Don't miss seeing this! "Ain't No Grave": Beautiful Crowdsourced Video--The Johnny Cash Project

This is flat-out freaking gorgeous. (click, or view below):




"The Johnny Cash Project is a global collective art project, and we would love for you to participate. Through this website, we invite you to share your vision of Johnny Cash, as he lives on in your mind's eye. Working with a single image as a template, and using a custom drawing tool, you'll create a unique and personal portrait of Johnny. Your work will then be combined with art from participants around the world, and integrated into a collective whole: a music video for 'Ain't No Grave', rising from a sea of one-of-a-kind portraits. Strung together and played in sequence over the song, the portraits will create a moving, ever evolving homage to this beloved musical icon. What's more, as new people discover and contribute to the project, this living portrait will continue to transform and grow, so it's virtually never the same video twice. Go to www.thejohnnycashproject.com to participate!"


The above version was posted to YouTube 3 months ago. See the current version at The Johnny Cash Project. If you click "Contribute," you'll be given three frames to choose from. Select one, and you can draw it right on the site over (if you choose) the original frame for reference. If you click "Explore," you can watch different versions of the video--ones with only pointillist drawings, with only "sketchy" drawings, with the top-rated frames, with the most recently-drawn versions of the frames, etc. Fantastic.

"Wild Plants of Japan": Time-Lapse Videos

Via this post at BoingBoing, some mesmerizing time-lapse videos of plants by Omni/ScienceNet. I don't think any "space alien" imagery we've ever come up with compares (though I wish the first video had the same score as the second):

A Very Potter Musical

Oh, wow. It took Darren Criss showing up on Glee for me to discover A Very Potter Musical. Criss (who plays Blaine, the nice gay guy from the all boys' school on Glee) stars as Harry Potter in the fan musical, available on YouTube. I've only seen two scenes (videos) so far, and after the second (if you haven't seen it yet and only watch one of these, watch the second), I'm in for them all. Here are scenes one and two:





Cho Chang. Draco. Ah!