"Moebius Redux - Ein Leben in Bildern" erzählt der Ausnahmekünstler Jean Giraud die Geschichte seines Lebens und seiner Arbeit, unterstützt von Künstlern, die ihn begleiteten und wieder verließen. Zu ihnen gehören der Filmemacher Alejandro Jodorowsky und der Comic-Künstler Philippe Druillet, der Schweizer Künstler H. R. Giger und "Marvel"-Comics-Legende Stan Lee, aber auch Bewunderer wie Jim Lee und Mike Mignola als Vertreter einer neuen Comic-Generation. Sie geben nicht nur Einblick in ihre Zusammenarbeit mit Giraud, sondern auch in eines der eindrucksvollsten Künstlernetzwerke unserer Zeit. Der Dokumentarfilm lässt sich inspirieren von der faszinierenden, grenzenlosen Bildsprache Girauds. Seine Comic-Kreationen erwachen zum Leben und ungewöhnliche Aufnahmen von Paris, Los Angeles und der mexikanischen Wüste schlagen eine visuelle Brücke zwischen Girauds Leben und seinen Bilderwelten, begleitet vom elektronischen Soundtrack der "Kraftwerk"-Legende Karl Bartos ..."(via Progolog)
My Lego tribute to the end of the space shuttle era. Proving that although retired, this machine can still fly, albeit in toy form. The launch took place from central Germany and reached a max altitude of 35000m. A 1600g meteo balloon filled with helium was used alongside a GoPro Hero, Spot GPS and of course Lego Space Shuttle model 3367. The launch took place on the 31st of December 2011, the equipment was recovered via GPS tracking 240 km S-E from a remote area. I wish to thank Steve Sammartino for the opportunity to do this project and the german airtraffic control for the understanding.
Quadrotors designed and built at the University of Pennsylvania perform the James Bond Theme by playing various instruments including the keyboard, drums and maracas, a cymbal, and the debut of an adapted guitar built from a couch frame ... These flying quadrotors are completely autonomous, meaning humans are not controlling them; rather they are controlled by a computer programed with instructions to play the instruments.
An Expedition 30 crew member aboard the International Space Station took this nighttime photograph of much of the Atlantic coast of the United States. Large metropolitan areas and other easily recognizable sites from the Virginia/Maryland/Washington, D.C. area are visible in the image that spans almost to Rhode Island. Boston is just out of frame at right. Long Island and the New York City area are visible in the lower right quadrant. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are near the center. Parts of two Russian vehicles parked at the orbital outpost are seen in left foreground.
How many? We don’t know. Our best guess is five million to six million prints and contact sheets (each sheet, of course, representing many discrete images) and 300,000 sacks of negatives, ranging in format size from 35 millimeter to 5 by 7 inches — at least 10 million frames in all. The picture archive also includes 13,500 DVDs, each storing about 4.7 gigabytes worth of imagery. When the Museum of Modern Art set out to exhibit the highlights of the Times archive in 1996, it dispatched four curators. They spent nine months poring over 3,000 subjects, working with two Times editors, one of whom spent a year on the project. In the end, they estimated that they’d seen only one-quarter of the total. If we posted 10 new archival pictures every weekday on Tumblr, just from our print collection, we wouldn’t have the whole thing online until the year 3935. That’s a bit too ambitious. Instead, we’ll be dipping in and publishing several photographs each week, some of which will be available for purchase and some of which will be accompanied by a more extensive back story posted on the Lens blog. As we do so, we’ll gradually digitize at least the tip of the iceberg of this enormous trove, guaranteeing its continued utility and accessibility in the future ...Toll auch, dass man per Klick auf die Fotos deren Rückseite einblenden kann, die mit Anmerkungen, Notizen und Datum versehen sind. Alles in allem ein prima Projekt – auch wenn ich eine Lösung wie das Google gehostete LIFE Foto-Archiv besser gefunden hätte.
