Archive for the ‘ Documentary Film ’ Category

LED Snowboarder

Via Colossal: Fashion photographer and filmmaker Jacob Sutton shot this hauntingly beautiful video in the Rhône-Alpes region of south-eastern France starring pro snowboarder William Hughes who dons a special suit laden with white LEDs. Sutton, who has created work for the likes of Hermès, Burberry and The New York Times, spent three nights on a [ READ MORE ]

Back to the Start

A really strong ad by Chipotle gives us a sense of why small farms matter. A great soundtrack by Willy Nelson singing Coldplay. I was late to find this ad, but was stunned by it. Amazingly cute and powerful at the same time. Directed by Johnny Kelly, this is really well done. Watch it fullscreen [ READ MORE ]

Videogames Beginning to Enter ‘Canny Valley’

Movie and graphics nerds have heard the phrase “uncanny valley” for some years now. It refers to the super-realistic, yet not quite perfect renderings of humans in movies and games. It has plagued many high-budget blockbusters, like ‘Polar Express’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’ by presenting characters that look just off enough to be creepy. Now, [ READ MORE ]

Classic L.L. Bean Covers, Recreated

Via Laughing Squid: For their 100 year anniversary celebration, Maine-based outdoor retailer L.L. Bean brought on commercial photographer Randal Ford to create modern-day photo reinterpretations of their classic catalog cover art from the past. For the photo of the 1933 catalog cover art, Ford shot the images of local residents at Maine’s Acadia National Park [ READ MORE ]

Sports from the past: Cycle Skating

Via swissmiss, I thought this was a charming look back at a sport you don’t see anymore[ READ MORE ]

NASA’s New Blue Marble

For those that say NASA doesn’t serve a community purpose, just glance at this stunning new photo composite of our earth. Amazing. Via Colossal: NASA has just published what it calls the “most amazing highest resolution image of Earth ever”, dubbed Blue Marble. The 64-megapixel image weighing in at 8000×8000 pixels is actually a composite [ READ MORE ]

Tree Ring Music

Via my dear friend, Rambling Moonbat: YEARS from Bartholomäus Traubeck on Vimeo. Custom record player that plays slices of a tree. I love the sound. From the artist: “A tree’s year rings are analysed for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. This data serves as basis for a generative process that outputs piano music [ READ MORE ]

Apple’s Big Push into Classrooms

The iPad is surely one of the biggest technology revolutions in the last few years. Today, Apple had an announcement related to the iPad in classrooms, and the way digital textbooks are going to change the way we learn, and teach. Via MacRumors: At its education-focused media event today, Apple introduced iBooks 2, an updated [ READ MORE ]

iPad Gaming, in a Pigsty

Via Eater: There’s a lot of talk these days about improving the quality of life for animals destined to end up as dinner, and the iPad app concept Pig Chase takes the concept digital. Dutch researchers across several disciplines (technological and, you know, agricultural) are working together to create the app, which allows human users [ READ MORE ]

Amazing Animal Camouflage

Some of the most impressive animal camouflage techniques. Stunning, if you can spot them! Via Buzzfeed and Wiki[ READ MORE ]

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