Showing posts with label God's Majesty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label God's Majesty. Show all posts
Monday, July 23, 2012
Earth: The Making Of A Planet
Imagine cameras have been around since the creation of Earth to record every major event.
Take a photographic journey thorough time from the violent birth of our planet four and a half billion years ago, through ice-ages, massive volcanic eruptions and the dinosaurs' reign to the first humans. For the first time, see the incredible story of our planet unfold in one single, seamless camera move.
Wednesday, July 04, 2012
Northern Lights From Balloon (Project Aether Alaska)
Post by "CavalierZee"
In April 2012, I was part of a team of scientists, teachers and students who travelled to Alaska to observe the Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis. Our mission was a unique one - to launch weather balloons up to 100,000 feet loaded with experiments, tracking devices and HD cameras. This is the result of our trip, produced for Catalyst on ABC1 http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/
In April 2012, I was part of a team of scientists, teachers and students who travelled to Alaska to observe the Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis. Our mission was a unique one - to launch weather balloons up to 100,000 feet loaded with experiments, tracking devices and HD cameras. This is the result of our trip, produced for Catalyst on ABC1 http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/
Friday, June 29, 2012
Necessity Is The Mother Of Evolution
Post by "CavalierZee"
If my tongue was as long as the tube-lipped nectar bat, it would be over 9 feet long. It’s only 5 cm long, but has a 9 cm tongue! This uniquely-outfitted creature was only discovered in 2005, and its feeding captured here for the first time by National Geographic cameramen.
By the way, did you know that bats constitute the second largest order of mammals after rodents?! More than 1,200 separate species have been identified.
The tube-lipped nectar bat and its favorite flower food source, C. nigricans, are an amazing example of coevolution. Here’s how it likely worked:
If you’re a flowering plant, your whole goal is to get pollinated. So a nectar-producing flower wants to make its nectar hard enough to reach that a pollinator (like the bat) has to really try to get at their snack, maximizing the potential for rubbing up against the flower and getting a good dusting of pollen. But the flower can’t make it so difficult to reach that the bat goes elsewhere for food. So evolutionary pressure says you might make your nectar tube as long as the bat can reach.
If you’re a bat, your goal is to eat. That means that in addition to learning how to hover like a bird (which is a big deal in itself), you need to possess a tongue that’s long enough to reach down and get your food. Pollen? You don’t eat pollen. You don’t care about pollen. But you just happen to get some on your head while slurping up dinner, and maybe you drop it in the next flower you visit. Evolutionary pressure says that you will be driven to have a long enough tongue in order to reach down into the flower as well as a head that fits inside the flower opening.
That’s exactly what we see here!! Two species triggering change in the other species based on selective pressures. And it’s stunning to behold.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Childbirth Captured In MRI Scan
Post by "CavalierZee"
Scientists have captured the first video of childbirth using an MRI scanner, showing the baby making its way down the birth canal.
Scientists have captured the first video of childbirth using an MRI scanner, showing the baby making its way down the birth canal.
Earth As Art : Masterpieces Of Stone and Ice
Post by "CavalierZee"
Revel in Earth as Art. Make sure you watch in glorious 1080p. Landsat missions were launched for scientific purposes, but they make up one of the most awe-inspiring collections of beautiful images of our home planet.
For the last few centuries, artists have been exploring Earth's untamed and awe-inspiring vistas, often as an antidote to life in the modern world. They evoked the grandeur of the Hudson River, the peace of Scandinavian fiords, or the omnipotent power of the ocean. This romantic ideal today has gained a new vantage point, from space, and a new set of brushes for capturing the beauty of our planet.
Landsat images feature colors tuned to record geological or even human forces at work. More than that, though, this great gallery of Earth explores its timeless beauty, its uncertain path forward.
So take this tour of Earth's great landforms as seen from space. We travel to Africa and the Sahara and Namib deserts, to Argentina and Bolivia, the American heartland, and the great Canadian land and ice forms. Then it's on to Greenland, Iceland, Russia, India, China, and finally the continent down under.
We wrap our journey in a small corner of the vast Great Sandy Desert. The satellite has brought out the scarring action of natural wildfires. The narrow sand dunes that cut across the scene are like cracks on an ancient brittle canvas. A masterpiece, from the turbulent imagination of an artist, whose brushes are wind, and fire, and time.
Revel in Earth as Art. Make sure you watch in glorious 1080p. Landsat missions were launched for scientific purposes, but they make up one of the most awe-inspiring collections of beautiful images of our home planet.
For the last few centuries, artists have been exploring Earth's untamed and awe-inspiring vistas, often as an antidote to life in the modern world. They evoked the grandeur of the Hudson River, the peace of Scandinavian fiords, or the omnipotent power of the ocean. This romantic ideal today has gained a new vantage point, from space, and a new set of brushes for capturing the beauty of our planet.
Landsat images feature colors tuned to record geological or even human forces at work. More than that, though, this great gallery of Earth explores its timeless beauty, its uncertain path forward.
So take this tour of Earth's great landforms as seen from space. We travel to Africa and the Sahara and Namib deserts, to Argentina and Bolivia, the American heartland, and the great Canadian land and ice forms. Then it's on to Greenland, Iceland, Russia, India, China, and finally the continent down under.
We wrap our journey in a small corner of the vast Great Sandy Desert. The satellite has brought out the scarring action of natural wildfires. The narrow sand dunes that cut across the scene are like cracks on an ancient brittle canvas. A masterpiece, from the turbulent imagination of an artist, whose brushes are wind, and fire, and time.
Saturday, June 16, 2012
TimeScapes: Rapture 4K
Posted by "CavalierZee"
By "Tom Lowe"
"This is production footage from my forthcoming debut film, "TimeScapes," a portrait of the American Southwest. This video was filmed and edited at 4K (4069x2304) resolution, four times greater than regular 1080p HD. A 4K DCP file is available upon request. Shot on Red Epic and Canon RAW still cameras.
You can pre-order the movie "TimeScapes" here: timescapes.org/pre_order.asp
Follow the film here:
1) twitter.com/timescapes
2) facebook.com/TimeScapes
3) gplus.to/tomlowe
If you have a 30" monitor and fast computer you can download a 2560x1440 copy of this video here: red.cachefly.net/TimeScapes4K2560p.mp4 4K version only if you have a 4K monitor or projector: coming soon
Thank you to Terrence Malick and Godfrey Reggio for their support and inspiration. Also thanks to Eric Kessler, Curt Morgan, Jim Jannard, Vincent Laforet, Bruce Allen, Phil Plait, Dave Finley, and to Helio Collective for the beautiful title logo. My most sincere and humble respect to Mark Magidson and Ron Fricke.
Thank you to my sponsors Kessler Crane, Adobe, camBLOCK, Vinten, Canon USA, TVLogic, Borrow Lenses, Wooden Camera, and KATA.
Music by Nigel "John" Stanford: johnstanfordmusic.com"
By "Tom Lowe"
"This is production footage from my forthcoming debut film, "TimeScapes," a portrait of the American Southwest. This video was filmed and edited at 4K (4069x2304) resolution, four times greater than regular 1080p HD. A 4K DCP file is available upon request. Shot on Red Epic and Canon RAW still cameras.
You can pre-order the movie "TimeScapes" here: timescapes.org/pre_order.asp
Follow the film here:
1) twitter.com/timescapes
2) facebook.com/TimeScapes
3) gplus.to/tomlowe
If you have a 30" monitor and fast computer you can download a 2560x1440 copy of this video here: red.cachefly.net/TimeScapes4K2560p.mp4 4K version only if you have a 4K monitor or projector: coming soon
Thank you to Terrence Malick and Godfrey Reggio for their support and inspiration. Also thanks to Eric Kessler, Curt Morgan, Jim Jannard, Vincent Laforet, Bruce Allen, Phil Plait, Dave Finley, and to Helio Collective for the beautiful title logo. My most sincere and humble respect to Mark Magidson and Ron Fricke.
Thank you to my sponsors Kessler Crane, Adobe, camBLOCK, Vinten, Canon USA, TVLogic, Borrow Lenses, Wooden Camera, and KATA.
Music by Nigel "John" Stanford: johnstanfordmusic.com"
Friday, June 15, 2012
Divinity Revealing Itself
Posted by "CavalierZee"
Music: "Velvet Reptile"
Artist: "Solar Fields"
In every moment of every day,
Through a thousand individual manifestations of Itself,
Is Divinity revealing Itself.
Quote by: "Neale Donald Walsch"
Music: "Velvet Reptile"
Artist: "Solar Fields"
In every moment of every day,
Through a thousand individual manifestations of Itself,
Is Divinity revealing Itself.
Quote by: "Neale Donald Walsch"
Thursday, June 14, 2012
The Venus Transit
Posted by "CavalierZee"
The Venus transit as seen in the 171 wavelength. This channel is especially good at showing coronal loops - the arcs extending off of the Sun where plasma moves along magnetic field lines. The brightest spots seen here are locations where the magnetic field near the surface is exceptionally strong.
Credit: NASA SDO
The Venus transit as seen in the 171 wavelength. This channel is especially good at showing coronal loops - the arcs extending off of the Sun where plasma moves along magnetic field lines. The brightest spots seen here are locations where the magnetic field near the surface is exceptionally strong.
Credit: NASA SDO
Monday, June 11, 2012
Jellyfish
Posted by "CavalierZee"
By "Anthony Yebra"
Jellyfish shot with a Canon 550d.
Music is "Send And Receive" by "Tycho"
By "Anthony Yebra"
Jellyfish shot with a Canon 550d.
Music is "Send And Receive" by "Tycho"
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Sunday, June 03, 2012
The Beauty of Pollination - Moving Art
Posted by "CavalierZee"
This video was shown at the TED conference in 2011, with scenes from "Wings of Life", a film about the threat to essential pollinators that produce over a third of the food we eat. The seductive love dance between flowers and pollinators sustains the fabric of life and is the mystical keystone event where the animal and plant worlds intersect that make the world go round.
This upcoming film comes from director and cinematographer Louie Schwartzberg. Musical score provided by Bliss.
This video was shown at the TED conference in 2011, with scenes from "Wings of Life", a film about the threat to essential pollinators that produce over a third of the food we eat. The seductive love dance between flowers and pollinators sustains the fabric of life and is the mystical keystone event where the animal and plant worlds intersect that make the world go round.
This upcoming film comes from director and cinematographer Louie Schwartzberg. Musical score provided by Bliss.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Weirdest Planets
Posted by "CavalierZee"
Courtesy Of "National Geographic and YouTube"
Courtesy Of "National Geographic and YouTube"
With temperatures ranging from 1000 to 2000°C, gravity 15 times stronger than Earth’s, and a year that lasts just 5.6 of our days, HAT-P-2b is not a planet you’d want to visit for vacation.
The unusual gas giant—located 440 light-years away in the constellation Hercules – turns out to be the most massive planet found outside our solar system so far.
Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, spotted the superdense planet using the HATNet global network of automated telescopes, which scans a large fraction of the Northern Hemisphere sky every night to search for planets.
HAT-P-2b, the second planet the project has discovered, stunned scientists with far-out features unprecedented for an alien world.
HAt-P-2b is but one of the odd planets in the cosmos. Journey further into space with this documentary, and discover the weirdest planets of our universe.
Friday, May 11, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Dakuwaqa's Garden
Underwater Footage From Fiji & Tonga
Posted by "CavalierZee"
Underwater footage shot whilst scuba diving in the Fiji islands and Tonga. Featuring colorful coral reefs, huge schools of tropical fish, sharks, humpback whales, underwater caves, scuba divers and much more marine life from the south Pacific.
The coral reefs of the south Pacific are alive with a huge variety of tropical fish and marine critters. A great way to explore them is to scuba dive with the Nai'a liveaboard based in Fiji. I was working as the Nai'a's video pro when I shot this footage. See http://www.naia.com.fj/
The underwater footage was shot in high definition HDV 1080i 60i with my Sony HVR-Z1P HDV camera in a Light & Motion Bluefin HD housing. The footage was converted to 720p for YouTube using my high quality method:
http://www.bubblevision.com/underwater-video/Vegas-YouTube-Vimeo.htm
The music is "In the Meadows" by Stephen Richard Thomas Brown, whose wonderful work you can find here:
http://www.myspace.com/stephenrichardthomasbrown
http://stephenrichardthomasbrown.bandcamp.com/
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=276599
View the names of all the dive sites and names of all the tropical fish and other marine life by turning on closed captions with the CC button. Here is the full shot list of species and dive sites. You can find more complete information at http://www.bubblevision.com/underwater-videos/Fiji-and-Tonga/scuba-diving.htm :
0:04 - "E6", Bligh Water, Fiji
0:06 - Reticulated Dascyllus at "Maytag"
0:09 - "Mushrooms", Namena Marine Reserve
0:11 - "Coral Corner"
0:13 - "Maytag"
0:15 - "Coral Corner"
0:17 - "Mellow Yellow"
0:20 - "E6"
0:22 - Chironephthya corals at "Mount Mutiny"
0:24 - Cave at "Lion's Den" near Wakaya Island
0:28 - Chironephthya corals at "The Whole Shebang"
0:31 - "The Whole Shebang"
0:33 - "Mellow Yellow"
0:35 - "E6"
0:37 - "Kansas" at North Save-a-Tack
0:39 - Lyretail anthias at "Howard's Diner"
0:43 - "Maytag"
0:45 - Banded sea krait at "Jim's Alley" near Gau Island
0:52 - Pacific sailfin tang
0:54 - Button polyps at "Humann Nature"
0:56 - Urn ascidians at "Becky's" near Makogai Island
0:59 - Pom pom Xenia
1:03 - Barberi clownfish
1:05 - Barberi clownfish at "Cat's Meow"
1:07 - Barberi clownfish
1:11 - Pink anemonefish
1:13 - Blueband gobies
1:16 - Firefish at Lua Lafalafa Reef, Tonga
1:18 - Orbicular batfish
1:20 - Teira batfish over the "Nasi Yalodina" wreck
1:22 - Elongate surgeonfish
1:24 - Blackfin barracuda
1:27 - Bigeye trevallies at "Grand Central Station"
1:29 - Schooling bannerfish at "School House"
1:31 - Pacific double-saddle butterflyfish
1:33 - Blue and gold fusiliers over yellow scroll coral at Nigali Passage
1:35 - Barcheek trevally at "Tetons"
1:37 - Golden damsel & bluestreak cleaner wrasse
1:40 - Blue and gold fusilier and bluestreak cleaner wrasse
1:42 - Sunburst anthias at "Palako's Patch"
1:44 - Speckled damsel spawning at Uoleva Point
1:46 - Arc-eye hawkfish at "Anthias Avenue"
1:38 - Longsnout flathead at Luangahu Reef
1:51 - Ribbon eel at "Tetons"
1:53 - Giant moray
1:55 - Juvenile rockmover wrasse at "Two Thumbs Up"
1:57 - Firefish
2:00 - Red lionfish
2:02 - Whitetip reef shark under "Kansas"
2:04 - Grey reef shark
2:10 - Sinularia corals
2:12 - Blue-spotted puffer
2:15 - Blackspotted puffer at Ha'afeva Island, Tonga
2:17 - Blue-green Chromis
2:21 - Red lionfish
2:23 - Zebra lionfish at Luangahu Reef
2:28 - Coral grouper at "Becky's"
2:30 - Dwarf hawkfish
2:32 - Scorpionfish
2:34 - Randall's prawn-goby
2:36 - Signalfin goby
2:39 - Gorgeous prawn goby & snapping shrimp
2:41 - Weedy pygmy seahorse
2:43 - Ornate ghost pipefish
2:47 - Ornate ghost pipefish eggs in brooding pouch
2:50 - Christmas tree worm
2:53 - Manta ray at Vatu Vai
2:58 - Hawksbill turtle
3:03 - Humpback whale mother and calf at Ha'apai, Tonga
3:10 - Malabar grouper
3:15 - Honeycomb coral
3:19 - "Lion's Den"
3:21 - "Mushrooms"
3:23 - "Coral Corner"
3:25 - "Mushrooms"
3:28 - Whitemargin unicornfish
3:30 - Dendronephthya soft coral
3:32 - Bigeye barracuda
3:35 - "Gomo"
3:39 - "Nasi Yalodina" wreck
3:41 - "E6"
3:43 - Lance blenny
3:45 - Triplespot blenny
3:48 - Valentini puffer
3:50 - Parrotfish at Nukupule
3:52 - Bluespotted ribbontail ray
3:54 - Blotched fantail ray at Ha'afeva Island
3:56 - Orange mantis shrimp
3:59 - Sexy shrimp
4:01 - Day octopus
4:04 - Fuchsia flatworms mating
4:07 - Bullock's Hypselodoris
4:09 - Spanish dancer
4:14 - Spanish dancer at Ha'afeva Island
4:18 - Brown booby at Vatu-i-ra
Dakuwaqa is a shark-god from Fijian mythology. Learn about him athttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEHydvbCeVg
Posted by "CavalierZee"
Underwater footage shot whilst scuba diving in the Fiji islands and Tonga. Featuring colorful coral reefs, huge schools of tropical fish, sharks, humpback whales, underwater caves, scuba divers and much more marine life from the south Pacific.
The coral reefs of the south Pacific are alive with a huge variety of tropical fish and marine critters. A great way to explore them is to scuba dive with the Nai'a liveaboard based in Fiji. I was working as the Nai'a's video pro when I shot this footage. See http://www.naia.com.fj/
The underwater footage was shot in high definition HDV 1080i 60i with my Sony HVR-Z1P HDV camera in a Light & Motion Bluefin HD housing. The footage was converted to 720p for YouTube using my high quality method:
http://www.bubblevision.com/underwater-video/Vegas-YouTube-Vimeo.htm
The music is "In the Meadows" by Stephen Richard Thomas Brown, whose wonderful work you can find here:
http://www.myspace.com/stephenrichardthomasbrown
http://stephenrichardthomasbrown.bandcamp.com/
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=276599
View the names of all the dive sites and names of all the tropical fish and other marine life by turning on closed captions with the CC button. Here is the full shot list of species and dive sites. You can find more complete information at http://www.bubblevision.com/underwater-videos/Fiji-and-Tonga/scuba-diving.htm :
0:04 - "E6", Bligh Water, Fiji
0:06 - Reticulated Dascyllus at "Maytag"
0:09 - "Mushrooms", Namena Marine Reserve
0:11 - "Coral Corner"
0:13 - "Maytag"
0:15 - "Coral Corner"
0:17 - "Mellow Yellow"
0:20 - "E6"
0:22 - Chironephthya corals at "Mount Mutiny"
0:24 - Cave at "Lion's Den" near Wakaya Island
0:28 - Chironephthya corals at "The Whole Shebang"
0:31 - "The Whole Shebang"
0:33 - "Mellow Yellow"
0:35 - "E6"
0:37 - "Kansas" at North Save-a-Tack
0:39 - Lyretail anthias at "Howard's Diner"
0:43 - "Maytag"
0:45 - Banded sea krait at "Jim's Alley" near Gau Island
0:52 - Pacific sailfin tang
0:54 - Button polyps at "Humann Nature"
0:56 - Urn ascidians at "Becky's" near Makogai Island
0:59 - Pom pom Xenia
1:03 - Barberi clownfish
1:05 - Barberi clownfish at "Cat's Meow"
1:07 - Barberi clownfish
1:11 - Pink anemonefish
1:13 - Blueband gobies
1:16 - Firefish at Lua Lafalafa Reef, Tonga
1:18 - Orbicular batfish
1:20 - Teira batfish over the "Nasi Yalodina" wreck
1:22 - Elongate surgeonfish
1:24 - Blackfin barracuda
1:27 - Bigeye trevallies at "Grand Central Station"
1:29 - Schooling bannerfish at "School House"
1:31 - Pacific double-saddle butterflyfish
1:33 - Blue and gold fusiliers over yellow scroll coral at Nigali Passage
1:35 - Barcheek trevally at "Tetons"
1:37 - Golden damsel & bluestreak cleaner wrasse
1:40 - Blue and gold fusilier and bluestreak cleaner wrasse
1:42 - Sunburst anthias at "Palako's Patch"
1:44 - Speckled damsel spawning at Uoleva Point
1:46 - Arc-eye hawkfish at "Anthias Avenue"
1:38 - Longsnout flathead at Luangahu Reef
1:51 - Ribbon eel at "Tetons"
1:53 - Giant moray
1:55 - Juvenile rockmover wrasse at "Two Thumbs Up"
1:57 - Firefish
2:00 - Red lionfish
2:02 - Whitetip reef shark under "Kansas"
2:04 - Grey reef shark
2:10 - Sinularia corals
2:12 - Blue-spotted puffer
2:15 - Blackspotted puffer at Ha'afeva Island, Tonga
2:17 - Blue-green Chromis
2:21 - Red lionfish
2:23 - Zebra lionfish at Luangahu Reef
2:28 - Coral grouper at "Becky's"
2:30 - Dwarf hawkfish
2:32 - Scorpionfish
2:34 - Randall's prawn-goby
2:36 - Signalfin goby
2:39 - Gorgeous prawn goby & snapping shrimp
2:41 - Weedy pygmy seahorse
2:43 - Ornate ghost pipefish
2:47 - Ornate ghost pipefish eggs in brooding pouch
2:50 - Christmas tree worm
2:53 - Manta ray at Vatu Vai
2:58 - Hawksbill turtle
3:03 - Humpback whale mother and calf at Ha'apai, Tonga
3:10 - Malabar grouper
3:15 - Honeycomb coral
3:19 - "Lion's Den"
3:21 - "Mushrooms"
3:23 - "Coral Corner"
3:25 - "Mushrooms"
3:28 - Whitemargin unicornfish
3:30 - Dendronephthya soft coral
3:32 - Bigeye barracuda
3:35 - "Gomo"
3:39 - "Nasi Yalodina" wreck
3:41 - "E6"
3:43 - Lance blenny
3:45 - Triplespot blenny
3:48 - Valentini puffer
3:50 - Parrotfish at Nukupule
3:52 - Bluespotted ribbontail ray
3:54 - Blotched fantail ray at Ha'afeva Island
3:56 - Orange mantis shrimp
3:59 - Sexy shrimp
4:01 - Day octopus
4:04 - Fuchsia flatworms mating
4:07 - Bullock's Hypselodoris
4:09 - Spanish dancer
4:14 - Spanish dancer at Ha'afeva Island
4:18 - Brown booby at Vatu-i-ra
Dakuwaqa is a shark-god from Fijian mythology. Learn about him athttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEHydvbCeVg
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