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Jewels in the Night Sea by Photographer Ryo Minemizu
•August 7, 2019 • Leave a CommentI do not think I am allowed to post these images online, but I mean, I am a rebel 😎 and besides, the world must know of life’s unfathomable beauties!!
Japanese marine life photographer Ryo Minemizu focuses his lens on some of the tiniest and most abundant life forms in our oceans. His series Phenomenons explores the diverse beauty and extravagant colors of plankton, and is shot amongst the dark waters of the Osezaki sea near Mount Fuji and other coasts around Japan, the Philippines and Maldives.
To capture the small creatures Minemizu sets his shutter speed to just a fraction of a second, while ensuring that his own movements don’t disturb the surrounding organisms.
“Plankton symbolize how precious life is by their tiny existence,” he explains. “I wanted other people to see them as they are in the sea, so it was my motivation from the beginning to shoot plankton underwater, which is quite a challenge. Most plankton are small, and their movements are hard to predict.”
Tornaria larva of acorn worms (Krohn stage) April 2016 Palau
Eudoxid of Enneagonum hyalinum. Eudoxid is sexual reproduction stage.
It’s a marine benthos, inhabiting sand or under stone. Adults are long and slender, grotesque. However, some larvae are beautiful like this picture, and they are floating.
March, 2012 Yakushima Kagoshima, Japan.
Amazing! I’m all about science fiction, but whenever there is a popular article about anything space related I scoff, because here on Earth is where the real mysteries of unknown life lie swim.
You can see more of Minemizu’s underwater photography on Instagram and Twitter, with prints from his Phenomenons series available in his online shop 🐟🐟🐟
Mike Tyson as Every Character in FAMILY MATTERS
•August 2, 2019 • Leave a CommentWhat if celebrity X were absurdly cast in role Y? Deepfakes have it covered (is that a pun?) — Mike Tyson deepfaked in Family Matters:
The animated wonkiness and unease of uncanny valley, alleviates deepfakery into humourous territory, but make no mistake, deception is a powerful tool, both for entertainment purposes and lesser known agendas.
This footage of presidential contender Tulsi Gabbard appears to show a small blemish on her chin (a pimple or bug bite, perhaps) that suddenly disappears as she’s talking:
And, sharp vampire fangs!
Conspiracy theorists suggest MSNBC (producers of the footage) added the pimple to make her look bad, as the Congresswoman from Hawaii was talking foreign policy during the debate — specifically the possibility of America going to war with Iran. Important stuff, no doubt. The times are not amenable to even the most innocuous digital manipulation.
Bonobo — “No Reason” [music video]
•July 30, 2019 • Leave a CommentReminiscent of the best in-camera visual trickery of Michel Gondry, director Oscar Hudson’s music video for Bonobo and Nick Murphy’s chillwave track was created using forced perspectives with a small camera in a big set:
Director Oscar Hudson oscarhudsonfilm.com / Production Company Pulse Films pulsefilms.com / Executive Producer Sarah Boardman / Art Director Luke Moran-Morris lukemoran-morris.co.uk / D.P. Ruben Woodin-Dechamps rwdfilm.com / Producers Matt Posner, Rik Green / Set Decorators Sakara Dawson-Marsh, Lottie McDowell / Video Commissioner John Moule / Model Maker Robin Crowley / Special Thanks Angus Hudson […]
Oscar Hudson also directed Radiohead music video “Lift” in 2017, and it’s a pleasant trip:
Light Zoetrope by Designer/Artist Akinori Goto
•July 27, 2019 • Leave a CommentArtist Akinori Goto came up with a truly wonderful take on the zoetrope — He uses 3D printing to turn 2D frames into a donut-shaped object. It looks like an abstract sculpture, but it reveals its animation when hit with a narrow beam of light:
Deepfaking Keanu Reeves (by Corridor Crew) + GIF Player Device Does One Thing — It Plays Keanu Gifs
•July 25, 2019 • Leave a CommentBut first; Keanu did something nice — ‘YOU’RE BREATHTAKING!’ Keanu Reeves surprised fan by signing yard sign:
Travelling to the set of his new Bill & Ted sequel, Face The Music, in Louisiana earlier this week, Keanu Reeves spotted a yard sign a local family had put on their lawn which honoured the actor with the words “You’re breathtaking.” The message is a reference to a viral moment from June, in which Reeves said the words to the crowd at the E3 video game conference — echoing a fan’s reaction to him.
Bill & Ted writer Ed Solomon wrote on Twitter that the 54-year-old had jumped out of their car after seeing the sign, and penned a sweet message to those responsible.
And something else Keanu related from one of my fave YouTube channels; deepfake Keanu stops a robbery with the power of kindness:
Bonus episode from the Corridor crew reacting to bad & great CGI (a great series):
“[…] if you’ve distracted the audience, you pull them out of this emotional suspension of disbelief, and you’ve reminded them that you are watching something that is fake.” ~ Niko Pueringer, VFX artist
And finally, because why not…
“I made this Keanu GIF player using an Adafruit PyGamer and SD card. It autoplays each GIF for 10 seconds before moving on to the next one. You can also use the L/R thumbstick controls to advance or go back. Add more Keanu GIFs by copying them to the SD card.” ~ John Park
STAR TREK: PICARD [first look]
•July 22, 2019 • Leave a CommentIt has been a long time since I have been excited for anything STAR TREK related. The new series is set for a 2020 release, and looks to be an amazing continuation of the franchise, with Sir Patrick Stewart reprising his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Brent Spiner’s Data is back, presumably, as well as Jeri Ryan’s Seven of Nine.
Quite pleased.
Last thing ST I truly enjoyed was not the new films, or the new TV series Discovery, but a four-issue comic miniseries published in 2012 — Star Trek the Next Generation: Hive. I am definitely picking up some similarities in story elements:
In the distant future the entire galaxy has been completely assimilated by Borg and it’s king _ Locutus! The only hope for the future lies in the past, in the hands of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise as Picard faces off against the Borg collective in one final, terrifying, and definitive encounter!
Before that, IDK, maybe it was playing multiplayer Star Trek: Voyager — Elite Force
And how can I forget this sweet entry starring the lovely Alice Krige:
Photographs of Films: Movies Condensed Into a Single Frame — “its visual DNA” by Jason Shulman
•July 17, 2019 • Leave a CommentJason Shulman photographs the entire duration of a movie with ultra-long exposures, creating a single image, these impressionistic blurs with faint distinguishing features:
“You could take all these frames and shuffle them like a deck of cards,
and no matter the shuffle, you would end up with the same image I have arrived at.”
Dumbo (1941)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
In an interview with Another Magazine, Shulman elaborated; “I set up my camera […] pointed it at a movie, expecting that, if you expose the negative for an hour and a half with a film in front of it, you’d get a bit like what you get when you mix balls of Play-Doh together— just a brown monotone hue. So I was very surprised when in fact these kinds of rather interesting translations of films started occurring.”
“You can learn something about the director’s style from this kind of kooky translation: you can learn that Hitchcock deals with people, for example, Kubrick deals with composition, Bergman deals with … I mean lots of Bergman films are kind of moody and psychological, much more so than other films.”
“So it’s odd that in one exposure all of these things, although very subjective, kind of come through.”
“There are roughly 130,000 frames in a 90-minute film and every frame of each film is recorded in these photographs,” Shulman says.
Some films didn’t work so well, however. “I shot Avatar, for example – I shot all James Cameron’s films – and what I got most is literally just a kind of Pantone swatch at the end, a kind of plain, flat blue, because he cuts very quickly, the camera’s always moving. So it all depends on the director’s style.”
Shulman’s other work extends beyond photography, encompassing installation, sculpture and video.
Dr Strangelove (1964)
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Le voyage dans la lune (1902)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Alien (1979)
Stalker (1979)
“Each of these photographs is the genetic code of a film — its visual DNA”