The theme of this post is 'falling from great heights.' I will continue to update this post as I find new amazing videos of people falling in various, epic ways. Feel free to leave suggestions of other videos in the comments section.
Austrian stuntman Felix Baumgartner stepped off a platform attached to a helium balloon 127,850 feet over New Mexico and fell more than 24 miles straight down. He breaks the sound barrier at 46 seconds in and reaches speeds of more than 830 miles per hour.
Another stuntman, Gary Connery, fashioned a suit that made him look like a flying squirrel.
World champion free diver Guillaume Nery base jumping at Dean's Blue Hole, filmed on breath hold by Julie Gautier. Music by Archive, song "You Make Me Feel."
Video made by FroschYankee from the movie Adrenaline Rush (The Science of Risk). Location: Eikesdalen, Norway. Music by Bryan Hollon aka Boom Bip, remixed by Boards of Canada.
Last Walk Around Mirror Lake - Boom Bip (Boards of Canada Remix) from FroschYankee on Vimeo.
Chilean Stuntman Julio Munoz BASE jumped off a 3,300-foot cliff in the Andes. To get the speed he wanted he did it with a motorcycle. The stunt cost Munoz more than $100,000 and required three helicopters to carry equipment.
Paris Mavroidis made an experimental animated short called "Divers." He says that he was inspired by Busby Berkeley, mass gymnastics and experimental cinema from the 20s and 30s. It was created while he pursued an MFA in Digital Arts at Pratt.
Divers (Short Animation) from Paris Mavroidis on Vimeo.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Wholphin + brain scans
Wholphin is a quarterly DVD magazine published by McSweeney's. McSweeney's is a publishing house founded by Dave Eggers. You might recognize Eggers as the author of "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" and as the screenplay writer for "Where the Wild Things Are" by Spike Jonze.
Anywho, the idea of a DVD magazine is pretty unique to me! For example, the current issue runs 2 hours, 40 minutes, has 11 films and features:
"The Duplass Brothers celebrating friendship, Selma Blair and Jeremy Davies celebrating an awkward romance, the haunting prequel to the indie-hit Martha Marcy May Marlene, Antonio Campos' Cannes-winning Buy It Now, a couple who eat each other's pain, Jonathan Lisecki'sGayby, and seven contestants going neuron-to-neuron in a love competition!"
To pique your interest, here's one of the included films by Brent Hoff, editor of Wholphin. The video documents a love competition. The contestants are strapped into an MRI machine and asked to think about love. Scans of the contestants’s brains track activity in the brain, with special interest in a specific region called the nucleus accumbens, where three neurological pathways associated with love converge. The video briefly introduces the contestants, who explain their strategies for winning while Dr. Melina Uncapher prepares each for their scans.
The Love Competition from Brent Hoff on Vimeo.
Caroline
Anywho, the idea of a DVD magazine is pretty unique to me! For example, the current issue runs 2 hours, 40 minutes, has 11 films and features:
"The Duplass Brothers celebrating friendship, Selma Blair and Jeremy Davies celebrating an awkward romance, the haunting prequel to the indie-hit Martha Marcy May Marlene, Antonio Campos' Cannes-winning Buy It Now, a couple who eat each other's pain, Jonathan Lisecki'sGayby, and seven contestants going neuron-to-neuron in a love competition!"
To pique your interest, here's one of the included films by Brent Hoff, editor of Wholphin. The video documents a love competition. The contestants are strapped into an MRI machine and asked to think about love. Scans of the contestants’s brains track activity in the brain, with special interest in a specific region called the nucleus accumbens, where three neurological pathways associated with love converge. The video briefly introduces the contestants, who explain their strategies for winning while Dr. Melina Uncapher prepares each for their scans.
The Love Competition from Brent Hoff on Vimeo.
Caroline
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Long exposure photographs of fireflies
These are the most hauntingly beautiful photographs I have seen in a long time. Photographer Tsuneaki Hiramatsu took long exposure photographs of fireflies. Hiramatsu has been shooting fireflies for about 8 years now, many of which are shot in Okayama where they have firefly season
You can find more at his blog. I definitely recommend clicking on them to see their true size.
Caroline
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
PINA
My friend Allie gave me the heads up about this film. Here's a brief description.
PINA is a feature-length dance film in 3D with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer Pina Bausch, who died in the summer of 2009. PINA is directed by Wim Wenders (Buena Vista Social Club, Wings of Desire), who was a long-standing friend of Pina's.Wenders takes the audience on a sensual, visually stunning journey of discovery into a new dimension: straight onto the stage with the legendary ensemble and follows the dancers out of the theatre into the city and the surrounding areas of Wuppertal - the place, which for 35 years was the home of Pina Bausch. PINA reinvigorates the way 3D film technology can be used.
Maybe this will be the first movie that gets me to watch something in 3D!
Caroline
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