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Monday, January 30, 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Early entry for catch of the year
A ball boy at the australian open:
Hard to believe how non-plussed Federer is about it.
Hard to believe how non-plussed Federer is about it.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
His name is James Bond
Because Im suave, you can suck it....ill ski on your lunch if I want!
Slightly NSFW (for language)
Slightly NSFW (for language)
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Why I have no interest in bungee jumping
This is some scary shit:
Lucky Break of the Day: Australian tourist Erin Laung Worth plumetted over 350 feet after her bungie cord broke during a New Year’s Eve jump over the Zambesi River, on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Miraculously, she survived the fall and managed to swim to the Zimbabwe side of the river, which Sky News describes as “croc-infested.”
“It was quite scary because a couple of times the rope actually got caught on some rocks or debris,” Worth said, “I actually had to swim down and yank the bungee cord out of whatever it was caught on to make it to the surface.”
Worth was treated at a clinic in Zimbabwe before being evacuated to South Africa.
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Tagged: bungie jumping accident, lucky break, video
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Miniature Liquid Worlds by Markus Reugels
From This is Colossal:
I’m loving these liquid planets by German photographer Markus Reugels. Using large satellite photos as a backdrop and a high speed camera he captures the background’s refraction through water drops. The perfectly timed shots result in these spherical representations of the Earth, Moon and Jupiter. See much more of his work here and also here. Thanks Markus for sharing your work with Colossal!
Best New York times Correction ever.
I hate when people mix up their 'My little pony' characters:
thanks Doro and Holly for sending this to me.
thanks Doro and Holly for sending this to me.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Explaining offsides on a 50p coin
New 50p coins from the Royal Mint to celebrate the 2012 summer olympics. This one may be the most useful:
h/t Deadspin
h/t Deadspin
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
A Christmas Story acted out by hot dogs
A little late but still worthwhile. One of the most memorable scenes from the holiday classic, told with a twist. And yes, Ive been told I look like Scut Farkus before
Monday, January 2, 2012
Running red lights in NJ
A PSA from the state of New Jersey to try to prevent people from running red lights. (Notice I didn't make any references to how bad New Jersey drivers are here...oh wait I just did!)
h/t The Daily What
h/t The Daily What
Shooting Under the Antarctic Ice
An amazing post from the WSJ photo journal describing shooting under the antarctic ice for the upcoming BBC series Frozen Planet. Being a nature photographer would be a dream come true but Im not sure that I could stand these conditions!
For “Frozen Planet” director Chadden Hunter and cameraman Didier Noiret, the challenges of photographing emperor penguins rocketing through ice holes from the water below at high speeds were significant, but shooting them underwater was even more daunting. In order to show the penguins with the jet stream of bubbles behind them, they had to dive unthethered (a rope could get tangled with the camera) and film with a slow motion camera that they had never used underwater before. The only way to control buoyancy was to let air into the dry suit from the tank.
If anything went wrong, “you would just descend to the bottom of the ocean,” says Chadden. Fresh water moisture in the breathing tubes could freeze up and restrict airflow. The water clarity was so great that that it played tricks on their minds. “The specks in the water that you first thought were plankton would turn out to be meter-long penguins a hundred meters away, circling like spaceships as they prepared to jettison themselves out of the hole,” says Chadden. ‘You were mesmerized. Then suddenly you would check the depth gauge and realize you were hurtling down at a great speed and would frantically press the button to get air into the drysuit…. It was like space walking, untethered from the space station, while being circled by aliens.” The documentary “Frozen Planet” will premiere in the U.S. on Discovery Channel on March 18 at 8 p.m., and the companion book is available January 2012 from Firefly Books. All images courtesy Firefly Books/BBC Earth.
Didier Noiret in action under water, where the massive camera is weightless, allowing him to track the emperors. Those that have swum up from the depths are circling around the exit point, waiting for their heart rates to return to normal. They then jet-propel themselves upwards, leaving a rocket trail of bubbles in their wake as all the air is forced out of their feathers. With no limbs to pull themselves onto the ice, this is the only way to exit. But it means they can’t see what’s on the surface, and beak-breaking collisions with ice blocks can happen.
A Minke whale surfacing in an opening in pack ice on the Ross Sea.
An egg-collector at work in the midst of a guillemot colony in the Russian Arctic. In summer, the Inuit are prepared to risk their lives to harvest seabird eggs, using just a rope and sure-footedness. Few other land predators are able to reach the precarious nesting ledges.
Visiting polar bears were a worry for the crews filming them. As much as they enjoyed seeing the bears at the window, the constant visits from bears led to insomnia.
Under the Ross Sea. Doug Anderson fixes his tripod upside down to the sea ice so he can film the growth of the strange ice-crystal formations.
In the confined space of a volcanic cave the only way cameraman Gavin Thurston could film was to use the video mode of a digital SLR camera. Careful lighting was crucuial to show the diamond-like glitter of the crystals. Day by day the crystals would change, melting if the temperature rose but reforming when it dropped.
A year long photo exposure
A cool experiment using a pin hole camera to take a year long exposure.
From The Daily What:
The Year Of Living Photographically of the Day: In the twilight hours of 2011, photographer Michael Chrisman made his way to Toronto’s Port Lands to pick up the pin-hole camera he had trained on Hogtown’s skyline 365 days before.
The year-long experiment in extreme exposure yielded the “snapshot” above.
“I’m thrilled with it,” Chrisman told The Star. “It’s a very dreamy photo. This one has a soft and kind of foggy feel.”
What the publication refers to as a “time-lapse painting” took approximately 31,536,000 seconds to complete.
But that was the easy part.
“The biggest difficulty,” Chrisman said, “is trying to ensure the camera will be there when you return.”
This time he got lucky. And the result was worth the wait.
[thestar.]
Tagged: Long Exposure Photography, Micharl Chrisman, Time-Lapse Thing, toronto
2011 Win compilation
Some classics in here. A good way to spend 7 minutes while you try to get back into the swing of things after the holidays.
h/t Next Round
h/t Next Round
Sunday, January 1, 2012
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