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TINY TEXAS HOUSES

by Brad Kittel

Beautiful small handcrafted houses built with slavaged materials.

Tiny Texas houses, founded by Brad Kittel, has built over 70 small homes almost entirely out of salvaged building materials, each one unique and varying from about 120 to 400 square feet.
There is a growing appreciation for very small homes such as these, and Tiny Texas Houses is one of a few innovative companies in the United States that has been in the forefront, offering inspiration and spurring on this movement. Tiny Texas Houses is particularly focused on the benefits of salvaging perfectly good old quality building materials that would otherwise end up in landfills. People are slowly beginning to understand how appealing, healthy, and practical living in a small home is, and conversely how wasteful and counterproductive the typical multi thousand square foot homes are.

Tiny Texas Houses offers tours, and workshops, as well as building these wonderful little customized homes at their home base in Luling, Texas. Their web sites have video tours of current houses, insight into the building processes, updates on the latest projects, and full details on the specifics of the houses.

2013 / 01 / 19

ed art

ed van der hoek

Batdog.

Great fun stuff that just makes you smile.
Not only awesome paintings, but some marvelous photos too.
Some of the dog owners on Flickr have bought custom edart featuring their own furry four leggers to grace their walls. Gotta love it.
His ETSY site has cards and prints - Photos and paintings.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"Be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

Dr. Suess ( Theodor Seuss Geisel )

2013 / 01 / 18

SOLID STATE DRIVE MANUFACTURING

by Crucial Memory

Fascinating video on the process for making solid state memory drives.
(The relatively new tech of primary (ie large quantity) computer memory storage on etched silicon chips instead of mechanically spinning disk drives. Still quite a bit more expensive, but much faster, smaller, and more dependable.)

From Crucial Memory's YouTube video description:
Published on Jan 9, 2013
Crucial® SSDs are designed and developed by Micron, one of the largest NAND manufacturers in the world. This means four things: hundreds of SSD qualification tests, over a thousand hours of prerelease validation testing, 1.5 billion dollars invested in R&D, and more than 30 years of industry expertise.

2013 / 01 / 15

MALE SILHOUETTE SUNSET

Photo by Camelot Photography Minnesota

Just a brilliant image.

2013 / 01 / 14

KAUAI - THE LOST WORLD

by DevinSupertramp ( Devin Graham )

Marvelous video of locations all over Kauai.
This guy is quite an inspiration. He comes up with all kinds of fun ideas to capture, from offbeat action sports to snowball fights, and shoots in a wide variety of fabulous locations...all with a marvelous sense of fun and beautiful camera work.
His YouTube channel is loaded with good stuff.

From DevinSupertramp's ( Devin Graham's ) YouTube video description:

I'm on facebook and twitter now! :)

Stephen Anderson wrote the score specifically for this piece. You can download the song on iTunes in the link below.

You can also contact him here.

Film made by Devin Graham.
This entire film was filmed on the island of Kauai over a 9 day period. The first 3 days were spent hiking the Napali coast, a 11 mile hike along the coast. We did this for 3 days. After this we spent 2 more days exploring the island. I did this with 8 other friends. After the 5 days were up with them, they all flew back to Oahu where everyone was living, and I stayed on the island on my own for 4 more days.
I had a rental truck, that's how I got around. I didn't want to spend money on hotels though, so I slept in the truck, in a Walmart parking lot for the other 4 nights. A lot of cars get broken in on the island of Kauai, according to rumors, so that's why I would camp in the parking lots, so I was a lot more exposed if someone tried to break in where I was sleeping :) That way i wouldn't get robbed, raped, or murdered, ha.
At night when I got done filming, I would go into the only Walmart on the island, where they also have a McDonald's, and I would bum off there wi-fi with my ipod touch, and plot my path for the next day, then I would head out before the break of dawn every morning, and I would get back after sunset to do it all over again.
On a technical side, this was all all shot on the Canon 5D Mark II. Most of the shots were done with the Canon 16-35mm 2.8 L Series lens.
The smooth shots were done with a Glidecam HD-4000. You can check out the exact model on their official website here where you can also buy them. I've been shooting with there glidecams for the last 5 years, and love them. They do take a little bit of a learning curve, but once you get past that, it's all smooth!

Also, here's a link to some of the photography I did as well while I was filming. I did this just on the side, just because I was already at the location, but my main focus was capturing it on video. Second was photographing it.

I've had around 30 emails within the first 12 hours of releasing this video, all with common questions, my response to them all was to big to put in here, so I posted it on my blog. For any other technical info, check out my blog below, and any other questions, feel free to ask there.

For BUSINESS ENQUIRERS ONLY, you can contact me at this email.

devinsupertramp@gmail.com

2013 / 01 / 07

ROBOT SOLDIER SCULPTURE

Photo by POAGAO

Five meter tall sculpture of robot soldier from the Japanese Anime Film Laputa Castle in the Sky.
Located on the roof of the Ghibli Movie Studio Museum in Mitaka Japan.
Japan has much more lighthearted and fun public sculpture than we do here in America.
We definitely need more robot sculptures.

2013 / 01 / 04

YOSEMITE RANGE OF LIGHT

by Shawn Reeder

Gorgeous time lapse video pans of the Yosemite area by photographer Shawn Reeder.
Beautiful photography on his site as well.

From Shawn Reeder's YouTube video description:
Yosemite National Park, the High Sierra, and the Eastern Sierra are some of the most beautiful places on earth. Ever since I serendipitously won a trip to Yosemite when I was 18, the beautiful Range of Light has captured my heart and become my home. Nothing brings me more joy than to share this life changing beauty with others. Ever since I became fascinated with timelapse photography almost 2 years ago, after seeing the work of Tom Lowe, I've wanted to do a piece on Yosemite and the Sierra. Now after almost 2 years of shooting, I'm thrilled to share. I hope you enjoy my vision of my home, the majestic Yosemite & Sierra. Best viewed Full Screen with Sound :)
If you would like to license any of my clips or hire me to shoot for you, please be in touch.

Web: http://shawnreeder.com
Email: info@shawnreeder.com
Facebook: facebook.com/shawnreeder
Twitter: twitter.com/shawnreeder

Music licensed and used with permission by: http://shaunpaul.com
Composition used: Sounds of Peace

Huge thanks to Kessler Crane and Lens Pro To Go.
Without their help this piece would not have been nearly as good.
http://kesslercrane.com
http://lensprotogo.com
Also a huge thanks to all of you who helps support me with your warm comments and continuing encouragement. It means more to me than you know.
I hope this inspires everyone to get outside and explore the beautiful outdoors, especially magical places like Yosemite National Park, and the High Sierra.

2013 / 01 / 03

INTERNET EXPLORER 9 PARODY

by WWINTERWEB

Hilarious.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“If you think health care is expensive now, wait until it’s free.”

P. J. O’Rourke

2013 / 01 / 02

MARTY ASHTON - ROAD BIKE PARTY

A film by Robin Kitchin for Ashton Bikes.

Really well done video and impressively intense trials bike style feats on a road bike.

From the YouTube video description:
Martyn Ashton takes the £10k carbon road bike used by Team Sky's Bradley Wiggins & Mark Cavendish for a ride with a difference. With a plan to push the limits of road biking as far as his lycra legs would dare, Martyn looked to get his ultimate ride out of the awesome Pinarello Dogma 2. This bike won the 2012 Tour de France - surely it deserves a Road Bike Party! Shot in various locations around the UK and featuring music from 'Sound of Guns'. Road Bike Party captures some of the toughest stunts ever pulled on a carbon road bike.

A Film by Robin Kitchin
Produced by Ashton Bikes
Music: Sound of Guns 'Sometimes'
http://www.facebook.com/soundofguns
With special thanks to the Ken Fox Wall of Death.
http://www.wall-of-death.co.uk/

2013 / 01 / 01

EARTH FROM SPACE

NASA Goddard Photo and Video

From the image description on NASA Goddard's Flickr page:
A 'Blue Marble' image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on January 4, 2012. The NPP satellite was renamed 'Suomi NPP' on January 24, 2012 to honor the late Verner E. Suomi of the University of Wisconsin. Suomi NPP is NASA's next Earth-observing research satellite. It is the first of a new generation of satellites that will observe many facets of our changing Earth. Suomi NPP is carrying five instruments on board. The biggest and most important instrument is The Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite or VIIRS.
To read more about NASA's Suomi NPP go to: www.nasa.gov/npp

Credit: NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring

NASA image use policy. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.

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