Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Stainless: High-resolution images shot from speeding subway trains
Adam Magyar filmed the crowds waiting on the subway platforms in NYC, Tokyo and Berlin at 50 frames per second using a high speed camera. There is a fantastic article about him and his art over on MEDIUM.
via The Fox is Black
Star Wars Models Photographed Realistically by Vesa Lehtimaki
The models Vesa Lehtimaki used for his Star Wars Scale Model Project are old MPC models from his son's toy collection, built in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
via Faith is Torment
Flower and Animal Images Built out of Nude Human Bodies
Cecelia Webber uses images of the human body arranged to create the vision of plants and animals. She photographs nude models (herself included) and then builds the final images through edits, cuts and color.
She explains: “Each image takes many stages to create. I start by researching photos of the creature or plant I’m trying to create and then sketch poses I want to photograph in a notebook…I never warp my models or edit them to change them – it is important to me to portray real natural bodies. Once I have my photos I start laying out my piece and playing with colour and arrangements…Many drastic transformations take place during this stage, so it’s sort of magical, because so many different variations are possible. I feel many possibilities at once but the true form of my subject slowly emerges.”
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Human Geographies: Illustrations by Ed Fairburn
A freelance artist from the UK, Ed Fairburn uses maps like canvas and makes the tight tangle of rivers, roads and shorelines to heighten the impact of the invisible emotional landscapes the faces stream.
He explains: “I paint, draw and construct using a flexible range of tangible media across a wide range of surfaces and contexts, allowing my practice to exist among various disciplines. The work I produce is largely self-directed, allowing me to explore a wealth of ideas and concepts which need to be released.”
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Pacific Crest Trail Self-Portrait Timelapse: 1,700 Miles and 90lbs Lost
Kolby Kirk hiked 1,700 miles along the Pacific Crest Trail, for 152 days. He lost 90lbs in the process and made this great self-portrait timelapse. There's a nice little surprise at the end of the video.
photo by Francisco Negroni
Gorgeous Puyehue-Cordón Caulle Eruptions by Francisco Negroni
The Puyehue-Cordón Caulle in southern Chile is the occasion for these (and more) absolutely stunning photos by Chilean photographer Francisco Negroni. His 500px page is full of them.
An audio visual installation in association with Schwartz Flavour Shots, an innovative new range of herb and spice blends locked in oil. What does flavour look like? How does it sound? These are the questions that inspired herb and spice experts, Schwartz, to create what they describe as a ‘Sonic Flavourscape'. Several tons of black peppercorns, cardamom, turmeric, paprika, cumin seeds, ginger, chilli and coriander were rigged to explode in perfect sync with a bespoke musical composition. Each explosion represents an individual piano note or chord, which when filmed at high speed, creates a surreal three dimensional sound scape. The project bought together an eclectic collective of creative collaborators. DJ/Producer MJ Cole was approached to translate the sensation of taste into a musical composition. Film maker Chris Cairns and pyrotechnic designers, ‘Machine Shop’, then went to work turning this sound into a physical scale.
Spices Exploding In Sync With Music
Sure it's a commercial for Schwartz Flavour Shots, but it is stunning.
Recycled Paper Sculptures from Finnish Artist Janna Syvänoja
Finnish paper artist Janna Syvänoja (http://www.jannasyvanoja.com ) uses printed paper, maps, catalogues and phone books to create her work
Syvänoja: "I can make the rules, but the piece takes the shape of its own. When certain formed components start to follow each other and find their rhythm in my hands, the miracle happens."
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Volcano's Iridescent Blue Lava at Kawah Ijen in East Java Indonesia
Kawah Ijen, East Java, Indonesia, is a part of a group of stratovolcanoes, connected to a rich vein of sulfur (a vein mined by painstaking hand) that expresses itself both in a startlingly blue lake and in these bright blue liquid sulfur flames.
Photographer Olivier Grunewald took these amazing photos in 2008. He lost two lenses and a camera in the process. He had to wear a gasmask and had to get rid of all the clothes we wore during the shoot.
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Japan's Sapporo Snow Festival
The festival in the city of Sapporo on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, the Sapporo Snow Festival has been taking place since the early '80s and attracting millions of visitors.
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Architectural Yacht Interiors
Hard to believe this is a yacht.
A 90-meter superyacht, Jazz, designed by Zaha Hadid with German shipbuilders Blohm+Voss, part of Hadid's Unique Circle Yachts.
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Space Photography: 2013 Was An Amazing Year
Between NASA, Hubble Heritage and the European Space Agency, 2013 has seen some amazing space photography.
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Matchstick Art by Stanislav Aristov
Russian artist Stanislav Aristov in his series “Спички” (Russian for “matchsticks”). He contorts the sticks as they burn, and then shoots the flame and smoke with a macro lens. He finishes the images in photoshop.
Aristov:
“I was playing with a pack of matches while I was deciding what to photograph for a competition. It was while I was watching the match that I began to think of how it represents life. There is the burnt part representing the past, the smoke of memories left and the untouched part of the match the future.”
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Seen from the Height of a Kite
Gerco de Ruijter attaches a camera to a kite to get these close-up aerial shots.
See also Kite Aerial Photography - Intimate and Amazing Shots from Above »
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Aktsaal der Wiener Akademie (1787, Martin Ferdinand Quadal)
Decollage of Artworks in New Contexts
An amazing collection of decollage, with wit and skill from Parisian Nicolas Monterrat at Un léger décalage.
See also Renaissance & Pop Art Mashed Together by Marco Battaglini »
Infrared Landscapes from David Keochkerian
French photographer David Keochkerian creates these other worldly landscapes with Infrared filtering.
via MashKulture
Gorgeously Graphic Gifs from David Dope
David Dope is a creative director who makes these stunningly hypnotic GIFs in his spare time.
Book Hive - Interactive Book Installation
By Rusty Squid:
Book Hive is an interactive sculpture created to celebrate the 400 year anniversary of Bristol Libraries, and it will ultimately feature 400 animatronic books. Large wooden structures awash with honey light will engulf visitors in an immersive and atmospheric environment, where life-like animated books, inhabiting the cells will physically engage visitors, reacting to their movements in the space. Book Hive is a three month project, where the public gets the opportunity to influence its development. Rusty Squid will observe the public’s behaviour, and with the assistance of the Book Hive Keepers (exhibition stewards), collect feedback, in order to transform the shape of the hive and the way that the books respond. This evolution will take place over two months, between December and February, with the full 400 books installed by 7th February 2014.
Miniature Foodscapes by photographers Pierre Javelle and Akiko Ida
Photographers Pierre Javelle and Akiko Ida have found a fun and funny visual language in MINIMIAM, a wordplay combining 'miniature' and “yummy” (miam in French).
Ida says:
“We’re both food photographer in our daily work, and we’re both quite crazy about cooking, eating and everything about food. So when we started this small people series, naturally we created the stories related to the food.”
