This video, showing the process of making 35 books by hand, is absolutely mesmerizing to watch. It’s amazing how much work it takes. (via Ministry of Type)
Everything All the Time - Lazy Days
On Visualizing Information
There can be a directness and clarity to visual information that cuts through the noise, the smoke, and the walls of information around us. It can help us zoom in and see what really matters. Or what might be being hidden from us.
Pixar’s new short for what happened to the Shady Oaks attendants after Carl made his big break. This made me smile. (via Drawn)
This was taken with a color changing led rave light about six inches long by 1/2 inch wide that I wrapped with electrical tape to create a candy cane stripe. I placed the light on my record turn table at a slow RPM and swiped the camera vertically to create the spinning stripe
Beach House - Norway
Analemma - a trace of the annual movement of the Sun on the sky - is well known among experts of sun-dials and old Earth’s globes as a diagram of change of seasons and an equation of time.
The photographer took a picture of the sun in the sky at the same time, every 10 days, on a single frame of film. He only had to postpone the exposure time twice, due to bad weather. To keep the camera in the same position, he attached it to a platform that he could mount and dismount.
Very impressive.
Subway tunnel light show between Pudong and the Bund. (From Big Picture’s National Geographics series)
The edge of an iceberg floating just off the coast of Antarctica.
