From Pickled Thoughts this series of dance photography that I find just beautiful, bright and stylish.
The song "This Is for My Girls" benefits Let Girls Learn, an initiative launched last year by the first lady and President Barack Obama to address the barriers that keep more than 62 million girls around the world out of school.
From Renato Stockler:
A “terrao" is an oasis in the urban landscape. The reddish tone of a soccer field turns into a stage for the resistance of popular soccer. These fields are increasingly rare to see because of property speculation and land occupation. Some of them have their own football clubs, while others are public spots. Some of them are mainly dirt, while others are of sand and weathered grass. But they are a breath for the hard daily life of those who live in the outskirts of Sao Paulo. These fields show the urgency for public and communal places to practice sports, a portrait of those who fight for leisure in a city as Sao Paulo. Colored and powerful in the face of the greyish scenario, these fields are a solid basis of soccer’s spirit in Brasil. It’s not hard to find friends, relatives, adults and children cheering together for their local teams. Even through social and political difficulties, a “terrao" shows us the real soccer, far away from a society mediated by powerful media groups. The rawness of a “terrao"can't be fitted as a media spectacle.
Korean artist Yong Ho Ji takes recycled tires and turns them into these sculptures built on cast-iron frames.
See also the amazing creatures of the Photoshop Beastiary
Netherlands-based artist Johan Scherft discovered papercrafting at 14 quite by accident when he started making hand-colored paper bird models. "It appealed to me because it combines so many different techniques like working in three dimensions combined with drawing and painting."
"Of course, it is impossible to capture every curve of the bird's body in paper, compromises have to be made, or the model would have too many gluing tabs, making it too difficult to make. A lot of the realism is suggested with the paintwork. For this part, I take the most time. With very fine brushes, I try to achieve the most realistic effect in color and detail. I use watercolors or gouache paint. It's always an exciting moment once the template has been painted to assemble the bird and see what the result is."
This gorgeous reuse of an industrial gas tank as a canvas for a light project show called 320° LICHT | SPATIAL EXPERIENCE melds the spatial and the virtual to amazing effect.
From the project page:
"The ‘320° Licht’ installation of URBANSCREEN uses the cathedral-like beauty of the Gasometer Oberhausen as the starting point for a fascinating game with shapes and light.
Within a radius of 320 degrees graphic patterns grow and change on the 100-metre high inside wall of the Gasometer.
The observer experiences the interplay between real and virtual space, in which the Gasometer seems to dissolve into its own, filigree structures and yet finally always reverts to its clear shape. ’320° Licht’ is achieved with kind project support from Epson Germany.
With approx. 20,000 square meters of area played upon, the installation is among the world’s largest and technically most sophisticated interior projections - interconnecting 21 powerful projectors to one projection screen."
The Boulder Colorado artist Michael Grab works through mental and physical noise to reach a balanced and still place:
“The most fundamental element of balancing in a physical sense is finding some kind of ‘tripod’ for the rock to stand on. Every rock is covered in a variety of tiny to large indentations that can act as a tripod for the rock to stand upright, or in most orientations you can think of with other rocks. By paying close attention to the feeling of the rocks, you will start to feel even the smallest clicks as the notches of the rocks in contact are moving over one another. In the finer point balances, these clicks can be felt on a scale smaller than millimeters. Some point balances will give the illusion of weightlessness as the rocks look to be barely touching.
Parallel to the physical element of finding tripods, the most fundamental non-physical element is harder to explain through words. In a nutshell, i am referring to meditation, or finding a zero point or silence within yourself. Some balances can apply significant pressure on your mind and your patience. The challenge is overcoming any doubt that may arise. “Try not, there is no try…only DO.” – Yoda (Star Wars)”
Visit his website www.gravityglue.com
This Sunday is the official launch of our new poetry podcast, Word Machine.
Every week we read two poems, one after another. That's it. Pretty simple.
Be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast platform.
via Washington Post
"The Pacific Ocean from the cockpit of an airplane. The photographer and pilot, Santiago Borja, says he was circling around it at 37,000 feet altitude en route to South America when he captured this spectacular view.
Borja said it was difficult to get the shot in near-darkness and during a bumpy ride. “Storms are tricky because the lightning is so fast, there is no tripod and there is a lot of reflection from inside lights,” Borja told The Washington Post in an email."
Charis Tsevis created these overwhelmingly detailed photomosaics for 38 places around the world for the Emirates Air Line "New Perspective"
Check out the full project visit The Emirates Air-Line "New Perspective" campaign .
One very notable aspect of the houses I've been to in Singapore is that rather than hide from the equatorial heat behind unopenable glass walls and super-powered AC units, the people of Singapore open their doors, walls and windows to it. The indoors and outdoors blend entirely together. And this example from the architects Aamer shows just how swank this style can be.
Will Strathmann took this photo in Krabi, Thailand. “[I] heard that the bioluminescence [was] beginning to peak under the new moon … While this photo doesn’t come close to the actual experience, I am proud I was able to capture and share this magical moment.”
Kyon.J is a Japanese photographer who's stunning photos of Guilin in China and Mount Fuji in Japan surpass the cliched images with just the right touch of light and wonder.
“When thinking of iconic romance, ask yourself if any imagery (paintings, photographs, film-stills) comes to mind that is not showing heterosexual couples? Probably not," says New York photographer Braden Summers, who has created his kickstarter project “All Love Is Equal” to show classically romantic scenes with gay couples in the UK, France, India, Lebanon, Brazil and the U.S.
“A large driving force behind creating this series was actually less about affecting the gay community directly, and more about giving the general population a way to relate to gay imagery which is devoid of sex, victimization, or banality – themes that might usually prevent some folks from connecting.”
“The photographs are not documentations, they are dreamy illustrations of what open expressions of love in different cultures *could* look like in the future, more accepting time.”
Chinese illustrator and anatomy instructor Chuan-Bin Chung uses his considerable drawing skills to reveal the form and structure of human anatomy with these precise and colorful diagrams he builds for the students in the classroom.
I am both horrified and awed by photographer Nick Brandt's images of birds calcified by the overwhelmingly alkaline waters of Lake Natron in Tanzania.
Brandt writes in his new photo/essay book, Across The Ravaged Land.
"I unexpectedly found the creatures — all manner of birds and bats — washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania. No one knows for certain exactly how they die, but it appears that the extreme reflective nature of the lake’s surface confuses them, and like birds crashing into plate glass windows, they crash into the lake.
"The water has an extremely high soda and salt content, so high that it would strip the ink off my Kodak film boxes within a few seconds. The soda and salt causes the creatures to calcify, perfectly preserved, as they dry."
To add to the effect, he posed the animals as if they were frozen in life.
Beginning, an animation by Grzegorz Nowiński from Novina Studio sought to visualize the history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the rise of humankind and project it out of doors on a massive water fountain.
At a depth of 2.3 miles (3,700 meters) during Dive 4 of the Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas expedition by NOAA's Okeanos Explorer, the ship this creature as a hydromedusabelonging to the genus Crossota.
In his project "100 Year Old Houses" Hungarian photographer Zsolt Hlinka http://www.zsolthlinka.com/ approaches his architectural subjects with a point of view, one evoking wonder and reverence as well as curiosity.
