Author: WPInitiator

SOARING is a shortfilm showing what is keeping many photographers sleepless through the winter nights in the arctic landscapes and rural areas of northern Norway; the northern lights. The film was shot this autumn from late august to mid november in and around the areas of the city of Tromsø, as well as on the beautiful island of Senja.

All sequences are realtime video, no timelapse used. This film shows the auroras how they really are in real world, not like in most timelapses where they flicker in ridicilous speeds over the screen. Most of the time auroras move really slow and majestically. However, occasionally when you have a strong display they may move really fast, way to fast to be reproduced by timelapse. This video contains some of the wildest auroral displays I have witness in my life in the skies over Tromsø. These displays could never have been presented as they were without realtime video. Even realtime video with framerate of 25fps is struggling to keep up at times with the fastest displays.

The camera used for this was the Sony A7s, with various lenses. Just to answer a few questions I know will come; yes the camera is good in low light, however do not expect magic, there is still noise when you really push it. You still need to plan your shots accordingly to light-conditions.

Pans achieved with the Dynamic Perception Stage One. www.dynamicperception.com
Steadyshots done with the DJI Ronin.

Sadly there has been very little snow so far this early winter so lot´s of dark and challenging scenes in here, however if foregrounds become dark, auroras become very easily viewable in a dark snow-less November night. Been trying to use silhouettes for what they are worth. Traditionally I have released these short films by the end of the season (March/April), but by October I already got tons of footage from this awesome season, so I decided to drop a short compilation now. What you´re seeing here is just a fraction, and I am already working on a new production, which in addition to a lot of aurora shots, also will include a lot of other shots and exciting ideas. Stay tuned.

Check out my previous projects here:
vimeo.com/92382021 – SILENT STORMS (2014)
vimeo.com/64122803 – POLAR SPIRITS (2013)
vimeo.com/40555466 – CELESTIAL LIGHTS (2012)
vimeo.com/21419634 – LAND OF NORTHERN LIGHTS (2011)

Commercials:
vimeo.com/82181786 – HOME OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS (2013)
vimeo.com/68924195 – HUNTING THE LIGHT (2013)

More info about me:
www.arcticlightphoto.no
fb.com/arcticlightphoto

Music: Tony Andersson – Seeds (Extended mix by me allowed by Tony, thanks Tony)
Licensed from: The Music Bed
themusicbed.com

A special thanks to:
Thorbjørn Riise Haagensen
Helge Mortensen
Frank Kræmer
Anders Hansen

Ole

For licensing inquires, please contact me at: www.arcticlightphoto.no/contact

The planet doesn’t need saving.

We do.

Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez is not your average 14 year old. He is mobilizing his army of teens in over 50 countries to demand greener policy from world leaders.

Learn how you can help spread his message.
www.EarthGuardians.org

It’s no secret that just about anywhere you go in the Netherlands is an incredible place to bicycle. And in Groningen, a northern city with a population of 190,000 and a bike mode share of 50 percent, the cycling is as comfortable as in any city on Earth. The sheer number of people riding at any one time will astound you, as will the absence of automobiles in the city center, where cars seem extinct. It is remarkable just how quiet the city is. People go about their business running errands by bike, going to work by bike, and even holding hands by bike.

The story of how they got there is a mix of great transportation policy, location and chance. You’ll learn quite a bit of history in the film, but essentially Groningen decided in the 1970s to enact policies to make it easier to walk and bike, and discourage the use of cars in the city center. By pedestrianizing some streets, building cycle tracks everywhere, and creating a unique transportation circulation pattern that prohibits vehicles from cutting through the city, Groningen actually made the bicycle — in most cases — the fastest and most preferred choice of transportation.

It does feel like bicycle nirvana. When I first got off the train in Groningen, I couldn’t stop smiling at what I saw around me. In an email exchange with my friend Jonathan Maus from Bike Portland, he described it as being “like a fairy tale.” This jibed with my first thought to him — that I had “entered the game Candyland, but for bikes!” In fact, for our teaser I originally titled this Streetfilm “Groningen: The Bicycle World of Your Dreams,” before I talked myself out of it. Although there is a magical quality about being there, in reality there is nothing dreamy or childlike about it. With political will and planning, what they have done should and can be done everywhere.

In our Streetfilm you’ll see the 10,000 (!) bicycle parking spaces at the train station, some of the incredible infrastructure that enables cyclists to make their journeys safer and quicker, and you’ll hear from many residents we encountered who go by bike just about everywhere they travel. But as one of my interview subjects, Professor Ashworth, wanted me to point out: the three days I was there were bright and sunny, and the hardy people keep up the bicycling through the cold winters. As with many bicycling cities, there area also big problems with cycle theft, and residents are always yearning for more bicycle parking.

I think most of us would trade some of those problems for a city with 50 percent mode share (and up to 60 percent in the city center!!).

In this DROPS video we show how to sew blanket stitches (also know as buttonhole stitches).

Sew small stitches tight together around a blanket or buttonhole, or large ones spread apart for a decorative edging.

This video has NO SOUND – you must read the pattern to be able to follow this video properly. You’ll find a pattern using this technique by clicking here: http://www.garnstudio.com/pattern.php?id=3319&cid=19

You can find this video in many more languages, as well as search within all DROPS knitting and crochet videos here: http://www.garnstudio.com/video.php?lang=en
Find thousands of free knitting and crochet patterns here: www.garnstudio.com

In this DROPS video we show how to crochet a love knots triangle. Crochet love knots are inspired by the Celtic never-ending knots, the symbol of eternal love.

1 love knot: * Pull st on hook approx 4 cm / 1½’’ long, yarn over hook , pull yarn through st, insert needle in loop behind the long st, yarn over, pull yarn through loop (= 2 sts on hook), yarn over, pull yarn over through both sts on hook *, from *-* = 1 love knot.

This video has NO SOUND – you must read the pattern to be able to follow this video properly. You’ll find a pattern using this technique by clicking here: http://www.garnstudio.com/pattern.php?id=180&cid=19

You can find this video in many more languages, as well as search within all DROPS knitting and crochet videos here: http://www.garnstudio.com/video.php?lang=en
Find thousands of free knitting and crochet patterns here: www.garnstudio.com

This is a quick tutorial on how to connect two points with a line that will lengthen or shorten depending upon position it is anchored to. I hope it is useful and as always…have fun being creative with it. Thanks for stopping by!

Projects are a backdrop for channeling the purpose of the Holy Spirit. There are no specific problems, but distorted/fragmented perception is the problem. Only a single purpose, (forgiveness, the miracle), used and practiced, will unify perception. So the purpose of each project or task is forgiveness, to unify perception, to be done through so perfectly by the Holy Spirit that there is no doer and you are aware you are a being. Give everything, all your skills and abilities, to the Holy Spirit to use for the single unified purpose.

We don’t do projects as ritual, out of obligation, or just because someone told us to. That is to stay guilty and little. We do projects to joyfully be done through by Spirit. We use the body to expand and unify our perception. In this we exercise our choice of purpose; we choose our state of mind. The purpose that you bring to your projects is everything. A unified purpose lifts us up into the state of celestial glory.

See how empowering this is! Follow the Spirit and feel joy in the experience!

“My Self is ruler of the universe. It is impossible that anything should come to me unbidden by myself. Even in this world, it is I who rule my destiny. What happens is what I desire. What does not occur is what I do not want to happen.” (ACIM, W-253)
➤ Read the full Workbook Lesson here: https://acourseinmiraclesnow.com/a-course-in-miracles-workbook-lesson-253

“The power of decision is my own.” (ACIM, W-152)
➤ Read the full Workbook Lesson here: https://acourseinmiraclesnow.com/a-course-in-miracles-workbook-lesson-152

� Volunteer from home and have an actual experience through the use of projects for Awakening: https://circle.livingmiraclescenter.org/volunteer

Mystic David Hoffmeister is a living demonstration that consistent peace is possible. His gentle demeanor and articulate, non-compromising expression are a gift to all. David is world-renowned for his practical application of the non dual teachings of A Course in Miracles. His clarity about the function of forgiveness in spiritual Awakening and his radical use of mindful movie-watching in the release of judgment is unsurpassed. The purity of the message he shares points directly to the Source.

This recording of David Hoffmeister took place in Utah, USA in 2012.

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#ACourseinMiracles #ACIM #Spirituality #Spiritual #Awakening #Enlightenment #Nonduality

In this DROPS video we show how to cast off in rib.

When there is a rib edge we usually say in the pattern to cast off in rib. It may be a single ribbing K1/P1, or double K2/P2, this last is what we are showing in this video. First we show the continental style and towards the end off the row we switch to US style.
K the K sts, and P the P sts as you bind off by passing next to last st knitted over the last st knitted.

This video has NO SOUND – you must read the pattern to be able to follow this video properly. You’ll find a pattern using this technique by clicking here: http://www.garnstudio.com/pattern.php?id=7919&cid=19

You can find this video in many more languages, as well as search within all DROPS knitting and crochet videos here: http://www.garnstudio.com/video.php?lang=en
Find thousands of free knitting and crochet patterns here: www.garnstudio.com

http://www.pixelhunters.com/

A Short Non-Commercial Movie by Pixelhunters

Life is a battle of choices and roads to be taken. We choose our own paths, we mark our own map. Once choices have been made, actions play out. Consequences are delivered. And in the end, we live with those consequences.
But, the real struggle is making the choice to change how we take the roads untaken. Are we tough enough to decide for ourselves when the time comes?

Credits:

Director: Iliya Atanasov

Idea: Eric MacInnes, Iliya Atanasov

Script: Mary Ann Chamen, Cameron MacInnes, Ani Atanasova, Benoit Neneb

Music: Vasco Ivanov

Artists:

Iliya Atanasov
Siamak Roshani
Rajesh R S
Adeel Hashmi
Anton Gonzalez
Dragomir Sarachev
Dimo Takov
Helgi Oskarsson
Dimitar Dimitrov
Lora Stoykova

Dance for motion capture: Asen Sokolov

Voice over: Shane Morris

Special Thanks to: Siamak Roshani for his robot model that he designed and textured for his personal portfolio in early 2010 and together we decided to create a beautiful piece with it.

Special Thanks to: Bisser Philipov

Rendering software: V-ray

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Script:

Life.

Given to us billions of years ago.

Breathing, making choices, cultivating purpose.

we marvel with the reasons our core existence.

Predominance, obsession and what’s only left is its lethal outcome around.

I was given life,

what have I done ?

Memories occurred to me like a flood,

ravishing into the deepest turmoil of my thoughts.

I used to see myself as an aggressive bullet wandering –

tearing down races, razing enemies.

The recollection of my belligerence. Will it change?

Now all my senses could perceive is emptiness.

couldn’t have I stopped at the right moment,

when few hearts were still beating?

Is there still something worth opening my eyes for?

Yet, here I am, facing again that demon inside me.

another battle to win

The monster in me respires with prudence. My inner self astounded.

and then, for a heart beat

I know what to do with it.