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Lovely lovely stuff… restored 78s from the early half of the 20th century. The soundtrack to a movie you’ve never seen.

some machine does that for you….

in the year…

This is absolutely lovely.

Address Is Approximate from The Theory on Vimeo.

Google Street View stop motion animation short made as a personal project by director Tom Jenkins.

Story: A lonely desk toy longs for escape from the dark confines of the office, so he takes a cross country road trip to the Pacific Coast in the only way he can – using a toy car and Google Maps Street View.

Music by the wonderfull Cinematic Orchestra (cinematicorchestra.com) and the track is Arrival of the Birds – please buy the fantastic album: itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-crimson-wing-mystery-flamingos/id297787201

All screen imagery was animated – there are no screen replacements.

Produced, animated, filmed, lit, edited & graded by Tom Jenkins (theoryfilms.co.uk / facebook.com/theoryfilms – !NEW MAKING OF PICS ON FB PAGE! / @thetheoryUK / twitter.com/#!/thetheoryUK).

Shot using Canon 5d MkII, Dragonframe Stop Motion software and customised slider.

Pretty awesome photo of San Francisco “in ruins” taken from an airship in 1906 post earthquake and fire.

I love the photo for the fact that there are no bridges and what’s up with that other Steam-Punk-esque airship with the solar panel like sails?

“No cars, no mobiles, just sun and bread”

Click to see the full size image in all it’s sepia-toned glory…

Holbrook, if you haven’t already check this documentary out. It’s a fascinating look at Harry Nilsson and his extraordinary life. His friendship with John Lennon & Ringo Star. His work on gun control after Lennon’s death. His Irish wife Una O’Keefe (who I suspect was on a J-1 when he met her). Plenty of interviews and comments from the likes of Robin Williams, Yoko Ono, Van Dyke Parks, Randy Newman, and Micky Dolenz.

Even the story of the writing of “One (is the loneliest number)” is as fascinating as the man himself.

You know we’re not all about music at LCEC. I spotted the painting below in the window of the Keeling Gallery, it’s called Delirium. The one below that is called Euphoria, and the one at the bottom, Hibernia Nirvana.  You can read and see more about Brian McCarthy’s work at http://www.artinprint.com/

Silencing is a new illusion that shows it’s hard to notice when moving objects change.

Instructions: Play the movie while looking at the small white speck in the center of the ring. At first, the ring is motionless and it’s easy to tell that the dots are changing color. When the ring begins to rotate, the dots suddenly appear to stop changing. But in reality they are changing the entire time. Take a look.

Via filterfine.com from the http://visionlab.harvard.edu/silencing/

Motion silences awareness of color changes from Jordan Suchow on Vimeo.

Where the weather suits my clothes….