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An adult Rhino gets pet care from an attractive woman

2012-01-24T00:43:00.000+11:00

Courtney Palmer introduces us to the idea behind a full contact wildlife park vs. a zoo and the benefits to animals like Boom Boom the Rhino, in an all to short and abruptly ending video documentary at the Out of Africa Wildlife Park.

Dean Harrison owns and runs the Out of Africa Wildlife Park in Camp Verde, Arizona USA, and has comprehensively written about animal conservation and the essential elements of animal behaviour. Perhaps you might like to view a full length documentary about the Out of Africa Wildlife Park; (80 mins).

Austere elegance: "Sculpting Sound" by Zimoun

2012-01-17T23:05:00.001+11:00

Currently on show at The Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, USA. is a solo exhibition of sound sculptures and installations by sound sculptor Zimoun, Curated by Matthew McLendon.

By using nothing more than 71cm x 71cm x 71cm plain cardboard boxes, numerous prepared dc-motors and an unspecified amount of 2mm flat steel wire, Zimoun has constructed a number of architecturally-minded walls, planes and floor mounted sound sculptures throughout his exhibition.

(click the read more linked words on the next line to view the video)

Entertaining Snapshot Time Lapse Video, Time is Nothing

2012-01-09T15:48:00.002+11:00

Professional photographer Kien Lam quit his job last year and took an incredible journey around the world to 17 Countries in 343 Days whilst snapping 6237 Photographs and in so doing stitched together a remarkable time lapse video he entitled Time is Nothing Around The World.

Using Logic Pro Kien's brother William Lam, composed the enticing spacial music track 'Places and Faces'.

If only time were really nothing how spacial and disorienting would our existence be ?

Nevertheless go here to view Kien's stunning video.

The famous Porcupine, Teddy Bear celebrates New Year

2012-01-02T15:39:00.000+11:00

Zooniversity's talking porcupine is happy and chatty as long as he's got his corn.

Listen carefully during this entertaining little video, when he knocks over the bottle? "Oh well..." Happy New Year Teddy !

"Zooniversity is a traveling wildlife education company that introduces children and adults to the fascinating world of exotic animals."

Teddy Bear's fame is growing so much that he now has his own Facebook page.

Glass Harp Duo bathes our Christmas cheer

2011-12-24T19:55:00.000+11:00

Well low and behold it's christmas and oh, oh oh, how so many of us hear the all too familiar christmas songs, hymns and tunes at this time, like Silent Night or Jingle Bells.

But I can think of no better way then to quench our heartfelt listening pleasure, at this time than with a universally recognised piece of music on the phenomenal sound of a glass harp,

Worlds Largest Daytime Fireworks Show

2011-12-14T17:44:00.001+11:00

I've often wondered when someone will invent festival sized daytime firework displays and so to the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar, this week, Chinese born artist Cai Guo-Qiang who works primarily in gunpowder, staged his largest "explosion event" of the last three years.

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Frenetic Traffic of Saigon, Vietnam Time Lapse Video

2011-12-08T16:11:00.001+11:00

Thousands upon thousands of people travel to distant regions of the globe and a good many take any amount of photographs of their visiting experiences. But how many of us get caught up in the vibrancy and energy and turn our photo albums into gratuitous video picture shows, I wonder ?

Rob Whitworth has done just that with his entertaining Traffic in Frenetic Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam video picture show. Rob created a time lapse from his accumulated 10,000 photographs and multiple short video's. Rob was captivated by the relentless raw energy and pace of change evident to him in Saigon and this is wholeheartedly echoed in his final edit married to an energetic music track of Mondo '77 by Looper.

Meditative time lapse mosaic of the sky

2011-11-29T22:23:00.001+11:00

is a time lapse study of the sky. Ken Murphy installed a camera on the roof of the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco captured an image of the sky every 10 seconds.

The following entertaining video is a mosaic of 360 time lapse movies, each showing a single day, are chronologically arranged and are synchronised by time of day, beginning before sunrise. Ken's specific intention was to reveal the patterns of light and weather over the course of a year.

The well chosen piece of music accompanying this video is Aerial by Moby.

Like in a dream II: Conceptual Landscape fractal animation

2011-11-24T01:45:00.001+11:00

3D fractals and psychedelic neurones peppered with momentary optical illusions among many abstract and structurally possible conceptual landscapes, appear and fold in bib993's (Jeremie Brunet) 'Like in a dream II' fractal animation.

Jeremie made this gloriously entertaining and peaceful animation with Mandelbulb3D and "originally designed it for Bryan Alvarez from UC Berkeley, for a TEDx talk about his Human Atlas project, to illustrate his initial dream about the beauty of living systems."

This comprehensively profound piece of cool transcendent mathematical volumes is based on a hybrid Julia fractal, where most fractal parameters are simultaneously being animated, as well as the Julia seed, the colors, and the camera position. One can only imagine that in order to achieve this multi level animation complexity all at once might actually require something more than the average off the shelf computer ?

Nevertheless, the exquisite choice of music track, glides and enhances our experience of, Like in a dream II fractal animation.

For more details about 3D fractals and to download the Mandelbulb3D software, visit the fractal forums website, and or appreciate much more from this fractal artists work, go here.

Unreal entertaining Yoga break-dance

2011-11-17T23:35:00.001+11:00

Usually when one thinks of yoga, we tend to think of intense meditative exercise, but the young chap in the video here reignites our imagination, by creating a groovy break-dance yoga routine that makes pure contortion look lame. The cool accompanying music track and the performance venue provides a sincere environment for us to appreciate this newish beautiful extreme sport !

Compressed 02, An Eerie media art composition

2011-11-11T00:26:00.003+11:00

Kim Pimmel has created an ingenious motion graphic animation of soap bubbles being traced in with exotic ferrofluid liquid becoming attracted to an exotic spherical neodymium magnet.

Ferrous printer toner particles floating on the surface of water are attracted by the invisible forces of capillary action and magnetism around them, and the patterns and motions that result are strangely ordered and organized!

Kim achieved this by shooting some time lapse sequences with her Nikon D90, 60mm macro lens and custom built intervalometer, edited it with Adobe Premiere, and succinctly turned her video work into a groovy media art work by using a music composition application, Ableton Live.

Amazing continuous motion map of our Solar system

2011-11-08T23:19:00.001+11:00

Here's an opportunity to explore the planetary orbital motions of our solar system in a live dynamic way. The interactive motion map can display either the Copernican or the Tychonian systems.

Up until approximately 100 years after Nicolaus Copernicus published his 'On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres' in 1543, every learned person in Europe knew one thing for absolutely certain: the sun and the planets travelled around the Earth. All astronomy texts said so. Tycho Brahe believed that the Sun and Moon and the stars revolve around the Earth, and the other five planets revolve around the Sun.

Dynamic Diagrams with free data source provided by NASA created an Orrery that illustrates the positions of the planets and moons in our solar system and allows a user to view their alignment at any given date in the past or present.

The default load of this interactive motion map displays the Copernican system and you can set any date, but you need to reload the page to watch the continuous animated motion of the planets and moons. This also applies each time you apply a change to the map.

Concept Airplane of the future from Airbus

2011-11-02T17:50:00.000+11:00

has an interactive, virtual cabin with transparent walls. Can we wait until 2050 though which is when Airbus postulates this aircraft will come into service ?

Airbus is exploring ways of both enhancing users experiences and creating a more environmentally friendly vehicle. Among their hypothetical thinking is a transparent panoramic membrane roof enabling seeing both airspace above and below the seating and in natural light. Notwithstanding 'intelligent' cabin wall membranes and interactive games, but also a new aircraft structure would allow for walls which control air temperature.

Holographic pop-up gaming displays and in-flight virtual reality entertainment empowered by the heat of passengers' bodies and interaction with aircraft cabin with the palm of your hand, where the aircraft recognises you and shows you to your seat and takes care of your luggage and passengers will be able to jack into the aircrafts communication system

where you will have the ability to change the size and feel of your chair.

Here now is a slick animation video with a groovy music sound track

"Thirty Six": A Cool Luminous Breathing Organic Structure

2011-10-26T00:54:00.002+11:00

is a charming and entertainingly alluring site specific art installation by Nils Völker. The art piece is suspended from the ceiling like a breathing organic chandelier consisting of 36 inflatable plastic bags that are programmed to evoke a kind of artificial respirating heart valve. This is quite apparent when listening to the work, breath, in the video below.

Völker's cool installation is made of plastic bags, fans, aluminium, halogen light and steel brought to life by custom electronics and programming.

"Thirty Six" is currently on exhibition at Sweden's Art Lab Gnesta until December 2011

Unreal magnetic Hoverboard technology inspires

2011-10-19T01:17:00.000+11:00

Science can amaze, stupefy and astound us in sometimes profound ways as is the case of this stunning demonstration of what research scientists are calling quantum levitation.

The video here shows how its possible to lock a super cold object in mid air, suspending it and motivating it around without the object disengaging its position from its companion magnetic track !

Apparently, this cutting edge jaw dropping technology involves superconducting magnets, liquid nitrogen and an effect called flux pinning, or trapping.

This groovy video is courtesy of the Association of Science Technology Centers (ASTC), representing the science centre and museum field worldwide, in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Quadriplegic man Controls Robot Arm with his mind

2011-10-13T17:42:00.001+11:00

Not so much as controlling mind over matter as touching matter with the mind, albeit with the assistance of an electrode attached to the brain and much computer training, a quadriplegic man using the "mental eye-grabbing" technique has begun to interactively physically touch his loved ones.

Tim Hemmes, a former hockey player from Connoquenessing Township, Butler County Pennsylvania, USA hadn't moved any of his limbs since a motorcycle accident seven years earlier. Nevertheless after Tim got psychologically acquainted with his disabilities he managed to learn how to operate a wheelchair and a computer with head motions. Then, perhaps by chance Dr. Michael Boninger, director of UPMC's Rehabilitation Institute got Tim interested in pursuing the mind operated robot project.

The magical aspect to this project was the surgical procedure of placing an electronic grid against the brain without penetration otherwise refereed to as Electrocorticography or ECoG, which less intrusively captures brain signals.

"ECoG picks up an array of brain signals, almost like a secret code or new language, that a computer algorithm can interpret and then move a robotic arm based on the person's intentions. It's a simple explanation for complex science." Source

The documentary video here outlines Tim Hemmes experience with the adaptive robotic technology and highlights his joys when for the first time in seven years he was able to artificially touch the hand of his partner.

A rather inspiring aside to Tim Hemmes recovery has been his interest and ability of updating his blog for helping to rescue homeless pit bull dogs and find them new owners.

Intriguing close up photograph of Mercury

2011-10-06T00:15:00.002+11:00

The innermost planet closest to the sun has appeared since the Mariner space probe visited it in the 1970's to be dotted with holes, or what scientists refer to as having a Swiss cheese terrain and thought to be a geologically dead planet until now.

The image posted here is from the currently visiting Messenger probe, and is a colorized picture revealing mysterious blue hollows in the Raditladi impact basin.

Mercury is not just extremely hot but almost completely covered with dried lava and similar to earth, in that they are the only magnetised planets in the solar system.

Messenger, is an anagram for "Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Rangin," was launched in 2004. The $446 million Messenger spacecraft began orbiting Mercury earlier this year. The documentary video here illustrates the way the probe deals with and uses the extreme heat from the Sun, and details the uses of the eleven on board precision cameras.

Go here to learn more about Mercury and the Messenger mission of discoveries, and or check out the image and story source, here.

L.A. Artist Chris Burden imagines future traffic flow with Hot Wheels

2011-09-27T23:25:00.000+10:00

Chris Burden estimates that every hour 100,000 motor cars circulate through the city of L.A.
and he foresees the end of the free running car which he dynamically demonstrates with his latest art work Metropolis II a kinetic sculpture that took four years to build.

Here is a short documentary video about Chris Burden's work and neatly entertaining at that.

The art work will soon be available to view at Los Angeles Country Museum of Art (LACMA). It includes 1,200 custom-designed cars and 18 lanes; 13 toy trains and tracks; and, dotting the landscape, buildings made of wood block, tiles, Legos and Lincoln Logs.

"Hot Wheels is a brand of die cast toy car, introduced by American toymaker Mattel in 1968. It was the primary competitor of Matchbox until 1996, when Mattel acquired rights to the Matchbox brand from Tyco." (Source)

Mystery Pic, bird moonlights as a rabbit ?

2011-09-21T20:20:00.000+10:00

Hopefully someone may care to say in the comments what they believe this intriguing creature is ? Or, could the photographer have merely captured an image of some kind of ordinary water bird when it had kind of obscured its head ?

Gravity defying Frozen Moments from Li Wei

2011-09-13T23:46:00.002+10:00

A contemporary artist from Beijing, Li Wei, became deeply affected by the rapid economic change and development of China over the past decade.

He sensed the impact on people's perceptions and emotions moving from the wide open spaces of farmlands to the very small confined living spaces of high rise apartments.

Upon deciding to drop out of studying painting at art school, Li Wei realized his ideas through performance art, photography and digital manipulation to document this shift in people perceptions and emotions.

Li Wei here in the video below documents his rationale, techniques, technologies, highlights and outputs of his amazing gravity defying frozen moments.

The video here made by The Creators Project's, but be sure to drop by Li Wei's website to see more of his unreal work.

World water shortages: Watershed

2011-09-06T23:23:00.002+10:00

World water shortages are now more apparent than ever. The present dire situation in Somalia and the huge drought in Texas, USA to name a few bears this environmental degradation out.

"The United Nations estimates up to 750,000 people may die as a result of the drought and subsequent famine in Somalia. That figure eclipses the death toll of the Asian tsunami and Haiti earthquake combined."

Here below is a short film entitled Watershed from Temujin Doran, which is a brief explanation of how the planet's freshwater reserves have become depleted and is based on figures taken from the 2006 Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, no less.

Visit the world water council to learn more, and or submit your ideas.

Inkling: Amazing Digital Sketch Pen from Wacom

2011-08-31T00:41:00.000+10:00

is a snappy gadget from Wacom that allows you to draw on just about any sketchpad or paper stock.

With the digital receiver clipped to the top of your pad and using the Inkling Digital Pen you create your sketch.

The video here shows how easy it is to upload your sketches to your computer via usb, where they can be stored as JPEG, BMP, TIFF, PNG, SVG or PDF files for manipulative use in any image enhancing softwares.

The Inkling also offers direct file transfers to Photoshop, Illustrator, and Autodesk Sketchbook Pro/Designer.

The Inkling will be available mid September and retail for US$199.99 and that's about half the price of Livescribe , except the inking doesn't require special paper but can't record sound !

Nevertheless it remains to be seen whether Wacom's naming of their clever product doesn't infringe on the iPad app with the identical name !

Statistical Earthquake Prediction or uncanny piffle ?

2011-08-29T16:47:00.005+10:00

Averting and or planning a strategy to avoid the frequent loss of life, utilities and possessions that occurs after a devastating natural disaster is usually based on the amount of available time we get that informs us of a pending disaster.

Youtube user robbiek77 has noticed a rather alarming statistic of three recent earthquake events that have occurred in Chile, New Zealand and Japan. In the video here he shows that each earthquake happened exactly 188 days apart and goes onto predict with his math and ruler that California may expect a similar event in a few weeks time or 188 days since Japan, ie September 15.

He speculates in his video notes;
"So, if this next BIG Earthquake is indeed going to be in California U.S.A. by way of measuring the timing and the global mapping - then why has the beloved and elite scientists not made you aware ? It took a brother from a message board I used to work it out - SURELY These scientists have worked it out? If so - why have they not told you on the nightly news?"

Although the 188 day period between these recent natural disasters seems uncannily accurate, nature rarely exhibits such finite accuracy, or, in this instance we hope it doesn't !

Update:
I'm happy to report that if you may have been holding your breath on September 15, "A 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck early Friday in the Fiji islands region of the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Geological Survey reported." And although a destructive tsunami was not generated, the quake struck at a depth of 626 kms, (390 miles) below the earth's surface and caused no harm. The next day another 6.6 Mag. 60 miles offshore of Japan's east coast.

So, although there appeared to be an earthquake when robbiek77's hypothetical stated, it proved unremarkable for his predicated location. So unless you think this deserves further discussion, I welcome you as always, to submit any comments you may have, below.

Concept advertisement video, The Birth

2011-08-24T12:02:00.000+10:00

is a delightfully charming concept advertisement video from shootmefashion, with pleasantly smooth and melancholic soundtrack 'Air On A G String' by J.S. Bach.

The video was produced by Ezel Domianic create and directed by Ozer with a full retinue of cast and crew that speaks of of a fully decked out cinematic photography advertising film company.

Harald Haas: Illumination equals Transmission

2011-08-17T01:12:00.000+10:00

Light, electrical light and transmission signals all use the electromagnetic spectrum to convey information for both illumination and communication data. Presently we use only one end of the spectrum for data transmission as in the case of telephonic and radar. But what if we could use our everyday electric lighting to transmit wireless data between devices ?

Harald Haas demonstrates, in the video here his outstanding technological invention that enables communicating wireless data from flickering the light from a single LED !

This is optical data transmission without the need of a cable, but I wonder if this this technological innovation would as he says "replace cell towers" ?

While Harald's remarkable invention looks likely to handsomely reward via a total global market in the order of billions, many questions remain. Like if there is a critical distance and direction of light between his invention and say a mobile phone or computer ? Or how does the device safeguard our security ?