“salt water unbounded—/The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber wind-hounded”

[larryhammer]

Three links of stunning beauty:

MOCEAN: slow-motion oceans, with an emphasis on breakers. Whoa. (via)

Robert Lang illustrates 11 levels of complexity in origami using successively more complicated models of cicada. Level 7 is already a little past my technical skill (and I learned several things just from watching that segment). Disclosure statement: Robert Lang fanboy here. (via, which has more Lang links)

Solo dulcimer cover of “I Wanna Be Sedated”. (via, where more covers are highlighted in comments)

---L.

Subject quote from The Sea and the Hills, Rudyard Kipling.

Comments

[sartorias]

Oh wOW that ocean one is gorgeous (though the soundtrack was ear-torturing. Better in silence.)

[larryhammer]

Um, yeah, I should have warned about the soundtrack...

[oracne]

I want to watch MOCEAN forever.

The soundtrack is interesting.

[larryhammer]

It is on its own, but I found it not the best pairing with the visuals.

[asakiyume]

Wow, in the ocean one, you really can see how ice is just very-slow water: when you super-slow-mo the water like that, it looks like ice--when it's very very thin, you can practically see the frost patterns in it.

The origami one was *amazing*. I shared it with my physics-PhD brother and my daughter-who's-fond-of-origami.

[larryhammer]

The ocean one, what fascinated the most was seeing the underwater currents and turbulence around the waves.

Origami *IS* amazing. And Lang is ♥♥♥.