Sky
Sky from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.
Best to view this HD time lapse in full screen. Filmmaker Philip Bloom shot this in Dubai over five days and nights, capturing the luminous grandeur of the city; music is “Xibalba” from The Fountain by Clint Mansell.
Philip’s blog is a great resource for HD-DSLR aficionados.
Seventeen Things Worth Knowing About Your Cat
If you have a cat or you just like cats, here are seventeen facts about them that you might find interesting from that fountain of strangeness, Matthew Inman. Who knew Abraham Lincoln was a cat lover?
Link – via artsyspot
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Strobe Lights & Water Drops
Today’s trippy science videos: strobe lights affecting water drops. By shining a strobe light (a light that’s turned on and off very, very rapidly) on a stream of water, strange effects occur. First, a display at an MIT museum showing water droplets under a green strobe light:
And now the really cool thing, Nate True’s Time [...]
The World’s Largest Chocolate Fountain
Photo: John Locher
In 2005, pastry chef Jean-Philippe Maury created this enormous 25-tiered chocolate fountain for the Bellagio hotel and casino in Las Vegas. It’s 27 feet tall and circulates 120 quarts of chocolate per minute:
It wasn’t, you see, quite as simple as constructing a waterfall.
“Water doesn’t change,” Maury said. “Chocolate is complicated.”
It must [...]
