Sing Sang Sung

Wildly colorful organic animation to Air's lovely "Sing Sang Sung". My kind of music video! Suddenly, I have an urge to watch Yellow Submarine again.

AIR MUSIC VIDEO SING SANG SUNG from MATHEMATIC SAS on Vimeo.

Resource depletion

How Long Will Our World Last?

"Most people get worried about how much energy reserves we have left, but as this graphic shows, that's the least of our problems. The real problem is the materials we use to make things.

Energy could be harnessed from eternal sources, like the sun, the wind, or the seas. But there is only a limited amount of elements in planet Earth and—what's worst—bringing them from other planets will prove impractical with our current technology (and the technology that will be available in the next century).

In the meantime, copper—which is everywhere around you—will be gone in about 61 years; antimony—widely used in medicines—will be depleted in 20 years; while indium, rhodium, platinum, or silver—which are present in many essential consumer electronics—won't last much longer. And those estimations are only valid if we manage to consume half of what we are consuming now.

So, unless we really push technology forward, dramatically increase our recycling rhythm, or something extraordinary happens first—like Apophis obliterating us or the Large Hadron Collider blows us to another dimension, or Nazi zombies getting out of their crypts to make bacon of all of us—we and our children are going to have a really hard time pushing the world forward.

I guess we will have to keep taking life one weekend at a time. "

[via Gizmodo]

Wabi-sabi

A Drop Of Blue Salt from Vida Vega on Vimeo.
A beautiful, simple animation I came across today inspired by the Pablo Neruda sonnet below.

Sonnet IX: There where the waves shatter
by Pablo Neruda

There where the waves shatter on the restless rocks
the clear light bursts and enacts its rose,
and the sea-circle shrinks to a cluster of buds,
to one drop of blue salt, falling.

O bright magnolia bursting in the foam,
magnetic transient whose death blooms
and vanishes--being, nothingness--forever:
broken salt, dazzling lurch of the sea.

You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence,
while the sea destroys its perpetual statues,
collapses its towers of wild speed and whiteness:

because in the weavings of those invisible fabrics,
galloping water, incessant sand,
we make the only permanent tenderness.

Earth forming underwater

A mind-blowing, rare video of pillow lava and earth forming underwater in Kilauea, Hawaii:

Nature Rocks!

Remarkable MOOG sounds from seals! This video clip from Warner Herzog's "Encounters at the End of the World" is amazing.

Earth Ambience and Brian Eno

Here are a few ethereal and simply stunning seasonal time lapse videos inspired by one of the most original and too often overlooked electronic gurus of our time: Brian Eno. These videos have got to be some of the best on YouTube; beautifully capturing earth's work with an impeccable soundtrack that can't be beat...

Brian Eno - This


Brian Eno - How Many Worlds


"All deep things are Song...The primal element of us; of us, and of all things...See deep enough, and you see musically; the heart of Nature being everywhere music." - Thomas Carlyle