Christopher Lantz

_{The women are the strong ones, truly.}

In the remarkable time-lapse video “Dubai Flow Motion” by photographer Rob Whitworth, Dubai is explored in a series of frenetic, seamlessly linked time-lapses. The video covers the length and breadth of Dubai, including the baggage sorting system of the Dubai International Airport, the interior of the Burj Khalifa (the world’s tallest building), and the tanks of the Dubai Aquarium and Underwater Zoo.

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A mother who goes by the handle Unicornreality on Imgur recently used a makeup app to give her newborn son a virtual makeover with some hilarious results. The photos show the young boy with varying levels of digitally inserted makeup, fake eyelashes, and wigs to give him looks that range from to cute to downright unsettling.

images via Unicornreality

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Indonesian wildlife photographer Hendy Mp has captured absolutely amazing images of a tiny Reinwardt’s tree frog riding atop a giant rhinoceros beetle, like a tiny cowboy upon his steed. Giddy-up!

photos by Hendy Mp

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Fuzzy Dude with Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue

Fashion designers, models, and other luminaries at New York Fashion Week are shown posing with bouncing fuzzy creatures in the thoroughly odd animated GIF portraits of motion designer John McLaughlin. McLaughlin has been recruiting people to pose with the “Fuzzy Dude” at various Fashion Week events. The project started as an experiment with hair rendering in Cinema 4D, but now McLaughlin is using it to raise awareness for the nonprofit organization Champions Against Bullying.

Fuzzy Dude with models at the JOYRICH presentation

Fuzzy Dude with actress Zosia Mamet

Fuzzy Dude with a model at the Sandy Liang presentation

Fuzzy Dude with model Julia Restoin Roitfeld

GIFs by John McLaughlin

via The Creators Project

Prayer nuts are small spherical wooden objects that can be opened to reveal remarkably ornate relief carvings of biblical events. Prayer nuts served as a kind of luxury Rosary bead for pious (and wealthy) Northern Europeans during the 16th century. The objects are now rare and reside in a few museums around the world, including the British Museum in London, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and one particularly handsome fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. For those in the market for a prayer nut, Sotheby’s recently auctioned one for £133,250–which comes out to $205,000.

photos via British Museum

via Un monde de papier, My Modern Metropolis

The Sant Antoni de la Pobla bonfire festival is an annual three-day celebration that takes place in the Gràcia neighborhood of Barcelona each winter. The festival began in 1992, but is based on a much older festival from the island of Majorca. The Barcelona version features traditional music, performances, and food from both Majorca and Catalonia. The festival culminates in a night of bonfires and a spectacular procession of costumed revelers. The 2015 festival took place in the end of January.

photos by Jordi Boixareu/ZUMA Press/Corbis

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ethertune:

steps to SAKURA (By teeco55)

wanokokoro-japan:

Genko-an Temple (Kyoto,JAPAN)

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livingabovetherest:

gettingahealthybody:

ifuckinghatetomhiddleston:

REAL LIFE DISNEY PRINCE TOM HIDDLESTON EXHIBIT

I adore him.

My biggest role model

I never got why SO MANY females swoon over him, many of my friends list him as their #1 celebrity crush but glimpsing this bit of his intelligent, compassionate, romantic personality (Even if it may be glorified PR persona or REALLY good game with the ladies) I finally get it a little.

dawnschan:

so happy these ladies and these pictures exist

Ah I love this!

tastefullyoffensive:

"Helping the princess" by Port Sherry

Hah it all makes sense now :p!

Noctiluca scintillans, a species of bioluminescent plankton, illuminated a stretch of coastline near Hong Kong yesterday in a stunning display that was captured in long exposure photos by photographer Kin Cheung. Unfortunately, as The Atlantic reports, the glowing bloom is caused by farm pollution. The plankton is also known as “Sea Sparkle.”

photos by Kin Cheung/Associated Press

Mario Wienerroither (previously) of the DIGITALOFEN audiobakery recently stripped all the music out of the music video for Sia‘s song “Elastic Heart” featuring Shia LaBeouf and Maddie Ziegler. Wienerroither then dubbed over the music video with all sorts of crazy sounds and voices.

Sia’s original music video for comparison:

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Les Beehive – Emily Blunt, Cate Blanchett, Zhou Xun, Ewan McGregor and Christoph Waltz by Peter Lindbergh

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i’m so queer i just ???

sterlingcoopergifs:

_{"Zou Bisou Bisou."}

Although questionable in its genesis, the “hands-in-the-air” gesture has become the de facto slogan of outcry against police brutality and racial profiling tactics across the country, with the latest endorsement from NFL athletes sparking a minor controversy in its own.

It’s that time again: the year-end movie montages are here. In the next six weeks we’ll probably see quite a few examples of people cutting together reels of their favorite film footage from the past twelve months, but two early entries in the 2014 movies supercut race are already available. One is a great edit of footage from 25 of the year’s best films, while the other is a long cut that samples from a couple hundred movie trailers.

First up, let’s have a look at David Ehlich’s nicely-cut look back at the year in film. The Little White Lies contributor and new Associate Film Editor at Time Out New York cuts together a montage of what he considers to be the 25 best films of each year, and the 2014 edit has just arrived.

And then, for the completist who doesn’t have much time to spare, there’s the supercut of one shot from each of almost 200 movie trailers released this year.

That comes from Louis “The Sleepy Skunk” Plamondon, who also does this sort of edit each year. His YouTube page is the source of this cut of 197 movie trailers from 2014. The full list of films featured in the video is available at his Tumblr.

The post VOTD: Revisit the Movies and Trailers of 2014 in Two Impressive Montages appeared first on /Film.

“United States of Pop 2014 (Do What You Wanna Do)” is a mashup by DJ Earworm that combines more than two dozen hit songs from 2014 including “Say Something” by A Great Big World, “Turn Down For What” by DJ Snake and Lil Jon, “Shake It Off” by Taylor Swift, and more into one seamless track.

DJ Earworm compiled a similar mashup of popular songs from 2013 as well.