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ABU DHABI 2011 - DEFINITIVE VERSION, English intro from Beno Saradzic on Vimeo.

The definitive version of 'Abu Dhabi - 2011' time lapse film. It features the phenomenal original score by Vladimir Persan.

UPDATE - 12 March 2012 - Vladimir Persan's Original Soundtrack wins the nomination for 'BEST ORCHESTRAL/INSTRUMENTAL SONG at Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2012' !!!!

UPDATE - April 2012 - Portions of 'Abu Dhabi 2011' are featured in the 3rd episode of BBC's 'Wild Arabia' documentary Series

UPDATE - Aug 2013 - 'Abu Dhabi 2011' is entered into Encyclopaedia Britannica 'Project Time-Lapse'. Very honored to have my work featured there!!

I’d like to thank Timesand Studios for their support on this project. I absolutely must thank Vladimir Persan for his help and the time and efforts he invested into creating the amazing original score. I would also like to extend my gratitude to the obliging staff of Arabian Construction Company and Arabtec - their management was very helpful and understanding - and all the safety staff that catered to my every need throughout the shoot. Lastly, I want to extend my super-special thanks to Mr. Ousama Ghannoum, Marketing and Media Director of Aldar. Without his help, this film would’ve never seen the light. There was quite a media frenzy about this film; below are some of the newspapers, magazines and even TV networks that interviewed me:

Cameras: Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 60D, Canon PowerShot G11 Lens: Nikon 14-24mm, Canon 100mm Macro f2.8L, Canon 24-105mm f4.0L, Canon 70-300mm f4-5.6 L, Canon 18-135mm, Canon TS-E 17mm f4.0L

Extra special thanks to Gunther Wegner and his indispensable 'LR TIMELAPSE' application, best deflickering and colour grading software for timelapse sequences in the world!!

lrtimelapse.com

Timesand Studios timesand.ae

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Original score by Vladimir Persan vladimirpersan.com. All rights reserved.

all rights reserved, Beno Saradzic

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FLEX from BABYBABY on Vimeo.

He may be god enough, but is he… good enough?

A slightly surreal comedy short that (literally) lets you under the skin of a bodybuilder and his ambivalent self-image - exploring the fine line between self-loathing and self-loving.

Written and directed by Josefin Malmén and David Strindberg (BABYBABY)

Featuring Calle Bolund Director of Photography - Viktor Skogqvist Assistant Camera - Jonas Ernhill Gaffer - Magnus Karlsson Colourist - Nicke Cantarelli Composer - Hanna Stenson, Lisa Gagerman Edit, VFX, Set Design and Baby Oil Specialist - BABYBABY Film Lab - Focus Film Special Thanks - Dagsljus

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Great article!

Extreme Science: Launching Sounding Rockets from The Arctic

This winter, our scientists and engineers traveled to the world’s northernmost civilian town to launch rockets equipped with cutting-edge scientific instruments.

This is the beginning of a 14-month-long campaign to study a particular region of Earth’s magnetic field — which means launching near the poles. What’s it like to launch a science rocket in these extreme conditions?

Our planet is protected by a natural magnetic field that deflects most of the particles that flow out from the Sun — the solar wind — away from our atmosphere. But near the north and south poles, two oddities in Earth’s magnetic field funnel these solar particles directly into our atmosphere. These regions are the polar cusps, and it turns out they’re the ideal spot for studying how our atmosphere interacts with space.

The scientists of the Grand Challenge Initiative — Cusp are using sounding rockets to do their research. Sounding rockets are suborbital rockets that launch to a few hundred miles in altitude, spending a few minutes in space before falling back to Earth. That means sounding rockets can carry sensitive instruments above our atmosphere to study the Sun, other stars and even distant galaxies.

They also fly directly through some of the most interesting regions of Earth’s atmosphere, and that’s what scientists are taking advantage of for their Grand Challenge experiments.

One of the ideal rocket ranges for cusp science is in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, off the coast of Norway and within the Arctic circle. Because of its far northward position, each morning Svalbard passes directly under Earth’s magnetic cusp.

But launching in this extreme, remote environment puts another set of challenges on the mission teams. These launches need to happen during the winter, when Svalbard experiences 24/7 darkness because of Earth’s axial tilt. The launch teams can go months without seeing the Sun.

Like for all rocket launches, the science teams have to wait for the right weather conditions to launch. Because they’re studying upper atmospheric processes, some of these teams also have to wait for other science conditions, like active auroras. Auroras are created when charged particles collide with Earth’s atmosphere — often triggered by solar storms or changes in the solar wind — and they’re related to many of the upper-atmospheric processes that scientists want to study near the magnetic cusp.

But even before launch, the extreme conditions make launching rockets a tricky business — it’s so cold that the rockets must be encased in styrofoam before launch to protect them from the low temperatures and potential precipitation.

When all is finally ready, an alarm sounds throughout the town of Ny-Ålesund to alert residents to the impending launch. And then it’s up, up and away! This photo shows the launch of the twin VISIONS-2 sounding rockets on Dec. 7, 2018 from Ny-Ålesund.

These rockets are designed to break up during flight — so after launch comes clean-up. The launch teams track where debris lands so that they can retrieve the pieces later.

The next launch of the Grand Challenge Initiative is AZURE, launching from Andøya Space Center in Norway in March 2019.

 For even more about what it’s like to launch science rockets in extreme conditions, check out one scientist’s notes from the field: https://go.nasa.gov/2QzyjR4

For updates on the Grand Challenge Initiative and other sounding rocket flights, visit nasa.gov/soundingrockets or follow along with NASA Wallops and NASA heliophysics on Twitter and Facebook.

@NASA_Wallops | NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility | @NASASun | NASA Sun Science

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Awesome stats

““English has the world’s largest vocabulary, with over 800,000 words (including technical words)…author Stuart Berg flexner in ‘I hear America Talking’ notes that 10 simple words account for 25 percent of all English speech, 50 words account for 60 percent and just 1,500 to 2,000 words account for 99 percent of all that Amercians say. Extremely smart and educated people may use as many as 60,000 English words, or about 7.5% of the entire English vocabulary.””

— - Clifford Pickover, “Sex, drugs, Einstein and Elves” (via rockinajar)

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BMW and south african artist esther mahlangu catapult ndebele art to the world from designboom on Vimeo.

read more on designboom here: designboom.com/art/esther-mahlangu-ndebele-bmw-group-culture-09-19-2018/

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AUDI 25th hour project predicts cities of the future without congestion from designboom on Vimeo.

see the full story on designboom here: designboom.com/technology/audi-25th-hour-project-mobility-future-09-19-2018/

video by AUDI AG

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DeadBug from BuiltLean on Vimeo.

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BirdDog from BuiltLean on Vimeo.

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Hip Hinge from BuiltLean on Vimeo.

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Side Plank from BuiltLean on Vimeo.

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Paloff Press from BuiltLean on Vimeo.

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Unilateral Press from BuiltLean on Vimeo.

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Unilateral Row from BuiltLean on Vimeo.

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Resistance Band Chop from BuiltLean on Vimeo.

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Resistance Band Lift from BuiltLean on Vimeo.

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Dizzy on Pops (teaser) - ESPN ad for US Open Tennis Championships from Wynton Marsalis on Vimeo.

August 22, 2018 Louis Armstrong House Museum - Corona, NY