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Pacific Sun Cruise liner in very heavy seas. Internal CCTV footage.

Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, the world’s No. 2 and No.1 tennis players, are arch rivals on the courts, but friends outside of the courts. During the shooting of the promotion video for “The Match for Africa” they had loads of fun.

See it yourself at: http://gearthblog.com/satellites.html

This collection by Analytic Graphics Inc. shows real-time positions of 13,000 satellites around the Earth in Google Earth.

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A climber’s view going up a 1768 foot gided broadcasting tower

Luck : A Compilation of Close Calls. Footage of various people cheating death.

This film explores playful uses for the increasingly ubiquitous ‘glowing rectangles’ that inhabit the world.

“We use photographic and animation techniques that were developed to draw moving 3-dimensional typography and objects with an iPad. In dark environments, we play movies on the surface of the iPad that extrude 3-d light forms as they move through the exposure. Multiple exposures with slightly different movies make up the stop-frame animation.”

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