Chasing the storm - empowering time-lapse film

Just as a thunderstorm can take a day to build, so to can it take less than an hour before it unleashes a plethoric tirade of havoc, some, more dramatic than most others!

The fluidity of natures meteorological architecture often fills us with a sense awe and wonder when conjuring weather gathers within our sight path. None more so entertainingly present in Nathan Kaso's empowering short time-lapse film "Chasing the storm", shot around the Plenty Valley and Yarra Valley in Melbourne's outer east, (Australia).

Wide open landscape panning, squeeze sped and slowed, altered time lapse sequences elegantly married to Lzn02's delightful 'Fleur De Lune' sound track, and unfortunately all too short!

In case your interested Nathan Kaso captured his raw video footages with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 17-40mm f/4L, 24-105mm f/4L camera then processing in Lightroom and lAfter Effects softwares.

Flying swarm robot Quadrotors perform James Bond theme

The first 30 seconds of the staged video however, has a dramatic sound bed piece to set the scene for the eight flying robot quadcopters.

These toy scale flying bots are completely autonomous, meaning that they are controlled by a computer programmed with instructions to play the instruments.

Dustball: Wirelessly controlled robot vacuum cleaner concept

Dave Hakkens intentionally set about designing a robust vacuum cleaner that could easily move over cables, doorway thresholds and flexible enough to be pushed or kicked in any direction to clean dusty floors.

Dave's DustBall design was inspired by hamster ball and the same way an old computer mouse works - an internal sphere controlled on two axes enabling the ball to roll in any direction by shifting the weight of its internal components. When the Dust Ball is full, it rolls back to its charging station and glows indicating that it's ready to be emptied.

The clever promo video complete with zappy sound bed of the concept vacuum cleaner convincingly demonstrates its potential use in future office environments and airport foyers.

Dreamy trippy video: Drift

dissolves the dream-air-space morphing imagery of Theo Tagholm's media art piece. creating  a mysterious and original style of movement perhaps best described as stop-motion animation.

Nevertheless, I found myself paying full attention to the nihilistic sound bed, but  moreso liked the exaggerated wavering motion dissolves near the end of the video.