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The Boundaries of Life and Death - Saskia Kretzschmann
Allan Poe’s quote… “The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”
i cannot stop watching this.
;3; <3
waaah ciaran have you seen this?
This new music video for Florence & The Machine’s theme song for Snow White And The Huntsman = FUCKEN LADY POWER.
BATTLE DRUMS + WAILING VALKYRIE FLORENCE WELCH + BADASS MUD-SPATTERED DISNEY PRINCESS HERO CLOTHES = I’LL FOLLOW KRISTEN STEWART INTO BATTLE ANYWHERE BECAUSE SHE IS MY KHALEESI.
(via paperthinfancies)
Tony/Loki | In Love With a Killer | DisneyOverdose
This. Is. Awesome.
Stop, freeze, and watch this video immediately.
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richardbentley: ELECTRIC NEW YORK timelapse by Richard Bentley
this is amazing!
Holi, the Festival of Color, Explodes in Ultra Slow Motion
Thousands of Hindus celebrate the spring festival of Holi by throwing tinted powder and perfume on each other — creating a breathtaking hypercolor frenzy. Filmmakers at the production company Variable decided to capture the event with a Phantom Flex, a high-speed camera that records upwards of 10,000 frames per second. Suspending these moments in time, they want viewers to realize that “the fast paced lifestyles of our generation result in many not taking the necessary step back to soak in the existing world around us.” Their goal, they say, “is to help viewers further appreciate and take notice of the beauty in life and culture.”
[Video: Variable]
The Most Dangerous Gamer:In a multibillion-dollar industry addicted to laser guns and carnivorous aliens, can true art finally flourish?
Like many wealthy people, Jonathan Blow vividly remembers the moment he became rich. At the time, in late 2008, he was $40,000 in debt and living in a modest San Francisco apartment, having just spent more than three years meticulously refining his video game, Braid—an innovative time-warping platformer (think Super Mario Bros. meets Borges), whose $200,000 development Blow funded himself. Although Braid had been released, to lavish praise from the video-game press, on Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade service that August, Blow didn’t see a cent from the game until one autumn day when he sat down at a café in the city’s Mission district. “I opened up my Web browser and Holy fuck, I’m rich now,” he recalled. “There were a lot of zeros in my bank account.” […]
Blow has decided to use his money—nearly all of it—to finance what may be the most intellectually ambitious video game in history, one that he hopes will radically expand the limitations of his chosen field. Although video games long ago blossomed into full commercial maturity (the adrenaline-soaked military shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, for example, racked up $400 million in sales during its first 24 hours in stores last fall), the form remains an artistic backwater, plagued by cartoonish murderfests and endless revenue-friendly sequels. Blow intends to shake up this juvenile hegemony with The Witness, a single-player exploration-puzzle game set on a mysterious abandoned island. In a medium still awaiting its quantum intellectual leap, Blow aims to make The Witness a groundbreaking piece of interactive art—a sort of Citizen Kane of video games.
It’s a characteristically audacious plan for a man who has earned a reputation not just as the video-game industry’s most cerebral developer, but also as its most incisive and polarizing internal critic. To Blow, being labeled the most intellectual man in video games is a little like being called the most chaste woman in a brothel: not exactly something to crow about to Mom and Dad. “I think the mainstream game industry is a fucked-up den of mediocrity,” he told me. “There are some smart people wallowing in there, but the environment discourages creativity and strength and rigor, so what you get is mostly atrophy.”
Braid is so, so great. Do yourself a favor and try it.
If you’ve yet to see “Caine’s Arcade,” please do yourself a favor, take ten minutes and watch…no…be enthralled by this entrepreneur cleverly disguised as a little boy. And if you live in LA, consider swinging by to see him in action. As filmmaker Nirvan Mullick put it, ”Caine is a killer. He has been making thousands of grown men weep at work.”
For me, this was absolutely elating — especially to see that a scholarship fund for Caine has since raised over $80,000 in the first two days of the film’s posting. Amazing. And an amazing reminder that no matter the digital toys and tech, a kid’s imagination is a powerful thing if given the chance to run free.(via)
Birth of a Book
Beautiful video of traditional pre-press, offset print to produce hand-bound books.
Glen Milner produced this book-binding vignette at Smith-Settle Printers in Leeds, England as the binders bound Suzanne St Albans’ Mango and Mimosa.
I am a college student with an artist's melancholy and a scientist's morbidity (yes, there is a difference). Here I collect pretty things, pwnful things, powerful things, along with dashes of humor and fuck yeah moments. Enjoy.
