Beaches make enormous canvases for this guy's enormous creativity.
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QOTD - Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫)
“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”
– Yukio Mishima
3 - Death Valley Dreamlapse
If you've never been to Death Valley, you probably have no idea what you are missing. Truly an outstanding experience.
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4 - Vibrant Coral
Felix Salazar took to his Los Angeles salt water aquariums for these gorgeous macro shots of coral.
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SKYE Weather+Photo
Besides doing this everyday, I have a day job as a user experience designer for BermanBraun here in Santa Monica.
The cycle for producing an iOS app can vary in length quite a bit. When I first sketched on the screens for SKYE WEATHER+PHOTO in early 2012, I wasn't sure where the exploration would take me.
The app is live now (iTunes link) and I am excited to hear what you think.
There are two main sections of the app: forecast and photos.
The forecast section includes current, hourly and 7-day weather information for places around the world.
The photo section lets you discover photos (with weather information stenciled on) in any of the locations around the world. And, if you like, you can add weather stencils to any of your own photos.
Your weather photos tell the story of your experience, the way it felt to be there at that moment. You can share your photos out to your social networks, save them to your camera roll, and document the weather for those places.
Here are some of my favorite photos I've taken with the app:
QOTD - Walt Whitman
“I and this mystery, here we stand.”
– Walt Whitman
1 - Gorgeously Alien Ice
For nearly a century, the Fulton Market Cold Storage Company in Chicago has been accumulating ice and frost in its deep freezers. So when the building sold, there was a lot of defrosting to be done. Beautiful.
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2 - Harbin Internation Ice & Snow Festival
Held since 1963, the Harbin International Ice & Snow Festival can last more than a month, depending on the weather.
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APP of the Day - Expereal
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.
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3 - Stunning NYC Pano from the Air
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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POTD - Child on Top of a Greenhouse by Theodore Roethke
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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5 - Our Planets
Lovely animation by Pablo Maximiliano of our planets.
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1 - Falling
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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2 - Mysterious Sand Pyramids Left by Hurricane Sandy
In a parking lot in Queens, New York, these 30-foot tall dunes caused somehow by Hurricane Sandy.
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3 - Beautiful Insults in the Post
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4 - Amazing Lights At Japanese Botanical Garden
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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5 - Highlining Across the Face of the Full Moon
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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1 - Quadcopter Sneaking up on a Moose
No translation needed I think.
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POTD - Elk at Tomales Bay by Tess Taylor
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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2 - Landscapes Achingly Beautiful in Timelapse
“It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.”
– Banana Yoshimoto
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