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Sit back for a couple of minutes and take an exhilarating journey through Peru and Bolivia in this beautiful stop-motion video by Polish artist Piotr Wancerz of Timelapse Media. It’s an elaborate composite of 12,000 photos and video frames, shot over a three-week period during Piotr’s first trip to South America.
You’ll see his model and traveling companion seemingly standing still while moving through breathtaking South American landscapes, some of which appear to spin around her. Notice…
Before CGI invaded the movies, there was stop-motion animation. And the king of stop-motion was Ray Harryhausen, who died Tuesday in London, aged 93.
Harryhausen is best known for his work on a slew of amazing animated fantasy movies. If you’ve seen any of the Sinbad films of the 1950s, or Jason and the Argonauts, or One Million Years B.C., or the original (and by far the best) Clash of the Titans, you know his work. You’ve thrilled to his dinosaurs, his gorgons or his terrifying…
Corporate culture is — and always has been — a big deal here at HubSpot. Since we came up with the first version of our Culture Code many years ago, we’ve continued to focus on creating a company people love.
Corporate culture is — and always has been — a big deal here at HubSpot. Since we came up with the first version of our Culture Code many years ago, we’ve continued to focus on creating a company people love.
If you stumble across across one of Khoa’s reality-defying stop-motion vines, the first thing you’ll ask is, “How in the world did he do that?”
Twitter launched Vine on Jan. 24. The next day, 23-year-old Khoa Phan created his first Vine, a simple five-shot video of a Keurig machine brewing a cup of coffee. This was the kind of thing most people were filming when Vine first launched — mundane videos of everyday occurrences. As is the case with Instagram, if users don’t think creatively,…
The wrath of many a scorned liberal has been targeted at Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg after his political group indirectly bankrolled ads praising two senators in part for their support of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
Liberal frustration over the ads, summed up best by a ThinkProgress story headlined “Mark Zuckerberg’s New Political Group Spending Big On Ads Supporting Keystone XL and Oil Drilling” and a petition entitled “FWD.us: Stop Running Ads Supporting Fossil Fuels,” seems…
The “bullet-dodging” scene from 1999′s The Matrix is one of the most iconic action sequences in film history. It’s irreplaceable, right?
In a way. The folks at CineFix released their own, homemade version of the infamous scene — extra emphasis here on homemade. The video replicates the action without any special visual or audio effects, but still manages to capture its epic style
You can watch a side-by-side comparison of the above…
SendGrid, an email delivery firm, has fired its developer evangelist, Adria Richards, after she tweeted a photo of a developer at PyCon last weekend that resulted in that developer losing his job.
The action prompted an ugly backlash on Twitter that included rape and death threats against Richards. As recently as Wednesday Richards (pictured) had tweeted that her employer supported her:
Hey @mundanematt, it’s clear from the last 24 hours you’re a bully.@sendgrid supports me.Stop trolling.
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Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire around the Gaza Strip, putting an end to eight days of fighting that have left 157 people dead.
BBC reporter Jon Donnison tweeted a picture of the ceasefire agreement. It stipulates that Israel will “stop all hostilities on the Gaza Strip, land, sea and air including incursions and targeting of individuals,” and that “Palestinian factions shall stop all hostilities from the Gaza Strip against Israel, including rocket attacks, and attacks along…
Chow is the best coach you’ll ever have. It offers a full list of traditional Thanksgiving recipes and allows you to pick and choose which you want to include in your feast. The app then aggregates a comprehensive shopping list and details the prep and cook time in a calendar for an all-around stress-free week. And it costs nothing.
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