You’ve got the ring. You’ve got the nerve. You’ve got, most importantly, the girl you want to marry. Alright, let’s do this! Oh wait, you’re popping the question in the background of a Kansas City news broadcast. Here comes trouble!
If it’s been years since you’ve been awake early enough to watch a sunrise. If you’re a time-lapse nature junkie. If you know how beautiful the sun-kissed Chicago skyline can be. Doubly so if you don’t. These are the first few reasons why watching Craig Shimala’s Good Morning Chicago should be mandatory. There are at least 30 others.
What is better than a double back flip performed by one motorcycle stuntman? The same aerial manoeuvre performed by two stuntmen at the same time, side-by-side.
Artist Zimoun employed 138 cotton balls attached to dc-motors inside cardboard boxes for this new installation. I watched this and literally went, “Well that’s not… ok but.. wait what? I don’t even…” And now my head hurts. [design milk]
Duane Keiser, an artist, painted an orange. You know, the fruit. What makes this orange special is that Keiser actually paints over the original orange to “peel” it with art. What starts as a full orange is turned into an orange slice. The time lapse video takes a while to develop, and I’m pretty sure I got lost with some of his artistic decisions, but it’s cool to see the process of an artist at work. [Duane Keiser via The Awesomer]
What happens when you combine one ton of water, seven grams of black powder and a high-speed camera? You get this lovely explosion, which is to be featured in the upcoming BBC show Everything and Nothing. Pretty cool. [BBC]
CNN has a great story on Akiko Kosaka, the Japanese exchange student in California, and the internet search for her family, who were among those affected by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in the small fishing town of Minamisanriku.
This first-person view is the most terrifying and unbelievable video I’ve seen of the Japan tsunami. Initially everything seems ok, just a mild wave coming towards the camera. Then, the sea goes Godzilla on the city, destroying everything it finds.
At 3:40pm local time in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture, an explosion shook the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Four people were reported injured from the initial blast, but broader concerns over increased radiation leakage have lead officials to double the evacuation zone around the plant from 9 to 19 kilometres. What the ultimate fallout will be is anyone’s guess.
Noam Galai took a few photos of himself in 2006 and uploaded them to his Flickr. A few people liked those photos, but he didn’t think of it. Over time, he began to see his photos popping up all over magazines, the internet and as street art. Then it began appearing on commodities (clothes, books, etc.). Now, it’s being used as a symbol of protest in Iran. The crazy part is that nobody asked his permission.
