“I drift, half awake, half asleep. Moving through the city I recall but have never been to. This film was made using a digital stills camera to create a stop motion animation. I think the shot of the Barbican tower is my favourite (its the shot shown in the thumbnail)”
Posted in No Idea on 12/24/2009 04:18 pm by onionrings
“This is from the 7th of the month, when our guest blogger and surf gear experimenter Laird Hamilton was out. From his blog, he said a few newcomers were getting thrown up on to the rocks with their jetskis and boards. The waves were 25 foot, as rated in Hawaiian terms, which means 50 feet tall on the face.
These videos were shot using a Canon 5D Mark II, a 70-300mm USM lens and a Zoom H4n & Redhead windscreen. Slow motion was done in Premier CS4, but I can imagine how much better this’ll would have looked if the 5D’s 60FPS firmware was used. [vimeo via nick bilton]
*They turned out to be overhyped a bit, but the waves were big enough to hold the Eddie Aikau contest in Waimea Bay, which has only been held 7 times in 25 years.”
Posted in No Idea on 07/27/2009 10:42 am by onionrings
FelxH writes
“Scientists have found that evolution is driving women to become ever more beautiful, while men remain as aesthetically unappealing as their caveman ancestors. The researchers have found beautiful women have more children than their plainer counterparts and that a higher proportion of those children are female. Those daughters, once adult, also tend to be attractive and so repeat the pattern.”
I just thought my standards were changing as I got older, but it turns out it’s just science!
Captain Eo: every kid I knew was desperate to go to Epcot Center to see MJ’s Popstar Galactica sci-fi turn. This weird piece finds him leading a “ragtag band” of wisecracking Muppet-like creatures into interstellar combat, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by George Lucas. The latter’s involvement indicates how the Star Wars prequels would turn out – lots of pre-echoes of Jar Jar in those puppets…
A handshake is a short ritual. Right handshaking, for as long as the living can remember, has always been the appropriate handshake. In recent years a new movement of left handshaking brought on mostly by the wealthy upper class has taken hold, and seemingly will not go away. Shaking hands with the left is widely considered classy amongst the high society. Such hand shaking practices have trickled down to those less fortunate. Fueled by the popularity of shaking hands itself, the left handshake may become the new right within the next decade. Joseph Levi said it best when he said:
“As we all in our Movement truely trust each other, this method of our own shaking with the left hand instead of the right, is used throughout the movement. The Left hand is nearer to the heart.”
The late King of Pop pioneered dance moves that looked mechanical and weren’t, like the moonwalk, and at least one that looked mechanical and was: The forward-leaning maneuver from his “Smooth Criminal” video. The secret is all in the shoes.
Trying to lean beyond one’s center of gravity normally leads to a giant, awkward step forward to retain balance, so to achieve the 45-degree angle he wanted, Michael and his dancers used special shoes as well as a trick in the stage floor. When the time came for the move, a peg-like aperture would protrude from the dance floor. The heel of the dancers’ shoes featured a triangular cut out that could be hitched onto the peg, anchoring the dancers to lean much farther forward, and thus blowing the world’s collective mind.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The new strain of H1N1 flu is causing “something different” to happen in the United States this year — perhaps an extended year-round flu season that disproportionately hits young people, health officials said on Thursday.