ready for flight

  

Thought behind the thought:

It takes years and years of patience and hard work raising a child. Raising children is more about learning than teaching. It is more about setting examples than expectations. Most importantly it is about communication, bonding and giving time. Before you know it the children are ready to take off. Set off, on exciting new voyages! They will definitely benefit in the knowledge that you have faith in their convictions and actions.

About the art: 

Sir David Attenborough broadcaster and naturalist, is best known for writing and presenting the nine Life series with the BBC Natural History Unit. A former senior manager at the BBC, he also served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. He is the only person to have won BAFTA awards for programmes in each of the black and white, colour, HD, and 3D formats. Attenborough set about creating a body of work which became a benchmark of quality in wildlife film-making and influenced a generation of documentary film-makers of future generations.

Documentary filmmaking needs infinite patience, courage, conviction and faith just like parenting. The length at which one goes to capture a single frame is simply remarkable. The odds are always against you. You go in with your gut and relentlessly give it your all. The terrains that one has to navigate, the problems you encounter and all the hardship is worth that one shot of twenty four frames.

These base jumping goslings and their parents are indeed unique creatures. Young goslings plummets themselves down a cliff on a maiden flight. Down below are the richest pickings and to reach it they make the leap of faith along with their parents. Also waiting down below are predators from whom they need protection as well. Yet in spite of not having developed wings these goslings make a parachute like dive from the cliff. The gosling go down the cliff bumping into rocks but still make it and live to tell the tale. They have a unique mechanism where if their bellies hit the rocks they cushion them and most survive.

Documentary filming is a passion way beyond imagination and to really get under the skin of the dirctor and camera person so go the following link and read the experience of the makers of this piece:http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141020-chicks-tumble-of-terror-filmed

Credits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_JoetV3ZTQ

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141020-chicks-tumble-of-terror-filmed

driving your life

Thought behind the thought:

The one thing that’s most annoying while driving is to have someone in the rear continuously shout out instructions to you. The back seat driving is so troublesome that it actually distracts you from what you are doing. Driving is an occupation that needs your total concentration, attention and focus. Life is like that, one has to have the control to steer their lives in the direction they want. Control the pace, the speed and the course of the journey. Control who accompanies you on it and who does not. Control if you just want to stop a while and stretch your feet. The word driver itself means you get to steer your life and the entire onus is on you as to where to begin the journey and how to keep cruising ahead.

About the art:

Automobile design is possibly the most sought out career for aspiring young designers today. The field is challenging and demanding and there are no limits to imagination and innovation here. The possibility is endless. The greatest innovators  have been the ones who were able to see the future, the ones whose mind reached places that did not exist at that time and the ones that were fearless and relentless and had deep conviction in their beliefs. Carl Benz quotes that the passion for innovation will never die. Passion is truly the driver that has constantly pushed boundaries and given us spectacular results as design solutions if one looked at the automobile design history.

A design takes birth on paper and not in some tech savvy software. Most designers today are of the impression that design is created using  technology and hi tech procedures. It is the sketching table which is the most critical point of the design process ,it is here that the design actually takes form. Every line, curve, plane contour and every little nuance is a part of the sketch design. Scale, volume, proportions and details are all integral parts of the sketch design stage itself. Sketching allows the designer to bring his individuality, passion and emotion to the design. From the first sketch design more detailed and complex drawings are made using software.

From the sketching table the design moves on to computer softwares where cutting edge technology, engineering and design combine to create yet another state of the art car. Here the design is tested; fine tuned and all other components are incorporated within it.

The third stage of design is rather traditional. The design moves to a clay modelling studio. The car is modelled in clay to scale and each and every aspect is worked out in detail. A silver foil is used to cover the car to check how light and shadows are falling on the planes and contours of the car.
Technology can provide solutions ,simplify and make better machines but the human element involved in the design process makes the machine not just a commodity but a statement. One can clearly see that hand skills and sensibilities can take a simple design and raise it to an extremely elevated level.
Life too is in our hands. How we shape it, give it form and control quality will define how we emerge as individuals. 

Credits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTxclPfn-uc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qfzIcv1q8Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUz75_8gPs0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APNgS33HT3Y

journey

Thought behind the thought

To embark on a new journey is probably something that excites all of us. The anticipation of discovering new things, the sense of adventure it brings, and the enrichment and satisfaction that follows! Every road takes us through a new terrain, every turn opens our eyes to a new dimension and every obstacle brings out qualities that we never thought we possessed.

And the most interesting journey that we can make is probably the one inside our own mind! For, that is a place full of undiscovered hills and valleys, streams of reason and imagination and forests of feelings. What could be more fascinating than accompanying ourselves on a journey across the landscapes of our mind!

Film project “Imaginate”(year 2013) by street trials rider Danny Mac Askill.

( Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv3xVOs7_No)

About the art

"Project Imaginate" a trailer, and 5 episodes to promote the riding clip which is hugely popular, with  over 14 million views ! In this project, Street trials rider Danny MacAskill brought his child hood ultimate playground to life, only this time he rode it for real!

Danny MacAskill is a professional street trials rider for Inspired Bicycles Ltd, born and raised in Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. What he does with his bike, is nothing short of performing art! And the animation video above fully conveys the sense of adventure and excitement that must abound in his mind when he rides!

On April 19th, 2009, when he was 23 years old, Danny released a 5:30 minute street trials video on YouTubeset to ‘The Funeral’ by the Band of Horses. Little did he know, this video was about to change his life. Filmed and produced by his flat mate Dave Sowerby, “Inspired Bicycles” got a few hundred thousand views over night and as of today has been watched over 34 million times.

Since the video went online, things have progressed really fast for Danny. He found himself featured in theNew York Times and several other big publications and was nominated for sports award in the category “Action Sportsperson of the Year” at the Laureus World Sports Awards as well as for the National Geographic Adventurer of the Year Award. Naturally he gave up his job as a bicycle mechanic and moved to Edinburgh to ride his bike full time.

(Text source: http://www.dannymacaskill.co.uk/about/)

Credit and source of informationhttp://www.dannymacaskill.co.uk/about/