DREAM FACTORY

Norvegian film company Welterwerk is making me love northern Europe even more than I usually do (and this means beyond the human possibilities).
Not only their output is classy, nostalgic and unbelievebly elegant, the coolest thing about this people is that they work with a very down to earth setup: the following video has been shot with an hacked Lumix GH2 camera and some vintage lenses (a japanese one and a german one), which means less than 1000$ of equipment.

In this era of surplus, of fancy people all with their shiny 5Ds, well this just feels so damn good.

Soundtrack: Siriusmo - Nights Off

WHAT-A-WIG!

The concept is simple and it is another visual exploration of something new and totally different: advertising photographer Tim Tadder found a bunch of awesome bald men and hurled water balloons at their heads, to capture the explosion of water at various intervals.
He used a laser and sound trigger to capture the right moments for each subject to create just the head of hair that fit best with the face.

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.

MISTERY SHOTS

Enter the moody world of conceptual design and photography of Platanov Pavel.

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.

AROUND THE SPECTRUM

Fortunately this is not the Rainbow Road (the sickest racetrack in the history of racing games) but something much more enjoyable: it's Olafur Eliasson's highly anticipated new installation 'Your Rainbow Panorama', set to open to the public on may 28th.

The permanent elevated structure provides a 360º view of the city of århus, Denmark. Suspended between the city and the sky, the viewing platform insists on the sensory engagement of those who enter it.

The continuously circular pathway sits on top of and proportionality compliments the ARoS museum of art, designed by schmidt hammer lassen in 2007. measuring 150 meters around, the transparent glass unit is designed to act as a visual compass for the city, its colors marking the physical location of each visitor.

Representing every color in the spectrum, the design looks to enter into a cohesive dialogue between the exiting architecture and the surrounding city. virtually erasing the boundaries between indoors and out, the encompassing environment aims to question the comfortable limits for which people are accustomed to moving.

enveloped in the rainbow-like atmosphere, the user produces afterimages in hues complimentary to the colors that surround them, altering and defining the perception of the city that lies below.

Images courtesy of studio Olafur Eliasson

MAGIC DROPS

Markus Reugels is one of those persons who care about details.

His photography is mostly about macro shots and closeups, and with the "liquid art" project he unleash his passion for H2O. Water drops, water with soap, water with milk and so on.

Unfortunately our eyes can't see many things without help, but thanks to a highspeed sensor, the right light setup, some old school lenses and Mr.Reugels behind the camera the magic that lurks behind the most simple things suddently shows up.

THE REDEEMER POV

In the last two years we have seen tons of tilt shift videos and pictures, and when something gets so quickly overused it also gets old really fast. Nonetheless checking out what's going on in Ipanema or Copacabana and than having a tour in the Rio de Janeiro carnival parade is quite an experience, especially when you do it from a god's point of view.

Captured during Carnaval of 2011

Made by Jarbas Agnelli and Keith Loutit
Music by Jarbas Agnelli

THE MAGIC BEAN

Chicago has never been so wonderfully enlighted. Visual art masters Luftwerk managed to transform Millenium Park in a light reflection playground with an amazing interactive installation that bathes Cloud Gate and its surrounding plaza in a dynamic web of images and sounds.

ph: Peter Tsai, Craig Sinclair

I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT

What about 55.000 led lights assembled together to form an unreal colorful cathedral?

That is named "Luminarie De Cagna" and it was recently built for the 2012 Light Festival in Ghent, Belgium.

The festival featured almost 30 exhibitions including a lot of projection mapping, fields of luminous flowers, and even a glowing phone booth aquarium. However, with its mystical and psychedelic appeal, the Luminarie De Cagna seems to have stolen the show.

photos by: Stijin Coppens, Sachavanhecke

KEEP ON SMOKIN'

Today one of the last true heres left us. I'm going to say one thing out loud: I've always been of the Frazier side.

That's because before being a boxing legend he was such a great humang being, incredibly humble despite of his legacy, incredibly classy both in victory and defeat. Out of the ring, thanks to his self confidence and his soothing, placid temperament he always kept his composure, staying away from all that useless showboating and ridicolous cocky behaviour of his opponents. Hey... just keep on smokin' up there tough guy.

T-BONE!

GUESS WHAT? The most eye catching images from your favourite entertainment system are now on Tumblr too!

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