theatlanticvideo:

The Joy of Floating Random Things Up Into Space

Hobbyists and marketers have created a viral video genre of sending mundane objects into space — including robots and light beer. Here’s a roundup of some of the best videos out there.

theatlantic:

The Sky Is on Fire! Your Complete Visual Guide to the Northern Lights

Over the past week, Norway has been witness to some jaw-dropping light shows, the result of an M8.7 class flare and a coronal mass ejection in a direction pointed toward Earth. Many Norwegians shared their photos of the northern lights — or “nordlys” in Norwegian — on Flickr, where we reached out to them for permission to republish them. Read more.

[Image: Bernt Olsen]

thecreatorsproject:

Sure beats hiking.

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want hilarious movie dialogue search engine for creating unlimited mashups!!

theatlanticvideo:

Database Cinema: An Instant Movie Mashup Generator

Julian Palacz’s Algorithmic Search for Love, an interactive digital media installation, works like a search engine; viewers can search a collection of films for a certain spoken phrase and the program plays back a montage of all those moments in sequence. The program works by parsing the English subtitle tracks of 500 films on a local hard drive, creating an edit similar to the “supercut” sequences that have been so popular on YouTube lately — like this one. This video demonstrates how the program works with the phrases “where are you?” and “holy shit!”

Göran Strand of Östersund, Sweden, took a panoramic photo of Tuesday night’s sights and wrapped it into a 360-degree composition titled “Planet Aurora.”

nevver:

Planet Aurora

smithsonianmag:

Ferris Wheel at night

Photograph by Monica Ortiz (Sun City, California), September 2009, Anaheim, California

The best part of my job is chatting with filmmakers like the guys behind Project Yosemite… 

theatlanticvideo:

Yosemite’s Most Spectacular Vistas in Photographs and Time-Lapse Video

Two photographers set out to capture the beauty of Yosemite National Park and returned with simply stunning images. Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty spent sleepless weeks filming day and night to create this amazing time-lapse video, which pairs their visuals with “Outro” from M83’s Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming. They describe their adventure in a brief interview and share some of their photographs from Project Yosemite on the Atlantic Video channel.

One of the awesomest crowd-sourced creative projects of all time. 

insoutswhathaveyous:

hahah this is so fun. 

theatlanticvideo:

The Epic, Crowd-Sourced ‘Star Wars Uncut’ Releases Director’s Edit

The Emmy Award-winning Star Wars Uncut project, in which hundreds of Internet users recreated scenes from the Hollywood classic, is now available online in all its feature-length glory.

I love paintings about glitches!!!

chrismartz:

datamoshing with tha brushes

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“ A friend of mine in San Francisco had a video Tumblr whose tagline read: “New media existentialism. Fake it until you make it.” She’s now the online video editor at The Atlantic. Is each post she made on that blog worth a fraction of her new salary? Probably not, but that activity has value as a whole, in the same way that this blog is the resume that got me a job at American Photo. ”

Dan Abbe, writing on photography criticism and the road to doing what you love. 

This is like my “it gets better” for everyone who Tumbled while freelancing or unemployed…