Fog is Beautiful, Amazing, Dangerous...

How often has this happened? You're driving along in the early morning or at dusk when the road dips into a valley and you drive into wisps of fog (or worse, heavy fog)? Sometimes it only lasts for a few minutes. Sometimes, when the conditions are right, you may be driving for a long time through the cottony mist that wreaks havoc with your ability to see the side of the road, signs, turnoffs, pedestrians, wildlife or other cars. It's a white-knuckle trip and a relief when you drive out of the vision-stealing stuff.

Fog can be powerful and frightening, and it's been used many times in novels and movies to create atmosphere, a sense of impending doom, a sense of danger. What version of any Jack the Ripper-themed movie fails to include fog? The inability to see the evil hiding in its depths creates automatic terror.

But despite its dangers, fog can also be incredibly beautiful and moving and awe inspiring. Watch the two videos below. Isn't fog amazing?

From Lark Harbour, Newfoundland

Adrift by Simon Christen

Adrift from Simon Christen on Vimeo.

Fred Astaire Dancing on the Ceiling (Again)

No surprises here, but it was sort of fun to see the two images side by side (for the record, according to the YouTube description, there is no real documentation of this filming, but Stanley Donen, who filmed this in 1951, recreated the effect with Lionel Richie in "Dancing on the Ceiling" in 1986).




Here's the documentation of the Lionel Richie song (at almost 10 minutes, it's a bit longer than what I usually post).

Snoball Cookies by Olive Us

This fun little video of three sisters making snoball cookies made me smile.

I'm Hungry: Snoball Cookies from Olive Us on Vimeo.

Here's the link to the recipe from the Olive Us site.

An Innovative Stop-Motion Video

The images are made from Moliskine planners.

Vancouver Film School Makeup Design

This timelapse demonstrates the process of applying makeup to age the actor.