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Lightning

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From Tom Warner and ZT Research comes some video of Lightning at approx 9000 frames per second.  That works out to .4 second in the 90 second clip



Besides high-speed work, they also have some excellent time-lapse video.

From a different source comes the night illumination photographed by An-My LĂȘ in "29 Palms: Night Operations III"
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In this photograph of night artillery practice in Twenty-Nine Palms, CA each line is the path of a shell in flight.
 
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Patrick Jean - Pixels

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Turn down the volume, the sound is "accurate", which is to say really painful

PIXELS by Patrick Jean.

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Videos for the Day

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Now wasn't that cheery
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Hanukkah Music Video Night

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'cause there's never too much Jewish heavy-metal

Erran Baron-Cohen's Dreidel, complete with rapping in Yiddish!


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Audi's "Unbox The Box"

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Passion Pictures and 1st Ave Machine put together this deciptivly simple animated ad for the Audi Q5.
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"Somewhere a Kindle is ashamed"

Created for the New Zealand Book Council, via
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Kinetic Type Foundry (Really) produced this fantastic little bit of animated type for AICP's recent conference in Minnesota, featuring all the sponsors.

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I was prepared to be angry that the Kimberly Process isn't doing it's job of weeding out conflict diamonds with the decision not to suspend Zimbabwe, despite clear violations.  Then I happened upon a trailer for Ultimate Muscle Roller Legend, and all that was forgotten for the 1:49 of, to quote a great newsman of our day, the craziest f@#$%ing thing I've ever seen.


(perhaps not quite safe for work, there are jock-straps)
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There were Pirates and then there were Vikings and then there were Viking-roadies and then perhaps a marching band.....
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Created by Joel Trussell, who reused some of that work in the equally silly introduction and closing to "The Animation Show" season 4

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