Thumbs In Place of Guns
Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Beautiful and Fascinating HD Images of the Sun by Alan Friedman
"My photographs comprise a solar diary, portraits of a moment in the life of our local star. Most are captured from my backyard in Buffalo, NY. Using a small telescope and narrow band filters I can capture details in high resolution and record movements in the solar atmosphere that change over hours and sometimes minutes. The raw material for my work is black and white and often blurry. As I prepare the pictures, color is applied and tonality is adjusted to better render the features. It is photojournalism of a sort. The portraits are real, not painted. Aesthetic decisions are made with respect for accuracy as well as for the power of the image."
Weapons Transformed into Musical Instruments
Mexico City based artist Pedro Reyes transformed a mass of rifles, pistols, and shotguns taken by the Mexican army from drug cartels to build the musical devices that are controlled by computers and can be pre-programmed, a fully mechanized orchestra. Titled Disarm.
900 Classic Arcade Games in Your Browser
Yesterday, the Internet Archive released 900 classic arcade games for you to play for free in your web browser.
Commander Chris Hadfield - Space Oddity Redux
UPDATE: After over a year, the rights have been secured again for this amazing version of Space Oddity. Read the story »
Commander Chris Hadfield has made his own version of David Bowie's Space Oddity, shot and recorded on the International Space Station.
I am so blown away by this guy: photographer, creative as all get out, funny, an ASTRONAUT, doing it all from his tin can. Bad ass!
Cartoon Character Dressed as Other Characters
My mind melted a little bit. Click each to see its full glory.
Squirrel Sticks His Head In A Jack-o-Lantern
Photographer Max Ellis of Teddington, London:
"My kids love Halloween and beg to start decorating the house and carving pumpkins from about October 1. Obviously cut pumpkins only last a couple of days so I carved a small one to keep them quiet. I thought we could have a bit of fun with it making it hover spookily in the back garden."
Ellis waited days to capture the curios creature donning the pumpkin. What an adorable accident.
Shot Face - A Tumblr of Portraits the Moment After Taking a Shot
Shot Face - Tim Charles is a project from photographer Tim Charles catching his friends and subjects the moments after taking a shot. I quiver to think how I'd appear. Sounds like a great party photobooth idea though.
Eagle-Wing View of Paris
A non-profit FREEDOM put a Sony Action Cam Mini to the back of a white-tailed eagle named Victor, and let him fly from the observation deck of the Eiffel Tower.
SpaceTime-Lapse of Boston
A full-time engineer at GE Aviation, Julian Tryba calls this spatial-temporal slicing in video “layer-lapse.”
With time lapse locations around Boston sewn together to create this fast shifting time and space show.
A Parisian Apartment Becomes A Timecapsule From 70 Years Ago
An apartment on the Right Bank owned by Madame de Florian, an affluent Parisian socialite and actress, was left suddenly when the Nazis rolled into Paris.
Even though she never returned, she kept paying the rent all the way up to her death at 91.
Among the exquisite architectural details, the tapestries, the view into a bygone era, was found the painting discovered to be Madame de Florian herself, painting by renowned 19th century Italian Giovanni Boldini. The painting, and several handwritten love letters from Boldini seem to confirm that she was in fact his muse.
Marthe de Florian at 24 years of age painted by Giovanni Boldini
Lego Stop-motion Thriller
Truly outstanding use of LEGO stop-motion.
Skydiving Beauty
Sony sent a team of highly skilled skydivers about 15,000 feet in the air and filmed them in slow-motion with the new SONY Alpha 7 and Alpha 7R cameras.
Finger Icons
Astoundingly creative.
Abandoned Houses in Rural Iceland
Run by R3 Radgjöf, Gláma-Kím architects and Stapi, "Abandoned Houses in rural Iceland" is an on-going research project that started in 2011 that aims at mapping all abandoned houses on the southeast coast of the country.
See also Abandoned Hotels Around the World
Lion Cam Wildlife photographer Steve Mandel
Urban Ruins - Abandoned Dorm in the Middle of Tokyo
Five years after a fire ripped through Seika Dormitory in 2007, the lives of Chinese and Taiwanese students have remained largely untouched.
In 2012m two photographers and a videomaker: Belgium-based Suspiciousminds, Japan’s TomBoy and France’s Kitsuney visited the site and captured stunning imagery.
Photographer Captures Argentina's Perito Moreno Glacier Rupturing
In February 2014, Jakub Polomski was in Argentina at the Perito Moreno glacier on a day that it ruptured in a spectacular display that happens every couple years.
Miniscule Sculptures in Pencil Lead
Turkish chemical engineering student Recep Alçamlı carves these super tiny lead sculptures.
Also see Mini Sculptures On Pencil Leads »
