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Gulp. The world’s largest stop-motion animation shot on a Nokia N8 »
‘Gulp’ is a short film created by Sumo Science at Aardman, depicting a fisherman going about his daily catch. Shot on location at Pendine Beach in South Wales, every frame of this stop-motion animation was shot using a Nokia N8, with its 12 megapixel camera and Carl Zeiss optics. The film has broken a world record for the ‘largest stop-motion animation set’, with the largest scene stretching over 11,000 square feet.
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Great video of Tibetan Tantric masters.
(Trying to find a tantric master is difficult when these days tantra’s been corporatized to be synonymous with sex.)
(Source: Boing Boing)
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DARPA’s sound-based fire extinguisher
Performers on DARPA’s Instant Fire Suppression program evaluated an acoustic approach to suppressing flames. In this video, a flame is extinguished by an acoustic field generated by speakers on either side of the pool of fuel. Two dynamics are at play in this approach. First, the acoustic field increases the air velocity. As the velocity goes up, the flame boundary layer, where combustion occurs, thins, making it easier to disrupt the flame. Second, by disturbing the pool surface, the acoustic field leads to higher fuel vaporization, which widens the flame, but also drops the overall flame temperature. As the same amount of heat is spread over a larger area, combustion is disrupted. Read more at http://go.usa.gov/wu1
Now, DARPA will take time to make this more scalable, and prepare this to coexist with various atmospheric conditions.
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What is Dead May Never Die by Kadavre Exquis
Got a hankerin’ for some nostalgia? This retro-futuristic time capsule should hit the spot.
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YouTube user nothinghereok has created this stop-motion video titled “11 Months, 3000 pictures and a lot of coffee.” This DIY video is a sublime illustration of a Triumph Spitfire engine being stripped and then put back together…
Started out as just a collection of snaps as I stripped down an engine bought off ebay. (To replace my old engine, which had suffered catastrophic failure). The snaps were so that I remembered how everything went, so I could put it back together again. […] Then I realised it’d be quite cool to make it an animation. found some suitable music, rekindled my ancient knowledge of Premiere, storyboarded it, shot it as I worked on the engine (my poor DSLR got covered in engine oil), this was the result.
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Bungee Jump Prank had gone viral. At a bachelor’s party in France, the blindfolded groom, Kokovtsov, is lead to believe he’s going to bungee jump off a 50 foot bridge that turned out to be a drop of three feet into a pond.
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In front of the quiet, unblinking eye of a camera lens, Dr. Elizabeth Shaw makes her case to lead a mission that will answer our greatest questions and trigger our ultimate fears.
The forthcoming Ridley Scott movie, Prometheus, is all about “A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.” See PROMETHEUS in theaters June 8.
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A short film created for the Daily Telegraph by Glen Milner, Birth of the Book captures a book being made using traditional printing methods. Shot at Smith-Settle Printers in Yeadon, Yorkshire, the book being printed is Mango and Mimosa by Suzanne St Albans published by Slightly Foxed Editions.
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A must-see stop-motion video: The Joy of Books
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Amazed at the level of detail that goes into manufacturing the hand-crafted Leica lenses. It’s like the AMG engines of cameras.
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