Jamie and I are going to Hawaii in August, and she’s a big Elvis fan. To work with that, I would like to get small clips of you lip-syncing to parts of “Can’t help falling in love” by Elvis. Don’t worry, you wont have to do the whole song. Once I get a good grasp of who will be involved, the song will be chopped up and you will be sent a small part to lip-sync.
For some reason beyond my understanding, the song that Bugs Bunny first sings in the episode Long-Haired Hare got stuck in my head, a few days ago. And after kind of humming it quietly to myself, I came upon a sudden realization: I could look it up on the Internet!
I’ve never known the name of the song, and I’m not sure why it took me all this time to actually look the thing up. It’s been a bit of a mystery to me, and it’s silly to realize that I could have easily looked this up 5+ years ago.
Maisie Broadhead created this reproduction of a old, 1844 photographic print featuring Elizabeth Eastlake. It’s an amazing time-lapse video, and quite surprising how much work was involved in getting things to look “just right.”
I happened to see this video making the rounds on the Internet today, when I realized… wait! I know that person!
Built by Berlin studio ART+COM, the Kinetic Rain sculpture at Changi Airport Singapore is composed of 1,216 individual rain droplets. Each one dangles by a thin, steel rope and is controlled by a computer and individual motor.
Set 6,000 years in the future, Robbie is an aging self-aware robot looking back on his life in the last moments before his battery life runs out.
Created by Neil Harvey, the film is composed entirely from over 10 hours of NASA archival footage. I’m not 100% on this, as I assumed there were some scenes that involved manipulation, but I think it’s almost all done through video from NASA.
You’ve likely already seen this by now, but it’s a great bit of video editing by Jeremiah McDonald. As a kid, he created a video for his future self… and this video is him, talking with that younger version of himself.
The guys from BriTANicK, trying ever so hard to remember the final lines to A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Launched in late November of 2011, NASA’s Curiosity will be landing on Mars in the early days of August. This video shows team members, talking about the technical challenges they’ll need to overcome, to get the vehicle down safely to the ground.
Created by Cameron Michael, The Manhattan Project is a wonderful bit of time-lapse video.
They’ve got an ambitious goal: $30,000 with a little under $6,000 pledged at the time of this blog post (with 19 days to go).
I’ll tell you this – I love the idea of Kickstarter, but haven’t really backed a ton of projects to date. Mostly, they’ve been projects started by friends that I wanted to support. But in this case, I wanted to put my money where my mouth is.
There are some really ingenious moments, where they seem to be able to impose a bit of order on something that looks like all kinds of chaos and randomness. In particular: using graduated openings to separate out mushrooms into 10 different sizes (1:31) and automatically aligning mushrooms to the same direction (2:39).
When I first saw this, I assumed the video was created by a teacher or staff member at the school – and the video was something done between classes, bidding the school and students farewell after working there for four years. On reading closer, I realized Tolu was a student – a Senior no less, in his final year.
Captured by photographer Sean White, Terra Sacra Time Lapses spans over 24 countries and six years. It’s a pretty breathtaking bit of video, and really makes you feel like travelling the world more than you have.
This video showcases 9 skaters who do some pretty uncommon tricks, all filmed in beautiful slow-motion. From a hardflip pretzel to a nollie 360 shuv underflip to a Merlin twist… these guys have got some serious skills.