I find Junebum Park’s little videos totally charming.  Sadly it seems the longer, better-quality ones have been pulled from YouTube, but here’s a little taste:

Via Core77, ArtNews says,

In his short films… June Bum Park plays around with… shifts in scale: everyday scenes such as parking a car, constructing a building, or crossing a road are animated by gigantic hands (the artist’s own), and people and objects turn into playthings of a higher power. The manipulations appear tiny, their movements seem pre-determined, and all the figures do not let themselves be distracted from their goal. Cleverly they evade the intruder’s hands and continue on their way with the determination a column of ants.

More amazing aerial filmmaking from the folks who brought us Experience Human Flight:

Or, if you prefer your extreme sports photography to feature spraying blood and wildly overdriven guitars, try this on for size:

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• Photojournalist James Nachtwey grabbed his camera and ran towards Ground Zero. He captured incredible images, nearly paying for them with his life. You should read his story.
• Tom Junod’s article The Falling Man, about Richard Drew’s famous 9/11 photograph, is long, very difficult, and rewarding.
• “The Thousand-Yard Stare” : Peter Turnley talks about meeting Sal Isabella, the fireman whose image he captured the morning after the attacks.

Clever Kickstarter project CineSkates offers “a set of three wheels that quickly attach to a tripod and enable fluid, rolling video in an ultra-portable package.”

Uses:

• Arcing shots that rotate around objects
• Sliding shots that push or pull the subject into focus
• Rolling shots that glide over the subject
• Time-lapse shots that move the camera slowly and smoothly
• Panning shots that scan a wide area
• “Worm’s eye view” shots that slide just above the floor

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When he’s not designing interfaces at Adobe, Kim Pimmel makes short films:

I combined everyday soap bubbles with exotic ferrofluid liquid to create an eerie tale, using macro lenses and time lapse techniques. Black ferrofluid and dye race through bubble structures, drawn through by the invisible forces of capillary action and magnetism.

See more of his projects on Vimeo. [Via]

So, you liked the Danny MacAskill thing, then? Now peep this:

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Perfectly lovely:

Bobby Solomon writes,

Photographer Ryan Killackey and his wife decided to document California, mostly the Los Angeles area, through photos, taking over 10,000 in total, and then compiling them into this beautiful video.

Beautiful filmmaking showcases incredible athleticism:

Oddly intense! (especially full screen)

One of these winged victors tried to make off with my parents’ elderly wiener dog during a midnight outing. Advantage: Older Irish lady using her bathrobe to look bigger! [Via]

Filmmaker & skater Josh Maredy killed a pair of GoPro cameras en route to capturing this madness:
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Not content with having made “the world’s smallest stop-motion animation,” the folks at Aardman set out to crush it with the world’s largest–and once again, they shot it with a telephone:

As usual I find the making-of video even more interesting than the final piece:

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If you played with Hot Wheels as a kid, this is what you saw when drifting off to sleep:

Hypnotic & terrific. Here’s more about artist Chris Burden.

Photographer Jerry Courvoisier is presenting online tomorrow at 10am Pacific time:

How to Use Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 3.0 to Develop, Sort and Sequence Your Images for Blurb Bookmaking: In this free webinar, world-class Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom specialist Jerry Courvoisier will take you through great Lightroom tips and tricks including how to prep your photos for your book. He’ll also show you how to use the new Blurb Bookify™ plug-in for Lightroom. Plus, stay for an exclusive Lightroom discount at the conclusion of the webinar.

I’ll say it again: I’m oddly thankful that incredible technology like this didn’t exist when I was a kid, as otherwise I’d have lost my entire adolescence to it. First, here’s what happened when filmmaker Joe Simon mounted a Canon 7D to an RC helicopter:
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If you prefer more the rock-n-roll grunge tip, check out the work of 19-year-old Jeremiah Warren and his rocket-mounted spy cam:

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Previously: DSLR video + RC helicopter = awesome

Fascinating (though, the creator notes, apparently not representative of how strings actually vibrate):

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I kind of can’t even talk about this:

Hats off to David Dvir and the team at 2D Photography. Here’s more info about the project, plus a making-of video:

[Via Harrison Liu]

Bah-dum, tssch!

Spoiler: Not much changes after the initial strike. [Via]

A Tesla coil plus a 10-camera array of custom-programmed Canon cameras = Rob Flickenger’s 70 megapixel bullet time lightning.

More info is here. [Via Iván Cavero Belaunde]

Completely tremendous. Give it the two minutes, and in full screen. [Via]

Offbeat bonus first-person vid: Eli Stonberg’s “Extremities” straps multiple cameras to skater Aryeh Kraus, then shows the results simultaneously. [Via]

Luke Geissbühler & his kids sent their homemade weather balloon & camera rig (packed inside a foam take-out container!) up 100,000 feet, right to the edge of space. It makes for some surprisingly captivating filmmaking.

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Planting a GoPro camera inside a hula hoop produces oddly watchable results:

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On a much less stable front, the $60 Hot Wheels Video Racer shoots at up to 60 frames per second, creating what Autoblog calls “nausea-inducing fun”: