JAJA and me

I've been living an alter ego at JAJA Blog and have found it increasingly difficult to maintain my personal blog. Initially, I wanted separate the two but I've finally given up on trying to separate things that are in reality the same.

So for the time being this blog will take a long time out...

Aquarium in Osaka

I stumbled across this beautiful video of Kaiyukan which is the worlds 2nd largest tank. It is located in Osaka, Japan, and I was there a couple of years ago and was especially fascinated by the main tank, "Kuroshio Sea", and its large whale sharks. One of these whale sharks is approx. 6 meters long but they can grow to become 12 meters and weigh 15 tons.

The main tank holds 7,500-cubic meters of water and features the world's second largest acrylic glass panel, measuring 8.2 meters by 22.5 meters with a thickness of 60 centimeters.

Kuroshio Sea - 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world - (song is Please don't go by Barcelona) from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo.

Flight Patterns

I'm back from an excellent summer vacation and I looked through my favorite video website, Vimeo, and I found this little fantastic video.

It is a long exposure footage of flying bugs by a lamp post. The bug's flight patterns makes it appear as beautiful random scribbling.

flight patterns from Charlie McCarthy on Vimeo.

Barack Obama!

Hilarious video celebrating Barck Obama created by jibjab

I wonder how long this Obama euphoria will continue...

Bursting water ballons in Super Slow Motion

Garth Davis from EXIT films has created this captivating commercial for Schweppes of bursting water balloons shot in super slow motion.

Double deadline mode and we got it!

I'm going into a double deadline mode and have to hand in a project in two weeks... and again the week after.

Hopefully, I'll resurface again in the end of the month.

And onto a totally different topic. Below is a nice video created by the talented RAMA



And some behind the camera footage.

Potato Head

Ginou Choueiri is Lebanese artist living in Beirut. She says about her potato portraits:

"I chose the potato to portray human faces because of the many striking parallels. Not only is their skin porous like ours, but their skin texture and color is very similar, and like us, they come in different sizes, shapes and forms. Potatoes grow, live, and then decay, mirroring the ephemeral existence and fragility of our own human nature."

LED music facade

lights on from thesystemis on Vimeo.

lights on is an audio visual performance created for the Ars Electronica museum in Linz, Austria, which has a facade that contains 1085 LED controllable windows. The windows' colors are changed in realtime with music that's broadcasted on speakers surrounding the building.

Wind facade

In 2002, Ned Kahn worked with the staff of Technorama, the major science center in Switzerland, and their architects, Durig and Rami, to create a facade for the building which is composed of thousands of aluminum panels that move in the air currents and reveal the complex patterns of turbulence in the wind.



via Swissmiss

Living Tokyo

The energy of Tokyo beautifully portrayed by WOW.

The video is a promotional video they did for the Citizen.

It is by far one of the best videos I've seen in a while. It's a beautifully orchestrated combination of amazing images, nice music and well-excuted editing that perfectly encapsulates the ever-changing urban rythm of Tokyo.

As An•D pointed out, the city seems to come alive as if it was one single organism.