Golan Levin and Kyle McDonald wrote a piece of software to unwrap the 360-degree panoramic digital videos of the Sony Bloggie. But then they modified their software to unwrap photos of flowers. The results are stunning.
You can download the open-source code here and you’ll have to run it with Processing.

http://www.flong.com/blog/2010/rectified-flowers/

Une magnifique vidéo réalisée par 2 plongeurs en apnée Guillaume Néry et Julie Gautier. Une nouvelle approche des vidéos sous-marines pour un résultat très impressionnant. La bande son est signée “Archive – You make me feel”, sur une captation réalisée avec le Canon 5D Mark II.

On Fubiz: Stéphane Malka est un architecte connu pour sa philosophie “Panser la ville, penser l’architecture”. Il a été récemment récompensé au NAJAP et propose d’installer un nouveau scénario urbain, en imbriquant des logements au sein de l’Arche de la Défense à Paris.

Insightful videos about the changes we are living now: http://awakeningasone.com/

Awakening As One exists for the sole purpose of inspiring and encouraging humanity to make the intelligent choice to unite and live for the peace and harmony of all, rather than for the material gain of the self.

Also see The Plan: http://awakeningasone.com/the-plan/

I could never quite get the hang of skateboarding until I got onto a longboard and what do you know, I had the same experience with surfing this winter. It’s not so much about the tricks for me. It’s the gliding, the floating feeling. Believe it or not I even went riding with Jane, my 20 month old daughter. She just hung on tight and we slowly let ourselves drift on down the street, feeling the wind.

Here comes a great ride through Madrid from Juan Rayos:

Riders:
Ra (ralongboard.blogspot.com)
Nacho (caribbeansportshop.blogspot.com)
Marketes
Música: Ten Thousand Lines – Electric President
Bathtime – Tinderstick

On a similar note, a great ad for Shaun White’s Ubisoft game has Jacksonkarinja rebuild a city for skaters:

The Nomads are experimenting on themselves. Simple: improv sessions evolving from the blankness of space, to the endless possibilities of a green screen, and soon into the world around us. We’ll post videos on NomadPlayer.tv
Here are a few highlights from our green screen interviews:

Frequent participant, Sarah Nguyen, shared this great article with us about the Canadian origins of improv:
The Gazette.

The part that got to me the most are the reminder of what can help make a great improv.
1. Say “yes:” One of the first rules of improv, Johnstone said, is “no blocking.” The process he called “blocking” involves rejecting or saying “no” to people’s ideas. In improv, you must say “yes” to all suggestions. Other people must also say “yes” to your ideas. This concept proved revolutionary and is at the core of improv.

If you can’t block, you must go along with other people’s suggestions, leading to spontaneous situations that neither person has planned. But that was not all.

2. No wimping: Even when

people understood the “no blocking” rule, people would try to control the situation by giving vague or non-committal answers. Although it wasn’t a block, Johnstone called this “wimping.” Both blocking and wimping are something that almost everyone does naturally, habits that Johnstone says have to be unlearned to let creativity run rampant.

The “no wimping” rule says people must make clear statements like “let’s go to the Chinese restaurant” or “help, my house is on fire!” When people stop wimping, their ideas are interesting, clear and more potent. More importantly, other people know how to respond to them.

3. Proceed to action: Then Johnstone

noted that people would often suggest something like “let’s go for dinner” or “let’s go rob a bank,” but then not actually do it. So he added another rule called “proceed to action.” People must act on any suggestion, even if it involves holding hands or exploding into a thousand pieces.

With a little practice, these three rules will often produce funny, spontaneous situations. Regular people suddenly become “actors” in the literal sense, creating drama, pretending to fall in love, creating unexpected, comical or incredible situations. From the outside, it can look like absolute magic, but it’s actually quite technical. Sometimes improv fails terribly and scenes fall completely flat but sometimes the performers seem telepathic. The magic of improv isn’t just that the audience doesn’t know what’s going to happen next, but that the performers don’t know either.

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/improv%20revolution/3204984/story.html#ixzz0sDUrOWXW

Agency Leo Burnett, Sydney brings home a prize for the magnificent Space Monkey film for the World Wildlife Fund.
Ben Lee – Song for the Divine Mother.
It’s in the air more than usual for me lately, our increasing understanding that animals think and feel much like we do. Apparently we share 99.4% of our genomes with the chimpanzee.
A touching and tragic story is that of Lucy, the chimpanzee who learned to speak and shared such great depth of emotion. You have got to listen to the episode of RadioLab. I didn’t know and could hardly believe that she was a victim of poaching.