Flickr Finds No. 31

Dave Mason

Alice Bartlett

Marius Roman

Jens Fersterra

Mattias Hammar

ón Óskar

Chris Busey

Josetxu Silgo

Greg Speasl

At long last Flickr Finds returns with the 31st edition of my favorite photos seen on the newly redesigned Flickr over the last few weeks. For more photos see previous Flickr Finds. All photographs above courtesy the individual photographers.

How one man revolutionised animation

It took three months of painstaking special effects to complete a short scene in the 1963 film, Jason and the Argonauts.

It features some of the earliest and most noted examples of stop-motion animation, which was pioneered by Ray Harryhausen.

Born in 1920 in Los Angeles, the visual effects animator made a career of injecting fantasy into fantasy films.

He brought monstors and mythological beasts to life, sculpting then shooting clay models frame by frame, movement by movement.

How Class Works - Richard Wolff Examines Class

Richard Wolff is an economist who has studied class issues for more than 40 years. In this animation and audio presentation, Wolff explains what class is all about and applies that understanding to the foreclosure crisis of 2007--2011. He argues that class concerns the "way our society splits up the output [and] leaves those who get the profits in the position of deciding and figuring out what to do with them... We all live with the results of what a really tiny minority in our society decides to do with the profits everybody produces." As you watch and listen, consider what we know from research about disease and illness patterns among groups with lower income, more stress, and less control of their lives. Consider how investment decisions in neighborhoods, over transportation, school facilities, parks, location of grocery stores, quality of affordable housing, etc. influenced by powerful interests, affect the quality of life for large segments of the population.
http://rdwolff.com/

This video was produced by the National Association of County and City Public Health Officals (NACCHO) as a part of thier Roots of Health Inequality Project. The project is a web-based course for the public health workforce and "How Class Works" is one section of the course.
http://www.rootsofhealthinequity.org/...

http://www.thedossier.info/

IBM makes the world's smallest movie

Researchers at IBM have shot the world's smalle st movie. A tiny microscope was used to move individual atoms around in the film - "A Boy and His Atom" - to create a stop-motion animated film that is going down in the Guinness Book of World Records as the smallest film ever.

Brains Made of Toothpaste, Newspaper and Food by Kyle Bean

Designer Kyle Bean (previously here and here) just finished this fun series of brains for Men’s Health magazine. Bean is known for his handcrafted commercial and editorial work for a number of large brands involving set design, sculpture, and illustration. Portfolios don’t get much more fun than his.