Posts tagged 'Space'
Valleys of Neptune
This video has been out for a while now – over a year actually, which is basically forever in internet time – but we didn’t know about it ‘til Missy Shedlock suggested it to us back in May. We instantly loved it but refrained from posting cause, well, we couldn’t. Sure, it existed and all but never in a state that fulfilled the two core tenets of The Tripatorium™ simple, stringent posting policy:
1. Always search for an HD version of a video and, if found, post that one.
2. Any video that is posted must be watchable on the site.
The video Melissa sent in was in gorgeous 1080p HD but, because it was posted by VEVO (curses!), it had embedding disabled. Which is so inexplicably strange to me. They understand that I want to advertise their content for free, right? That I want to spread the word about the recently-released Jimi Hendrix album comprised of completely new material without expectation of payment of any kind? And they wonder why their precious ‘industry’ continues to hemorrhage money. It should also be noted that we found it on Vimeo but it was in standard-def (bummer).
Anyways, the video is so fucking great that I got fed up with waiting for someone else to rip and upload it that I did it myself with the handy-dandy Easy YouTube Video Downloader. I’m confident Jimi would be pleased with the bang-up, psychedelic, kaleidoscopic and colorful treatment String Theory employed to pull it all together. I also like to think Mr. Hendrix would be a fan of our humble little website if he were still around today so do yourself a favor and wait to watch this one until you’ve got enough time set aside to let the 1080p load full-screen and access to a nice sound system/pair of headphones that will enable you to give your maximum attention to the sonic stylings of a true master. Enjoy!
Thanks for sending this one in, Missy! Our sincerest apologies for not getting it up on the site sooner.
[ Jimi Hendrix - Valleys Of Neptune ]
posted by respondcreate on Jul. 20, 2011 in Videos | tags: colorful, fractals, jimi hendrix, kaleidoscope, music video, psychedelic, space, string theory, trippy, vevo sucks
The Aurora Borealis
“The Sun acts as an enormous power plant. The energy is created deep inside the core of the Sun, here the temperature is over 14 million degrees and the pressure so enormous that hydrogen atoms are squeezed together into another element: helium.”
Time for some science, bitches – prepare to get your learn on! The Sun is an endlessly fascinating topic for me and this video, produced by forskning.no in concert with the Department of Physics at the University of Oslo, does a great job of explaining the complex process of how the Aurora Borealis forms in an easy-to-understand way. Speaking of which, my favorite way to wrap my head around complex topics, like nuclear fusion, is to first head over to Simple English Wikipedia. It’s page on The Sun is fantastic – “The sun is basically a very, very large ball of plasma bubbling with non-stop explosions. These explosions give off so much energy that if we could gather all the Sun’s energy for one second it would be enough to power the U.S.for 9 million years…more” – as are the entries pertaining to the Higgs Boson, strong force and the special theory of relativity. Don’t forget: knowledge is power.
Related: More Aurora Borealis on The Tripatorium™.
posted by respondcreate on Jul. 08, 2011 in Videos | tags: animation, astronomy, aurora borealis, colorful, educational, science, space, sun
Space Time
Know what’s kind of a bummer? That this music video is only one minute and fifty-three seconds long. Journeys down the wormhole should be at least three to four minutes long at a minimum – like this little gem for instance. Anyways, the backing tune is from Delta Heavy and the visuals were created by, well, I have no idea actually. If you know who directed/animated the attached video please drop us a line and we’ll update the post to give proper credit where it is due.
Cheers to l3mon for the suggestion. Thanks!
posted by respondcreate on Jun. 28, 2011 in Videos | tags: colorful, delta heavy, drum 'n bass, electronic music, music video, space, wormhole
Moonbeam Rider
More Steve Smith, more Slugabed, more Ninja Tune. All good things, friends. Ensure HD is on, click full screen, don the headphones and bask in the ever-shifting strangeness.
posted by respondcreate on Jun. 23, 2011 in Videos | tags: animation, bizarre, datamosh, electronic music, music video, ninja tune, pixelate, psychedelic, slugabed, space, steven smith, trippy
‘Verse
“In the beginning there was nothing and in the middle of it was God.
Vast omnipotent and calm he hung in thoughts simmering and popping with fathomless tiny stars.
If time existed, much would pass before the God, young but wise, came to realize that even gods need conversation…”
This creation myth was written, directed and created by Tony Comley – the super-talented guy behind D N A U X B (If you haven’t watched that yet do so immediately; it’s fantastic.) – as part of the Animator in Residence program at the University of Wales. Tony, and the UoW students who were lucky enough to work with him, turned this around in only three weeks. Impressive. The entire piece was also animated entirely on a Powerbook G4. Even more impressive. The authoritative, gravelly and stoic voice-over is delivered by Roger Wooster backed with a score composed by Charlie Piper.
We’re big fans of how Tony animates his explosions, blips and ‘force waves’ (for lack of a better term); there’s a unique, expressive energy to each and every one. Truly a treat for the eyes. Enjoy!
[ 'VERSE ]
posted by respondcreate on Jun. 15, 2011 in Videos | tags: animation, charlie piper, creation, god, roger wooster, space, spirituality, tony comley, university of wales
Quantum Leap
Take an audio/visual synced trip through the wormhole via the visual stylings of Thomas de Rijk and the bass-heavy glitch-synth sounds of Slugabed. Full screened/headphones for this one folks – might as well crank the volume while you’re getting them plugged in, too – and be sure to keep your eyes peeled for the feline-deity who sustains us all.
Thomas has lots of other cool, trippy shit on his site, why not head on over?
[ SLUGABED - QUANTUM LEAP (official video) ]
posted by respondcreate on Jun. 09, 2011 in Videos | tags: animation, bizarre, cats, colorful, electronic music, music video, slugabed, space, thomas de rijk, trippy, wormhole
dnauxb
“As his planet boils in the glow of a cascading Tesseract a young femto-panda named David Xenon makes a brave attempt to warn the galaxy…”
Holy shit! This is awesome! Tony Comley is the chap responsible for putting together this super-rad music video for Gameshow Outpatient. Serving suggestion: full screened, lights dimmed and headphones on; give it your undivided attention folks.
Gameshow Outpatient was cool enough to make the EP that this tune comes from – We Go Dream Team – available as a free download. Thanks again for the free stuff, internet!
[ D N A U X B ]
posted by respondcreate on Jun. 05, 2011 in Videos | tags: animation, chiptune, colorful, electronic music, gameshow outpatient, hd, retro, space, tony comley
Parallelostory
We’ve featured the work of Kelly Meador and Daniel Elwing (a.k.a. impactist) on the site before so it was no surprise when we found out this little astronomy-themed vignette came from them. Per the impactist M.O. they handle everything from the visuals to the music. The latter can be found for purchase here at the super-affordable rates of $1 a single or $3 for an EP (my personal favorites are the Last Heist and Color Fields & Wagon Wheels EPs). When you support art at reasonable prices you get more art at reasonable prices (sometimes for free). OK, enough with the soapbox. Enjoy your weekend, friends!
P.S. Thanks for all the fantastic submissions that have been coming in lately, we’re working our way through them!
[ Parallelostory ]
posted by respondcreate on May. 13, 2011 in Videos | tags: animation, astronomy, hd, impactist, love, science, space
Fallen
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” –Isaac Asimov
‘Fallen’ was conceived/directed/animated by Wolfram Kampffmeyer and Sascha Geddert. David Christiansen and Sebastian Nozon pitched in their talents as well, handling the music/sound and compositing duties respectively.
[ Fallen ]
posted by respondcreate on May. 05, 2011 in Videos | tags: animation, death, german, hd, meteor, sascha geddert, space, spiritual, trippy, wolfram kampffmeyer
Astrobaby
To infinity, and beyond!
posted by respondcreate on Apr. 15, 2011 in Pictures | tags: astronaut, baby, fukung, lol, lolwat, space
Voyager 1 Approaches Jupiter
“One frame of this image was taken each Jupiter day (approximately 10 hours) between January 6 and February 9, 1979, as the space probe [Voyager I] flew from 58 million to 31 million kilometers from Jupiter during that time. The small, round, dark spots appearing in some frames are the shadows cast by the moons passing between Jupiter and the Sun, while the small, white flashes around the planet, are the moons themselves.”
Inspired by the gorgeous shot of Jupiter’s ‘Great Red Spot’ tizmatti posted a couple of weeks back, I decided to read up on Jupiter’s unique atmosphere. Turns out it’s a pretty tumultuous place comprised of constantly shifting cloud layers and swirling, violent vortices (of which the ‘Great Red Spot’ is the largest). It’s truly fascinating stuff.
[ NASA: Jupiter via Wikipedia ]
posted by respondcreate on Apr. 08, 2011 in Pictures | tags: animated gif, astronomy, jupiter, nasa, science, space, time lapse, voyager
Spring Eclipse
“Twice a year, SDO enters an eclipse season where the spacecraft slips behind Earth for up to 72 minutes a day. Unlike the crisp shadow one sees on the sun during a lunar eclipse, Earth’s shadow has a variegated edge due to its atmosphere, which blocks the sun light to different degrees depending on its density.”
This image comes to us courtesy of NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory – for more fantastic hi-def imagery of the cosmos head over to the NASA Goddard Photo and Video’s Flickr stream.
[ SDO Sees Spring Eclipse via Gizmodo ]
posted by respondcreate on Apr. 04, 2011 in Pictures | tags: astronomy, eclipse, nasa, sdo, space, sun
The Known Universe
“The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History.”
This video is a personal favorite of mine – I’ve watched it around nine or ten times – and don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner to put it up on the site. The Known Universe was directed by Carter Emmart with music by Suke Cerulo. Read more on amnh.org.
[ The Known Universe by AMNH ]
posted by respondcreate on Mar. 28, 2011 in Videos | tags: amnh, astronomy, hd, science, space, spiritual, trippy, universe
MmmHmm
“It’s plain to see for you and me: love!
It cannot hide; just be who you are…”
More dopeness from reliable dopeness repository, Flying Lotus. Thundercat is up ons as well who, in addition to starring in the video, lent his skills on bass and vocals to the track. Visuals come courtesy of top-notch directing duo Campbell Hooper and Joel Kefali, a.k.a. Special Problems.
Also, I’ve been noticing lots of Ents dropping by. Hello, friends – make yourselves at home!
posted by respondcreate on Mar. 26, 2011 in Videos | tags: 8-bit, colorful, flying lotus, hd, music video, space, special problems, spiritual, trippy
Hey, Joopita!
psst! you should definitely click for the full size on this one
Never seen Jupiter’s “Great Red Spot” so up close, er, zoomed in. Pretty rad.
[ Great Red Spot ]
posted by tizmatti on Mar. 24, 2011 in Pictures | tags: astronomy, jupiter, photography, space
Northern Lights Post #3
While I’m aware that respondcreate already posted some great content relating to our most impressive of natural phenomenons, I thought I would go ahead and throw this video up on the site because, well, it’s a video, it’s in HD, and it’s stunning. Terje Sorgjerd captured one of the largest Aurora Borealis events in years as it occurred over national parks bordering Russia (so think remote, wild, and very very cold). He has some other great HD videos up, so check them all out, especially the one detailing the beauty of Norway and it’s landscape.
[ The Aurora via Buzzfeed ]
posted by tizmatti on Mar. 24, 2011 in Videos | tags: aurora borealis, hd, nature, norway, photography, space, terje sorgjerd, time lapse, trippy
Phazing
“We are not going home; we’re phazing, a million miles away!”
Lots of talented folks from Sweden pitched in to create this polished-to-a-retro-sheen journey through space for Dirty South‘s dreamy progressive anthem ‘Phazing’: Maceo Frost (direction, art direction, animation, design), Robin Günther (art direction, animation, design), Linus Lundin (3D animation), Elias Widerdal (3D animation) and David Günther (sound FX design).
It’s a colorful trip through universe, punctuated here and there by dashes of abstract geometry, that compliments the uplifting synths of the track rather nicely. You know the drill: headphones on, lights down, volume up. Enjoy!
[ Dirty South feat Rudy 'Phazing' (Official Video) ]
posted by respondcreate on Mar. 16, 2011 in Videos | tags: 3d, animation, colorful, dirty south, electronic music, hd, maceo frost, music video, space, swedish, trippy
Gifted
Music video concepts we can get behind #4831: Astronauts buggin’ out in space due to some potent psychedelic hallucinations. Respect to Three Legged Legs for the creative and unique direction, Mark Kulakoff, Dylan Spears and Michael Tavarez for their tight execution on the design and animation and to N.A.S.A. for the hot tunes. Read/see/watch more about the project here.
[ N.A.S.A. "Gifted" (feat. Kanye West, Santogold, & Lykke Li) ]
posted by respondcreate on Mar. 14, 2011 in Videos | tags: animation, astronauts, hd, music video, n.a.s.a., psychedelic, space, three legged legs, trippy
Solar prominence
“When a rather large-sized (M 3.6 class) flare occurred near the edge of the Sun, it blew out a gorgeous, waving mass of erupting plasma that swirled and twisted over a 90-minute period… read more”
The good folks at NASA captured this on February 24, 2011 and it helped reacquaint me with just how small and insignificant I am – a realization I always find is tremendously freeing. If you are as fascinated about this kind of stuff as I am you’ll probably enjoy reading more about solar prominences on wikipedia.
[ NASA's SDO Captures a Monster Prominence [video] via Gizmodo ]
posted by respondcreate on Mar. 07, 2011 in Videos | tags: astronomy, humbling, nasa, nature, space, sun, trippy
Spirit Quest Journey
Ryan Mauskopf brings the good times with this video for his music nom dé plume, Professor Soap. It’s silly, strange, colorful and is packed with a generous dose of friendly, fun alien life-forms. Enjoy!
[ Professor Soap - Spirit Quest Journey ]
posted by respondcreate on Feb. 27, 2011 in Videos | tags: aliens, animation, bizarre, colorful, fun, hd, professor soap, ryan mauskopf, space, trippy