SPINNING WHEEL RIDE

Samsara is a Sanskrit word that means “the ever turning wheel of life” and is the point of departure for the filmmakers as they search for the elusive current of interconnection that runs through our lives.

Filmed over a period of almost five years and in twenty-five countries, the movie transports us to sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial sites, and natural wonders. By dispensing with dialogue and descriptive text, Samsara subverts our expectations of a traditional documentary, instead encouraging our own inner interpretations inspired by images and music that infuses the ancient with the modern.

The filmmakers approach non verbal filmmaking with an understanding that it must live up to the standard of great still photography, revealing the essence of a subject, not just its physical presence.

Samsara was photographed entirely in 70mm film utilizing both standard frame rates and with a motion control time-lapse camera designed specifically for this project. This camera system allows perspective shifts to reveal extraordinary views of ordinary scenes. The images were then transferred through the highest resolution scanning process available to the new 4K digital projection format that allows for mesmerizing images of unprecedented clarity.

ASTOUNDING FACT: EVERYBODY NEEDS A BOSOM

It's so sad that the discovery of the Higgs boson, one of the biggest leap forward for science in the last one hundred years, has been just an usual line among breaking news. If nobody thinks that is something to discuss about, we do. Let them talk about Paris Hilton starting her dj career.

The Higgs boson is one of the final puzzle pieces required for a complete understanding of the standard model of physics—the so-far successful theory that explains how fundamental particles interact with the elementary forces of nature.
The so-called God particle was proposed in the 1960s by Peter Higgs to explain why some particles, such as quarks—building blocks of protons, among other things—and electrons have mass, while others, such as the light-carrying photon particle, do not.

Higgs's idea was that the universe is bathed in an invisible field similar to a magnetic field. Every particle feels this field—now known as the Higgs field—but to varying degrees.
If a particle can move through this field with little or no interaction, there will be no drag, and that particle will have little or no mass. Alternatively, if a particle interacts significantly with the Higgs field, it will have a higher mass.
The idea of the Higgs field requires the acceptance of a related particle: the Higgs boson.

According to the standard model, if the Higgs field didn't exist, the universe would be a very different place, said SLAC's Peskin, who isn't involved in the LHC experiments. "It would be very difficult to form atoms," Peskin said. "So our orderly world, where matter is made of atoms, and electrons form chemical bonds—we wouldn't have that if we did not have the Higgs field."
In other words: no galaxies, no stars, no planets, no life on Earth.
And no fucking Paris Hilton djing.

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The Fibonacci sequence is named after Leonardo of Pisa, aka Fibonacci, although the sequence had been described earlier in Indian mathematics in connection with Sanskrit prosody.
In the West, the Fibonacci sequence first appears in the book Liber Abaci (1202), where Fibonacci considers the growth of an idealized and biologically unrealistic rabbit population, assuming that: a newly born pair of rabbits, one male, one female, are put in a field; rabbits are able to mate at the age of one month so that at the end of its second month a female can produce another pair of rabbits; rabbits never die and a mating pair always produces one new pair (one male, one female) every month from the second month on. The puzzle that Fibonacci posed was: how many pairs will there be in one year?
At the end of the each month, the number of pairs of rabbits is equal to the number of new pairs plus the number of pairs alive last month. This is the Fibonacci sequence, which is intimately connected with the golden ratio.
Applications include computer algorithms such as the Fibonacci search technique and the Fibonacci heap data structure, and graphs called Fibonacci cubes. They also appear in biological settings,such as branching in trees, Phyllotaxis (the arrangement of leaves on a stem), the fruit spouts of a pineapple, the flowering of artichoke, an uncurling fern and the arrangement of a pine cone.

MICRO WONDERLAND

New videography techniques have opened up the oceans' microscopic ecosystem, revealing it to be both mesmerizingly beautiful and astoundingly complex.
Marine biologist Tierney Thys teamed with Christian Sardet , Noé Sardet and Sharif Mirshak to blow our mind up with some trippy footages about this crazy hidden world that underpins our own food chain.

via Ted.com

THE AMERICAN RIVIERA

You can call it post apocalyptic scenario, or ghost town on a large scale, or just another disgrace of mankind: it's The Salton Sea, a shallow, saline, endorheic rift lake located directly on the San Andreas Fault, and one of the world's largest inland seas and lowest spots on earth (-227 below sea level).

Ransom Riggs, an American writer and filmmaker best known for the book Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, went there and filmed his suggestions.

PERCHED ON A TREE

The eco-PERCH concept is based on Blue Forest's famous tree houses. It’s natural, organic geometry maximises the relationship between the inside space and the outdoor setting, ensuring the structure sits harmoniously within the landscape.

The building sleeps 4 people and is delivered, assembled and commissioned in approximately 5 days (subject to site preparation). The eco-PERCH design is flexible and can be adapted to suit your site where existing infrastructure is already in place. With options to assemble your building on the ground or in the treetops there are infinite possibilities for creating accommodation with a difference. To simplify the planning requirements the building has been designed to conform with the Caravan & Mobile Homes Act.

NOW OR NEVER

We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate. The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and Home has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being. For this purpose, Home needs to be free. A patron, the PPR Group, made this possible. EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to make any profit. Home has been made for you : share it! And act for the planet.

Watch the full movie in the following languages:

• english
• french
• russian
• italian
• arabic

MELTED

Extremely eye catching. Extremely sad. We really hope that this stunning campaign by Ogilvycould help to raise public environmental awareness.

Act now against climate change. Visit Greenpeace.org.tr

via: Adsoftheworld

SOUTHERN LIGHTS

This planet is really going bananas. A cloud of charged particles from the sun slammed into Earth Monday, setting off an intense geomagnetic storm that spawned northern lights across the U.S.—even in the Deep South, where they more often appeared as rare, all-red auroras. Sky shows were reported in more than half the 50 states, including Georgia, Alabama, and Arkansas.

via spaceweather.com

FRENCH FLIES

Freedom. Love. Brotherhood. These are the feelings that emerge when highlining pioneers Tancrede and Julien have come to the spectacular and atmospheric cliffs of the norwegian fjords to try and turn their ultimate dream into reality. This 14 minutes free part from the upcoming movie "I Believe I can Fy" is something you don't want to miss.

RADICAL LINES

This Is My Winter is a movie giving mountain lovers a unique chance to experience the mountain from Xavier de Le Rue’s point of view, when serious business starts.

While one of the worst winter season strikes Europe TimeLine crew relentlessly sought the best spots and conditions along with Xavier's friends and riding partners to deliver the best possible part for standard films TB20 movie.

IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE

Australian big wave surfer and adventure athlete Mark Visser is probably a member of the X-men family. He just shocks the world as he continues to break the boundaries of Big Wave surfing, this time by jumping from a plane into massivestorm swells in the middle of the open ocean to surf what has never been accomplished. With the help of satellite technology and a group of scientists, Visser is in search for the next big thing that of which all big wave surfers dream about - the 100ft wave.

FREE ROADS

Don't quit till you're broke, don't stop till you die. This is what Original longboarding is.

(boards used: Freeride 41 and Freeride 38 -aka the Beast-)

INTO THE WILD

Living in the woods has never been so styish. The XXS mini-house by recognized architect Magnus Ståhl for swedish company Next House may be the most beautiful place to hide from the world.

The total area of XXS is 15 sqm with a 10 sqm terrace of exclusive Merbau wood. The pure-style lines create a modern design and a close-to-nature house. The entrance from the terrace has a large window and glass door section which creates both light and space. The façade is clad in z-panel of three different widths and painted in a black hue with Falu rödfärg.

THE RIVIERA BAY

This year we're getting down with the summer sensation like we never did before. It's not about us, it's about the cool. And in this case it's about The Bay, one of the classiest tunes (and one of the best basslines) from the ultra talented english group Metronomy. Their third album English Riviera is simply outstanding, the perfect companion for shore cruising.

If you're wondering where have you heard this before maybe it's because you came here a few days ago... and casually listened/downloaded the Edwin Van Cleef's June mixtape.

FRIENDLY TROPHIES

In Charlottesville Virginia there is a place where imagination becomes reality. It's Cardboard Safari, a tiny little company that through the use of sustainable materials strive to design fun and fascinating products for your enjoyment. Each of these provocative animal friendly trophies comes is three different size to fit any of your home design needs.

LIQUID CONSCIOUSNESS

Almost a billion people live without clean drinking water. We call this the water crisis. It's a crisis because it only starts with water -- but water affects everything in life. Health. Education. Food security. And the lives of women and children, especially.

We can end the water crisis in our lifetime. But first we have to let everyone know it's happening. Learn how water changes everything -- and share this with everyone you know.

www.charitywater.org

Written by charity: water + Jonathan Jarvis

Animation by Jonathan Jarvis
Voiceover by Kristen Bell
Score and sound effects by Douglas Kaufman

FRUIT OF THE LOOM

"Loom" tells the story of a successful catch in quite a stunning perspective. It shows the way nature works from a point of view that creates an intense relationship between the hunter and its victim. There is much more to explore, much more to feel if one takes the time to really experience the content of a split second.
It's produced by Polynoid, the design / storytelling loving collaboration of Jan Bitzer, Ilija Brunck, Csaba Letay, Fabian Pross and Tom Weber. Founded in 2007 as a creative platform and playground for their own films and experiments, Polynoid today is using that same spirit but combining it with the resources of a production studio, with such impressive results.

HOTBOARDS

Carving on a longboard is already a super cool thing by itself, but it gets dope when the Longboard Girls Crew goes downhill on the Madrid mountains.

CYCLING TO THE FUTURE

"We all know that when people ride bikes, life is better. In this short video, we bring this idea to life as riders trigger projectors throughout a city, transforming an urban environment into a vibrant, colorful world. A world made better, by bikes."

If you dream about a better future for bicycling -one that is safe and fun for everyone- than you should sign the pledge at peopleforbikes.org