Category: culture
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Powerliner Flyers
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3013257&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1powerlinerflyers from wes johnson on Vimeo.
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Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
Funny how the strangest things make an impression. Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky was a Russian photographer who developed some of the earliest techniques for colour photography that involved taking a series of monochrome pictures, each through a different colored filter, and projecting them using correctly-colored light to reconstruct the original color scene. Between 1909 and 1915, he…
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Pastiche
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3252798&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1Pastiche—A Collective Composition of New York City, by Ivan Safrin & Christian Marc Schmidt from Christian Marc Schmidt on Vimeo. "The city is a composite of impressions. Beyond the built environment, it is a constantly changing pastiche of associations and experiences—not just of the people who inhabit it, but of the larger community. New York…
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This Is Japan
There's a million and one ways now in which people can construct their own narratives. Here's a rather charming example featuring the story of a trip to Japan: http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2721992&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1This is Japan! from Eric Testroete on Vimeo. If you're interested, there's a rather neat tool called Animoto that you can use to create something very similar.HT…
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Flying Over Britain, Looking For Love
I love a good data visualisation. At the end of last year, Flowing Data published a list of the 5 best data visualisations of 2008, featuring a couple that I hadn't seen before but which are quite exceptional, so are worth posting: 1. This short film, from the BBC's Britain From Above series, visualises the…
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Someone Once Told Me
Photographer Mario Cacciottolo has a neat project going called 'Someone Once Told Me', summed up simply as "Black and white photographs, a new one every day, each person writes a message of something someone once told them". And he's done one of me. The message I used is actually something I read from Paul…
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The End
A Flickr set by graphic designer Dill Pixels of classic movie end frames. Images that mark the end of films but the beginning of our memories of them. Love it. The End.
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One Careful Owner
3rd place winner in the 2008 15 Second Film Festival: http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1319202&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1One Careful Owner from 15 Second Film Festival on Vimeo.
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Touching Strangers
Photographer Richard Renaldi spends a year asking total strangers to touch, and then takes their picture. Some appear like they've known each other for years, some look like they're about to die with discomfort. All rather, well, touching.