Saturday, April 30, 2011

Easter Eggs Exhibition

Easter Eggs Exhibition in Kharkov, Ukraine.

Floral Easter Eggs:

Official Royal Wedding Coverage

The Royal Wedding - Part 1

The Royal Wedding - Part 2

Video streaming by Ustream

Embroidered Easter Eggs

Photo d'expo : Broderie sur oeufs [aufeminin.com]

More Easter posts

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Easter Tree

Apple tree decorated with thousands of Easter eggs in Saalfeld (Germany)

Vintage Easter Greeting Cards

27 vintage greeting cards for Easter, also called Pascha (Greek: Πάσχα), the feast of the Resurrection of the Lord.

Waterscapes

Long exposure waterscape photography by Akos Major

House Faces

15 houses that look like faces.

happy house by sekundo

Country Time-Lapses

Spain, Scotland and Ireland time-lapse videos by Ben, on Vimeo.

More time-lapses

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

An aurora (plural: auroras or aurorae) is a natural light display in the sky, particularly in the polar regions, caused by the collision of charged particles directed by the Earth's magnetic field. An aurora is usually observed at night and typically occurs in the ionosphere. It is also referred to as a polar aurora or, collectively, as polar lights. Auroras do occur deeper inside the polar regions, but these are infrequent and often invisible to the naked eye.
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Shot in and around Kirkenes and Pas National Park bordering Russia, at 70 degree north and 30 degrees east. Temperatures around -25 Celsius.

"It is a timelapse video of the Northern Lights. All sequences are shot in or close to Tromsø in Northern Norway."

First Orbit - See What Yuri Gagarin Saw

A real time recreation of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering first orbit, shot entirely in space from on board the International Space Station. The film combines this new footage with Gagarin's original mission audio and a new musical score by composer Philip Sheppard. For more information visit www.firstorbit.org

Yuri Gagarin Photos

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (a Russian pilot and cosmonaut) was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961.

Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space

On the 12th of April 1961, 50 years ago Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space.

Yuri Gagarin via ~Colins7

April 12 was already a huge day in space history twenty years before the launch of the first shuttle mission. On that day in 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (left, on the way to the launch pad) became the first human in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. Newspapers like The Huntsville Times (right) trumpeted Gagarin's accomplishment.
via nasa

Bobcat Climbs Forty Foot High Cactus To Escape Lion

Photographer Curt Fonger captured some great images of a bobcat that climbed a cactus. The photographer says the bobcat climbed the saguaro to escape a mountain lion.

"When he looked down at me, those beautiful amber eyes with those dark slits said it all. It was so refreshing to be able to personally witness this bobcat at that precise moment," Fonger said. "A story of survival. He wasn't nervous or frightened. Instead he had a personified "Calm after the Storm" demeanor. A lesson more of us could learn from."

via sciencenewsblog, kpho

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Cute Sad Puppies (20 photos)

via forum.pravmir.ru

X-Men: First Class - Official Trailer

X-Men: First Class is an upcoming American superhero film, directed by Matthew Vaughn, based on the characters appearing in Marvel Comics. The film is the fifth installment of the X-Men film series and a prequel to the first three movies. X-Men: First Class is scheduled for release on June 3, 2011.

The film, set during the 1960s, will focus on the relationship between Professor X and Magneto and the origin of their groups, the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants. The film stars James McAvoy as Professor X and Michael Fassbender as Magneto. Other cast members include Kevin Bacon, January Jones, Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence and Lucas Till. The film is mostly being shot in England and parts of the United States. Fox envisions this film as the first in a new trilogy.

River Song

Music video for Pianochocolate by Alex Verlan.
The beautiful and unique visual style resembles tilt-shift, but "this is macro shots with composited models. Many background plate shooting in macro on the camera and than compositing and post production in After Effects."

The Sky In Motion

To a first approximation, most of the objects on the sky appear to move as if they were all fixed to the inside of a gigantic sphere with the Earth at its centre (the aptly named "celestial sphere").
That (apparent) movement is the result of the (very real) movement of the Earth in relation to the rest of the universe.

Photography by Oleg Zhukov

World Map of Social Networks

A map of the world, showing the most popular social networks by country, according to Alexa and Google Trends for Websites traffic data (December 2010).

via www.vincos.it

Monday, April 4, 2011

Gmail Motion April Fools' gag turned into reality using Kinect Sensor (video)

Using the Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit (FAAST) software and a Kinect sensor, USC ICT lab successfully turned Gmail motion April Fools’ joke into reality!

"This morning, Google introduced Gmail Motion, allowing users to control Gmail using gestures and body movement. However, for whatever reason, their application doesn't appear to work. So, we demonstrate our solution - the Software Library Optimizing Obligatory Waving (SLOOW) - and show how it can be used with a Microsoft Kinect sensor to control Gmail using the gestures described by Google."

The Conversation Prism

The Conversation Prism gives you a whole view of the social media universe, categorized and also organized by how people use each network. V 3.0 introduces new groups and networks and also removes those networks no longer in play. Use the Conversation Prism to see what you're missing!

Click here to see 1600x1200 version of The Conversation Prism

via The Conversation Prism

Friday, April 1, 2011

Dynamic Views Now Available

Blogger now offers the ability to present blog's content in several new and exciting ways. These new views use the latest in web technology, including AJAX, HTML5 and CSS3
Click on any of these links to preview the new dynamic views on randomnies.blogspot.com

Flipcard: Mouse over any of the cards to see the post title and comment count. As you scroll down, additional posts will continue to load.

Mosaic: Clicking on an individual tile will expand that post to the full width of the view, and clicking again will collapse the post back into its original position.