Author: lucynewman
A drink of water on a plane journey
Hydro Drawings by Alex Lumsden
Chasing ice
A film about the rapidly melting glaciers, captured with extreme time lapse photography in Iceland, Alaska and more. It has a stunning sequence of a collapsing glacier which occurred over 75 minutes.
http://chasingice.co.uk/stills
Slow drama in the rock pools
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rtdr4
Paleontologist Professor Richard Fortey embarks on a quest to discover the extraordinary lives of rock pool creatures.
Animated water in Disney’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
This must be one of the most extraordinary film sequences of animated water ever created. It’s by special effects animators at Disney and its all hand painted.
Journey of the Blob
Journey of the Blob by Bill Maylone, National Film Board of Canada
“A young boy must make a decision about how to dispose of a green glob he has concocted. What will happen if he dumps it into a stream? Where does water come from and where does it go?”
Adam’s ale
Adam’s ale is an old fashioned name for water. The photo is of a pint glass of water in a pub garden in Kent, the county known as ‘the garden of England’.
Earth life 'from watery asteroid'
“Scientist have uncovered further evidence that there is water on Earth because our waterless planet was hit by a watery asteroid.
The asteroid is believed to have then given us the oceans, the rivers and lakes and all life that followed.”
A Roman bathhouse still in use after 2,000 years
Roman ruins are rarely boisterous places, full of noise, laughter and life. But Edward Lewis stumbled across one that is – a place to have a daily wash, and to enjoy the companionship of friends, just as it was for the Romans who built it.
Waterport.org 