This is one of the most captivating, weirdly suspenseful short films I’ve seen in ages, and it’s essentially just one dude walking (or rather, sneaking) around New York City:

You can read more about these unsanctioned underground adventures in the NY Times and on NPR. [Via]

I dig the work of “liquid sculptor” Martin Waugh (see previous). Check out this behind-the-scenes segment from Time Warp:

“Super dizzying,” our man Finn might say–though oddly less so than you’d expect:

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This one goes out to all the East Coast peeps:

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Shinchi Maruyama creates amazing “sculptures” (see photo gallery) by tossing water & capturing the results with a high-speed camera:

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Tor Even Mathisen rocks it:

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Graeme Taylor pointed his inexpensive, high-speed Casio Exilim FH20 out a train window, then slowed down the results:

He writes,

The ‘trick’ is the camera collects images at a rate of 210 per second – but the film is played back at 30 frames per second. So, every seven seconds of footage that you watch corresponds to 1 real second. At least at the start, one real second is plenty of time for someone to move into, then out of, the camera’s field of view, but isn’t enough time for them to really do much: hence, the frozen effect. It breaks down towards the end not because I’m doing something clever with the frame rates (captured or replayed), but simply because the train was stopping!

[Via]

“Are you going to stuff me into the bird, Dad-O??”
“Absolutely, my boy!!”

Whether or not you celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, I hope you had a great day today. For the first time in as long as I can remember, I’m giving myself a little break from daily blogging. Thanks for reading & for giving me the chance to do this job.
All the best to you & yours,
El Tryptophan

• I love the stark geometries & palettes in this architectural imagery by Philipp Schaerer.
• The Big Picture looks down (literally) on human landscapes in Florida. [Via]
• French street artist JR puts giant photos onto favelas, other slums, security walls, and more. [Via]

Speaking of beautiful time lapses, here’s another worth seeing:

Come on, who doesn’t love a Zeppelin? Other installments are at TimeScapes.org. [Via]

Alexandre Favre, Pierre Dumont, and David Mignot fire up the Beethoven in this bombastic tour of the city:

New York City – Timelapse from stimul on Vimeo.

[Via Rob Cantor]

“In the end, we shall all be dead!” Anyone who pairs a statement like that with cheerful astronauts on their marketing materials is my kind of weirdo. 🙂

With that in mind, I’m happy to see that Jeff Butterworth & the Alien Skin Software crew have started their own blog.  Like mine it mixes product info with interesting bits about photography, design, and more (e.g. one involving iPhones, suction cups, and plane windows).  I look forward to bogarting their finds like it’s my job.

• Science:
  • X-Ray pinup girls seem like the ideal Misfits groupies.
  • So much for the idea of tasteful, pure white sculpture: Ultraviolet light reveals how ancient Greek statues really looked.
  • Behold some gorgeous electron microscope photos of grains of pollen.
• Pinholin’:
  • “What happens when you place a small pinhole camera on the top of a turntable and expose the film for the length of L America by The Doors?”
  • Check out Adam Magyar’s homebrew slit-cam photo Walking As One. The rest of his collection is worth a look, too. [Via]

If you’re a photographer who’ll be in NYC next week, you might want to check out Shoot NYC, an event running Thursday and Friday in parallel with PhotoPlus Expo.  On Friday PM Bryan O’Neil Hughes will be presenting an Adobe Lightroom Review, 12:30pm–2:00pm on Friday. Check out the full session listing here.

[Update: Author & PS expert Katrin Eismann also notes that SVA’s Optic Nerve photography show will be running during the show, with a reception being held on Wednesday the 27th.]

Think you’ll go far for a shot? Not this far, I hope:

Elsewhere, NatGeo photographers get hammered by a wall of sand–and just keep shooting:Staggering power and beauty.

Man, is it a great time to be alive or what? I can’t tell you how badly I wanted a radio-controlled helicopter as a kid. I think I would have sold myself into slavery to get something like this rig:

Check out HeliVideo.com for more details. [Via]

Oton Bačar used After Effects plug-in Twixtor and a Canon 7D to create 1,000-frame-per-second video:

[Via]

Lovely work from Simon Christen. The zipping planes & moon nail it for me.

[Total non-sequitur counterpoint, aviation-wise: American Airlines wants eight bucks for the use of a pillow and blanket. Eight bucks, AA? Two words: Die screaming.]

Neat, and rather hypnotic:
[Via Jeff Tranberry]

Heh heh. This is doubly funny as I watch this in a hotel room with the actual Bryan O’Neil Hughes. (Note: Contains some minor nudity & dirty hand gestures, in case that sort of thing offends you.)

In case the embedded video doesn’t work for you, here it is on its original page.

A lovely evening chill-out courtesy of Rodrigo Bressane:

(Full-screen viewing with speakers on recommended.)

Filmed via two gullwing SLS AMGs doing a buck sixty around the Isle of Man. (I’m getting flashbacks to a classic Mac ad.)

The making-of video is genuinely fascinating, too:

[Via]

Ever seen a house impaled by a child’s bicycle? That and more are in the Big Picture’s gorgeous, terrifying storm gallery. In a similar vein, would you really drive towards this thing?
[Via]

• The scale is the impact: check out this great gallery of New York from above. [Via Gary Ferster]
• Looking down, Alex MacLean finds the abstract & the often beautiful. See more on his site.
• Christoph Gielen works in a similar vein & is worth a look.

Silly, but kind of fun. (Man, as a kid I’d have gone bananas for/with an affordable video camera.) [Via Stephen Shankland]

Creator Brandon Bloch notes, “This is also a spoof of another video that compared the Canon 7D and iPhone 4: ‘iPhone 4 as good as the 7D? No, but it’s amazing for what it is.'”