Sublimity Sunday
In the summertime, across America, battalions of ice cream trucks fill the warm air with the seemingly sweet sounds of one unmistakable jingle: Turkey in the Straw. Ice cream, apparently, is best served with a side of racism. Originally called Zip Coon, the popular American folk tune that has now… Read the rest
Yellowstone… Read the rest, by timelapse photographer Andrew Curtis, is a visual tour through one of America’s most iconic national parks. Where this video moves beyond typical and into the realm of sublime, however, is in its brief, possibly unintended, shots of human hustle and bustle. Besides revealing the natural majesty of
Originally composed as part of an early twentieth century Russian opera, the fast-paced orchestral piece ‘Flight of the Bumblebee’ has become a piano classic that can be heard on soundtracks ranging from the popular 2008 video game Grand Theft Auto IV to the 2003 action flick, ‘Kill Bill.’
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There are so many marketing messages directed at consumers these days it’s easy to forget that some of them are actually pretty good. The above ad for Epuron energy, which was created by the Nordpol+Hamburg agency, won the coveted “Golden Lion” at the international advertising awards in Cannes.
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The tallest house in Archangelsk, Russia is nothing short of grotesque, but that doesn’t stop its builder, one-time gangster Nikolai Sutyagin, from fighting the state’s repeated attempts to bulldoze his self-titled “eighth wonder of the world”.
Sutyagin’s home is a building only in the most rudimentary sense of the word:… Read the rest
Welcome back, all you sublimity-suckling vertebrates. This week’s dose of the awesome was shot at the Seattle Aquarium, where staff just couldn’t seem to find out why all the four-foot sharks in one particular tank kept dying. It remained a scientific mystery until one of them decided stay overnight with… Read the rest
Every August, residents of one small Minnesota farming town come together to throw a really, really big party – a shin dig so big it is not uncommon for 16,000 tourists to flock from around the world to join in the revelry. And the reason for the season? Potatoes.
Often… Read the rest
Happy New Year!
This week’s dose of the sublime hails all the way from Canada, where it’s never too cold to take a nice swim beneath a frozen lake.… Read the rest
Welcome back all you sublimity suckers. We’re glad to see that you made it through the crazy holiday weekend. Here’s a late holiday gift to help bring peace to your frenzied mind before the last week of 2009.
This footage, which features a mysterious gravity wave, was captured in May,… Read the rest
Projection on Buildings from NuFormer Digital Media on Vimeo.
This week’s Sublimity Sunday video is in honor of the season of lights. Watch how NuFormer Digital Media, a company based in the Netherlands, shines digital images on buildings to make them come alive.
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Spitzmeilen – Swiss winter mountains in time lapse from Michael Rissi on Vimeo.
Michael Rissi is a Medical physicist from Zürich, Switzerland with a… Read the rest knack for creating amazing time lapse videos. He captured the footage for the above video, titled Swiss Winter Mountains, during a two-day ski tour in eastern
Welcome back all you sublimity fiends. You all know why you’re here. Tomorrow is the start of another long work week and you need a little something to take the edge off. Lucky for you we’ve got just what the doctor ordered. This week’s dose of the sublime comes in… Read the rest
It’s the Sunday after Thanksgiving (at least here in the U.S.) and you are feeling guilty. You ate too much. You drank too much and fought with your family again. Well, the time has come to stop wallowing in regret and start preparing yourself for the chaos of the rest… Read the rest
In the course of researching this post to find out who the little girl is I happened upon a strange conversation thread discussing whether or not this video is the result of irresponsible parenting. Interestingly, the thread, which came up in a Google search, is not on a parenting website… Read the rest
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All right you sublimity fiends. It’s snowing in the mountains and you should be out taking advantage. But since you aren’t here’s a little piece of television weirdness that you will find every bit as enjoying.
One of the best things about traveling the world is getting to
