Almost 20 years after Baraka, Director/Cinematographer Ron Fricke is returning to cinema with Samsara and the film looks nothing short of fucking amazing.

Filmed over 5 years, 25 countries and 100 locations, Fricke’s follow up will also be devoid of dialogue, text and narrative and instead, tackle the theme of “humanity’s relationship to the eternal” purely through music and images.

Goddamn beautiful images at that.

The movie was shot entirely on 70mm film, but is set to be released via digital 4K projection, with no plans for a 70mm print; which is a damn shame and hopefully not another nail in that looming coffin for 35mm and film (stock). Mind you, I’ll be just as happy to get an actual theatrical of this awesome looking film considering a supposed ‘lack of market’ in NZ.

Anyhow, check it out (and in HD if that wasn’t obvious enough).

Capturing images in the infrared light spectrum makes for some really gorgeous pictures. Be sure to check out the rest.

More awesomeness at slightlywarped.com

• Yet to watch the Olympics opening ceremony, but I like Warren Ellis’ tweet-report version
• Plus, Danny Boyle’s programme introduction for the ceremony’s concept
• An interview with Alison Klayman, director of Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
• Can Creativity be Automated?
• Editorial on how Writing is Acting
• Brian Lewis Saunders made self portraits for each drug he took
• Library of Congress’ map collection is basically a map-porn hub for enthusiasts
• 3 Really Long Wars and 3 Really Short Wars
• Video: Yeah, being in a dust storm would be pretty mental
• The sport science of table tennis is pretty wack too
• Mashable’s 25 Twitter Accounts That Will Make You Smarter

Also, this. Just cause.

Created by The Open University, this witty and informative ten-part series details the creation and history of the wife-swapping bastard that is the English Language.

Just to do something different too, I’m posting the rest ‘after the jump’ on it’s own page, cause 10 embedded videos in a row can be considered a little overkill.

(more…)

Photographer Navid Baraty is a jerk that takes awesome photos from over the edge of New York skyscrapers. Obviously he’s not really a jerk (or at least I can’t say so, cause I’ve never met the man but I’m sure he’s an upstanding citizen), but sweet jebus some of these photos remind a bit too easily, the whole horrible heights fearing thing.

via