So good on so many levels. Great production quality! Great way to tell this story.
The iPhone Economy | A New York Times video infographic on jobs and the American Economy.
Directed by Xaquín G.V.
Shit New Yorkers Say – funny ‘cause it’s true. Also, shit 400 years of New Yorkers say.
![Someone told me that you can scuba dive here and see generations of subway cars under the water. (via Surreal Photos of Subway Cars Being Thrown Into the Ocean [Slideshow] | Co.Design)](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxoyxztuJx1qzw86qo1_500.jpg)
Someone told me that you can scuba dive here and see generations of subway cars under the water. (via Surreal Photos of Subway Cars Being Thrown Into the Ocean [Slideshow] | Co.Design)
What an amazing era of hope and wonder captured in this collection of images from the Gemini Program (via Amazing Archive of High-Res Photos From NASA’s Gemini Missions | Wired Science | Wired.com)
Armenian photographer David Galstyan’s images of moving subjects with slow motion capture are amazing.
I played around with this technique a few years back but the grace of Galstyan’s images makes me want to dip my toes in those waters again.
Story comes first. We’re storytellers, and while the app thing is going great at the moment, in a few years it may be something else,” he says. “Our focus on storytelling will never go away.
Wow! Talk about creative splendor. This really shows what you can do if you’re creative AND committed.
12 Drawings a Day - 12 Dessins par Jour (by Denis Chapon)
During 3 years (2008-2011) i have been drawing 12 drawing of animation every day, it make one second of film. I had no plans what so ever before starting the first drawing. And then, each of the folowing days, I took the 3 last drawing from the day before and kept on animating. I use a none erasable pen, and drew on the back side of used A4 paper.
Committed and inspiring. Wow. Just wow.
Now this is what I call an art installation. Love it! (via RedBall Project Takes Interactive Urban Art on Tour | WebUrbanist)
As a follow-up to my China’s Fake Disneyland Tumble. (Surreal Estate: China’s Village of Empty Villas | WebUrbanist) I love the idea of a romantic abandoned China. There is something about China’s mythical past as depicted in Kung-Fu films that get’s echoed in these photos.
Observing life is an artform and it’s called “documentary.
Pioneering Scottish filmmaker John Grierson(1898-1972) is often considered the father of documentary film and credited with coining the very term “documentary” in his review of Robert Flaherty’s film Moana in the February 8, 1926, issue of the New York Sun. His 1932 essay “First Principles of Documentary” argued that cinema’s capacity for observing life could be a new art form, wherein the materials “taken from the raw” can be more real than acted fiction and the “original” actor and “original” scene are better lens for interpreting the modern world than their fiction counterparts. Above all, Grierson believed in the social responsibility of the filmmaker and the potential of film in helping society achieve its democratic ideals.
(via Grierson: A Documentary About the Filmmaker Who Coined “Documentary” | Brain Pickings)
