Artist Chris Maynard:
"I enjoy highlighting aspects of a feather’s form, pattern or color. If I am successful, I hope to convey some intimate sense of the bird that grew the feathers."
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I do love a single subject photo series. Here is a series of shot of the amazing Matterhorn.
The photographer, Nenad Saljic:
"When I was young, I had long fantasized about climbing the Matterhorn but I never really had the chance. I have been mountaineering and caving since I was twelve. I was reading all classic books about alpinism and my first great climbs were in my imagination."
"The Matterhorn is one of the most famous Alpine peaks and one of the most dangerous mountains in the world. It was the last great Alpine peak to be climbed and, its first ascent in 1865, which was fatal for four men, marked the end of the golden age of alpinism. Its north face, which is on my all photographs, was not climbed until 1931.
"A Portrait of the Matterhorn is a kind of memento to all climbers who dared to go there and for those who never returned."
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Outstanding, moving, beautiful and stylish silhouettes from Gabriel Wickbold’s photos titled Sexxfashion.
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Not your ordinary surf footage, this storm produced break off of Holland, MI this fall is pretty astounding.
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Surfing has such a place in our national imagination, and rightly so, if you ask me. It is addictive and simple. It is relaxing and exciting. It is showy and low-key.
With that in mind, we've asked our surfer-cum-writer friend, Ashton Goggans to pick 5 things to get anyone aspiring to a wet life.
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Philip Jodidio, a writer on the subject of architecture who has garnered a lot of attention has authored Tree Houses: Fairy Tale Castles in the Air.
Once just the stuff of childhood and movie sets, there have been recently a number of lauded attempts to build homes in the trees. Love this.
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Well done levitation photos are amazing. Like these from Kylie Woon
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Photos of Astana, which was unveiled as Kazakhstan's new capital in 1998.
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Using just a simple mirror and clever camera placement, conceptual dance theatre company A House Unbuilt has created this: Fidget and Flail.
From Victoria Bradford on HUB:
"I've been making these small dance films for about a year and a half, and much of it started with me "running around in my living room," as one curator put it. Lately, however, my energies have been invested in more involved, devised choreographies with a full company of dancers, so when I turned to my latest living room of a studio, I found myself fidgeting to the point of flailing in an attempt to find a dance. And yet, by imposing a frame which restricted my own view of the body, I was overwhelmed with a feeling of dismemberment and a disjointing of the body. From this, my newfound body cultivated a dance in cycles of flailing collapse and fidgeting recovery."
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Built in 2009 and designed by artist Daniel Tobin with Matthew Tobin and Jamie Perrow, the Kaust Beacon is part of KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) in Saudi Arabia. The tower rises 60 meters out of the Red Sea at the entry of the harbour and is made of amorphous hexagonal sections.
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Perth, Australia-born artist James Tapscott makes these stunning, eery outdoor installations using light.
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I do love animal photos taken like portraits.
Photographer Cally Whitham wants to “reaquaint [people] with the ‘value’ we once placed on our poultry and livestock in our rural beginnings.”
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Sergey Bobkov a 55 year old Russian artist uses ceder sticks and slices them for the material of these animal sculptures.
For the 2012 Archstoyanie in Nikola-Lenivets, Russia, Salto, a design agency, made Fast Track. Measuring nearly 170 ft., it's a trampoline the length of a city block. According to the designers:
“Fast track” is a integral part of park infrastructure, it is a road and an installation at the same time. It challenges the concept of infrastructure that only focuses on technical and functional aspects and tends to be ignorant to its surroundings. “Fast track” is an attempt to create intelligent infrastructure that is emotional and corresponds to the local context. It gives the user a different experience of moving and percieving the environment.
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Mesmerizing timelapse (and long exposure video) from French photographer Stephane Vetter capturing the night sky using a Sigma 8 mm fisheye lens on the night of Nov 17, 2012 in Champ du Feu, Alsace, France.
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Nicholas Buer gives us this superb timelapse, Spirits, shot in the north of Norway in the area of Tromvik, far enough north to capture the auroras.
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"The last remaining blue whale comes eye to eye with its only enemy; mankind."
Directed by Rutger Hauer & Sil van der Woerd.
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Check out all of Laman’s Bird of Paradise photographs over on his website. Or, get the hardcover photobook that can be purchased over on Amazon.
Carolyn Y. Johnson of the Boston Globe writes,
Laman [...] has an unusual career in which the skills he mastered as a Boy Scout—camping, backpacking, archery—are essential. In 2003, he teamed up with Edwin Scholes, an ornithologist at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, in a partnership that would take them on 18 trips to New Guinea. Through rain, floods, and interminable waiting for birds to show up at the right time, on the right branch, in the right light, they sought birds of paradise at 51 field sites. The life of a scientist-explorer isn’t exactly easy: it involved traversing flooded forests, rough boat rides, and being dropped off by helicopter in remote jungle. Laman climbed 165 feet up into trees and set up bird blinds and leafcams, staking out some of the most exotic animals on Earth.
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"Life Is Born" is part of the award winning, best-selling feature film "All.I.Can." Lots of breathtaking footage. Vibrant, moving and mesmerizing.
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"Toy Boats” is a short tilt-shift time-lapse video Nathan Kaso shots over 3 days while staying in Sydney.
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While this only works on Chrome, this stunning star viewer, complete with guided tour about blew my mind this morning. So much fun.
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