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Larger Than Life

 via Colossal

Amazing. Do follow the link above to see photos of production underway.

The first trailer for Loving Vincent (previously) was just released and it promises stunning visuals in a novel format: the film was created from a staggering 12 oil paintings per second in styles inspired by the famous Dutch painter’s brushstrokes. The upcoming movie will detail the story of Van Gogh’s life leading up to the tumultuous time surrounding his death some 125 years ago. According to the filmmakers, over 100 painters have contributed frames to the ambitious feature-length film that is still in progress at their headquarters in Gdansk, Poland. The film is currently being produced by Oscar-winning studios BreakThru Films and Trademark Films, and you can follow their progress or even get involved yourself on their website. (via Devour)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Absence of Boundaries

Driving on Air from flora lichtman on Vimeo.

 

A 21 year old inventor builds car out of a half million legos, powered by compressed air (the engine required over 100,000 parts driving 256 cylinders). Also a spacecraft of Legos that was launched to heights of over 20 miles.

Play is fun.

 

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To Build a Kayak

A Thousand Hands Ago from S Ensby on Vimeo.

 

A short film about of recalling the knowledge of long dead craftsmen.

Over the course of three days, Danish kayak builder Anders Thygesen builds an Aleutian iqyax by the shore of his local lake. He reflects on the process of learning these skills from masters whom he has never met.

 

 

 

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Janes Island ~ Marsh Stars

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Took a walk along the canal around midnight. Lights across the Bay glow on the horizon.

After all the wind and all the rain, it’s so still and so clear the Milky Way is reflected in the surface of the water.

 

 

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Speaking of Rain

Really beautiful. Worth watching full screen in HD.

Monsoon II from Mike Olbinski on Vimeo.

Much more info, and background on how it was shot, at

Monsoon II on Vimeo

 

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Barbershop Bluegrass

Pickin’ & Trimmin’ from Matt Morris Films on Vimeo.

via The Bitter Southerner

Off the main highway between Greensboro and Asheville is the little town of Drexel, North Carolina. There’s a barbershop there. The freight trains rumble slowly right through town, right next to it. In the back room, old guys come from all over to tell stories and play music.

Really good music.

 

 

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Objects In The Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear

To Scale: The Solar System from Wylie Overstreet on Vimeo.

On a dry lakebed in Nevada, a group of friends build the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary orbits: a true illustration of our place in the universe.

A film by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh

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Copyright 2015

 

When my daughters were young we spent a lot of time looking at the sky. Comets, meteor showers, constellations, satellites, planets. On camping trips, especially; but sometimes we juat went out into the country to find dark places so we could see better.

Laying in the dew-wet grass, or bundled in winter coats on the still-warm hood of the car, we’d listen to the whippoorwills, the crickets and katydids, the owls, and distant trains, and look up into the big dark and empty that seems so full when the sky is clear.

In elementary school they made models for science projects, and posters. We used flashlights for the sun, and basketballs and baseballs for planets, and we tried to get our heads around the scale of things.

We are not alone, it seems. These guys did that, too, and tried to make it real on a much bigger scale. It’s beautiful on many levels.

via Colossal