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Part 43 in an ongoing series of (approximately) 60 Second Films.
Okay, this one’s a bit longer than 60 seconds, but would you rather have missed the beginning or the end? I couldn’t decide. In spirit, it’s only 60 seconds long.
Spoiler: Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down.
Part 42 in an ongoing series of (approximately) 60 Second Films.
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A recent photo shoot brought me to a plastic mold injection factory where plastic doohickeys are made. Always a fan of machinery, I was fascinated by the process. Here’s how the magic happens:
Tiny plastic beads fill the big metal funnel. They are melted down and injected into the molds. Then the robot arm removes the plastic doohickey and the process begins again. Here’s a detail shot of tiny plastic beads waiting to be turned into doohickeys:
Hundreds of molds sit on shelves, ready to churn out anything from perfume bottle tops to sunglass display holders:
With less than a month until the election, the campaigns are bound to get pretty crazy. So I think we should take a minute to relax, inhale slowly, and bask in the glow of the CNN Election Center monitors in a quiet moment with no one else around.
Part 34 in an ongoing series of (approximately) 60 second films.
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Part 31 in an ongoing series of (approximately) 60 second films.
I’m too humble a blogger to dedicate an entire post to the fact that the 2008 Bloggies are open for nominations until Friday, and that Ironic Sans would be an excellent choice in either the “best-kept secret weblog” or “best American weblog” categories. Luckily, I think quality content like this video really says all that for me.
Part 30 in an ongoing series of (approximately) 60 second films.
Part 29 in an ongoing series of (approximately) 60 second films.
If you look quickly, you can catch a glimpse of the Cyclone, too.
Parts 22-28 in an ongoing series of (approximately) 60 second films.
I just got back from the Galapagos Islands. It was amazing. We went snorkeling with sea lions and sea turtles, saw all sorts of animals that don’t exist anywhere else, and learned a lot while we were doing it. But instead of going on and on about how great it was, I’m going to condense the experience into two simple posts. This one has videos, and this post has photos. None of them do the experience justice.
60 Seconds in the Life of the Waved Albatross
The Waved Albatross breeds only on Espanola Island. They mate for life, so when they first hook up they go through an elaborate dance to get to know each other, so they will recognize each other when they return to the Island to mate again after they go foraging off the coast of Peru. This is what their courtship dance looks like:
60 Seconds in the Life of Sally Lightfoot Crabs
These aren’t endemic to the Galapagos, but they’re fairly abundant. It wasn’t unusual to see several dozen at a time along the rocky shores. I’ve always thought crabs looked pretty cool, like little alien robots. But I had no idea crabs could jump. Watch the background and you’ll see.
60 Seconds in the Life of Blue Footed Boobies
They have a silly name, and they look kind of silly on land. But in flight and on the hunt, Blue Footed Boobies look like another creature altogether — bomber planes. They fly around looking for schools of fish, and then dive straight into the water to grab what they can, as seen in this video. It was shot from a dinghy in choppy water, so I apologize for the shakiness:
60 Seconds in the Life of Marine Iguanas
The Galapagos Islands have the only iguanas in the world that forage in the sea. They hold their breath and dive down to eat algae for minutes at a time, and then hang out en masse on shore when they’re done. I think they were my favorite animals on the whole trip. Charles Darwin wrote about them, “The black Lava rocks on the beach are frequented by large (2-3 ft) most disgusting clumsy Lizards. They are as black as the porous rocks over which they crawl & seek their prey from the Sea. I call them ‘imps of darkness’.”
60 Seconds in the Life of Frigatebirds
Frigatebirds are the ones you may have seen photos of with the big red inflated pouches that look like balloons. They fly over water, but they never land on water. Instead, they steal from other birds like pirates in mid-air. In flight, they have incredible silhouettes, with their forked tails and pointed, angled wings. These birds were filmed flying over our boat, arriving as soon as they smelled food, presumably hoping for our scraps.
60 Seconds in the Life of Flightless Cormorants
The flightless cormorant is endemic to Galapagos, and it’s the only variety of cormorant that can’t fly. In cormorant families, both parents care for the child in the nest, but at some point the mother abandons the family to go mate with someone else. In this clip, a father cormorant watches over the baby cormorant while the mother is out getting food. Either that, or she’s out “getting food” nudge nudge wink wink.
60 Seconds in the Life of Giant Tortoises
Galapagos means “saddleback” and the islands were named for the giant tortoises that live there, some of which have shells that resemble saddles. When competing for territory, Giant Tortoises extend their necks upward, and whoever’s neck extends furthest wins. The following clip is cut short because my neck apparently doesn’t extend far enough.
Unfortunately, all this video is low-res and only goes so far in doing the islands justice. Check out the photos for more.
Part 21 in an ongoing series of (approximately) 60 second films.
For some reason, I just found these two birds fascinating.
Part 20 in an ongoing series of (approximately) 60 second films.
Brrr. It’s cold outside. So I thought today would be a nice day to revisit summer:
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I’m always fascinated every time they change this ad space. Instead of putting up a giant printed ad, like I see on other walls, this wall actually gets repainted by hand, sometimes in great detail.
Here are some photos of the progress:
Part 17 in an ongoing series of (approximately) 60 second films.
Yesterday at the US Open: Rafa Nadal vs. Wesley Moodie.
Part 16 in an ongoing series of (approximately) 60 second films.
Lying on my bed staring up at the ceiling one day (I’ll just let you imagine what kind of day it must have been), I noticed this fly. And I knew I’d found the star of another 60 Second film.
Part 15 in an ongoing series of (approximately) 60 second films.
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Summer is here and the heat is in full force. Cool off with this footage of our last big snowfall.
Hmm. It was so much prettier before all the YouTube compression. I switched to Revver, and it looks a million times better.
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Filmed at the new Apple store on Fifth Avenue.
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If you only see one 60-second movie this year, see this one. Seriously. I think it’s my favorite. It actually gets my heart racing every time I watch it.
Part 6 in an ongoing series of (approximately) 60 second films.
I almost named this one “60 Seconds in the Life of a Guy in a Sweater Vest”
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Part 4 in an ongoing series of (approximately) 60 second films.
500 bonus points go to whoever figures out on which street this was shot. No, make it 5,000 bonus points.
Part 3 in an ongoing series of (approximately) 60 second films.
Part 2 in an ongoing series of (approximately) 60 second films.
This one is called “60 Seconds in the Life of Steam” and was filmed at 42nd Street and Second Avenue in Manhattan.
This is the first entry in an ongoing series.
I occasionally film 60 second movies. They have no conventional plot, and often no characters. They are usually studies in motion that I find interesting. Sometimes there is something moving in an otherwise static frame, and other times it’s the reverse: something is static in an otherwise moving frame. When I have movies that I especially like, I’ll be publishing them here as part of an ongoing series. In truth, they aren’t all exactly 60 seconds, but they come close.
I’m kicking off the series with a movie I call “60 Seconds in the Life of Laundry.”
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