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Free-diving into the deep blue

Hargobind — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:51:36 +0000

A friend recently sent me this awesome video of the World Champion of free-diving, Guillaume Néry. It’s an artistic, fictional video of a free dive into Dean’s Blue Hole, a 202 meter hole in the ocean located in a bay west of Clarence Town on Long Island, Bahamas.

The song is “You Make Me Feel” by Archive which you can download here

Light Painting

Hargobind — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:12:04 +0000

Light Warfare Replaces Violence With Epic Photography.

Really fun concept!

Life in Motion + Thrice

Hargobind — Sat, 22 May 2010 00:10:20 +0000

A friend sent me to a link of some incredible still-motion videos (including one of the volcano in Iceland). This guy has a really cool technique where his camera seems to crawl across the ground while capturing still-motion frames. Based on how clear the pictures are, I’m fairly certain he runs his film through some sort processing tool that renders the frames using something like the HDR technique which allows you to see all ranges of lighting and color side by side in a photograph or film (normal cameras usually tend to focus on either the light or dark objects but not both).

The soundtrack to one of his videos contained two songs by a band named Thrice who I’m totally digging on right now. One thing I really respect about them is that they have such variety in their music — everything from chill and melodic to alt rock to metal. Since they live somewhere in California, I’m definitely going to make it a point to see them in concert while I’m traveling the west coast.

I’m still listening to their stuff, but so far here are a few of my favorites. These songs are from the albums The Alchemy Index Vol. 1 & 2 and Vheissu.

Games to waste time, and Apple’s iPad

Hargobind — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:26:45 +0000

I found a few new games recently which are great to keep you entertained and waste time.

In other news, Apple is coming out with a new device called the iPad — something like a larger version of the iPhone. Its features set is apparently quite disappointing to many people. Here’s a hilarious spoof on what Hitler thinks about it.

Random LOLz

Hargobind — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:24:23 +0000

I found a new way to keep my wallet safe while I travel…

Random LOLz

Hargobind — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:19:06 +0000

And now for something completely different…

Everything is OK

Hargobind — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:25:40 +0000

A friend just sent this to me. Check this out. It’s awesome.

There is a bunch more if you search for “everything is ok” on YouTube.