Wry little diorama like photos, these pieces from a show called "Beautiful Evidence" (no doubt inspired by one of favorite Tufte books: Beautiful Evidence
1 - Bill Murray
2 - Wildly Imaginative Public Schools
Above: Kindergarten Kekec by Arhitektura Jure Kotnik — Ljubljana, Slovenia
The folks over at Flavorwire have a great piece on some of the most amazing public schools around the world. Here are some of our favorite highlights.
Bailly School Complex by Mikou Design Studio — Saint-Denis, France
Crèche Rue Pierre Budin by ECDM — Paris, France
The Josephine Baker Schools by Dominique Coulon & Associés — La Courneuve, France
Sarreguemines Nursery by Michel Grasso and Paul Le Quernec — Sarreguemines, France
Sra Pou Vocational School by Rudanko + Kankkunen — Sra Pou, Cambodia
Ørestad Gymnasium by 3XN Architects — Copenhagen, Denmark
3 - Animated GIFS are amazing
What a comeback such an old and low-tech thing as animated GIFs are making. Love these from a tumblr called 40licks.
4 - Handmade Bionic Hands
"Sun Jifa, 51, lost both his hands when a bomb he was creating for blast fishing in Guanmashan, Jilin province, northern China, exploded"
"Could not afford hospital's prosthetic arms so made his own"
5 - Love Sport: Stylish, Funny Sports Animations
This animation series from Studio AKA is a gem. I can't quite believe I've never seen it before now.
1 - SPHINX OBSERVATORY IN THE SWISS ALPS
The Sphinx Observatory in Switzerland is beautiful and gorgeous and looks like a steampunk castle to me.
2 - Metro Animation
There isn't anything particularly innovative about this short animation. It is just stylish, lovely and moving.
3 - Where Children Study
The folks over on Brain Pickings brought this phenomenal series of classrooms from around the world from photographer Julian Germain to my attention.
4 - The Lincoln Tunnel at 190mph
I haven't driven through the Lincoln Tunnel for about 10 years, and that was in a UHAUL. So, yeah, this is a bit of wish fulfillment.
5 - A Robot That Prints Buildings Out of Sand
Three architecture students from Spain have developed the Stone Spray Project: a robot that uses CAD drawings to program a robot to 'print' buildings out of sand using a special binding agent. I would imagine that bonded sand would have remarkable compressive strength. Not so sure about tensile, shear and torsional strength. I am really interested to see if/when this moves past the proof of concept phase.
1 - Dubai On the Move
Dubai is such a rapidly growing dynamic city. Every time I see a video like this or a set of photos it seems so much has changed. And certain so much has changed since my brief stop there in 1997.
2 - Motion Capture of Flying Robots Is Pretty
Quadrotors, micro-drones, all other sorts of flying robots are terrifyingly amazing. And this video studying and visualizing flight paths is gorgeous. The look like vertebrae . Eery.
4 - Parisian Theaters
All of these astounding photos of gorgeous Paris theaters are from Paris-born photographer Frank Bohbot. I wish I knew the names of each of them. Anyone recognize any of them?
5 - Tilt-shift Olympics
Tiltshift does this interesting thing where it both removes a lot of the distance between you and the subject and distorts it past recognition.
2 - Slacklining between two moving semis
A world champion slackliner attemps to traverse a line suspended between two moving Volvo (yes it's an ad) semi-trucks. Astounding.
3 - Supercut of Badass Women on TV
The folks over at Flavorwire made this awesome supercut of awesome women on TV. There are some really great shows you should definitely check out on this list.
edited by MICHELLE RAFFERTY
music by Jim Jones ft. Lloyd and Girl Talk
featuring (in order of appearance):
LESLIE KNOPE and THE PAWNEE GODDESSES – Parks and Recreation
CARRIE MATHISON – Homeland
LUNA GARZA – True Blood
PEGGY OLSON – Mad Men
ELAINE BARRISH – Political Animals
JESSICA PEARSON – Suits
YGRITTE – Game of Thrones
EMILY THORNE – Revenge
EILEEN RAND – Smash
JESS DAY – New Girl
PATTY HEWES and ELLEN PARSONS– Damages
LEELA and AMY – Futurama
EMMA SWAN – Once Upon a Time
BRIENNE OF TARTH – Game of Thrones
TARA THORNTON– True Blood
JOAN HOLLOWAY– Mad Men
SYBIL CRAWLEY – Downton Abbey
SHIRLEY BENNET and ANNIE EDISON – Community
LIZ LEMON – 30 Rock
NIKITA MEARS – Nikita
OLIVIA POPE – Scandal
JANE BINGUM – Drop Dead Diva
GEMMA TELLER MORROW– Sons of Anarchy
OLIVIA BENSON– Law & Order
OLIVIA DUNHAM– Fringe
BRITTA PERRY– Community
REAGAN BRINKLEY– Up All Night
DONNA MEAGLE – Parks and Recreation
VICE PRESIDENT SELINA MEYER – Veep
ALEX UDINOV– Nikita
SUSAN BERG– Political Animals
DAENERYS TARGARYEN– Game of Thrones
4 - Macro Photos
I love the subtle touches: the attention to tone, the title-shift focus on the dew drops, the color. These macro photos from Russian amatuer Oleg Zhukov make me fall a little bit in love with the genre.
5 - Goethe's Theory of Color
Brain Pickings has a great bit of coverage highlighting this phenomenal work from German poet and philosopher, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Theory of Colours.
Leave it to an artist and poet to contend the prevailing thoughts on light and color (Newtonian at the time) with a potent mix of what would now be seen as cognitive psychology, perceptual reasoning and poetry.
It is his descriptions of the psychological impact of color that is most arresting. Here are just a few samples. And a link to greater details on Brain Pickings.
“RED-YELLOW
As no colour can be considered as stationary, so we can very easily augment yellow into reddish by condensing or darkening it. The colour increases in energy, and appears in red-yellow more powerful and splendid.
All that we have said of yellow is applicable here, in a higher degree. The red-yellow gives an impression of warmth and gladness, since it represents the hue of the intenser glow of fire.”
“BLUE-RED
This unquiet feeling increases as the hue progresses, and it may be safely assumed, that a carpet of a perfectly pure deep blue-red would be intolerable. On this account, when it is used for dress, ribbons, or other ornaments, it is employed in a very attenuated and light state, and thus displays its character as above defined, in a peculiarly attractive manner.
As the higher dignitaries of the church have appropriated this unquiet colour to themselves, we may venture to say that it unceasingly aspires to the cardinal’s red through the restless degrees of a still impatient progression.”
1 - A 30-day New Zealand Timelapse
When a photographer moves to a new city, let alone to a new country, a stunningly beautiful country like New Zealand, it is an amazing opportunity for us, the viewers, to not just see the stunning scenery, but for us to experience the excitement of the photographer's discovery.