Watch this in fullscreen!
A time-lapse made from photographs taken from aboard the ISS. Could use a little stabilisation in some shots, but still — pretty incredible.
See also: Long exposure photographs from the International Space Station
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Meet Nick Boing Boing, pet sheep
Today I was surprised and amused to see a pet sheep being taken for a walk along the Taff in north Cardiff.
Nick is perfectly happy to be petted (though he’s a bit smelly) and seemed to be completely unfazed by dogs. He is 22 stone though, so it’s probably the dogs that need to be worried.
Bendito Machine
This gorgeous and surreal animation is the fourth in the Bendito Machine series.
Bendito Machine IV – Fuel the Machines, by Jossie Malis
Now Jossie is running a Kickstarter campaign to continue the series and make a computer game.
This story begins six years ago when I, tired from all the global cretinism, decided to create a universal fable about human conflicts and enigmatic mystifying eyes that watch everything. After some months devoted to materializing this idea, the short film Bendito Machine premiered at festivals all over the world, receiving support that exceeded all my expectations. What I originally envisioned as a therapy to channel all that accumulated displeasure, turned out to be (thanks to the friendly welcome of the Internet world) the seed of an uncommon animation series which has occupied quite a sizeable part of my last six years.
Handy links
- Bendito Machines episodes.
- Zumbakamera animation film, illustration and design studio.
- Bendito Machines Kickstarter campaign.
Democracy in Action in Wales, a photography competition
The National Assembly are running a photo competition titled Democracy in action in Wales. Rosemary Butler AM (chair of the judging panel) said when the competition was announced that it was a unique opportunity for the Assembly to illustrate that democracy in Wales was not something that was confined to politicians in Cardiff Bay. Continue reading
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