The excruciatingly slow and intentional process of building a sand painting Mandala is gorgeous to watch and consider.
Tibetan Buddhism Sand Mandala
Stunning Waterfall Kayaking
Forge Motion Pictures and NRS followed paddlers Erik Boomer, Tyler Bradt, and Galen Volckhausen in the jungles of Veracruz, Mexico looking waterfalls .
Crazy. Beautiful.
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Vibrant Ferrofluid Images by Fabian Oefner
We've seen Fabian Oefner's stunning work before. His colorful centrifuge and his high-speed photos of burning alcohol vapors left no doubt about his deftness as a photographer.
This project, injecting colors into a ferrofluid, is riotously gorgeous. Ferrofluid is a liquid containing ferromagnetic particles that, when placed in a magnetic field becomes strongly magnetized.
Watch the making of video below and then check out the rest of the gorgeous set.
Design Wish — Women of NASA LEGOs
LEGO has released their Women of NASA set which includes:
- 4 minifigures: Nancy Grace Roman, Margaret Hamilton, Sally Ride and Mae Jemison.
- Features 3 LEGO® builds illustrating the areas of expertise of the 4 featured women of NASA.
- Nancy Grace Roman’s build features a posable Hubble Space Telescope with authentic details and a projected image of a planetary nebula.
- Margaret Hamilton's build features a stack of book elements, representing the books of listings of Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) onboard flight software source code.
- Sally Ride and Mae Jemison’s build features a launchpad and Space Shuttle Challenger with 3 removable rocket stages.
New Media Chinese Art from Yang Yongliang
Shanghai-based artist Yang Yongliang has taken the eyes and heart of the more traditional Chinese landscape and calligraphy, and invested it with the expressive ability of the newest technology and techniques, including digital manipulation, video and photography.
"As long as the characteristics don't change, the media you use to express the art doesn't matter."
I think these landscapes in Chinese Porcelain are pretty amazing, and I am absolutely in love with the video landscapes.
Here is a sample of the video referenced in the Creator's Project piece:
And a more recent one:
Floating Recipes from Nora Luther and Pavel Becker
Designer Nora Luther and photographer Pavel Becker have created this, “Recipes," a photo series that shows all of the ingredients of some of their favorite dishes in correct proportion, but seemingly floating about the board or plate.
Hello Killy — Pop Culture Mashups from Dito Von Tease
The Italian designer Dito Von Tease made me laugh actually out loud with a number of these witty pop culture mashups.
Snowflakes' Ice Crystals are Astounding
Russian photographer Andrew Osokin makes the normally invisible visible. There are so many more on his LensArt profile.
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Turkish Flatland - Manipulated Photos by Aydın Büyüktaş
In his series Flatland, Aydın Büyüktaş Turkish photographer and digital artist warps the streets of Istanbul in inspiration from the 1884 satirical novella Flatland. For more check out his Instagram.
Bowling Alleys in Germany and California Photos by Robert Götzfried
We are a big fan of the clear yet fully engaged eye that Robert Götzfried brings to his photos of spaces, lines and perspectives.
Check his page or any of his great projects we've featured before.
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Paper Cutouts In Photographic Humor from Paperboyo
With just a sleight of hand, London-based photographer Rich McCor, or @paperboyo on Instagram is able to make a humorous statement, observation or comment. Simple paper cutouts held in frame as he takes picture from around the world.
Brazilian Scenes from the Air
A native of São Paulo, Cássio Vasconcellos has work you've probably seen before, if only the cityscape that graced the poster for hit movie Inception.
His truly outstanding aerial photography is what caught my eye. They almost seem implausibly vast and beautiful.
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Holy Men: Varanasi, India by Joey L
Varanasi is the epicenter of Hinduism, its Holy City, its Rome or Mecca. In his series, Holy Men: Varanasi , India, Joey L finds these wonderfully expressive faces of holy men, women and boys in his gorgeous portraits.
A Room of Stuff Arranged to Create this Anamorphic Portrait
Anamorposis is an illusion where a specific vantage point is needed for the image to come together. French artist Bernard Pras has made an art of assemblage. This, his latest piece, is a portrait of Malian actor Sotigui Kouyaté.
You can see it is composed of clothes, paint, wood, rubber, and other objects scraped together.
It's only when seen through his camera that the portrait comes together.
Design Wish - Apollo 11 Table
This accurate model of the surface of the moon around where the Apollo 11 LEM module touched down make for one of the most gorgeous furniture pieces around.
APOLLO 11 / Table
85 cm x 85 cm x 50 cm.
60 kg.
Fiber glass / Epoxy Resin.
Gloss varnish finish.
Cupro-Aluminium alloy / Steel.
Numbered models / Limited edition of 8 + 4 Ap.
From the project at Harow:
"Digital files from the NASA archives were needed in order to recreate the topology of real surfaces of the Moon, which constitute an artistic and poetic landscape. The craters are sculpted on a fibreglass slab and covered with a layer of resin, the transparency of which allows shadows to play over the lunar surface. The physico-chemical, dynamic, and thermal properties of this resin require a regular delay between each layer for perfect polymerisation, and the creation of the slab demands a confined and sterile environment. The feet, a contemporary representation of those of the LEM module, require precision manufacturing. Each piece is sculpted to the micro-millimetre, delicately and directly from the block, which is composed of a brass and aluminium alloy."
24" x 32" Print
Hip-Hop Love Blueprint - A History of Hip-Hop
This gorgeous print can be yours for about $45 (35£) from DOROTHY in the UK.
"A history of hip-hop mapped out to the circuit diagram of a classic turntable.
Our Hip-Hop Love Blueprint celebrates over 700 MCs, DJs, producers, turntablists, musicians, graffiti artists, b-boys and b-girls who (in our opinion) have been pivotal to the evolution of hip-hop, from pioneers such as DJ Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash to present day chart success stories Kendrick Lamar and Drake, and global superstars Jay-Z and Kanye West."
The Silverdome - An Enormous Urban Ruin
Abandoned in early 2013, the former home of the Detroit Lions now is an enormous urban ruin. Photographer Johnny Joo brings us these incredible images.
COSPLAY at Home
These aren't actually Halloween costumes, they are Cosplay participants in full costume at home for this photo series “Just the Two of Us” by Austrian photographer Klaus Pichler‘.
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Mechanical Drawings of Botanical Subjects by Makoto Murayama
Media artist Makoto Murayama created mechanical blueprints of flowers.
The 29-year old Murayama collects and studies different flowers, sketching them repeatedly to understand the structures and elements.
In an interview Murayama said: “My inspirations come from Yoshihiro Inomoto (a master of automobile illustration) and Tomitaro Makino (a pioneer in Japanese botanical illustration)."
Video of the Day - Dancing Light Orb by Director Zhang Yimou
from the project:
2047 Apologue
a concept performance in 8 parts
by director Zhang Yimou
this video is the teaser for the last part of the show called "Weaving Machine"
Chinese director Zhang Yimou who is best known for his movies "Raise the Red Lantern", "Hero" and "The Great Wall" but also for directing the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics returns to the theater stage with his concept perfomance "2047 APOLOGUE".
Zhang Yimou has unveiled his latest work at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing. Based on Peking Opera "Sanchakou," "2047 Apologue" is breaking the form of traditional stage plays, combining Chinese folk art with the latest technology. The show aims to mirror reality, commenting on how science and technology are a huge part of life in the 21st century. The show consists of 8 parts, each combining a traditional chinese craft, music or dance style with modern high tech such as lasers, robots, drones and kinetics.
WHITEvoid was commissioned to create, program and direct the kinetic display for the last part of the show called "Weaving Machine". The 9 minute performance features 640 motorized LED spheres, an anchient chinese weaving machine and a modern dancer. German motor winch producer KINETIC LIGHTS provided the vertical hoist systems for the LED spheres and control software. Russian RADUGADESIGN animated a complementing video backdrop and CPG Concepts from Hong Kong provided the dance choreography for british dancer Rose Alice.