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Creative bus stops

Stop! Check out these fun and creative bus stop designs from around the world. While these are certainly neat, all I want are bus stops that give me a digital read of when the next bus is coming. This shouldn’t be too hard to ask considering we live in the twenty-first century aka the future.

Blue Whale Mating Song Recorded in New York Waters

ITHACA, New York, May 31, 2009 (ENS) – The voices of singing blue whales have been identified for the first time in New York coastal waters, acoustic experts at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Bioacoustics Research Program and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation have confirmed. The voice of a male blue whale [...]

Eric Ku, Chair/Chair

School of Visual Art graduate Eric Ku created this functional typographic chair that’s getting some well deserved buzz around the Internet. He’s currently looking for a job. [Via]

THE LEMON TREE by William Campbell

The Lemon Tree from William Campbell on Vimeo. An eerie short film created by William Campbell filled with visual effect eye candy. He explains: The Lemon Tree is a short experimental narrative. It addresses our constant hunt for perfection. The closer we think we are the more distorted our memory of it becomes.

Trailer: What would you do to reverse the aging process?

In YOUTH KNOWS NO PAIN, her upcoming semiautobiographical documentary, my friend Mitch McCabe takes a funny and highly personal look at the anti-aging industry. The film is populated by a number of odd, obsessive characters, including a plastic-surgery-obsessed housewife from Texas and guy in late middle age who, with the help of scalpels and a [...]

Meme scenes minimized

Andy Baio isolated the backgrounds of famous (or infamous) videos or photos that went on to become Internet memes and legends by removing the subjects from them. This brilliant exercise if anything validates their seat in the pantheon of viral Internet memes. Can you name them all? [Via]

SUNfiltered music videos

It’s Friday which means it’s time for another round up of five music videos I discovered from my Internet peregrinations.

1. Netizens were all atwitter about this unofficial music video for Death Cab for Cutie, “Little Bribes” created by Ross Ching.

Check out more of Matt’s visual picks…

Building a photograph: Scott McFarland at Regen Projects

If Scott McFarland’s lush, dreamlike photographs seem unreal it’s because they are. Everything from people to buildings to trees are composites photographed on their own and later combined to form surreal, often panoramic landscapes. True, some of his work is more straightforward, like “Fallen Oak Tree,” which appears to be an actual tree fallen in [...]

HIGH LINE STORIES – In the beginning…

Robert Hammond and Joshua David, co-founders, Friends of the High Line

In conjunction with our new digital shorts series HIGH LINE STORIES, Sundancechannel.com caught up with the very busy co-founders of Friends of the High Line, Robert Hammond and Joshua David and learned more about how two citizens of New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood, who had never previously met, joined forces to save and re-purpose the High Line.

Learn the transformation of this elevated railway as New York City reinvents the urban oasis.

An inside look at an IMAX camera

Mark Wilson of Gizmodo was given a rare tour of the IMAX offices, and he’s posted an in-depth, image-filled post about IMAX cameras and how they work. There are only 26 IMAX cameras in the world. Here’s one of them: Much more here.

Recession Remedies from The Lazy Environmentalist

Josh Dorfman, the talented writer and upcoming host of the Sundance Channel Original Series THE LAZY ENVIRONMENTALIST, will be attending the BookExpo America Conference this Saturday. Josh will be signing copies of his new book The Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget: Save Money. Save Time. Save the Planet. In the book, Dorfman will show us [...]

Hi, a real human interface

This “computer” puts a human touch to its user interface. An amusing concept and video from Multitouch Barcelona, an interactive design agency.

Beau Turner Offers Youth Conservation Center as National Model

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, May 29, 2009 (ENS) – To entice young people outdoors and help them reconnect with nature, the National Wildlife Federation and the Turner Foundation hosted a workshop Wednesday together with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission at the Beau Turner Youth Conservation Center 30 miles east of Tallahassee. This center is the [...]

Paula Abdul was right: opposites really do attract

photo by Rob Lee

If you’re wondering why so many couples fight about money, here’s your answer: Surveys of married adults consistently show that opposites attract when it comes to the type of spender you are. Stingy tightwads who just can’t bring themselves to reach for the wallet, even when they know they should, tend to shack up with reckless spendthrifts who just can’t help overspending, even when they know they shouldn’t. Researchers say this is because we’re attracted to people who don’t possess the characteristics we hate in ourselves.

Russia Plans 2014 Olympics Road Through World Heritage Site

SOCHI, Russia, May 29, 2009 (ENS) – The nonprofit group Environmental Watch on North Caucasus has appealed to the International Olympic Committee and United Nations agencies to block construction of a road that would access the Olympic Ski Complex planned for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games at the Black Sea coastal resort of Sochi. The [...]

A Goofy Movie, the David Lynch edition

To close out Sundance Channel’s May salute to David Lynch in style, check out this Goofy cartoon recut to mimic his aesthetic, making this the most eerie Goofy I’ve ever seen. Sure to give children everywhere nightmares!

Vivid Sydney : a burst of creativity and light

One of Eno’s brilliant lightworks projected onto Utzon’s masterpiece. Photo credit : vividsydney.com

If you find yourself in the Land Down Under in the next month or so, be sure to make a stop in Sydney for the inaugural Vivid Sydney. Developed by Events NSW in partnership with the City Of Sydney, it will be the biggest international music and light festival in the Southern Hemisphere, showcasing the city as a major creative hub in the Asia-Pacific region and celebrating the diversity of Sydney’s creative industries.

Times Square Beach

A kinder and gentler traffic in Times Square.

Finally catching up to many European cities who have made their city centers “pedestrian only” for years, New York City’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg has closed Broadway to vehicular traffic between 47th and 42nd Streets straight through the middle of Times Square in New York City. Bloomberg says that clearing both Times Square and Herald Square (from 35th to 33rd Streets on Broadway) of motorized vehicles will lower the number of pedestrian accidents and cut down on pollution.

Anniversary of George Willig’s 1977 WTC climb

While the spotlight has recently been cast upon Phillippe Petit due to the popularity of the documentary MAN ON WIRE, this week marks the anniversary of another famous stunt involving the World Trade Center that occurred on May 25, 1977. That day beginning at 6:30 am, a Queens mountain climber and toymaker George Willig began scaling the South Tower using custom clamps. When guards caught on and yelled at him to get down he replied, “I’m not coming down. There’s only one way to go, and that’s up.”

Baby mama drama in AWAY WE GO

It’s an interesting enough starting point: What do two people with only vague ambitions and low funds (low enough to have a cardboard window in their dilapidated trailer but not low enough, oddly, to fly all around the US and Canada) do when they discover they’re having a baby in a town where they no longer know anyone? Road trip! Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph) go from Phoenix to Madison to Montreal to Miami to visit one wacky friend after another, from comically slutty Allison Janney to comically new age-y Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Green tech finds (5/28/09)

Here’s your weekly run-down of breaking green tech stories…

• Need a reason to spend more time on Facebook? Timberland and changents.org have you covered with their new game Earthkeeper Heroes: Mission Possible. (via sustainablog)
  
  

Let’s play a game: sexy, sick or stupid?

photo: from Babeland’s Hello Kitty Vibrator Contest

Here’s a round-up of some new sex-related swag available. We’ll let you decide which category each falls into:

• Babeland and Goodvibes are now carrying the old Hello Kitty “neck massager.” (Babeland’s also holding an adorable — or adorably twisted — Hello Kitty Vibe Photo Contest through September of this year.)
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Agriculture Secretary Takes Charge of National Forest Roadless Areas

WASHINGTON, DC, May 28, 2009 (ENS) – Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack today signed an interim directive taking upon himself the decisions over proposed timber cutting or road construction projects in more than 47 million acres of roadless areas on national forests in 38 states. The Roadless Area Conservation Rule protecting these inventoried areas was [...]

Vintage New York

Jeff Desom created this poetic film composed from vintage photographs of New York City accompanied by the perfect music by Hauschka. As Andrew Sullivan pointed out, stick around for the falling piano starting around the 1:30 mark. Hauschka – Morgenrot from Jeff Desom on Vimeo.

A short dose of David Lynch

IN SHORT: DAVID LYNCH screens Thursday at 10PM on Sundance Channel.

David Lynch’s short films offer us a quick injection of what we might expect from his work… a little bit of mutable reality, a flexible trip through time and space, a taste of wry dead-pan comedy, and of course some grotesque body parts and fluids to both entrance us and make us squirm.

His earliest short, SIX FIGURES GETTING SICK (SIX TIMES), was made in 1965 while studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and came out of Lynch’s desire to see his paintings move. What struck me about this short film and several of the others was David Lynch’s early interest in bodily processes (and bodily liquids) and how he projects that on the landscapes of his film in a variety of ways. For example…