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I'm Farming and I Grow It

I'm Farming and I Grow It

Independent Olympic Athletes | Dance Routine Video Media MonsterVideo Leave it to the athletes who didn’t have a country to be the ones who were the happiest to be there. The four athletes who came to the Olympics as “independent athletes” — athletes who couldn’t or wouldn’t compete for their native lands for a variety of personal and political reasons — had a pretty fantastic dance routine going on at the Opening Ceremony. One such athlete is marathoner Guor Marial, a refugee from the Sudanese civil war who’s been living in the U.S. since 2001. And he’s really freakin’ happy about it. Olympic joy, summed up in one video, here: Video via CJ Fogler.

Taylor Swift- Santa Baby (Lyrics) The Sunshine Hotel: Radio Documentary by Sound Portraits This is an audio portrait of one of the final vestiges of the Bowery, New York's notorious skid row. In the first half of the century, the mile-long Bowery's bars, missions and cheap hotels (or flophouses) were home to an estimated 35,000 down-and-out men each night. Today, only a handful of flophouses, virtually unchanged for half a century, are all that remain of this once teeming world. For several months in 1998, David Isay and Stacy Abramson had unprecedented 24-hour access to the Sunshine Hotel, one of the last of the no-frills establishments. The Sunshine Hotel was awarded the Prix Italia, Europe's oldest and most prestigious broadcasting award, in 1999.

Forget 4K, Lose Yourself in a Stunning 10K Timelapse of Brazil 10328x7760 - A 10K Timelapse Demo from SCIENTIFANTASTIC on Vimeo. To showcase the awesome power of the PhaseOne IQ180 camera, timelapser and photographer Joe Capra, a.k.a. Scientifantastic, had to become a surgeon of sorts. 10328x7760 - A 10K Timelapse Demo is exactly what it sounds like: a timelapse video constructed out of photographs with a resolution higher than your computer can handle. Full screen this. "This footage comes from some shots I did while shooting 4K and 8K timelapses in Rio De Janeiro for a major electronics manufacturer," says Capra in the video's description. "I wanted to show a couple things with this demo video," Capra explains. Check out 10328x7760 - A 10K Timelapse Demo above, and enjoy the glorious detail with these screencaps below: 14% scale. 50% scale 100% scale Check out more of Joe Capra's work on Vimeo and Scientifantastic. Related: Swooping Seagull Flight Paths Revealed in Time-Blended Video Aurora Borealis Timelapse Gets a Stunning Kaleidoscopic Makeover

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