A pleasingly chilled-out 360° timelapse sequence by German photographer Jonas Ginter, who spent two years trying to achieve the effect you see here.
The spherical or ‘polar’ panoramas were captured by a 3D printed rig holding six GoPro cameras.
Related: Polar Panoramas
(H/T: Noel)
Of this teaser from director Ciarán Nugent, currently seeking your support on Fundit, Colmán Mac Séalaigh sez:
Big Time is a mockumentary focusing on the Garda Síochána (no doubt there is plenty of material out there at the moment to make this a success!) Here’s a video introducing the various characters.
Sasha de Marigny writes:
I was at dinner at Cafe di Napoli tonight when the chef suddenly broke into song. Utterly incredible talent!
Accompanied by fellow voice-actor Lauren Landa, Jim Cummings – the voice of Winnie the Pooh, among many others – reads Darth Vader’s lines from A New Hope to a delighted crowd at ConnectiCon 2013.
An innovative multi-award winning rubber band animation by Montréal based French filmmaker Guillaume Blanchet.
She’s young, dreamy and fearless, she drives cars way too fast, she’s also a yamakasi. She likes adventure, fireworks and unrelenting seas.
A vintage clip, uploaded by Motorsport.ie, of a 22 year-old Ayrton Senna, two years prior to his Formula One debut, winning the Benson & Hedges EuroSport Leinster Trophy Race in 1982 at Mondello Park in Kildare.
Alex Eustace writes:
The future Formula One star is driving his FF2000 Van Diemen and he is still racing under the name of Ayrton Da Silva. The race finishes at about 15 minutes in the video and you can catch Ayrton in all his helmet-less glory doing a victory lap.
G’wan the Joey Greenan from Belfast, who (as Alex also points out) actually overtakes Senna early in the race and pushes him for most of it.
Art as footwear by Israeli artist Kobi Levi
Levi described his process in a TEDx talk back in 2012.
Previously: Bird Heels
Emoji aficionado Cara Rose DeFabio recaps the main points of season three of Game of Thrones in her favourite medium.
Only Reppy knows what she’s on about.
Previously: Emojination
An ingenious if long-winded mechanical timepiece created in 2013 by Turnvator Janosch.
Every minute, a ball is released onto an inclined track where traps indicate the time in minute, five-minute and hourly intervals.
Driven by a 2.5kg weight, the clock runs for twelve hours at a time and according to its inventor, has an accuracy error of just one second in 24 hours.
Canadian interviewer John ‘Nardwuar The Human Serviette’ Ruskin interviews 2014 Grulke prize-winners and all-round fine young world-conquering Cavan lads The Strypes at SXSW in Austin, Texas.
Previously: Meanwhile, On Letterman
(H/T: Eoin Murtagh)
