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Six Bonds in one exhilarating car chase

2012-09-06T02:08:31.071Z

Marking the first time in UK history all the Bond films will be available to enjoy in one place, in HD, on demand and without ad breaks, Sky Movies 007 HD launches on 5 October 2012. Uniting all six Bonds in one exhilarating car chase sequence using footage from Dr No, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, The Spy Who Loved Me, The Living Daylights, Goldeneye, The World Is Not Enough and Quantum of Solace, Sky Movies' seamless sequence features all of the Bonds as portrayed over the course of the franchise by Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig.

via [The Daily What]

Ocean Sky

2011-07-08T02:17:44.970Z

At a star party in August 2009 I took my first long exposure photograph of the night sky. I was so thrilled with the results that I dedicated most moonless weekends since then to photographing two things I love the most in nature - the night sky and the Ocean.

Taking a series of images and combining them into a time lapse video sequence made it even more interesting. I have since experimented with all-night time lapses, panning motion, etc. But most importantly I've enjoyed the journey immensely.

This time lapse video is the result of almost 1.5 years of work, 31 hours of taking images during six nights on Southern Ocean Coast in Australia.

Ocean Sky was awarded the overall winner prize at STARMUS astrophotography competition:
http://www.starmus.com/pages/en/winners-starmus-astro-photography-competition128.php

The Sound track is by Redmann
http://www.toucanmusic.co.uk/artists/artist.php?q=Redmann

Alex Cherney

http://www.terrastro.com

via [The Daily What]

Time Lapse Sky Shows Earth Rotating Instead of Stars

2011-05-30T18:11:17.449Z

Here is a minor edit to the excellent video by Stephane Guisard and Jose Francisco Salgado, posted at Nicolas Bustos channel. Visit http://eso.org for more about the European Southern Observatory.

The time-lapse starfield has been edited to show the rotation of the Earth from the point of view of the stars.

At http://astrosurf.com/sguisard/ and http://josefrancisco.org/ are more pictures from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) located in the Atacama Desert, Chile.

Music: "Arcadia" available at http://incompetech.com, copyright by Kevin Macleod.

At http://youtu.be/wFpeM3fxJoQ is the original video.

At http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-05/time-lapse-video-very-large-... see this blogged at Popular Science

For anyone interested, here's how to do the effect with the cheap version of Sony Vegas Movie Studio ($50). (Better packages offer auto-stabilizing, which would be a lot easier.) Use Tools, Video, Video Event Pan/Crop. Add two keyframes, one at the beginning, and one at the end. Choose a star that appears at both beginning and end. Align a reference point on the frame (any point of your choosing) to the star at the keyframe in the beginning and the keyframe at the end. This alone will accomplish the effect if no rotation is required. When rotation is required, first determine where the X Center and Y Center of the Rotation setting in the Pan/Crop window should appear. (If you use the scroll bar at the bottom of the Pan/Crop window to preview forward and backward you can eyeball where the center of the arc formed by the stars is.) Drag the X Center, Y Center to that point, which may or may not be within the video frame. The final step is to eyeball the rotation angle that occurs between the keyframe at the start and the keyframe at the end. If you've done all this correctly, the effect itself will handle all the angles and x/y positions between the two keyframes. If you find yourself tweaking it by adding new keyframes in the middle to try to realign stars along the way, that's the path to madness (cf. 1:07 in the video). Just get the x/y position, rotation center, and angle of rotation correct for both the first and last keyframe and it should work fine.

via [TheDaily What]

Exploring the Sky - Wingsuit Flying 2011

2011-04-02T07:12:48.373Z

Helmet cam footage from wingsuit flights at the edges of the United States, including California (Lake Elsinore), Florida (Zephyrhills), Nevada (Mesquite), and Puerto Rico (Vega Baja). The last scene was from a vertical formation record organized by Flock University, 25 expert wingsuit fliers exiting from two airplanes.

See more footage of the 25 wingsuit vertical diamond record: vimeo.com/19552772

Wingsuit Pilots: Justin Shorb, Douglas Spotted Eagle, Matt Santa Maria, Joel Hindman, Joshua Sheppard, Abe Sheppard, James Raimar, Brian Voils, Tim Hedderich, John Kallend, Zach Schroedel, Alex Scheidt, Jason Carter, Kyle O’Donohue, Scott Callantine, Brian Snarr, Andreea Olea, Simon Repton, Ralph Kubicsek, Ben Lowe, Savage Sac, Cate Flies, Rick Hough, Greg Drogaline, Scott Bland, Michael Swearingen, Ryan Maher, Mike Masheff, Nick Wright, Dennis Sattler, Scotty Burns, Jt Valente, Jeff Donohue

Primary footage captured and edited by Richard Schneider, Lake Elsinore parachute deployment scene captured by Douglas Spotted Eagle.

Music: Undenied by Portishead & The Funeral by Band of Horses.

Learn more at picturecorrect.com/wingsuit

via [likecool]

Benassi Bros. ~ Rocket In The Sky

2008-05-22T07:21:26.485Z

My ode to D ~ !