Little Red Panda Plays With a Pumpkin
By cdinVIDEO: Adorable little red panda cub plays with a pumpkin in the snow.
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Incredibly Beautiful Yosemite: Spectacular Timelapse Video
By cdinScenery glimmers by, brilliant stars and galaxies of the Milky Way wax and wane, lights flicker as climbers attempt Half Dome. Stunning, mesmerizing, majestic filming set to hauntingly lovely music.
Yosemite HD from Project Yosemite on Vimeo.
This video is a collaboration between Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty. All timelapses were shot on the Canon 5D Mark II with a variety of Canon L and Zeiss CP.2 Lenses.
Project Yosemite Website: http://projectyose.com
Thanks to Dynamic Perception for their motion controlled dolly and continued support!
Dynamic Perception Website: http://dynamicperception.com
Music is “Outro” from the new album Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming by M83.
Publishing: http://emimusicpub.com
Licensing: http://bankrobbermusic.com
This whole project has been an amazing experience. The two of us became friends through Vimeo and explored a shared interest in timelapsing Yosemite National Park over an extended period of time. We’d like to expand this idea to other locations and would appreciate any suggestions for a future project.
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/SheldonNeill
https://twitter.com/#!/barple
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/sheldon.neill
http://www.facebook.com/delehanty
Contact info: info@projectyose.com
Behind The Scenes: http://vimeo.com/35223326
By Dalton Runberg
Yosemite HD | 2K will be hosted on YouTube shortly. Link coming soon!
Our hearts go out to the family of Markus Praxmarer who lost his life while climbing Half Dome on September 19, 2011.
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NASA Releases STUNNING Images Movie of Earth
By cdinIncredible Timelapse Movie of Earth As Viewed From the Orbiting Space Station
ISS Flight Over Africa with Milky Way
This video was taken by the crew of Expedition 30 on board the International Space Station. The sequence of shots was taken December 29, 2011 from 20:55:05 to 21:14:09 GMT, on a pass from over central Africa, near southeast Niger, to the South Indian Ocean, southeast of Madagascar. The complete pass is over southern Africa to the ocean, focusing on the lightning flashes from local storms and the Milky Way rising over the horizon.
The Milky Way can be spotted as a hazy band of white light at the beginning of the video. The pass continues southeast toward the Mozambique Channel and Madagascar. The Lovejoy Comet can be seen very faintly near the Milky Way. The pass ends as the sun is rising over the dark ocean.
Video courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center
Via the Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Videos/CrewEarthObservationsVideos/
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Extraordinary Kindnesses… Baby Elephants & Keepers
By cdinPrecious, vulnerable and fragile, these orphaned baby elephants are lovingly nurtured by their caregivers at the Nairobi Elephant Nursery in Kenya.
Little Orphaned Baby Elephants
Click on the image above to see the slideshow at National Geographic. (Link opens new tab or window)
http://www.neatorama.com/spotlight/2010/12/20/the-worlds-biggest-cave/
Baby Elephants Needing and Loving Each Other
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The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
By cdinThis Post Originally Published Aug 21, 2008
The Last Lecture Given by Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) at Carnegie Mellon University, Sept. 18, 2007
Many have seen this, but it always behooves us to revisit these videos of Randy Pausch. His message is timeless, and has the power to change our perception of how we live the rest of our lives.
Randy Pausch was a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon. He lived a joyful, even uproarious life working on amazing projects and engaging in romantic exploits, fun endeavors and exciting adventures.
He was brilliant, handsome, popular, creative and a super human dynamo in unstoppable action. He was also very funny, witty, charming. When he discovered he was dying of pancreatic cancer, everything in his life took on new meaning of monumental proportion.
He was at the top of his game, married to the woman of his dreams and father to 3 beautiful young children, the apples of his fatherly eye. The thought of leaving them all was more than he could bear, but bore it he has, sharing his haunting and beautiful story with the world.
Posted by email from cdin’s posterous
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EXTRAORDINARY – DashCam Live Videos During Fukishima Tsunami
By cdinExtraordinary Video With More Footage and Details On Recovering the Footage From the Badly Damaged Dashboard Camera With Subtitles
This is probably one of the most extraordinary live Fukishima videos ever captured while tsunami waters engulf the streets of Senda minutes after the devastating 8.9 Japan Earthquake.
In the first minute of this video, you will see the incredible shaking of the street and buildings, almost as if the landscape is on a platform of rubber. The back and forth movement is huge. Buildings sway, cars bounce, streets rise and fall.
One man crouches and reels in an attempt to keep his balance. The video skips to an hour later when the rushing waters hit without warning.
Mr. Muroga, a delivery driver who has a security dashcam installed in his vehicle, was making a delivery through Sendai’s Miyagino-ku when the March 2011 Japan Earthquake struck. Since he was over a kilometer away from the ocean, he and others mistakenly assumed they were safe from any resulting floodwaters.
Out of nowhere, you can see a torrent of rushing water start to rush across the intersection several blocks ahead. One passenger leaps from his car to the right. He doesn’t know where to run.
Suddenly, within seconds, waters rise from behind. Frantic drivers have no time to leave their vehicles and they begin to float. You can see the auto headlights beaming and windshield wipers swishing back and forth while cars, vans and trucks bob and float in the rapidly rising water filled with debris.
MIRACLE SURVIVAL
If there is ANYTHING amazing and beautiful about this video, it is that Mr. Muroga was able to leap from his vehicle and swam to safety. Within minutes, you can see his vehicle pummeled as it’s swept into a warehouse where it is then crushed and overcome in a wave of metal, water and darkness. At one point while still in his vehicle, Mr. Muroga had briefly hoped the flood waters would recede and he could be saved.
Mr. Muroga wants everyone to see the extraordinary power and devastation of a tidal wave that can overcome a city without warning. He reports that there was no noise, no warning whatsoever. It was truly a silent killer. His message:
Watch the video and see how important it is to leave your vehicle and seek higher ground during a tidal wave. If there are any coastal earthquakes, be aware of tsunamis even if you over a kilometer distant from the sea.
Compilation Video
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Credits:
http://www.majiroxnews.com/2011/07/20/sendai-driver%E2%80%99s-video-a-global-hit-warning-of-tsunami-dangers/
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THE CUTEST LITTLE BALUGA WHALE and MARIACHI MUSIC
By cdinA wonderful video of happy music and a most delighted and darling little Baluga whale. NOT TO MISS. : )
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ANIMAL FRIENDSHIPS – LOVING EACH OTHER – VIDEOS WITH IMAGES : )
By cdinThis is so darn precious and cute! Some of these pictures in this video will take your heart to HEAVEN. Perhaps you will even cry. 😀
Rat Loves Cat 🙂
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Men Save Desperate, Young, Grateful Whale
By cdinA Wonderful and Beautiful Story Ending
Whale Rescues <3
An extraordinary and beautiful, touching story to watch. This young whale is caught in an impossible tangle of nets. Her fins are pins to her side and her breathing is terribly difficult and labored. She is dying a prolonged and terrifying death. A small boat finds her, and the men work desperately against the clock try and save her.
The men radio for help, but none is forthcoming. They take matters into their own hands. Time is running out. The young whale grows more increasingly desperate, frightened and exhausted. But, he contains herself with extraordinary patience as the men work feverishly to cut the nets with one, small knife. It is difficult and laborious work.
At last! The whale is free. He cannot contain herself. He jumps and leaps for joy for over an hour before the small boat that saves him. Her ecstasy is boundless. It seems he is showing them his incredible happiness, relief, gratitude.
The men finally must say good bye. They are deeply moved and touched. This story will stay with them for the rest of their lives. They are forever changed.
The Great Whale Conservancy (GWC) is a joint program of two premier projects of the Earth Island Institute: the International Marine Mammal Project and the Campaign to Safeguard America’s Waters.
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THE MOST ADORABLE WAY To Come Down the Stairs
By cdinThe Original Slinky Cat Video
This is Tsuki the Cat. He definitely has the most individual way of coming down the stairs. Absolutely adorable. 😀
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