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BRINGING COLOR TO LIFE
Canon Pixma: Bringing colour to life from mcgarrybowen uk on Vimeo.


YOU'VE BEEN USING ALUMINUM FOIL WRONG


BOILING WATER &WATER GUN IN EXTREME COLD (NORTHERN ONTARIO) SOUTH PORCUPINE


Peter Bellerby - The Globemaker
Peter Bellerby - The Globemaker from Cabnine on Vimeo.



If you ever have a chance to visit The Louvre museum in Paris France - it's worth it! One day won't cover it. Allow plenty of time to stroll around.


Jill Barber - All My Dreams (Official Video)

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EMMA
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BIRTH OF A BOOK
                                Birth of a Book from Glen Milner on Vimeo.

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1938 - WINDOW CLEANERS ON THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING, NEW YORK, N.Y.


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(STAR WARS) DEATH STAR OVER SAN FRANCISCO


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BRUTE PROCESSING POWER MAKES HUGO SHINE

Creating Hugo, Martin Scorsese’s first 3-D movie, took a lot of imagination. But it also took a lot of processing power — one fantastic scene alone would have taken 19.5 years to render if just a single computer had been used, according to the production house that handled the bulk of the movie’s visual effects.

Intense VFX shots layered upon the already-complex 3-D production made Hugo a challenge that could only be met with brute computer strength. That strength came courtesy of Pixomondo, the VFX shop that completed some 800 shots for the film in just over a year, employing 400 artists in the United States, United Kingdom, China, Thailand and Germany.

Why were so many hands needed? Because rendering just one version of one shot of the film — the swooping view into the train station, shown at the beginning of the above clip that showcases Pixomondo’s work on Hugo — took 171,015 hours of processing time. To get it done in time for the film’s November release, they broke down each shot into jobs for 1,000 computers in five different offices.

Getting all those shots of Hugo’s 1930s Paris just right also took a lot of electricity — nearly all the juice the VFX house’s office in Burbank, California, could muster.

“We didn’t have enough electricity [to do the rendering] in one office,” Pixomondo VFX supervisor Ben Grossmann said in an e-mail to Wired.com. “We blew out two power transformers trying, and had to get the electricity company to help us install more powerful ones…. Each time we rendered the shot, it cost $35,000 in electricity alone.”

Many shots in the film needed between 20 and 100 different versions, but because this particular shot was so complex, only one complete version could be made — and it was only reviewed by the filmmakers in still frames and small sections. The completed version was delivered on the last day possible in order to make the film’s release date, according to Grossmann.

“In fact, it was presented to Marty on a laptop in the lobby of the DGA theater after his initial screenings with the Academy only a few weeks before theatrical release,” Grossman said.

Want more fun facts about Pixomodo’s work on Hugo? When building Paris on a computer, the smallest “bricks” the company used were called “polygons.” The train station totaled 35 million polygons and each train came in at 2 million polygons. The number of polygons in the entire city, Grossman said, was too large to calculate.

Check out how Pixomodo’s work came together on Hugo in the clip above and get a taste of how much processing power can go into just one film.

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REASONABLE MATH (?)
From the Ma & Pa Kettle movie series


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INSPIRED BY ICELAND
(promotional video to visit Iceland) sung by EMILIANA TORRINI - JUNGLE DRUM >GO FULL SCREEN< (video is better that the original Jungle Drum song) ***May be offensive Iceland has a short summer and they're doing their best to make up for it.***
Inspired by Iceland Video from Inspired By Iceland on Vimeo.

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Mission Eiffel Tower from FKY on Vimeo.

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THE LIVING BRIDGE


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EXPERIENCE ZERO GRAVITY


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BLOODROP


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HUMPBACK WHALE GIVES SHOW AFTER BEING RESCUED
Amazing!!!


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IMPOSSIBLE NAIL THROUGH WOOD TRICK

Impossible Nail Through Wood Trick - Watch more Funny Videos

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LARGEST MODEL RAILWAY IN THE WORLD


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LIGHT PAINTING WIFI

Immaterials: Light painting WiFi from Timo on Vimeo.

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CHARLIE CHAPLIN KEYSTONE PROJECT - FILM LOCATIONS THEN AND NOW
Inside the Keystone Project is a short documentary detailing the international restoration efforts; historian John Bengtson takes a then and now look at several Keystone film locations in a 10 minute filmed tour based on the book SILENT TRACES.


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EXTRAORDINARY FOOTAGE OF WATERSPROUTS OFF AUTRALIAN COAST


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PHOTOGRAPHER: HIS PICTURES AT CHERNOBYL AND FUKUSHIMA
*** May be offensive, one body in Japan ***


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TYPEWRITER ART
Celebrated British artist Keira Rathbone creates much of her art using a typewriter. In this digital age Rathbone has decided to use a more old-fashioned technique. A traditional keyboard creation can take her up to 90 hours to produce, and some of her work can be seen on book and magazine covers. Rathbone owns 30 typewriters.


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HOW TO PAINT THE MONA LISA WITH MS PAINT

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THE WORLD'S LARGEST SKATEBOARD


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FLY


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iPAD + VELCRO

iPad + Velcro from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.

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Ronnie and Stacie's Love Story
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WHERE THE HELL IS MATT?
(started as an office prank until a gum company paid his way around the world)


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1906, TRIP DOWN MARKET STREET, SAN FRANCISCO (no audio)
San Francisco's main thoroughfare as seen from the front window of a moving Market Street cable car, before the downtown area was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire. This unusual record has been called the first "structural film" because it follows exactly the externally imposed structure of the car ride.
***Suggest you skim through the first 2 minutes as the film frames didn't lock up. Great 35mm film footage!


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FAST LANE - THE SHOPPING CARTS + SKATEBOARDS
Are you ready for the Fast Lane? Some carts are pimped with a skateboard. Watch it in the action!


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Help Me! I Can't Shut My Mouth! - Bizarre ER - BBC Three
(A young Brit by the name of Holly was so bored in class that she yawned her jaw out of alignment, subsequently unable to close her mouth. A perfect blend of hilarity and suffering. Her clever doctor's solution? Literally jam as many popsicle sticks as possible into her gaping maw until her jaw muscles exhausted themselves from the pressure, and snapped her skull back into its proper place.)


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DANSE AVEC LES REQUINS

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JUST KEEP GOING, YOU GOT NOTHING TO LOSE


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