So, scuba divers, did you dive on a stingray as beautiful as this one already? YouTube link
Category: Cinema
An SLR camera + some software = three videos
Fabian Tischer is obviously gifted to create small videos from visual effects supposed to be simple (but actually quite tough to master) in order to offer us some cool movies: Berlin TV tower – lift off from Fabian Tischer on Vimeo. Insider footage showing NASA’s strange theft of famous Berlin landmark. little airport from Fabian… Read More
The evolution of technology
Darwin did not see this. Darwin was too shy when he published his major work “the origin of species” on November 24, 1859. The evolution is also for machines and technology and the struggle for life has a meaning. YouTube link The evolution of technology, beginning in the early stone age and evolving to the… Read More
Insects + light = movie
flight patterns from Charlie McCarthy on Vimeo. Long exposures of bugs under a street light. music: Telefon Tel Aviv – What’s The Use Of Feet If We Haven’t Got Legs Vimeo link Merci à Pierrick.
I have a horse dream
YouTube link If you want to know more, you can even buy those horse legs.
Fly like an eagle
…but I couldn’t fly. Jose Luis Ortiz has changed it all. He installed a small video camera on one of his royal eagles. Link to YouTube And now, you and me can fly, really fly. Breath-taking! Boarding a plane became so down-to-Earth. I now want to have wings, I want to fly like an eagle…
Stop-motion pig and wolf
This is so nice: A Stop-motion video that is very well done, funny. YouTube link
Do you love chocolate?
…up to the point of creating a chocolate-inspired video? …or up to the point of sacrificing chocolate for the sake of pure art? YouTube link No fish for 1st of April! These are bunnies.
Black hole destroying a star
After billions of years of simulated galactic video, here is the simulation of a balck hole while it swallows a full star. Huge jets, huge amounts of matter removed from sight. via videosift.com
We all love when things come free to us. Here I found a treasure trove of movies that are free to download. Legally. Thanks to the Canadians of the National Film Board of Canada. They give us feature-length movies, documentaries, animated short movies. Everything, of the best quality, at the best price: Free.
Live dinosaurs? You’re kidding me?
If you want to meet dinosaurs, not only paintings or sculptures, go to the USA, fly to Los Angeles, California. There, in the Los Angeles Natural History Museum, there are free-roaming dinosaurs in the corridors. Not only are these automatons sized impressively, but they intereact with people and kids around them. Woah! Stunning! YouTube link
Underwater movies
I recently met a couple of fine underwater movies. One shows a dive to find a nautilus at great depths; The second shows a phosphorescent amalgam of abyss animals. Always a source of great surprises. YouTube link YouTube link
Derelict Japanese suspension bridge
You loved the Grand Canyon sky walk, and the previously available video of the El Camino del Rey Walkway. So, you proved that you aren’t susceptible to vertigo. Will you love this old suspension bridge from Japan? It’s old, derelict. The wind is pushing it. Link to the video
The nazi time traveller [movie]
This Hungarian short movie is in English. I recommend waiting for the end (after 11 minutes).
Monty Python, free download on YouTube
For sure, YouTube has always been crouded with rip-offs of the Monty Python sketches. Unfortunately, these were both illegal and -in general- of poor quality. The guys from Monty Python decided that enough is enough, and there is now a Monty Python channel/group on YouTube where you can see excellent quality videos of their Monty… Read More
This is easy to reduce a color photo to a B&W image (any photo software or any B&W photocopier can do it). But the reverse operation seems difficult at best, impossible in most cases. However, a team of French scientists from the French INRIA (Guillaume Charpiat, Matthias Hofmann et Bernhard Schölkopf) presented recently an algorithm… Read More
An old Monty Python about a young would-be VP
Link to YouTube
The old lady against the speeding car
Sometimes a fight outcome is difficult to forecast. Now, if you take an old lady and a (too) fast car. Guess who will be leaving the spot unharmed? Link to YouTube
Sony Alpha 900, Hollywood movie
When a dSLR like the Sony Alpha 900 is presented as if it was a Hollywood movie, we get this result :