Edgar Degas Meets Misty Copeland
Photographers Ken Browar and Deborah Ory coax the images from the Paris Opéra Ballet that Edgar Degas painted from American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Misty Copeland for the March 2016 issue of Harpers Bazaar in advance of MOMA's Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty.
Also check out their NYC Dance Project
Intensely Vivid Photographs Iran’s Mosques By Mohammad Domiri
Mohammad Domiri, a remarkably talented Iranian photographer, has amassed this startlingly gorgeous portfolio of the interiors of Middle Eastern mosques.
Spine of the South – The Andes in Timelapse
From the project:
In 2015 Overland Collective photographer Eric Hanson traveled the Andean spine of South America, from Ecuador to Patagonia. For seven months, he traveled almost entirely solo, via a mixture of public transportation, trekking, and a Great Wall Wingle (if you don't know what that is, it's the finest vehicle known to man). Along the way, he took a few hundred thousand photos.
Edo Japan With Computers — Imaginative Animated GIFs
Atsushi Segawa had been making animated GIFs out of ukiyo-e for a while when he was commissioned by Japanese computer maker NEC to mix computers and computer use into Edo-era Japan.
Hong Kong At Night — Photos by Peter Stewart
Photographer Peter Stewart, brings us these stunning night cityscapes of Hong Kong.
Eerily Beautiful Monkey Portraits by Hiroshi Watanabe
Papercraft Wigs and Gowns from Asya Kozina
With a penchant for papercraft, artist Asya Kozina created these funny and gorgeous paper wigs and gowns.
Logos And Paintings Undercutting Each Other — Graphic Designs from Eisen Bernard Bernardo
Eisen Bernard Bernardo, Philippines-based graphic designer, brings together modern logos with well-known paintings, making each a little suspect, and the whole pretty awesome.
photo by Michele Palazzo
Photo of the Day - The Flat Iron Building in Jonas Blizzard by Michele Pallazzo
Photographer Michele Pallazzo captured this stunning painting-like photo from the #blizzard2016 of the iconic Flatiron Building on 14th Street in Manhattan.
Painting Your Walls with Light - Lamps by Calabarte
Polish artist Przemek, also known as Calabarte, transforms African gourds into these lamps that paint your walls with patterns of light.
Hunting Blinds Deep in the German Forest: Photographs by Robert Goetzfried
Here is a new series from our favorite, Robert Götzfried, a series of amazing architectural finds deep in the German forest: hunting blinds.
His entire site is full of amazing photo sets: www.robert-goetzfried.com
Nomads of Mongolia — A film by Brandon Li
Another great film by friend of 5 things, Brandon Li.
Bygone Days of Airplane Glamour
Shots from the 1950s and 60s compiled by AirlineRatings.com, it is a flying experience totally foreign to me. If I could get this sort of experience at the prices I pay today, I'd be all for it.
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!
Flemish-style Super Heroes, Storybook & Star Wars Characters
French photographer Sacha Goldberg (the photographer who brought us Mamika) has created this series of characters from the world's superheroes, storybooks and Star Wars and styled them like something from 17th-century Flemish paintings.
Autonomous Machines - Clever Generative Art by Echo Yang
Everyday objects become the artists in this generative art project from Eindhoven artist Echo Yang titled Autonomous Machines.
Stellar Projections on the Inside of Cambridge's 16th Century Cathedral
The high vaults of Cambridge’s 16th-century chapel were painted with the digitally projected work of French artistMiguel Chevalier in real-time, during a recent fundraiser.
Bolivia's Magical World of Doctors, Spiritual Healers and Medicine Men - Photos by Thomas Rousset and Raphaël Verona
The book ‘Waska Tatay’ from French photographer Thomas Rousset and graphic designer Raphaël Verona is a trippy collection of the doctors, spiritual healers and medicine men they encountered on their travels in Bolivia.
Lemur Catta
Animal Eyes up Close
Suren Manvelyan has made this outstanding photo series of the close up of Animal Eyes. Creepy, beautiful, amazing.
Lark
Blue-yellow macaw parrot
British short hair cat
Stingray
Snail
Discus fish
Coral zebra fish
Guinea pig
Tiger python (albino)
Nylus crocodile
Horse
Husky
Llama