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Issue 02.10 // Nice. Weekly. Videos. Wk 8

A stop motion video by Nobody Beats the Drum [Via ChangetheThought]. After watching the video, I spent the rest of the day wondering how they plan for such a shoot.


Kanye West has redesign his blog, and on it a new music video.


Michael Moloney, a filmmaker, and John Hooper, a photographer, collaborated on this video for If You Could Collaborate. Watch out for the part when they filmed camera flashes on the hillside at about 0:40. [Via Kitsune Noir]

Issue 02.10 // Nice. Random. Links. Wk7

I was sick (feverish, headache, sore throat) at the end of the third day of Chinese New Year. I suspected it was tonsillitis but the Dr Mark Flores (who, coincidentally, happens to be my Dad's tenant) at the polyclinic diagnosed otherwise on the fourth day. At the end of the fifth, everything pretty much subsided except for the headache which reached its peak. And, on its peak, bad thoughts crept into me. But, I vow never to let it happen again. Anyway, here are the links:

1. V for Valentine [Ministry of Type]
2. World Press Photo 2010 [Via Creative Review]

Gunkanjima – Battleship Island

Photography © Ken Lee and Skorj / Magnesium All Rights Reserved.

Battleship Island is an English translation of the Japanese nickname for Hashima Island, Gunkanjima (gunkan meaning battleship, jima being the rendaku form of shima, meaning island). The island's nickname came from its apparent resemblance to the Japanese battleship Tosa due to its high seawalls. It also is known as the Ghost Island.

Via BoingBoing

Workspace by Joseph Holmes

I love chaotic scenes of workspace or humanscape without the human. I am glad I am not alone on this. This image of an industrial office space is a series called Workspace by photographer Joseph Holmes. More at here. Via A Continuous Lean.

Where plastic ends up

The effects of waste floating off Pacific on the population of albatross as documented by Seattle-based photographer Chris Jordan. I kind of wish that these were human babies instead. Even then we might not react. I will let the images speak for themselves. Via CR. Via Guardian. Via Jordan's site.