July 2009
28 posts
It Might Get Loud →
Rock. (Link to the trailer on the side)
(via Sony Classics)
A short film, which was created by my friend Sumit and his team for the Imagine Cup 2009 short-film competition. The imagine cup, incidentally was held in Egypt this year, hence the theme:
“Egypt, ancient meets modern.”
(via Sumit Dagar)
Gautam's Number Plate →
The cool thing about owning an exclusive vehicle isn’t the ‘ooh’s and aah’s’ you would get on the road (well ok, some of that too), but the select community of like-minded individuals who share the same passion for machines as you do. Royal Enfield is one such institution with an ardent following in urban India. Keeping up with the internet age, they have created a...
Home: A Film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
“Home”
is a wonderful documentary directed by noted filmmaker, photographer and
environmentalist Yann
Arthus-Bertrand. It chronicles the present day state of the Earth, its
climate and how we as the dominant species have long-term repercussions on its
future.
The film is almost entirely composed of breathtaking aerial
shots of various parts of our planet in order to provide perspective on...
Me: Wishing I was more industrious.
Do you believe what you see?
The other day I was talking to some ecologists at work, who specialize in rainforest canopies. Describing some key characteristics of dense rainforests, they mentioned that a thick canopy allows very little light to penetrate to the surface. To quantify, it’s about ten times brighter up top as compared to the ground. As a result, only ferns and other very small shrubs can survive in the...
The trippiest thing you'll see today →
Weird but fun - oddly, words cannot do this justice (Link to the side)
(via digg)
A well made video which details what goes on beneath the ‘Surface’.
(via tu on Vimeo)
Making sense of the internets