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  • May16

    This time lapse covers more than 1000 years and shows the shifting national borders of Europe.

    There’s also a slowed-down version that shows the year and some annotation of events. (via ★interesting)

    (Via kottke.org.)

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  • Apr27

    With its ability to make boring cellphone photos look “vintage” and “artsy”, Instagram has exploded worldwide. Derided by its detractors as a tool for making bad photos worse, we take an alternate view and argue that Instagram is the greatest thing to ever happen to photography. Its simple filters and social networking features are training cellphone photographers everywhere to think creatively about their photos. Plus, the app is turning its worldwide user base into an army of photojournalists capturing striking images of the people and events around them. As the old photography adage goes, “The best camera is the one you have with you.”

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  • Apr25

    The footage in this video is derived from image sequences from NASA’s Cassini and Voyager missions. I downloaded a large amount of raw images to create the video.

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  • Apr22

    To improve road safety Domino’s Pizza the Netherlands introduces a human engine sound on their silent electrical scooters.

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  • Apr18

    The Space Shuttle Discovery, mounted atop a modified 747 jet, flies at a low altitude (~1,500 ft.) over what is normally restricted airspace — the National Mall in Washington, D.C. — on April 17, 2012 on its way to its permanent home at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va.

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  • Apr14

    From home, to the airport, to where you really want to be. All in the Transition(R) Street-Legal Airplane, all on super unleaded autogas, all on your schedule. Visit www.driventofly.com

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  • Apr13

    Marketplace Shanghai Bureau Chief Rob Schmitz is only the second reporter ever to gain access to visit the factory floor at Apple’s Chinese producer Foxconn. See highlights from his tour of the assembly line and the Foxconn facilities and connect to his full audio reports on your public radio station and at http://www.marketplace.org. Marketplace is produced and distributed by American Public Media.

    Source Credit – American Public Media’s ‘Marketplace’.
    Reporter Credit – Rob Schmitz, Shanghai Bureau Chief

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  • Apr12

    To launch the high quality TV channel TNT in Belgium we placed a big red push button on an average Flemish square of an average Flemish town. A sign with the text “Push to add drama” invited people to use the button. And then we waited… Discover here what happened:

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  • Apr11

    Google+ gives you new ways to share the right things with the right people. Take a tour of our latest improvements. http://google.com/+/learnmore

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  • Apr10

    Very cool, both the idea of the trip, the video and of the Fuelband itself which I really want it (but it is not available in Canada yet so I must get it in the States next I am there…)

    Filmmaker Casey Neistat was recently contracted by sports apparel giant Nike to create a short film about its Fuelband, a high-tech bracelet designed to keep track of our workouts. Nike was hoping to build social media buzz around a new ad campaign that featured the tagline, and Twitter hashtag, #makeitcount. Turns out Casey and his buddy Max “made it count” by using Nike’s money to fund a 10-day round the world adventure that saw them visit ParisCairoJohannesburg and a host of other interesting destinations before running out of money.

    The two men filmed their little excursion and the resulting short film can be found below. The video is a fantastic mix of truly great travel destinations interspersed with inspiring quotes from a variety of prominent historical figures. The combination of the two will leave you wanting to make your own round-the-world journey, although figuring out how to get Nike to fund it is an entirely different challenge.

    (Via Gadling.)

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  • Apr5

    Yesterday Google has announced Project Glass, a new technology that will allow users in the future to wear Android-based display glasses to stream information right in front of their eyes. As much as I can see this idea to be an amazing and fun tool to use, I can also imagine a huge privacy issues with this type technology. This is a project is still in early development stages and we may be years before anything like that becomes available, needless to say the video is pretty cool to watch:

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  • Mar30

    Beautiful timelapse photography shot onboard cruise ships between 2009-10 in Europe, South America, the Caribbean and Alaska.

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  • Mar26

    Customized backpack fitted with a GoPro for my Corgi, Riley. First test run, attempted up in Los Angeles Runyon Canyon.

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  • Mar24

    Beautiful cockpit view shoot during a night time landing in Los Angeles:

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  • Mar20

    The Sleeper Car by Improv Everywhere

    For their latest prank, Improv Everywhere converted a late night New York City subway car into an unauthorized sleeper car, complete with three beds (video). For our latest mission we converted a New York City subway car into a “sleeper car,” giving New Yorkers the chance to rest their heads during a late night commute. We set up three beds, each outfitted with a comforter, pillow, and sheets. Pajamas, sleep masks, and earplugs were also provided as part of this unauthorized free service. The project took place on the above-ground N train in Astoria, Queens around midnight on a Sunday evening. photo by Katie Sokoler

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  • Mar18

    From the upcoming Special Edition Ascent: Commemorating Space Shuttle DVD/BluRay a movie from the point of view of the Solid Rocket Booster with sound mixing and enhancement done by the folks at Skywalker Sound.

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  • Mar17

    Japanese dance group Wrecking Crew Orchestra performs in electroluminescent suits for a distinctly Tron-like effect.

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  • Mar16

    Lizzie O’Leary reports on whether the new Boeing 787 everything it’s cracked up to be?

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  • Mar15

    A carefree cat has a smashing time.

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  • Mar7

    A short film that tells the story behind the ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ poster. Its origins at the beginning of WWII and its rediscovery in a bookshop in England in 2000, becoming one of the iconic images of the 21st century. Film, music, script and narration by Temujin Doran.

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  • Mar7

    A new Guinness World Record was set at New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana for the world’s largest human mattress dominoes on February 28, 2012. It took just a few minutes for the 850 participants to tumble over backwards on donated mattresses one-by-one like giant dominoes. “Domino Wizard” Robert Speca designed a “special mattress-domino pattern” for the event was sponsored by La Quinta Inns & Suites. The mattresses, donated by Simmons Bedding Company, will be given to various local charities. The previous record was set in Belgium last year with just 550 people.

    Being the 850th human/bed domino to make the fall, Wayne Goldberg…CEO of La Quinta Inn & Suites, holds up the official tag marking his particular bed minutes after the Guinness record was broken… via The TelegraphNola.comThe Daily What, and DVICE photos by Chris Granger, The Times-Picayune

    (Via Laughing Squid.)

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  • Mar6

    My Lego tribute to the end of the space shuttle era. Proving that although retired, this machine can still fly, albeit in toy form. The launch took place from central Germany and reached a max altitude of 35000m. A 1600g meteo balloon filled with helium was used alongside a GoPro Hero, Spot GPS and of course Lego Space Shuttle model 3367. The launch took place on the 31st of December 2011, the equipment was recovered via GPS tracking 240 km S-E from a remote area. I wish to thank Steve Sammartino for the opportunity to do this project and the german airtraffic control for the understanding.

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  • Mar5

    LOL – This made me laugh today…

    Ohio-based comedian Dennis Roady of Sketch Empire caused a series of awkward interactions with police officers by simulating public urination with a water bottle (video). via Viral Viral Videos

    (Via Laughing Squid.)

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  • Mar1

    Colin Huggins is a self-proclaimed “piano busker” who performs in New York City’s Washington Square Park. Follow his journey as he hauls his 650-pound baby grand piano from a storage space to the park, where he plays for an appreciative audience.

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  • Feb28

    Tilt-shift of the Carnaval party in Rio de Janeiro, made by Jarbas Agnelli and Keith Loutit and captured during Carnaval of 2011. Music by Jarbas Agnelli…

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  • Feb25

    Two of my favourite photographers this year, together at last… Eric Kim from L.A. and Kai Man Wong from Hong Kong both shooting streets of Hong Kong together. As usual video is pretty funny:

    In this very special video we meet Eric Kim in Hong Kong to talk about Leicas: the M6 & M2. We shoot some streets shots and get dressed up in rather appropriate costumes. Do check out Eric Kim’s website, follow Eric on Twitter: @erickimphoto and Facebook

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  • Feb23

    Official music video for “Analog or Digital.” We created it by combining time lapse with stop motion. It was filmed over the course of an entire day in a single continuous take at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach.

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  • Feb20

    Mad Men – Season 5 Teaser

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  • Feb20

    The opening of Nemesis Sub-Terra at Alton Towers Resort on 24th March creeps ever closer — take a look at these shoppers at Southside Shopping Centre in Wandsworth getting the shock of their lives yesterday!

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  • Feb18

    Veteran photographer and National Geographic grantee Carsten Peter is also an accomplished climber, diver and caver who has photographed some of the world’s most extreme environments. Here he shares stories and images from a cave system in Vietnam that may be the world’s largest.

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