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PAIN DE SUCRE Bodywear F/W 21 from Pain de sucre on Vimeo.

Découvrez la collection : paindesucre.com/collections/collection-bodywear-f-w-21

Ambiance sport chic, esprit military, cet hiver la maison PAIN DE SUCRE propose un vestiaire de caractère composé de pièces au style affirmé. L’esprit « jungle » version camouflage et « sport zen » habillent tops, culottes ou shorty galbants, leggings et sweats à capuche. Le temps n’a pas d’emprise, on rembobine… Revisite d’une dentelle vintage sur brassière à dos sporty, body et bombers trendy. Arrêt sur image. Le jogging se fait bulle de douceur en molleton, couleur Snow, pour des journées cocooning. À contre-courant, des pièces bohèmes marquent les esprits par leurs couleurs chatoyantes dans des nuances de rose indien, orangé et vert claquant... On craque pour des tailleurs féroces façon croco relief ou zébrés de noir et de blanc. Les projecteurs mettent en lumière les jolis ensembles en dentelle rehaussés de liserés or : bleu persan, orange paprika, noir infini, blanc écume raviveront la saison hivernale. Entrée en scène de Bingo, le body en majesté et son décolleté V renversant, réinterprétation contemporaine du classique col bateau. Enfin, les petites robes noires restent de rigueur, immuables, réinventées dans des matières mixtes dont une ligne en jersey recyclé qui s'inscrit dans la dynamique de nos temps modernes.

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Hanna Makes 'Christmas Plum' Pie--Pukawa, New Zealand from Dr Federico | Howard H Frederick on Vimeo.

Chef Hanna Frederick harvest New Zealand's 'Christmas Plums' that fruit in December and makes an excellent pie.

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Hanna on Chocolate & Love from Dr Federico | Howard H Frederick on Vimeo.

Chocdiva Hanna Frederick tells noted New Zealand food expert Petra Bagust about her philosophy of chocolate and love.

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Robert Fortune: The Tea Thief - Trailer from Films For Change on Vimeo.

Watch the film here: filmsforchange.stream/programs/robert-fortune-and-the-tea-thief

Behind the story of a simple cup of tea is a tale of espionage and intrigue captured in a documentary by Melbourne filmmaker Diane Perelsztein. The cup that cheers has a complex, often dark history. The story of tea is a tale of politics, economics and spirituality, of espionage, art and the drug trade.

This is the story of one of the most audacious espionage missions ever mounted: to steal the secret of tea from Imperial China.

By the mid-1800s, England and Europe had become totally enchanted with a heady new brew: tea. At this time, China resolutely held the world monopoly on the production of tea and its trade around the world. The British Government sought to change that, by mounting an extraordinary mission of industrial espionage: to steal the secret of tea from Imperial China. The man entrusted with the mission was Robert Fortune, a 36-year-old Scottish botanist and adventurer.

This superbly photographed film follows the path of Fortune’s clandestine journeys (from 1848 to 1851) as he travelled through China disguised as a mandarin collecting seeds and plants, observing and learning techniques of tea cultivation and processing, to facilitate the transfer of China's secret technology to the control of the British Empire. When he left China for India in 1851, he went with some 20,000 tea plants and 8 Chinese tea-workers to oversee their cultivation in the foothills of the Himalayas.

Fortune was a prolific writer of diaries and reports and, with the help of present-day tea experts and connoisseurs in England and China, the significance of his achievements are re-assessed and the story of his conquest reconstructed with vivid immediacy by filmmaker Diane Perelsztejn.

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StockX "Own It" from ELLIOTT POWER on Vimeo.

Director: Elliott Power Cinematographer: Diego Garcia Managing Partner: Kelly Bayett Executive Producer: Daniel Wolfe Executive Producer: Deannie O’Neil Head of Production: Paige Kauffman Production Company: Love Song 1st Assistant Director: Khucame Morales 2nd Unit Directors: Louis McCourt Producer: Natalia Casanova Editor: Dom Leung Edit Producer: Harriet Cawley Edit Assistant: Matthew Blacklock Colourist: Simon Bourne Colour Producer: Chris Anthony Local Production: The Lift Partner: José Barrera Executive Creative Director: Dan Williams at The Mill Flame Artist: Carl Norton at The Mill Vfx Producer: Clare Melia, Matt Squires Score: Miink Music Supervision: Sunny Kapoor Curation Sfx: Barking Owl Gus koven VO: Ja’Lisa Arnold Stylist: Paola Alfaro & Void Make Up: Valeria Salas Production Design: Christian Stone

Client: Stock X Agency: Mojo Supermarket

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Solo Series - Mindy Meng Wang from Australian Art Orchestra on Vimeo.

To mark the Australian Art Orchestra’s 25th anniversary, we're presenting the Solo Series: a monthly video release that puts the spotlight on one of the twelve selected members from our pool of incredible AAO collaborators. In this edition, we feature Mindy Meng Wang, on Guzheng, with liner notes by AAO Artistic Director Peter Knight.

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Mindy unwraps thin strips of Elastoplast and sticks them to the edge of the table gathering them into a fringe as we talk. The strips have small, black, claw-like turtle shell plectrums fastened at the ends. One by one she begins to wind these Elastoplast strips tightly around the last joint of each finger of her right hand, with a black claw protruding beyond the end of each fingertip. Guzheng hand.

This is a ritual she performs before each time she plays. She tells me that she enjoys these moments in which she prepares the body for the instrument and allows the mind to settle. She says that when she performs, and particularly when she improvises she reconnects with her deepest and most intense emotions and tries to express them through music. “It’s like your emotion has a shape now. It was invisible but then it becomes sound waves.”

Her solo opens with a sparse three-note figure that repeats and then is allowed to ring out. There is so much subtlety and variation in the manner of striking each note. The fingers of her right hand – taped with the plectrums – impart a sharpness and brightness, while the un-taped left hand damps the strings to change the timbre and create shifts in pitch. As the piece progresses the fingers of the left hand also begin to pluck the strings, the flesh contact of her fingers lending the notes a contrasting roundness. We become aware that this piece is not so much a solo, but a duet between Mindy’s hands, perhaps expressing an innately human duality as the notes they play flow together then separate into polyphonous variations.

In a sense, this duality also mirrors Mindy’s life, which has existed on two planes since she began to travel from her home town of Lanzhou in north western China. She is a seeker and a restless spirit who left for London ten years ago to open up new possibilities in her music and in her life in general, but who returns home regularly. Her musical drive exists to create a personal language that brings together her experiences growing up in China and training in Chinese music, with the incredibly diverse range of musical settings she has been involved in living in the west: “The more places I live and the more music I learn the broader my range has become. I used to just play traditional Chinese music but being in the UK and Australia has opened my eyes. I now feel like the guzheng should not be limited by a genre.”

As her solo begins to develop it grows in intensity. The right hand migrates to the extreme edge of the instrument developing a high, delicate, pointillist texture, while the left hand sweeps dramatically across the full range of the instrument involving the whole body in a gesture that perfectly mirrors physical movement with the sound we hear.

Mindy’s hands have become little creatures she is watching as we are watching. They dance around one another then dance together and the body of her instrument thrums with the energy produced. Overtones gather and oscillate as high clusters of notes are dropped like bright coins into a fountain drifting then settling with a glint of silver.

Solo Series #10 Performance: Mindy Meng Wang Photo: Sarah Walker Audio and Video producer: Leo Dale Text: Peter Knight

READ MORE about the Solo Series here: aao.com.au/solo-series/

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Matt + Hannah \\ Wedding at Villa Catureglio from Andrea & Federica on Vimeo.

Venue: Villa Catureglio Planning: Kate and Rose Weddings Celebrant: Gemma Weddings Hair: Nikita Jane Music: Piaceri Ploretari

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The Last Steps | A Really Great Big Story from Great Big Story on Vimeo.

On December 7, 1972, NASA launched Apollo 17, a lunar mission crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt. It would be the last time humans traveled beyond low Earth orbit, the last time man landed on another celestial body, and the last time man went to the moon. The Last Steps uses rare, heart-pounding footage and audio to retrace the record-setting mission. A film by Todd Douglas Miller.

This Really Great Big Story was made in collaboration with our friends at CNN Films. It is one of 12 short films that we will be releasing throughout the year. Stay tuned for more!

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The Peter Principle: the scientific reason everything is a bit s**t from Delve on Vimeo.

We live in times of seemingly unending progress - and yet somehow things still always go wrong: trains are late, broadband speeds suck and the promotion always goes to the wrong person. Well, it turns out there's an explanation for all this - and progress itself is the problem. Meet The Peter Principle.

This film could not have been made without the people who support my films on Patreon. If you like this video, please consider getting on board! patreon.com/AdamWestbrook

STORY DESIGN AND NARRATION Adam Westbrook adamwestbrook.co.uk

WITH HELP FROM Caroline Vanier Guy Gunaratne Cody Delistraty

PATREON BETATESTERS Matteo Rovatti Dale Nichols Michael Pilosov Julianne McCartney Ruo Jia Joel D Canfield Robert Moran Max M Ashima Thomas Jeremy Sherlick

Help me tell more video stories patreon.com/AdamWestbrook

FOOTAGE Prelinger Archives Archive.org VideoHive Pond5 NASA

Featuring footage by Bay Area Media Masters Released under a Creative Commons Licence on vimeo.com vimeo.com/154957541

MUSIC Audiojungle

Featuring “Cathedral” by Chenard Walcker Released under a Creative Commons Licence via Freemusic Archive freemusicarchive.org/music/Chenard_Walcker/

DIRECTED AND EDITED BY Adam Westbrook

© delve.tv 2016

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Our Changing Climate from Jack Harries on Vimeo.

Over the last couple of months we embarked on making a short documentary about climate change. We had the opportunity to witness the effects of our changing climate firsthand and to meet the people on the front lines of campaigning for action. The film wouldn't have been possible without the support of WWF.

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This Is a Generic Presidential Campaign Ad, by Dissolve from Dissolve on Vimeo.

Created entirely with stock footage from Dissolve, This Is a Generic Presidential Campaign Ad reunites the team behind This Is a Generic Brand Video.

As the 2016 presidential election cycle has progressed, dozens of candidates have released their campaign ads. And though there are a few differences from the left wing to the right, they have a lot in common. In fact, these predictable, formulaic approaches to video editing have drawn comparisons to our own all-purpose corporate promo, This Is a Generic Brand Video, written by Kendra Eash: dissolve.com/generic.

We didn’t think it fair that media commentators had to reference our corporate video — why not give them an actual generic campaign ad? So we asked Kendra to provide her wry, absurdist take on presidential promotion. The result is a blatantly pandering, verbally vacuous piece of political parody.

See and license the clips used at dissolve.com/gpca. Read more on our blog at bit.ly/presidentialplatitudes.

Voiceover by Bobby Butler. Music: “Gateway (instrumental)” by Sleevenotes, bit.ly/slvntes, and “Storm Brewing” by Mark Petrie bit.ly/strmbrew, both licensed from Audiosocket.

To publish or broadcast this video, contact press@dissolve.com, or tweet us at @dissolve. Media outlet? Grab the media kit at bit.ly/gpcamediakit.

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Gannets are amazing birds. To hunt for fish, they dive into the sea from 100 ft at 100 kmph !!! They have a rock-hard skull with a built-in GPS inside. Apart from the breathtaking land n seascapes, it is hugely entertaining to watch the gannet colony at Muriwai beach. #newzealand #beach #travel #nature #nzmustdo #gannet #bird #muriwai #auckland #nz #summer #beautiful (at Muriwai Beach)

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Bermuda Triangle Award for the Professor Pogus. http://pogus.tumblr.com/post/134039049483/unitec-project-based-learning-team-award-sukesh

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Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then you will find out that money cannot be eaten.

Cree Proverb, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel

  (via freshtracksinc)

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Queuing for Auckland Food Service Automation: Contextual photographs       

I have set my operations management students a deceptively simple queuing problem. The images here establish some context for the problem. As you will see, the number of kiosks that vendors choose to locate temporarily at The Cloud depends on their expectation of crowd numbers. Crowd numbers vary considerably from day to day, event to event.

The problem

Auckland Food Service Automation wishes to establish how many automated food service machines should be installed at The Cloud, an events facility in downtown Auckland. 

The client requires that:

no customer waits longer than 150 seconds and 

no more than 4 people in the queue at any time. 

People are expected to arrive at the food service area at rate of 40 people per hour. The machines process requests at 25 per hour.

Given the above data determine whether the client’s expectation can be met with no more than three machines.

With the number of machines you establish are required to meet the client’s expectation, determine:

the average time a person spends in the system

the average time a person spends in the queue

the probability that there is no person in the system.

the average number of people in the system at any time.

Sensitivity analysis: 

For each of the preceding measurements, what is the impact if the rate of people arriving per hour increases to 50 people per hour?

For each of the preceding measurements, what is the impact if the machines process requests at 30 per hour?

A visit to The Cloud

References

Barlow, J. (2006). Models for Production Operations: Queueing Models. In Excel Models for Business and Operations Management (2nd ed., pp. 353–369). John Wiley & Sons.

Begin, T., & Brandwajn, A. (2012). A tool for solving Ph/M/c and Ph/M/c/N queues. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems, QEST12. Retrieved from http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/thomas.begin/Publis/QEST12.pdf

Brandwajn, A., & Begin, T. (2011). Numerical Solutions for Queueing Systems. Retrieved from http://queueing-systems.ens-lyon.fr/

Heizer, J., & Render, B. (2014). Queuing Models (Part 4 - Module D). In Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management [Global Edition] (11th ed., pp. 771–800). Pearson Education.

Hillier, F., Hillier, M., & Lieberman, G. (2000). Introduction to Management Science: A Modeling & Case Studies Approach. McGraw-Hill/Irwin.

Multiple Channel Queueing Model Solved Examples Help for Queueing Models, Management, Homework Help. (n.d.). Transtutors.com. Retrieved November 1, 2012, from http://www.transtutors.com/homework-help/industrial-management/queuing-models/multiple-channel-queuing-model-solved-examples.aspx

Perros, H. (n.d.). Queueing Theory - A Primer.

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What I liked the most about this article about Sara Blakely was how she was raised to perceived failure: Failure is not trying – “my father was very determined to encourage me to fail. At the dinner table, he would ask me and my brother what we failed at that week. If you didn’t have a story, he...