Do you know the significance of 4am?

It’s a significant hour of the day. You would ask, ‘really?’. It’s an odd hour to talk about. In almost every where in the world, at 4am, people sleep or in the process of sleeping.

I saw this in TED which made me realize there’s more to 4am. I am a big fan of storyteller and poet, Rives. He is charming, eloquent and a fascinating presenter.

I am not done yet.

I saw this 4amproject today.

It’s a project done by Karen Strunks, a photographer from Birmingham, UK. I searched her site to see if there was a reference made to this Rives speech. None. Her instincts connects to something that is prevalent in history midst some famous people.

Creepy but true.

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Awesome: Street Artist specializing in miniatures

This is truly beautiful.

Another Art Director spinning out a personal project that became popular and becomes mainstream but still remains to be good, fun and engaging.

Can’t express enough of how much you love watching his work. I am looking forward to spotting these on London roads someday myself.

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Movie made entirely on iPhone 4 and edited on iMovie app

Movies / Short films / Documentaries have changed over the years remarkably. Not in the content but the making of it. Technology has constantly updated with cameras, edit suites, coloring schemes, sound editing, graphics, set designs etc.

Film making was restricted to a few who knew how to operate the equipments that came with it. So, you can’t be just be a good story teller, you have to know how to use these high end gadgets too. Sometimes the size of a dinosaur.

But, with iPhones and such mobile devices with its range of apps, it is made more accessible. Here’s a beautiful experiment with iPhone 4 and iMovie app.

With the content distribution made easy with YouTube, Vimeo and such, everyone can be a filmmaker. Will people watch it is up to the story being told.

Made by Michael Koerbel and Anne Elizabeth James of Majek pictures. Credit to the duo, Curiousthings will attempt making one soon.

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Reinventing a classic

Holga, as we all know, is a medium format 120 film toy camera with minimum controls that uses a simple meniscus lens that display vignetting, blur, light leaks, and other distortions. Holga photos have won numerous awards and it has a cult following status. It is one of Asia’s true contribution to the photography universe. China’s to be precise.

Saikat Biswas is a very talented industrial designer who has worked on redesigning the Holga in this digital world. It manages to retain the rusty old look of the original Holga design as well as to bring the digital SLR features without compromising much.

Click the image to find more visuals of this classic.

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What happens when two of the most desired brands come together?

An expensive and awesome gadget to drool for. Only to drool for. When you know the price, everything else stops. The Hasselblad H4D Ferrari Limited Edition camera will only be produced in sets of 499 pieces depending on the off-take. I am sure there will be people snapping up as soon as its on the shelf. An expensive shelf rather. Love to own one. Hopefully, one day, some day.

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