Monthly Archives: December 2020

Those Curious Signs in Lombard Street

 

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All Seasons in Movement

“All Seasons in Movement” it’s a project I started cultivating soon after the end of the first lockdown. Not having a clear idea of what it was going to be about, I started modeling the clips I was collecting into … Continue reading

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Christina Gestra – Inside Out

‘Inside-Out’ – 2 short films inherently linked and collectively working in tandem, as one essentially creates the other (i.e. the reflections and shadows on the wall in the first film ‘inside’ are created by the trees and sunlight filmed in … Continue reading

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Hokusai’s Great Wave, Sculpted in Lego Blocks by Jumpei Mitsui | Spoon & Tamago

all photos courtesy Jumpei Mitsui Jumpei Mitsui (previously), a certified professional LEGO builder, has completed what can only be described as a masterpiece: a LEGO replica of Hokusai’s “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” one of Japan’s most iconic images. Hokusai’s … Continue reading

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How Storyboarding Works: A Brief Introduction to How Ridley Scott, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson & Other Directors Storyboard Their Films | Open Culture

When you’re making a film with complex shots or sequences of shots, it doesn’t hurt to have storyboards. Though professional storyboard artists do exist, they don’t come cheap, and in any case they constitute one more player in the game … Continue reading

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A Monumental Figure Reveals a Fern-Canopied Tunnel Inside Its Chest in Sculpture by Daniel Popper

Cape Town-based artist Daniel Popper has become well-known for his towering sculptures of human figures adorned with or penetrated by thick canopies of foliage. His latest piece titled Thrivestands nearly 30 feet tall and is constructed from 14 tons of … Continue reading

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In Flight: Dramatic Photographs by Mark Harvey Capture Acrobatic Birds Mid-Air

Throughout lockdown in the United Kingdom, Mark Harvey, who is known for his striking equine and canine photography, shifted his focus to the avian creatures gliding above his home in the Norfolk Broads. Now part of a series titled In … Continue reading

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Prof Devi Sridhar: “For the world the pandemic is going to go on for several years’

Professor Devi Sridhar is the Chair of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh and sits on the Scottish Government Covid-19 Advisory Group (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe) She has become one of the most familiar faces on our screens during the … Continue reading

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The Shearwaters

THIS. HAPPENED. Alfred Hitchcock’s classic THE BIRDS is, in part, inspired by a very real phenomenon that occurred in Santa Cruz, California in 1961. One night, inexplicably, thousands of sooty shearwater birds lost their minds, dive-bombing into homes and even … Continue reading

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The World’s Most Impressive Vertical Forest.

Vertical forests and forest cities are springing up around the world. Singapore’s Oasia hotel won the best tall building award, with 60 storeys of green walls, and 40% of its volume used for open air terraces. https://www.straitstimes.com/business… In Japan, Fukuoka’s … Continue reading

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