Art is present (14)
Saturday, February 18th, 2012 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »Maybe not an innovative form of art, but I'm always very impressed by so-called realistic painters - a.k.a. photo-realistic or even 'ultra-realistic and 'hyper-realistic' . The amount of detail (skin wrinkles, dirt, reflections etc.) they bring into their paintings is amazing. David ...
The power of words
Saturday, February 11th, 2012 Posted in Creativity, Taking a stand | No Comments »This video does not need many words This video is an ad for online marketing firm Purplefeather. Original title: Homage to Historia de un letrero, The Story of a Sign by Alonso Alvarez Barreda
Patience – Coins on a dime
Sunday, February 5th, 2012 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »Youtube user TaiStar42 balances a tower of 3118 coins on a single dime: 600 quarters, 501 dimes, 313 nickels, 1699 pennies, 5 foreign coins, and 7 hours of building. And he went on to 3838 coins (2007 pennies, 387 nickels, 807 Quarters, ...
Traffic time-lapse
Saturday, February 4th, 2012 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »Ho-Chi-Min city traffic time-lapse: Traffic in Frenetic HCMC, Vietnam from Rob Whitworth on Vimeo. A colourful feast for the eyes.
Crazy Bamboleo
Friday, February 3rd, 2012 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »Meni Ozeri from Israel doing Bamboleo from the Gipsy Kings
What’s in your bag?
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »Show us what’s in your bag and we’ll tell you who you are. That is the motto of Jason Travis’s photographic project Persona. The home page shows a mosaic of people and their personal effects. Click on a segment to ...
Playing for change – Higher ground
Monday, January 30th, 2012 Posted in Creativity, Taking a stand | No Comments »The Playing for Change folks keep making these lovely videos and doing their great work. Here's Stevie Wonders' Higher Ground. I never really listened to the lyrics before: People keep on learnin' Soldiers keep on warrin' World keep on turnin' Cause it won't be too long Powers ...
Milky Way over Africa
Sunday, January 29th, 2012 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »On December 29, 2011, the International Space Station flew over Africa. This 20 second video combines a series of still images as it passes from the center of the continent to Madagascar and then over the ocean. The flashes of ...
People: Family faces
Saturday, January 28th, 2012 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »Genetic Portraits is a photo series by Canadian photographer Ulric Collette. He combines the portraits of two members of the same family into one: My earlier posts in the series People: (1) (2) (3) (4)
