaglio + bookmaking = sweetness (The Complex of All of These)
New York Times World Traffic Data — Mobile and Web
The data used to create these maps come from roughly 15 Web servers. Some of the mobile bursts on the maps are a result of compressing the data.
The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang.
Concept Video for Digital Magazine by BERG
This is quite well done. One thing I’d miss with an interface like this is the serendipity of connecting the left page layout and images with the right page. Sometimes those connections spark my interest in reading an article, or inspire me aesthetically. That said, BERG has created a mood with this video that is truly lifelike and an interface for the device that is as minimal as can be.
We waste a ton of food.
One thousand years from now, much of what we know will be forgotten.
Via The Long Now Foundation, who comment:
One thousand years from now, much of what we know will be forgotten. That’s been true in the past. We have only a fragmentary cultural memory of what happened 1,000 years ago. And what we think we know about 1000 may in fact be quite garbled.
Planet Lapse on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
The Symphony of Science is a musical project by John Boswell designed to deliver scientific knowledge and philosophy in musical form. Here you can watch music videos, download songs, read lyrics and find links relating to the messages conveyed by the music.
Spacewalkers Viewable from Backyard Telescope!
From WIRED:
With a big enough telescope and some good fortune, an amateur astronomer can look into the sky and see humans at the space station.
Here’s the proof. On March 21, 2009, astronaut Joe Acaba stepped into space for some extravehicular activity. Down on Earth, Ralf Vandebergh was in his backyard, pointing a 10 inch-telescope at the International Space Station as it passed over Europe.
In reviewing the photos he shot, he saw a few bright pixels appear precisely where the work was going on at exactly the moment it was being conducted. In other words, he was looking at an astronaut!
He posted this new video of his images to YouTube earlier this week.
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