It was by chance that I found Héctor García’s (aka Kirai from KiraiNet) A Geek in Japan.

In short, it’s an essencial book for every otaku, geek who likes Japan or is going to Japan, is interested in modern japanese culture, or simply wants to know more than the average cliché that’s always on the traditional media.
I’ll elaborate some more after the jump.
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Ever watched the clip for Radiohead’s House of Cards? No? Here:

The effect achieved in this clip, namely point clouds with depth of field, is the object of study and subsequent DIY instructions by Kyle McDonald.
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You read right. YouTube user bristolg used his Canon 5D Mark II to compose a 2.3 Gigapixel photograph of the Burj Dubai.

Of course I don’t have the full image here… would completely eat up my bandwith. But the video shows how detailed it is.
This is achieved by taking tons of pics with a special rig and then stitching it up with special software and stuff.
Very awesome!

Source: Gizmodo

James Worrell is a professional photographer who documented one of his work days.

Very interesting watch for those who wants to know more about professional photography. You never know how much equipment is involved ’till you see it through the eyes of a pro photographer, as most people only sees the end results.
Check James Worrell’s official website or right click and save the video in this direct link to James Worrell’s A Day in the Life.
Blog CoolHunting also has tons of stills from the video.

Source: Gizmodo

BBC is coming with a follow up to it’s Planet Earth series and this preview shows how awesome it’ll be:

If you don’t have the time to watch it and needs some convincing, fast foward to 2:11. Jaw dropping scene!

Source: Gizmodo

A video collage of an entire year with all seasons in 90 seconds:

Taken in Oslo, Norway – by Eirik Solheim, using a Canon 5D Mark II.
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Awesome Parkour themed animation that goes to the very basics of how the animation process works:

Looks like stop motion but isn’t. Uses frame by frame idea illustrated with technical pen with a very interesting paper folding and unfolding technique!
Vimeo animator goes by the name of saggyarmpit (lolz, nice).
Music is Dr Dre Rap beat, post production by Noel Lee.

Source: TechEBlog

Sometime ago I posted some of mockmoon’s videos… now that the blog became capable of displaying Vimeo content, I’m posting some more!
MockMoon has these awesome timelapse and tilt-shift videos from Japan.
This one, entitled HASYMO -The City of Light-!

Now that I’m following him along some other brilliant photographers on Vimeo, expect more photography/video posts like this one!
You can check more of his content on mockmoon’s official blog!

Sometime ago I posted some of mockmoon’s videos… now that the blog became capable of displaying Vimeo content, I’m posting some more!
MockMoon has these awesome timelapse and tilt-shift videos from Japan.
This one, entitled Milky Way Time Lapse 2!

Now that I’m following him along some other brilliant photographers on Vimeo, expect more photography/video posts like this one!
You can check more of his content on mockmoon’s official blog!

LUXE37 is the guy behind this very awesome stop motion video with Matchbox-like (dunno if they are original Matchbox) cars:

Incredible! I wonder how long it took the guy to make all the shooting… not to mention building the whole scenario and stuff!

Source: TechEBlog