The PL-01 tank, a three-crew 35-ton concept stealth tank designed by OBRUM and BAE Systems to avoid infrared missiles using a mesh of thermal tiles that change their temperature to match the environment.
A fully functional prototype is expected by 2016.
Sculptor and photographer Thomas Doyle’s subversive suburban dioramas, created using model railway figurines and accessories.
Natural disasters? Alien encounters? Environmental metaphor? Supply your own narrative.
Doyle’s work (which features in an upcoming Thames and Hudson book Big Art/Small Art) is currently on show at the Torrence Art Museum in California.
Supercutonline’s entirely subjectively chosen compilation of memorable fight-preparation scenes from dozens of action, horror and scifi movies.
Were this a definitive ‘best-of’ montage (which it isn’t), the absence of Ash’s toolshed scene from Evil Dead 2 would, of course, be unforgivable.
https://vimeo.com/88829079
Slow Life – an incredible, vibrantly lit macro timelapse of life on a coral reef made by University of Queensland PhD student Daniel Stoupin, composed from 150,000 sequenced photographs.
The trailer for an award-winning film about the inordinately brave folk risking their lives to advocate gay rights in Uganda.
In Uganda, a new bill [the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Act 2014, previously known as the ‘Kill The Gays Bill’] threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato, Uganda’s first openly gay man, and retired Anglican Bishop Christopher Senyonjo work against the clock to defeat state-sanctioned homophobia while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes their movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world.
Related: Despite new law, Ugandan cleric openly ministers to gays (CTV News)
In 1964, Sir Anthony Hopkins composed a waltz in the Green Room of the Liverpool Playhouse (which he talks about here).
In 2012, the actor saw it performed for the first time by violinist and conductor André Rieu at the Belvedere in Vienna.
Pour yourself a nice Chianti. it’s really rather good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaM-xXgl4Bs
Boxer pup Duncan Lou Who (born with deformed back legs which were subsequently amputated) goes to the beach for the first time with his minders at Vancouver’s Panda Paws Rescue.
(H/T: Reppy)
A mini-doc tribute to the commercial and film work of director Wes Anderson by Paul Waters of Brown Elephant Creative.
Previously: Geometric Wes
A montage of fireflies swarming at the Lake of The Ozarks in Missouri and Grand Ledge Michigan by Vincent Brady who sez:
I used every trick I have up my sleeve to pull this off. Image stacking, 360 degree startrail panoramas, and even a macro love scene! Hold on to your seats these fireflies fly by pretty quick!
Vienna-based filmmaker Nikolaus Vuckovic mucks about with Cinema4D, Octane Render, Photoshop, Aftereffects, Davinci Resolve, Cubase and VSL to show how the furniture in a classroom might let off steam after lessons have ended.
