Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Surreal GIF art from Bill Domonkos
PHOENIX in a La Blogoteque Takeaway Show Shot With a Drone at Versaille
Shot in one continuous drone shot, and music recorded live, this Concert A Emporter from La Blogoteque is one of my favorites, and certainly being of Phoenix doesn't hurt none, either.
The Thought Process for Making Pershing Square a More Active Town Square
A lot of the processes and decisions I see being made in this urban planning video are familiar to me from User Experience. Fascinating and beautiful.
From the video page:
"Gensler teams around the globe spent the last year re-imagining the concept of a Town Square. This video documents the ideas and efforts of Gensler Los Angeles, who used Pershing Square as a case study for how to re-imagine Town Squares in every community."
Photo of the Day - The Humanity of Frogs
photo by Penkdix Paime via National Geographic
25 Years of Streetfighter - A Documentary
Capcom has put together and extensive documentary about the Street Fighter games, players, history and culture.
See also Animated GIFs of Fighting Game Backgrounds
Time Quilted Photos from Fong Qi Wei
Singapore based photographer, Fong Qi Wei layered different photos of the same spot he shot within 2 to 4 hours, sequencing time in a single image.
See also Airplane Light Trails in Gorgeous Time-lapse from Singapore
Human Animal Photo Hybrids by Ulric Collette
Here Ulric Collette (we've seen his amazing Genetic Patch Portraits before) creates these creepy/awesome half-human/half-animal images in his project Therianthropes. Love them.
Photos of Intricate Nigerian Hairstyles by J.D. Okhai Ojeikere
Nigerian photographer J.D. Okhai Ojeikere project "Hairstyles" captures nearly 1,000 different hairstyles — these "sculptures for a day" he finds on the street, at a weddings or at work.
The UEFA Champions League Finale Stadiums 1993-2013 Illustrated
Italian illustratorJacopo Ferretti has drawn all the stadiums of the UEFA Champions League finals from 1993 to 2013.
Creepy Ferrofluid Explorations
Artist Kim Pimmel created Compressed a series using macro lenses, time lapse photography, and magnetism.
See also Putty Made of Magnetic Stuff Makes for Some Trippy Putty
Base Jumping off Everest
From the video page:
"Nearly 60 years to the day after the first ascent up Mount Everest, Russian extreme sport star Valery Rozov (48) flew off the north face of Mount Everest - the world's highest BASE jump ever - 7220 meters (23,688ft) above sea level."
Contact Juggling Seems Like Magic
This video shot at National Taiwan University (台大) barely seems real, it is so smooth.
Video of Ozell Williams - Amazing Jumping and Tumbling Skills
Really just astounding. I have no idea how his skills compare to other tumblers, but I am certainly impressed.
Hiking in Greenland
I have a hard time conjuring in my mind an image other than a world map when it comes to Greenland.
"Impressions from a 25-day hiking and packrafting expedition through the wilderness of extreme Southern Greenland in july 2013. I started in Narsarsuaq, crossed over all the way to Tasermiut fjord, and continued with an 8-day loop east of Tasiusaq before finally paddling towards Nanortalik."
Architectural Elements Refracted Into Fantastic Images
Cory Stevens, Munich, Germany based photographer, shoots architectural elements and then refracts them around a center point to create these stunning images in his series titled: Deconstructed. Reimagined.
Incredibly Fine Organic Shapes Made From Cut Paper
Rogan Brown on his nearly unbelievably detail papercut art:
“My work is an exploration and re-presentation of natural organic forms both mineral and vegetal. I look for patterns and repeated motifs that run through natural phenomena at different scales, from the microscopic to the macroscopic, from individual cells to large scale geological formations.”
See also Super Intricate Paper Cuts by Eric Standley Look Like Stained Glass
Iconic Black & White Images Newly Colorized
Charlie Chaplin at 27, 1916
Colorized by BenAfleckIsAnOkActor
Filling in what's missing from iconic Black & White photos, namely, the color, has an amazing impact on our perception and connection with the subjects. Of course, it is a matter of invention and conjecture, but stunning none the less. A whole bunch of amazing ones over at a group on reddit, called r/ColorizedHistory.
Click images to see full size.
Hindenburg Disaster – May 6, 1937
Colorozed by: Dana Keller
Elizabeth Taylor – Giant (1956 film)
Colorized by: malakon
Mark Twain in the Garden, circa 1900
Colorized by: zuzahin
Walt Whitman, 1887
Colorized by: Danna Keller
View from Capitol in Nashville, Tennessee During the Civil War, 1864
Colorized by: Sanna Dullaway
Nikola Tesla, 1893
Colorized by: Danna Keller
Audrey Hepburn
Colorized by: Danna Keller
Japanese Archers, circa 1860
Colorized by: photojacker
Albert Einstein, Summer 1939 Nassau Point, Long Island, NY
Colorized by: Edvos
Auto Wreck in Washington D.C, 1921
Colorized by: Sanna Dullaway
Marilyn Monroe
Colorized by malakon
Beach Design Printing Machine
Swedish artist Gunilla Klingberg made “sand machine” out of tractor with a cylinder embossed with star-shape design to imprint the sand.
Called “A Sign In Space”, this work of art is part of the Sense & Sustainability Art Biennale, in Urdaibai, Spain.
See also Beach Calligraphy in Africa
