From Wikipedia:
Lake Baikal is the world's oldest lake, at 25 million years. Located in the south of the Russian region of Siberia, between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryat Republic to the southeast, it is the most voluminous freshwater lake in the world, containing roughly 20% of the world's unfrozen surface fresh water.
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From the American Museum of Natural History:
"The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010. "
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Just astounding and inspiring, 19-year-old Brazilian Derek Rabelo, entirely blind since birth, surfs Pipeline, Hawaii.
A documentary called Beyond Sight, about Derek’s life is coming soon.
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Hong Kong remains one of my favorite cities, perched as it is on the edges of so many things: Asia, the Pacific, Democracy and Communism. Commonwealth in some of its bones, thoroughly Chinese.
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Photographer Mikko Lagerstedt captured hundreds of images of the Finnish landscape in this body of work called Edge.
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I love a good mashup meme (i.e. Slaughterhouse 90210) and while this one might eventually need to broaden its purview or risk running dry of material, for the time being it is amazing. Kayne West lyrics with Wes Anderson screens or the other way around. Love it.
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Many of these photographs are from a project titled “Wonderland“, which photographer Cade Martin shot for the Washington Ballet in Washington D.C.
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Kuala Lumpur is one of my favorite cities: vibrant, dynamic, high contrasts, great food. Photographer Rob Whitworth explains:
“5 months. 400 hours of solid work. 4 cameras. 40 shoots. 640 gigabytes of data. 19,997 photographs.”
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The Natural History Museum and BBC Worldwide sponsor the 2012 Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest. Around 100 images pulled from 48,000 by an international panel of judges. The amazing photos were shown for the first time yesterday at London’s Natural History Museum and will be on exhibit there through March 2013, before going on a world tour.
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Inspired by the movies, these stunning, papercut action silhouettes were created by photographer David A. Reeves and are another example of creativity being the only limit.
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Such an outstanding themed personal creative writing project from John Koenig, a freelance designer. I absolutely love it. I think I will bombard all my friends with these (there are 178 pages of them!), and often: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
"The Upper Midwest’s third-largest compendium of the outer spatters of the emotional palette. Its mission is to harpoon, bag and tag wild sorrows, then release them back into the subconscious."
Each word is completely made up and is guaranteed authentic by the author himself. All content is original and intended to be read at night.
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Avanaut (aka Vesa Lehtimäki) and his use of light, perspective and inexpensive props, produced some very cool dramatic scenes full of motion with miniatures and models.
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The Photographer of "VJ Day, The Kiss" liked to put himself in the picture. From Marilyn Monroe and Frank Lloyd Wright to Mia Farrow and J. Robert Oppenheimer, Alfred Eisenstaedt’s photographs have captured some of the most iconic images of our shared imagination. So it is a great deal of fun, and a bit of surprise, to see him put himself in the frame.
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It's no secret that I like apps (see here), and I am know to wax rhapsodic about them. But this one I am so excited by. It is a powerful, gorgeous 3D model of space on your iPhone or iPad. It's called Solar Walk.
What do you think? Am I right?
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Revisiting this gorgeous tilt-shift timelapse of Rio during the Carnaval.
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These are outstanding ways to traumatize your kids and feel amazingly smart at the same time. Anyone have anything along these lines? Ideas? I am looking for super ideas here...
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A timelapse project to capture America's scenes without people in them. The first city to get the treatment is San Francisco.
A close-up view of this amazing bit of our history and technological aspirations!? Yes please.
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If you are a fan of Hayao Miyazaki's great films, especially ones like Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away, then I bet you'll like this animated sequence called GLOAM. It's got a lot of the creepy wonderful imagery I love so much from Miyazaki.
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