The Aboriginal Cherry Blossom Festival brings together a large number of visitors to the Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village to see their 2,000 cherry blossom trees.
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Yeah these lego recreations of movie scenes and characters from 21-year-old Alex Eylar are so much fun.
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Gideon van der Stelt collaged film fragments, superimposing them onto a paper model of the Dutch city of Utrect (where I was lucky enough to spend about half a year) in a video titled Verknipte tijden (Distorted Times).
The whole process of harvesting cranberries is in of itself fascinating. That someone thought to flood the fields to take advantage of the float that healthy cranberries have is pretty ingenious.
And of course, Red Bull thought to film some star wakeboarders being winched across the bogs. Mesmerizing and amazing.
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A former software architect from Voronezh, Russia, Alexander Safonov currently lives and works in Discovery Bay, Hong Kong. His favorite spot is the yearly sardine run off the South African coast. More of his work on Flickr and 500px.
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A compilation of the beautiful moments from the last 2 months of YouTube.
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Lynnete Wallworth made this beautiful video installation Coral, Rekindling Venus , which was selected to screen at the Sundance Film Festival this year.
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Photographer Tom Kualii brings us "Lava meets Ocean " an extraordinary series from the big island of Hawaii.
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The original Blue Marble photo (to the right) is 40 years old now. I find it and this video extremely moving and oddly comforting.
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'Manhattan breaking apart in front of your eyes', says filmmaker James Balog. The largest iceberg calving captured on film.
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Apparently, according to Google Zeitgeist the top most popular search for 2012 in the world are:
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When design is used not just to sell more widgets but to solve problems of the world, I am filled with a great deal of optimism. Here for example is the Gravity Light, meant to cleanly, safely and sustainably replace kerosene lamps.
"GravityLight is a revolutionary new approach to storing energy and creating illumination. It takes only 3 seconds to lift the weight which powers GravityLight, creating 30 minutes of light on its descent. For free."
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These stunning photos were taken by University of Washington graduate student Jeff Bowman and his professor Jody Deming as the worked to combine oceanography, microbiology, and planetary sciences into their study in the the central Arctic Ocean on frost flowers, an amazing instance where frost grows in extreme sub-zero temperatures nearing -22C or -7.6F
from imperfections in the surface ice.
These spiky structures house microorganisms, not unlike a coral reef.
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Storytelling in photographs of Lego Men.... yeah, I love it.
Life's a S#!t sandwich is the side project of commercial photographer Bryan McLean.
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"From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Consider again that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives."
A remarkable animation by studio ORDER.
Austria-based photographer Edgar Moskopp uses HDR to amazingly colorful effect.
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Australia had a solar eclipse last month. Photographer Colin Legg made this outstanding timelapse of it.
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With more than 800,000km on the odo,Gunther Holtorf is still going.
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27-year old Indonesian artist Elfan Diary draws a new portrait using art markers, Sakura Pigma Micron pen and Faber-Castell colored pencils.
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Kummakivi means "strange rock." It's an extremely rare natural phenomenon in Valtola Savoni, Finland. One enormous rock balanced on another, in the middle of the forest? Yeah, "strange".
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