Elliðaey island on the Vestmannaeyjar peninsula off southern Iceland. Three hundred years ago the island was home to five families who subsisted by fishing, hunting puffins and raising cattle.
By the 1930s, the last of their descendents left Elliðaey but a single cabin built in 1953 has been the subject of much speculation.
Not the home of Bjork or an eccentric hermit billionaire, as previously thought, it’s actually a sauna and shelter owned by modern day puffin hunters.
Latvian animator Gints Zilbalodis’s rather wonderful short about a plane-wrecked boy and his faithful pooch trying to find a way off the island they’re stranded on.
Made with Maya, After Effects and Logic Pro X, dialogue-free and comprising just four long uncut shots, Zilbalodis sez of it:
I wanted it to look as organic as possible and the cinematography to be imperfect. The continuous shot workflow helped me see the film as a whole and not get lost in details. The long takes limit the story to unfold in real time. In a more traditional style of cutting, it’s easy to skip over the unimportant parts of the story to keep it entertaining. But since the story is very simple and there’s not much of a plot I didn’t have to skip over anything, the story fit the style very well. I didn’t ever regret choosing this style, but a big challenge was rendering. If I changed just a small detail, the whole scene had to be rendered again.
Full screen and loud is how you should view this.
Vulcan Point on Crater Lake on Volcano Island on Lake Taal on the island of Luzon in The Phillipines – the world’s largest island within a lake on an island within a lake on an island.
You might want to lie down now.
The 14th hole of the Coeur d’Alene Resort golf course on the north shore of lake Coeur d’Alene, Idaho is a floating island supported by a barge on submerged tracks which is moved by computerised systems to a different offshore location every day.
Designed by Scott Miller in the early 90s, water taxis bring players to the green which varies between 95 and 200 yards from the tee.
The Manta Resort off Pemba Island in Zanzibar is a floating hotel with an underwater guest room extending four meters below the surface of the Indian ocean.
Designed by Swedish architect Mikael Genberg, the structure – constructed of local hardwood – also has two decks above water.
For gloating.
