Ballet in slow motion

When you go to see ballet, have you ever wished you could see at least some of the movements in slow motion? This video of ballet dancers Marina Kanno and Giacomo Bevilaqua from Staatsballet Berlin achieves just that. At 1000 frames per second it's the perfect eye candy.

(via swissmiss, who in turn reposted from my oh-so-left-into-oblivion-kottke)

The Story of Keep Calm and Carry On

Made me smile :)

(via swissmiss)

On Loss Aversion and Intellectual Property

This is the fourth part of a series called Everything is a Remix. 15 min well spent.

(via swissmiss - yes, again! I am catching up with my reader on this blog, as you can see :) )

Everything is a Remix Part 4 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.

A couple of videos

Always nice to remember the wonderful world we live in:

... and talking about videos, I could watch this a thousand times. Call me corny. It's just unbearably cute!!



(first video via swissmiss)

La Liste

Lately I have been enjoying listening to songs both in French and Italian. I am afraid that if I study Italian too much I will forget what's left of my old French... or even English! I can't seem to conjugate verbs properly these days.  Anyway, so I naively listen to Carla Bruni hoping it won't fade away so fast from my brain... I guess there is only so much space in my spongy brain for new stuff :-).

But hey! Carla Bruni is so 2002. So here's a song (from 2009 I think) that grooveshark kindly recommended me with their "radio" function. I like it a lot:

Many of the items in the list of the song are actually in my list of to-do-things... :-) Happy Sunday!

In your (jelly beanie) arms

Have you seen this video? It's cute and very creative, isn't it?

What I had not watched was the video of the making of the video. I thought it would be cool to see how they did to put so many jelly beans (288,000 of them) into nice frames one after the other. I assumed Kina Grannis was filmed with a green screen behind separately and then they had put everything together. But oh, no! She was actually there, with the jelly beans. Every. Single. Frame. (2,460 of them). Take a look:

The production of the video took more than 2 years, the shooting of it more than 1. Did you see how the creative producer gives her instructions on how to pose? I would have not lasted for more than 3 days... and that's a maybe. I like her. I like seeing passion for a project. And I also love her make up :-).

Lifecycle video - Life is short. Live your dream

The video doesn't really say anything new. It's about things that we need to be reminded of every so often. It's easy to get carried away with the flow, and stop paying attention to what really makes _you__ happy.

It's ironic how hard it is to live up to our own and independent expectations instead of everyone else's. I am trying to do it as a daily exercise: do more things that make __me__ happy. Only then I am able to make other people happier.

Chipotle

They won my heart with this add!

(via swissmiss)

Stop motion distractions…

I am swamped with work, but I *need* my blog breaks to keep myself sane. Here are a couple of lovely videos that were posted in Mini-Eco today. (btw, I love that site!)

The first one is a stop-motion animation by Alexandre Dubosc:

Forgetting about the idea that the food is becoming more and more artificial everyday (at least the affordable one), the colors are amazing... which lead the author of the post to put this other video up:

I looooove seeing stuff filmed in NYC now... as if some part of me could identify with what it is being shown. Weird.

Anyway, hope you enjoyed them as much as I did. Now, back to work!

Les Twins dansent

I can only say: W O W!

(via kottke)

Splitscreen: A Love Story

Very much deserved winner of the Nokia Shorts competition 2011}-- not that I saw any other video, but this one is utterly well done.

(via kottke.org)