Held since 1963, the Harbin International Ice & Snow Festival can last more than a month, depending on the weather.
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Expereal looks a lot like a health tracker, but for your moods. Essentially, it is an input and display for you to monitor your moods and associate the mood assessments to places and topics.
Like a lot of life-tracking apps, the real value starts to emerge when the data you put in starts to accumulate and reveal its patterns.
Expereal founder Jonathan Cohen discusses the new features in v.1.5, and addresses the concerns (and anger) with the use of Facebook login.
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This panoramic photograph of New York City captured by Sergey Semenov recently won Epson’s Pano Award for most outstanding panorama captured by an amateur. Check out a high-resolution version of the image here.
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Child on Top of a Greenhouse
by Theodore Roethke
The wind billowing out the seat of my britches,
My feet crackling splinters of glass and dried putty,
The half-grown chrysanthemums staring up like accusers,
Up through the streaked glass, flashing with sunlight,
A few white clouds all rushing eastward,
A line of elms plunging and tossing like horses,
And everyone, everyone pointing up and shouting!
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Song : The crew cuts · Sh-boom
Lovely animation by Pablo Maximiliano of our planets.
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Artist Kerry Skarbakka, in his self-portrait series Struggle to Right Oneself, gets himself in moments of falling: scary, mesmerizing, beautiful.
Artist statement:
This photographic work is in response to this delicate state. It comprises a culmination of thought and emotion, a tying together of the threads of everything I perceive life has come to represent. It is my understanding and my perspective, which relies on the shifting human conditions of the world that we inhabit. It’s exploration resides in the sublime metaphorical space from where balance has been disrupted to the definitive point of no return. It asks the question of what it means to resist the struggle, to simply let go. Or what are the consequences of holding on?
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In a parking lot in Queens, New York, these 30-foot tall dunes caused somehow by Hurricane Sandy.
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Nabana no Sato, a winter light show at a botanical garden turned light theme park on the island of Nagashima in Kuwana.
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The ultimate full moon shot. Dean Potter walks a highline at Cathedral Peak as the sun sets and the moon rises. Shot from over 1 mile away with a Canon 800mm and 2X by Michael Schaefer. This shot was part of a bigger project for National Geographic called The Man Who Can Fly. http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/videos/the-man-who-can-fly/
Unbelievably crisp and clear, shot with an 800 mm lens from over a mile away, in real time at Cathedral Peak in Yosemite National Park.
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Cruising Maridalen FPV style. Saying hello to Ms. Moose.
No translation needed I think.
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Elk at Tomales Bay
BY TESS TAYLOR
Nimble, preserved together,
milkweed-white rears upturned,
female tule elk
bowed into rustling foxtails.
Males muscled over the slopes,
jostling mantles, marking terrain.
Their antlers clambered wide,
steep as the gorges.
As they fed, those branches twitched,
sensory, delicate,
yet when one buck reared
squaring to look at us
his antlers and his gaze
held suddenly motionless.
Further out, the skeleton.
The tar paper it seemed to lie on
was hide.
Vertebrae like redwood stumps—
an uneven heart-shaped cavern
where a coccyx curled to its tip.
Ribs fanned open
hollow, emptied of organs.
In the bushes its skull.
Sockets and sinuses, mandible,
its few small teeth.
All bare now except
that fur the red-brown color
of a young boy’s head and also
of wild iris stalks in winter
still clung to the drying scalp.
Below the eye’s rim sagged
flat as a bicycle tire.
The form was sinking away.
The skin loosened, becoming other,
shedding the mask that hides
but must also reveal a creature.
Off amid cliffs and hills
some unfleshed force roamed free.
In the wind, I felt
the half-life I watched watch me.
Elk, I said, I see
you abandon this life, this earth—
I stood for a time with the bones.
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“It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.”
– Banana Yoshimoto
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The Last Iceberg: Photos by Camille Seaman
Melting Away includes photos taken in the arctic regions of Svalbard, Greenland, and Antarctica:
The Last Iceberg chronicles just a handful of the many thousands of icebergs that are currently headed to their end. I approach the images of icebergs as portraits of individuals, much like family photos of my ancestors. I seek a moment in their life in which they convey their unique personality, some connection to our own experience and a glimpse of their soul which endures.
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This video is to show people what it is like to fight fires, and what firefighters across the nation do every day. The more people who realize, the better it will be for our profession. I put together a bunch of clips from some of the better helmet cam footage I got this year while fighting fires in Highland Park.
A year of video taken from a camera attached to the helmet of Highland Park, MI firefighter Scott Ziegler.
Photo by Valerie Chiang
Winter solitude—
in a world of one color
the sound of wind.
—Matsuo Basho
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Berlin-based artist, Aslan Malik’s turns the faces on our currency into members of the Justice League.
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Photo and caption by Ashley Vincent/National Geographic Photo Contest. The subject’s name is Busaba, a well cared for Indochinese Tigress whose home is at Khao Kheow Open Zoo, Thailand. I had taken many portraits of Busaba previously and it was becoming more and more difficult to come up with an image that appeared any different to the others. Which is why I took to observing her more carefully during my visits in the hope of capturing something of a behavioural shot. The opportunity finally presented itself while watching Busaba enjoying her private pool then shaking herself dry. In all humility I have to say that Mother Nature smiled favourably on me that day!
Photo and caption by Fransisca Harlijanto/National Geographic Photo Contest. I was surrounded by thousands of fish that moved in synchrony because of the predation that was happening. It was an incredible experience.
Photo and caption by Sanjeev Bhor/National Geographic Photo Contest. Everyday in mara starts with something new and different and day ends with memorable experiences with spectacular photographs. I was very lucky of sighting and photographing Malaika the name of female Cheetah and her cub. She is well known for its habit to jump on vehicles. She learned that from her mother Kike, and Kike from her mother Amber. Like her mother she is teaching lessons to her cub. Teaching lessons means addition of another moment for tourist. This is one of the tender moment between Malaika and her cub. I was very lucky to capture that moment.
Photo and caption by Kai-Otto Melau/National Geographic Photo Contest. A race that follows in the path of the famous explorer Roald Amundsen brings the contestants to the Hardangervidda Mountainplateu, Norway. 100km across the plateau, the exact same route Amundsen used to prepare for his South Pole expedition in 1911 is still used by explorers today. Amundsen did not manage to cross the plateau and had to turn back because of bad weather. He allegedly said that the attempt to cross Hardangervidda was just as dangerous and hard as the conquering of the South Pole. The group in the picture used the race as preparations for an attempt to cross Greenland.
Photo and caption by Eric Guth/National Geographic Photo Contest. Glacial ice washes ashore after calving off the Breiamerkurjˆkull glacier on Iceland’s eastern coast. During the waning light of summer this image was created over the course of a 4 minute exposure while the photographer backlit the grounded glacial ice with a headlamp for 2 of those 4 minutes.
Photo and caption by关嘉城/National Geographic Photo Contest. Dragon boating is a Chinese traditional entertainment. As an aquatic sport to memorialize Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet in ancient China, it is usually held in festivals, which can be traced back to two thousands years ago.
Photo and caption by Nenad Saljic/National Geographic Photo Contest. The Matterhorn 4478m at full moon.
Photo and caption by Micah Albert/National Geographic Photo Contest. At the end of the day women are allowed to pick through the dumpsite.
From over 22,000 entries in 150 countries this year, the winner of the 2012 National Geographic Photo Contest have been announced. Awesome. Get your desktop/iPad/iPhone wallpapers here.
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Flowers Timelapse compilation (Amaryllis, Lilies, Zygocactus, Rose, Gladiolus, Gardenia) I took more than 7100 photos in more than 730 hours (using Canon 5D Mark II) It is my first timelapse, hope you'll enjoy it :) http://www.pruskova.com
Over 7,100 photos, taken over the course of 730 captures the blooming of Amaryllis, Lilies, Zygocactus, Rose, Gladiolus, and Gardenia.
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The Panther
His vision, from the constantly passing bars,
has grown so weary that it cannot hold
anything else. It seems to him there are
a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world.
As he paces in cramped circles, over and over,
the movement of his powerful soft strides
is like a ritual dance around a center
in which a mighty will stands paralyzed.
Only at times, the curtain of the pupils
lifts, quietly--. An image enters in,
rushes down through the tensed, arrested muscles,
plunges into the heart and is gone.
The steady eye of RIlke and his ability to bring the invisible just to the edge of visibility have always made him some one I always feel I can feast on.
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