weekend silliness: IKEA Heights
20 Nov
A hilariously brilliant idea – film an entire episodic mini soap opera inside an IKEA store, where there are sets galore and plenty of props, under the noses of the employees.
Tag Archives: video
bubbles + ferrofluid
25 Sep
I combined everyday soap bubbles with exotic ferrofluid liquid to create an eerie tale, using macro lenses and time lapse techniques. Black ferrofluid and dye race through bubble structures, drawn through by the invisible forces of capillary action and magnetism.
The structure of the second video reminds me of the massive concrete structure researchers created by excavating an anthill into which they’d poured cement.
(via Petapixel)
u smile
28 Aug
Who knew Justin Bieber could be so damn… peaceful? Today is the day you begin to associate the words “Justin Bieber” and “new age.”
(Thanks Mike!)
every explosion
4 Jul
Happy July 4th! In lieu of fireworks, we have…
Isao Hashimoto has made a video mapping out every nuclear explosion since 1945 and America is responsible for over half of the 2053 explosions from 1945-98. It starts a little slow but eventually the explosions become frequent enough that the video gains musical cadence. I like it; I tend to like light-handed treatments of heavy subject matter.
MEMORY
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What people really want: film vs digital, longform vs shortform
Whereas Kodak has so far failed to adapt adequately, Fujifilm has transformed itself into a solidly profitable business, with a market capitalisation, even after a rough year, of some $12.6 billion to Kodak’s $220m. Why did these two firms fare so differently? Both saw change coming. Larry Matteson, a former Kodak executive who now teaches [...]
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Chris Jordan on fear, inspiration and living fully
If you haven’t seen this interview, block out an hour and a half to see it now. I transcribed (and lightly edited) a great deal of it, because it was great (not the least because Chase Jarvis references one of my favorite Errol Morris films, Fast, Cheap and Out of Control). Originally I was just [...]
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Subsidizing art, subsidizing yourself
What is economic growth for, anyway? It’s for expanding our choices and making life better. Is it really so surprising that, as we grow wealthier as a society, more and more of our young people, when the amazing resources of the modern university are put at their disposal, choose to use them learning something satisfying [...]
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down with artspeak! (or, don’t let yourself go)
Arturo Soto There are probably more than 10,000 articles about how unwise and un-blog-attractive it is to apologize for not posting frequently enough to your blog. (“Don’t keep hamsters if you can’t remember to feed them”?) It is the blog version of saying, “I’ve really let myself go.” Supposing that I have, it seems that [...]
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the byline
This is what Hans Rosling says of global development in the documentary I linked to earlier. I want to dig a little deeper into this issue. I’d say that most of the photo world has done a fairly terrible job of making this point. All the images of development are somehow read as “look at [...]
