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Dreamscapes

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Long exposure photo from Wadi Dana, Jordan Credit: Milo Inman

Long exposure photo from Wadi Dana, Jordan
Credit: Milo Inman

Before Vincent van Gogh painted his most iconic work in 1889 I doubt he had access to time-lapse images of the stars over Saint-Remy, but I’m confident there was something in his genius that connected his artistic vision with the realities of the nightly movements between earth and sky.

One look at Indie Producer/Director and timelapse enthusiast Gavin Heffernan’s Death Valley Dreamscapes alongside Petros Vrellis’ innovative animation “Starry Night” was enough to convince me!

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Accordion’s Life Line, Alex

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This is another in the series, on the New Yorker‘s website, providing short glimpses into the craft work of New York City. Click here to go to the video and source of this text:

For forty-five years, Alex Carozza has run a small accordion shop near Times Square. It’s one of the last fixtures of the old Music Row on Forty-eighth Street, and Carozza, after a lifetime of repairing musical instruments, still works six days a week while teaching some younger apprentices the skills of the trade. Continue reading →

Luke Shepard, Come To Kerala!

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We send these invitations, modern messages in modern bottles, with discriminating intent, if random expectations. Luke reminds us of how much we miss the Raxa Collective Design Team, a 2012 phenomenon. We cannot see much about Luke except that he “does things.”  The photography and film-making among those things, we like from what we see here.  The welcome mat is out…

Like Water Into Wine

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By now everyone knows that availability of potable water is among the most important challenges facing this and coming generations. Thanks to the USA-based tax and donor-funded National Public Radio for bringing this to our attention:

…A more common technology for removing salt and other impurities from water is known as reverse osmosis, which uses lots of energy to produce the extremely high pressure required to force raw water through a semi-permeable membrane. You can see a diagram of how it works here. Continue reading →

Alaska, Brown Bear And Salmon Via Camera Trap

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We had already come to the conclusion that camera traps are valuable for the sake of conservation. Thanks to the Guardian‘s coverage of these bears and the camera trap provided by a generous foundation to a worthy recipient:

Caught on camera trap: brown bears feast on salmon – in pictures

Explore.org has launched a summer salmon bearcam to stream live video from Brooks river in Alaska’s Katmai national park. Organisers hope for the first time to record the entire salmon run, from the frenzied dash upstream in July through to the autumn months

More love for the cicadas

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After our post yesterday on the 17-year emergence of periodical cicadas, here is a fantastic body of work on  one of nature’s most intriguing creatures by Samuel Orr. A natural history filmmaker and time-lapse photographer he has been following and filming the various broods of periodical cicadas since 2007 (multiple broods that come out in different years across the eastern part of the United States). After filming some  200 hours of footage, and he is now working towards an hour documentary that focuses on the 17-year periodical cicadas for which he just started a Kickstarter campaign. Continue reading →

Clouded Leopard, Malaysian Forest Reserve

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In the same regard as sharing important, if small news about conservation efforts, we think it is important for as many people as possible to view animals in the wild in order to sense the importance of conserving their habitat. In this five minute recording, we see the first and only recorded clouded leopard, which is interesting enough.  But we also see its hunting ground, which is a scrappy opening within the forest (making the filming possible) rather than a dense forest cover (more difficult for filming, to state the obvious) where we would more likely find a leopard hunting in Kerala. Continue reading →

Dreamscapes

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The Story Behind a Dream Shot – The Bird-of-Paradise Sunrise -A Greater Bird-of-Paradise (Paradisaea apoda) male greets the sunrise from his tree top display perch in the Aru Islands, Indonesia.

It shouldn’t seem surprising that the videos of such charismatic creatures have gone viral. But the study and associated film, book and lecture series seem to pack a similarly powerful punch.

Click the photo above to read about more about the million views and Tim Laman’s amazing stories.

Falling Stars

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Starry Night is one of the world’s most iconic paintings and this isn’t the first time we’ve shared unorthodox reproductions of the work.

This rendering may be considered iconoclastic by some, but I challenge you to find a more kinetic one!

They Flew In From The Garden Of Eden

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These earlier video and book posts about birds of paradise, as documented by the research and photography team from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Geographic, were poignant partly because we have several contributors who work at the Lab.  But mainly because those birds are unbelievable.  So we of course cannot deny Mr. Attenborough his own spotlight with the same.

Here Comes A Great One

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David Attenborough photographed at home in Richmond. Photograph: Suki Dhanda

We are reminded that David Attenborough will be sharing another round of greatness in the coming weeks (click the image to the left for the story):

Other stars to receive homage in 60 Years in the Wild include Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey for their ape-observation work, Francis Crick and Jim Watson Continue reading →

Earthly Constellations

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Thanks to Krulwich Wonders for the link and the observation, five minutes well spent looking and listening (click the image above to go to the video):

In this video, we are flying over the Earth, looking down and seeing what astronauts see when it’s nighttime, when lightning storms flash like June bugs, when cities look like galaxies, when you can see where people are. It’s quietly astonishing.

11 Minutes Of Heroic Arctic Activism

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From The Guardian’s website, in the Environment section, a bit of videography that puts the James Bond-type action films, which after all are merely entertainment without any deeper purpose, to a bit of shame:

Behind the scenes of Greenpeace’s Arctic oil protest Continue reading →

Saying Something Well

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Thanks to Alberto Yanosky, leader of Paraguay’s most important conservation organization, for bringing this old clip to our attention.  Fitting tribute to the man in the clip who, according to INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, September/October 2012 is celebrating an amazing milestone:

When David Attenborough joined the BBC, 60 years ago this September, Britain had only one television channel. Cameras had to be wound up like a clock and could only film live or in 20-second bursts. There was no way to capture sound and vision at the same time, or to broadcast from anywhere but the studio. Attenborough, like most people, did not own a television set; he thinks he had seen only one programme in his life. Continue reading →

A Learning Laboratory (Stop Motion Video!)

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Yesterday, Jonathon, Siobhan, Milo, and I moved into one of the new Raxa Collective properties under development. As the four of us huddled silently under our covers, the backwaters of Kerala’s nighttime accompanied Jonathon’s ghost stories…

Instead of spooky tales, though, today I want to share with you another story Jonathon narrates, Raxa Collective presents “A Learning Laboratory.” It’s a short video, Jonathon (narrator), Sunnie (illustrator), Siobhan (director), and I (producer) put together with the help of all the staff and summer interns to highlight some of the best anecdotes of how Raxa Collective’s Cardamom County ecolodge has acted as a “learning laboratory” for its staff, international trainees, and summer interns.

Enjoy!

3 Minutes Of Silence

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  Turn the volume off (because beauty is in the ear of the beholder), go full screen, and click play.  If all goes well for you, repeat with moderate volume.