Murmuration

mur·mur·a·tion

   [mur-muh-rey-shuhn]  Show IPA

noun

1.

an act or instance of murmuring.

2.

a flock of starlings.

Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.

Richard Feynman discusses "Beauty".

Richard Feynman, was a famous American physicist who was known for "his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory ofquantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics (he proposed the parton model)." I have no idea what any of this means, but he won a Nobel Prize in 1965 along with his team for their work on quantum electrodynamics, assisted in the development of the atomic bomb, and was on the panel that investigates the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Anyway, he worked in areas of physics that I can't even pronounce. But above all that, he was an engaging speaker, and did much to popularize science and make it accessible and magical to the masses.

Here, he talks about the nature of beauty, and how sciences awakens rather than dulllens his sense of awe when contemplating the natural world. All in thick, wonderful Queens, NY accent...

It's official - Mathilde is on the blogosphere

:D

Visualized Beethoven

The Froot-Loops version of the first movement of Beethoiven 5th Symphony -mesmerizing!!

Sky Cowboys

I've always really loved this picture of workers having a wee lunch break in the skeleton of a skyscraper being built in the 1930's.

Today, the New York Times has a very cool, very beautiful short video that incorporates photos and interviews with steelworkers at the new World Trade Centre site. There is also a beautiful slideshow. Here's a sampler, but it's worth going to read the commentary on each photo...

One photo every day

Upon turning 30, this man embarked on what sounds like a very simple, pretty cool project: to take one photo every day, and, no matter what, to post it to the internet before bed that night. Looking back on the experience, and on the (gorgeously photographed) fruits of his year's labour, his musings are stirring and beautiful. About the fleetingness of moments, the imperfection of memory, the impermanence of all things... (sounds like a bit of a downer, but it's actually not! :)

TODAY from m ss ng p eces on Vimeo.

He leaves it on this note...

No matter what you do in your life, what you create, what career you have, whether you have a family or kids, or make a lot of money… your greatest creation is always going to be your life’s story. Because it’s like this container that holds all of those other things. That was something I was really interested in with this project, thinking about life itself as a creation, as a story that you’re writing.”

~ Jonathan Harris

Aurora Borealis

The Aurora from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.

Terje Sorgjerd took footage of the Aurora Borealis around Kirkenes, Norway, near the Russian border. A week of footage is condensed in this beautiful time-lapse video.