Boston.com's Big Picture blog, always a favorite, has collected some of their favorite nature photos of the year.
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2 - Grandma's Home Cooking from Around the World
Gabriele Galimberti's photo project, Delicatessen with Love collects photos and recipes from grandmothers all around the world. Be sure and visit the site for all the recipes and more info.
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4 - Family Guy Voices Rap "Look at Me Now"
The voices of Family Guy give Chris Brown's "Look At Me Now" a new shine.
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5 - The United States of Pop - 2012 DJ Earworm
Dj Earworm takes Billboard’s weekly Hot 100 charts, and mashes some of the favorites into his “The United State of Pop (Shine Brighter),” 25 tunes into just four minutes.
1 - Uncanny Wood Carved Humans
Italian artist Willy Verginer carves and paints these incredibly precise surreal wooden statues.
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2 - Taiwan's Lit Cherry Trees
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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3 - Lego Movie Scenes
Yeah these lego recreations of movie scenes and characters from 21-year-old Alex Eylar are so much fun.
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4 - Distorted Time
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).
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5 - Wakeboarding in a Cranberry Bog
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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1 - Underwater Action
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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2 - Beautiful Moments on YouTube
A compilation of the beautiful moments from the last 2 months of YouTube.
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3 - Vibrant Under Sea
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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4 - Lava Meet Ocean
Photographer Tom Kualii brings us "Lava meets Ocean " an extraordinary series from the big island of Hawaii.
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5 - The Earth - Overview Effect
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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1 - A Humongous Iceberg Calving
'Manhattan breaking apart in front of your eyes', says filmmaker James Balog. The largest iceberg calving captured on film.
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2 - How Google sees 2012
Apparently, according to Google Zeitgeist the top most popular search for 2012 in the world are:
- 1. Whitney Houston
- 2. Gangnam Style
- 3. Hurricane Sandy
- 4. iPad 3
- 5. Diablo 3
- 6. Kate Middleton
- 7. Olympics 2012
- 8. Amanda Todd
- 9. Michael Clarke Duncan
- 10. BBB12
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3 - Gravity Light
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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4 - Frost Flowers
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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5 - Life's a S#!t sandwich
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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1 - Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot in Animation
"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.
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