More Celebrity Pict: February 2011

Monday, February 28, 2011

Oscar Winners 2011

Oscar 2011 Academy Awards Winners

Ann Hathaway and James Franco Opening

BEST PICTURE

The King's Speech

BEST ACTOR

Colin Firth

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Melissa Leo, The Fighter

VISUAL EFFECTS

Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips, Alice in Wonderland

COSTUME DESIGN

Colleen Atwood, Alice in Wonderland

ART DIRECTION

Robert Stromberg (production design); Karen O'Hara (set decoration), Alice n Wonderland

FOREIGN FILM

In a Better World (Denmark)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Christian Bale, The Fighter

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Wally Pfister, Inception

DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

Strangers No More

SHORT FILM

Luke Matheny, God Of Love

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Inside Job

FILM EDITING

Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter

MAKEUP

The Wolfman

BEST ACTRESS

Natalie Portman

BEST DIRECTOR

Tom Hooper, The King's Speech

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

We Belong Together, Music and Lyric by Randy Newman, Toy Story 3

ANIMATED SHORT FILM

The Lost Thing

ANIMATED FILM

Toy Story 3

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

David Seidler, The King's Speech

ORIGINAL SCORE

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, The Social Network

SOUND MIXING

Gary A Rizzo & Ed Novick, Inception

SOUND EDITING

Richard King, Inception

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Oscar Nominee List

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Slow Motion Videos by Modernist Cuisine

Slow motion, high speed videos from the Modernist Cuisine photo team.

Slow motion video of a large water balloon being popped.

High speed video shot with a phantom v.12 of popcorn popping.

Slow motion video of a a stream of oil poured onto a hot coal.

Coffee Creamer high speed video

Series of video clips showing the leidenfrost effect* in action

"This video is actually showing drops of liquid nitrogen; ice is from the ladel I was using to produce the drops is what you are seeing trapped inside the nitrogen."

Image via Wikipedia

* The Leidenfrost effect is a phenomenon in which a liquid, in near contact with a mass significantly hotter than the liquid's boiling point, produces an insulating vapor layer which keeps that liquid from boiling rapidly. This is most commonly seen when cooking; one sprinkles drops of water in a skillet to gauge its temperature—if the skillet's temperature is at or above the Leidenfrost point, the water skitters across the metal and takes longer to evaporate than it would in a skillet that is above boiling temperature, but below the temperature of the Leidenfrost point. The effect is also responsible for the ability of liquid nitrogen to skitter across lab floors, collecting dust in the process. It has also been used in some potentially dangerous demonstrations, such as dipping a wet finger in molten lead or blowing out a mouthful of liquid nitrogen, both enacted without injury to the demonstrator. It should be noted that such experiments are potentially lethal.

It is named after Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, who discussed it in A Tract About Some Qualities of Common Water in 1756.

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Saturday, February 26, 2011

Cityscapes

Cityscapes by 35-year-old, Budapest-based (Hungary) photographer Akos Major

The National - Sorrow

Friday, February 25, 2011

The World’s Smallest Aquarium and Other Microminiatures by Anatoly Konenko

The smallest ever printed book measures 0.9 x 0.9 mm
and is an edition of 'Chameleon' by the Russian author Anton Chekhov
Image via wiki

Anatoly Ivanovich Konenko (Russian: Анато́лий Ива́нович Коне́нко; 23 February 1954, Orsk) — is a microminiature painter from the Russian city of Omsk, in 1996 he was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records for creating the worlds smallest book. Konenko began his career in 1981, becoming the first microminiature artist in Siberia.

The World’s Smallest Aquarium - video

Microminiatures by Anatoly Konenko - video

Microminiatures

Grasshopper playing the violin.
Image via wiki

Anatoly Konenko's works often reference Russian fables and fairy tales; some of his most famous creations include "The Savvy Flea", "The Grasshopper Violinist" and "A Caravan of Camels in the Eye of the Needle".

Minibooks

Anatoly Konenko has published more than 200 miniature books. His edition of Chekhov's Chameleon, issued in 1996 in Omsk, includes 29 pages, 3 color illustrations, and a portrait of Chekhov, and measures 0,9 x 0,9 mm. Anatoly Konenko has been listed in Guinness Book of Records for creating the book.

Source: wiki

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

The World Is Obsessed With Facebook

An informational motion graphics piece by Alex Trimpe
Music by RJD2
Info provided by onlineschools.org
Created in Adobe After Effects at The Columbus College

BagTheWeb

BagTheWeb helps users curate Web content. For any topic, you can create a "bag" to collect, publish, and share any content from the Web.
Beyond most curation tools' capability, BagTheWeb enables users to build networks of bags. This way bags can be linked together to provide rich and complete information about any topic.

Embed bag demo

Source: bagtheweb.com

Monday, February 21, 2011

Storify, new real-time curation tool

Storify is a way to tell stories using social media such as Tweets, photos and videos. You search multiple social networks from one place, and then drag individual elements into your story. You can re-order the elements and also add text to give context to your readers.