Selecting over 200,000 photos from Cassini–Huygens’ eight years of image-taking, Fabio Di Donato animates Around Saturn to Jazz Suite No.2: VI. Waltz 2 by Dmitri Shostakovich.
This is the third video made with Cassini imagery that has gone viral over the last few years — the others: Cassini Mission by Chris Abbas and Outer Space by Sander van den Berg. Perhaps that popularity reflects just how incredible it is to see these up close glimpses of the sixth planet from 900 million miles away.
Announced this year at ComiCon San Diego, Neil DegGrasse Tyson will be rebooting Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series of FOX. In case you missed Cosmos from 1980, all of the episodes are streaming on Hulu Plus. It’s a fantastic and radical series to say the least.
Who says rock n’ roll has an age limit? This mystery Grandma randomly threw down a show for the people to see in a Wisconsin drum shop. Thank you internet!
Start with large basic shapes, add details after, have fun with the process, and then let go of it and try again. In Pardon My Dust, by director Adriel de la Torre, watch Dynamic Sketching teacher Peter Han illustrate on a chalkboard as he talks about teaching the practice of seeing, visualizing, and expressing drawn images through very simple shapes.
The stink bug: Nature’s skunk. Though not nearly as menacing as say, a Giant Asian Hornet, the humble stink bug doesn’t suffer fools kindly. They’ll unleash a cloud of pungent, cilantro-flavored defensive odors at the slightest provocation. So the fact that director Matthew R Day was able to direct so many of them in such precise choreography is quite a feat.
