The Living Bridge

These beautiful living bridges are made over time (10-15 yrs) by guiding the roots and vines of the Ficus elastica tree into stretching across rivers to form bridges.
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Mars From Above

Martian landscape photos are so surreal. See em all here »

Gimbaled Air Jet

Video of a machine that can levitate objects in the air in three dimensions. Done by a computer-controlled gimbaled air jet, powered by a 620kPa using a direct current motor-controlled valve.

Dvein 2009 Reel

Stunning animation.

Dvein reel 2009 from dorsumi on Vimeo.

http://www.dvein.com

Geometric Dancer

Performance excerpts from this lecture video:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/260

These bite-size, zero-production-value performances are mostly proof-of-concept things that tie into his lecture about his creative process. The full 40 minute lecture is cool too, but I provide this edited video here since there are not many Michael Moschen performance vids on youtube.

Cirque du Soleil Trampoline Skills

Video of Oli from Cirque du Soleil doing some surreal trampoline maneuvers.

New perspective on a water droplet

Super high speed footage reveals a new insight to water droplets.

Papercraft 3D Head Costume

This guy Eric Testroete modeled his own head in 3ds Max and used a few other tools to finish it so it could be printed and glued together. See his website for instructions or his flickr page for photos.

It's not the most complicated thing to execute, but it sure has impact. Because the light is hitting the polygons in such a natural way, It looks like it's walking the line between physical reality and digital.

Genius!

Cardboard Animation

Graduation short by Sjors Vervoort.
http://www.sjorsvervoort.nl

Animation & design by Sjors Vervoort.
Sound and SFX by Steven Aerts. (The Netherlands).

Slow Motion Impacts - 1,000,000 FPS

Esquire House [3D]

Very cool 3D effect.

Another Esquire House Effect from steve mason on Vimeo.

[via Steve Mason's blog]

Pies vs Insects

Macroscopic high-speed video of insects being hit by pies.

Flies, Beetles, Fly, Bugs, Bees, Millimeters Matter

Snowflake Crystals [electron microscope]

Nudibranch [sea slugs]

I was searching for Nudibranch's today for making a nice wallpaper and found this gem called "Glaucus Atlanticus".

Shapeshifting Owl

Wee See [baby entertainment]

When your talking to a baby, they probably just see abstract shapes and hear trippy sounds. So it's no wonder why these videos are designed for entertaining babies. Visit the official website to learn more: www.weeseeworld.com

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wee see - collection one from Rolyn Barthelman on Vimeo.

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wee see - collection two from Rolyn Barthelman on Vimeo.

Evident Utensil [Music Video by Chairlift]

This video uses a processing technique called Datamosh that mimics the psychedelic pixelated effect that cable or streaming video does when the buffer is catching up.

Music Video (view in Full Quality)

Chairlift - Evident Utensil (Official Music Video) - The top video clips of the week are here

Learn how to Datamosh by watching the videos below. And check out this link to the software that will let you do it http://www.court13.com/datamoshkit.zip

Part 1



Part 2

Prius Harmony Commercial

The Making Of:

Fluid Sculpture

Fluid Sculpture from Charlie Bucket on Vimeo.

This is a small prototype of what I'll be showing at the 2009 Maker Faire, May 30-31st in San Mateo.

Light Paintings [Brian Hart]

This must have taken a while to complete. Looks like fun.
» See em all at PSFK