Micro Timelapse From Daniel Csobot

Daniel has done a great job, with awesome efforts put by him. Some of the shots really best you could ever see with excellent transition and growth is so smooth. Once you see the video, I’m sure many of them would try something like this. You’d love watching your garden change overnight but this is wondrous. God's nature is undeniably perfect. Wow, you’d be really admired the heart touched work of Daniel, what a brilliant video! How mysterious and fantastic life is! Truly awesome! Nothing makes me as happy as watching plants, and a chance to see them sprout, grow and bloom in such exquisite detail just blows my mind and makes my day! Without any doubt this is excellent efforts in bringing us such a joyous and unforgettable piece of film making.

Macro Timelapse from Daniel Csobot on Vimeo.

Morning Light

The Cool morning air is disturbed by the sound of wings as they flap across the water of the shallow lake.  The once deep lake is nothing but a memory with just enough water to sustain what life is left feeding on it with eternal gratefulness for its existence. Kaibab Lake once a pristine 30 acre +lake has been reduced to 15 acres or less with a depth in some spots you could walk in from the drought that is plaguing Northern Arizona.

 Photo Credit: Jacqueline Baer

Awaken 4K by Fort Myers and Sanibel

I've just seen this for the first time, and love the video cuts as well! I don't know how it slipped through the cracks the first time around, but I love it. Incredible work and I got it all in balance handsomely. Imagery, video, audio, edits, soundtrack, narrative, the whole thing. This is really outstanding dedication and passion. I hunted for 6 months for that shot, so much sleeping in the car, but in the end, it paid off more than I could have imagined. As much as I like the time-lapse shots I love the video cuts even more. You captured some epic moments my friend. Keep up the killer work!

AWAKEN 4K from Cameron Michael on Vimeo.

HDR Skies

Shot on 400D, 60D & Sigma 10-20 Hand made 3 axis motion control rig HDR shots tone mapped with Photomatix v4 Edited in Adobe Premiere & After effects CS5 Music composed on Roland mc-808

Hdr skies from Tanguy Louvigny on Vimeo.

"Wanderers" - A Short Film By Erik Wernquist

Making this film has been a work of passion, and it is such an invaluable reward to see that it is received with the same kind love, energy and optimism that was put into it. This flood of optimism and appreciation right here will forever be a reminder to me, that the world is full of people who share hopes and dreams of a grand future for humanity are it on this world or on others. You know “Wanderers” is a vision of humanity's expansion into the Solar System, based on scientific thoughts and concepts of what our future in space might look like, if it ever happens. The locations showed in the film are digital recreations of actual places in the Solar System, built from real photographs and map data where available. Moreover without any apparent story, other than what you may fill in by yourself, the idea of the film is primarily to show a glimpse of the fantastic and beautiful nature that surrounds us on our neighboring worlds and above all, how it might appear to us if we were there. He’s unsure what to say but a big thank you! And thank you again for this fantastic and absolutely overwhelming response to this little film. 

Wanderers - a short film by Erik Wernquist from Erik Wernquist

Men’s New Crochet Short Fashion Made from Recycled Vintage Blankets.

These days, everyone is trying to look prominent by adopting different fashions. This aptitude is highly popular in girls, but now a new fashion has setting new trend in men’s. The popular crochet’s not just for scarves and sweaters anymore, Schuyler Ellers, who runs the Lord von Schmitt Etsy shop, produced a magnificently flamboyant patterned crochet shorts out of recycled materials that’re sure to please both the wearer and their stunned beholders woman or man.

Ellers embrace every style out there, from form-fitting booty shorts to prodigal bell-bottom pants. Most of these excellent shorts are made of recycled vintage crochet Afghans; according to Ellers’ shop, “you know Afghan blankets are original pieces of folk art, hand made by artisans across America since the 1960’s and well before. By using scissors and a sewing machine I transform vintage crochets into lovely wearable sculpture! If you’re really-funky or extra brave, then you must check out Ellers’ Etsy shop to see if he’s got something that jives with you!

AirAsia Flight From Indonesia To Singapore Loses Contact With Air Traffic Control

An AirAsia flight traveling from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore with 162 people on board lost contact with air traffic control early Sunday morning, the airline confirmed. Indonesia quickly launched a search to locate the missing plane, but by Sunday night, most search and rescue operations were halted for the day, the plane still unaccounted for.

Flight QZ 8501 -- an Airbus 320-200 -- lost communication with Indonesia's Surabaya Juanda International Airport at 7:24 Singapore time on Sunday morning, the airline said. The plane "was requesting deviation due to enroute weather before communication with the aircraft was lost," AirAsia said in a statement.

"The weather was not good -- it was bad -- at the estimated location the plane lost contact," Indonesian Transport Ministry official Hadi Mustafa said.

Mustafa said the plane lost contact somewhere between Kalimantan on Borneo island and Belitung island, about 42 minutes after the jet took off.

AirAsia Indonesia CEO Sunu Widyatmoko said that the airline is "deeply shocked and saddened" by the disappearance.

“We are deeply shocked and saddened by this incident," he said in a Facebook post. "We are cooperating with the relevant authorities to the fullest extent to determine the cause of this incident. In the meantime, our main priority is keeping the families of our passengers and colleagues informed on the latest developments.”

The ministry's air transportation director Joko Muryo Atmodjo said no distress signal had been sent, adding, "Therefore we cannot assume anything yet." "We are coordinating with [the] rescue team and looking for its position. We believe it is somewhere between Tanjung Pandan, a town on Belitung island, and Kalimantan," Atmodjo said . The plane took off at 5:20 a.m. local time in Surabaya and was scheduled to land at 8:30 a.m. in Singapore, according to AFP.

155 passengers, two pilots and five crew members were on board the flight, AirAsia said in a statement. The passengers and crew included 155 Indonesians, three South Koreans, one Singaporean, one Malaysian, one French citizen and one British. The captain was Indonesian, the co-captain French. 16 children and one infant were among the passengers, AirAsia said.

According to The Sydney Morning Herald, one woman present at a crisis center at the Changi Airport had seven family members on the flight, including her mother and brother.Malaysia, Singapore and Australia offered to assist the search for the plane. AirAsia said it was "cooperating fully" with the efforts, and set up a call center for relatives of those aboard the plane . AirAsia has established an Emergency Call Centre that is available for family or friends of those who may have been on board the aircraft. The number is: +622129850801.

Indonesia's Transport Ministry said six ships and two helicopters were deployed to search for the missing flight. Malaysia contributed three navy ships and three aircraft to help in the search. Singapore sent a C130 aircraft, officials said. Despite the coalition of countries looking for Flight QZ 8501, Sunday night fell with the plane still missing, prompting Indonesia to call off the search for the day. By 8:30 p.m. local time, all air search efforts were halted, though several boats continued the hunt. The full search was expected to resume around 6 a.m.

The U.S. also offered support for the search. Spokespersons for the National Transportation Safety Board and the State Department said that the agencies are monitoring the situation and "ready to assist" the rescue team if needed.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore released a statement early Sunday saying "a waiting area, and all necessary facilities and support have been set up for relatives and friends of the affected passengers" at Changi Airport. By Sunday evening, dozens of those connected to the passengers had registered at the waiting area. Tony Fernandes, the CEO of AirAsia, announced he would go to Surabaya where most of the passengers were from. "This is my worst nightmare," he wrote on Twitter.

The A320 is Airbus’s best-selling jet family, with more than 6,000 planes in operation. In a statement, Airbus said that the plane that went missing came off the production line in 2008, and had conducted approximately 13,600 flights, for a total of about 23,000 flight hours. Airbus announced it would provide its full assistance to the investigation, and said the "thoughts of the Airbus management and staff are with all those affected by Flight QZ 8501."

As news of the missing flight unfolded, AirAsia changed the color of the logos on their social media channels from red to grey. AirAsia, which is headquartered in Malaysia, is one of the fastest growing low-cost carriers in Asia. It has never lost a plane before, according to the Associated Press. The disappearance of the AirAsia flight is the third air incident of 2014 that involves Malaysia, the Associated Press notes. Malaysia's national carrier, Malaysia Airlines, suffered two disasters in 2014. In March, the airline lost contact with flight MH370 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew aboard. It remains missing. In July, flight MH17 was downed over eastern Ukraine, killing 298 people. Following the news of Flight 8501's disappearance, Malaysia Airlines offered its support on Twitter.

According to a White House pool report, U.S. President Barack Obama was briefed on the missing flight, and "White House officials will continue to monitor the situation." Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong wrote on Twitter that he was "saddened" to hear about the missing plane. "My thoughts are with the passengers and their families," he said. Malaysia's Prime Minister Mohammad Najib Razak said his country "stands ready to help."

"Our hearts and hopes are with the passengers and families of AirAsia QZ8501," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry tweeted.

Read Full Story at Huffingtonpost.com 

A Synonym for Excellence Made in Tuscany Italy

Architecture Sonora developed something totally exclusive, completely designed, developed and hand-built in Tuscany, Italy. The synchronization characterizing the Tuscan landscape reveals a balanced relationship between people and their territory: numerous interventions over time have shaped and structured the landscape we know today on the basis of human needs and respect for the territory, reconnecting what is essential and what is natural. Invention and landscape, craftsmanship and materiality, from the Impruneta terracotta to the white marble from the Apuan Alps; from landscape to landscape this is our way to attain a distinct and spatial relationship with landscape.

Made in Tuscany from Architettura Sonora on Vimeo.