A year of video taken from a camera attached to the helmet of Highland Park, MI firefighter Scott Ziegler.
Berlin-based artist, Aslan Malik’s turns the faces on our currency into members of the Justice League.
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Photo and caption by Ashley Vincent/National Geographic Photo Contest. The subject’s name is Busaba, a well cared for Indochinese Tigress whose home is at Khao Kheow Open Zoo, Thailand. I had taken many portraits of Busaba previously and it was becoming more and more difficult to come up with an image that appeared any different to the others. Which is why I took to observing her more carefully during my visits in the hope of capturing something of a behavioural shot. The opportunity finally presented itself while watching Busaba enjoying her private pool then shaking herself dry. In all humility I have to say that Mother Nature smiled favourably on me that day!
Photo and caption by Fransisca Harlijanto/National Geographic Photo Contest. I was surrounded by thousands of fish that moved in synchrony because of the predation that was happening. It was an incredible experience.
Photo and caption by Sanjeev Bhor/National Geographic Photo Contest. Everyday in mara starts with something new and different and day ends with memorable experiences with spectacular photographs. I was very lucky of sighting and photographing Malaika the name of female Cheetah and her cub. She is well known for its habit to jump on vehicles. She learned that from her mother Kike, and Kike from her mother Amber. Like her mother she is teaching lessons to her cub. Teaching lessons means addition of another moment for tourist. This is one of the tender moment between Malaika and her cub. I was very lucky to capture that moment.
Photo and caption by Kai-Otto Melau/National Geographic Photo Contest. A race that follows in the path of the famous explorer Roald Amundsen brings the contestants to the Hardangervidda Mountainplateu, Norway. 100km across the plateau, the exact same route Amundsen used to prepare for his South Pole expedition in 1911 is still used by explorers today. Amundsen did not manage to cross the plateau and had to turn back because of bad weather. He allegedly said that the attempt to cross Hardangervidda was just as dangerous and hard as the conquering of the South Pole. The group in the picture used the race as preparations for an attempt to cross Greenland.
Photo and caption by Eric Guth/National Geographic Photo Contest. Glacial ice washes ashore after calving off the Breiamerkurjˆkull glacier on Iceland’s eastern coast. During the waning light of summer this image was created over the course of a 4 minute exposure while the photographer backlit the grounded glacial ice with a headlamp for 2 of those 4 minutes.
Photo and caption by关嘉城/National Geographic Photo Contest. Dragon boating is a Chinese traditional entertainment. As an aquatic sport to memorialize Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet in ancient China, it is usually held in festivals, which can be traced back to two thousands years ago.
Photo and caption by Nenad Saljic/National Geographic Photo Contest. The Matterhorn 4478m at full moon.
Photo and caption by Micah Albert/National Geographic Photo Contest. At the end of the day women are allowed to pick through the dumpsite.
From over 22,000 entries in 150 countries this year, the winner of the 2012 National Geographic Photo Contest have been announced. Awesome. Get your desktop/iPad/iPhone wallpapers here.
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Over 7,100 photos, taken over the course of 730 captures the blooming of Amaryllis, Lilies, Zygocactus, Rose, Gladiolus, and Gardenia.
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Simple idea, really, but wow, awesome.
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We've featured kogonada's supercuts before: Kubrick's One Point Perspective and the Sounds of Aronovsky.
From kogonada:
"The films of Ozu are filled with people walking through alleys and hallways: the in-between spaces of modern life. This is where Ozu resides. In the transitory. It’s what he values as a filmmaker. Alleys are not an opportunity for suspense but for passage.
*Passageways is made up of Ozu’s final six films: Equinox Flower (Higanbana), Good Morning (Ohayo), Floating Weeds (Ukigusa), Late Autumn (Akibiyori), The End of Summer (Kohayagawa-ke no aki), and An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji)"
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In no particular order, here are the 5 most astounding timelapses we've featured.
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In no particular order, the 5 most amazing photo posts of 2012.
Award-winning photographer Tim Flach brings a portraiture eye and intention to animal photos. Just amazing.
Russian photographer Andrew Osokin makes the normally invisible visible. There are so many more on his LensArt profile.
Tiltshift does this interesting thing where it both removes a lot of the distance between you and the subject and distorts it past recognition.
Russian biologist Alexander Semenov amazing images.
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Not in any particular order, the 5 most beautiful posts we've made this year.
Harvard PhD student Alex Parker use the top 100 images from the Hubble telescope and a mosaic-making program to make this stunning version of Van Gogh’s masterpiece.
On Body Forms: Photos by Klaus Kampert
Director and cinematographer Ron Ficke (Koyaanisqatsi, Baraka) has been hard at work on Samsara for 5 years. The entire film is shot in stunning 70mm. It is a film that relies completely on its visual impact and cinematographic juxtaposition, as there isn't any dialogue.
Beautifully shot short film on the letterpress.
via The Atlantic Master Feed:
"In Ascendance, nature photographer Henry Jun Wah Lee documents the Perseid meteor shower at its peak in August, before a backdrop of Joshua Tree National Park and the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest. It's worth watching the video full screen to appreciate the crisp cinematography and magical details -- rainbows, stars, and more. "
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Awesome looking timelapse exploration of one of the world's most vibrant cities.
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This beautiful and challenging color matching game is a great deal of fun.
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Beijing-based photographer and performance artist Li Wei creates these gravity-defying photographs with only the use of balance and invisible props. Mad props.
From The Inertia.
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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.
Slow-speed video creates ephemeral water sculptures by Shinichi Maruyama, composited by Tetsushi Wakasugi.
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Film student Giacomo Sardelli:
"Pictures taken from the International Space Station to tell a story and share the message sent by the astronauts who worked on the station in the last 11 years."
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“Burneshas,” or females who have lived their lives as men in Albania society to escape the old codes that governed the tribal clans, with women as the property of their husbands, are captured in the moving portraits in the series Sworn Virgins of Albania, by photographer Jill Peters.
Peters:
I learned that the Burrnesha are well respected within their communities. They possess an indescribable amount of strength and pride, and value their family honor above all else. Their absolute transition is wholly accepted, posited and taken without question by the people among whom they live. But most surprising, is they have very few regrets for the great deal they have sacrificed.
The freedom to vote, drive, conduct business, earn money, drink, smoke, swear, own a gun or wear pants was traditionally the exclusive province of men. Young girls were commonly forced into arranged marriages, often with much older men in distant villages. As an alternative, becoming a Sworn Virgin, or ‘burnesha” elevated a woman to the status of a man and granted her all the rights and privileges of the male population. In order to manifest the transition such a woman cut her hair, donned male clothing and sometimes even changed her name. Male gestures and swaggers were practiced until they became second nature. Most importantly of all, she took a vow of celibacy to remain chaste for life. She became a “he”. This practice continues today but as modernization inches toward the small villages nestled in the Alps, this archaic tradition is increasingly seen as obsolete. Only a few aging Sworn Virgins remain.
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Gorgeous hyperlapse of London during a gorgeous time of the year.
Swedish indie rockers Shout Out Louds wanted to make a splash to introduce "Blue Ice," the first single off their upcoming Optica. The worked tiwhTBWA Stockholm, to make a kit that would make a playable record out of ice.
They sent out only 10 kits to fans and press. Fascinating idea.
Here is the full single.
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For the past five years, film student Kees van Dijkhuizen Jr. has made a supercut of the year in film. This is lovely and moving. Better in fact that a lot of the films he includes.
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If there were a spectrum of the state of matter, icebergs would be about halfway between sky and stone. With a lot of the structure and scale of rock with the ephemeralness of water. These absolutely stunning images come from Nuremberg-based photographer Jan Erik Waider.
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