QOTD - Annie Dillard
4 - Lots of Inspiring Images from 2012
Images have such power to amaze and inspire. Here are a lot that reached some degree of impact this last year.
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5 - CRAZY PINK LAKE SEEN FROM ABOVE
Sent out to shoot some pretty photos for the walls of a hotel in Perth, photographer Steve Back chartered a small plane to look around for something. While up there he took a look at the Hutt Lagoon, a body of water on the Western Australia that through a quirk of nature is pink. Really pink.
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APP of the Day - Vine
The makers of Twitter have release VIne. You get 6 seconds of video (and sound) to tell a bite sized story. A lot of the ethos of twitter, in video.
So slick and easy UI helps make this a fun little app. It will be interesting to see how well it lets me express and experience the things I want to express and experience.
You can find me through my twitter @rtsnance
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QOTD - Nabokov
1 - Coffee Stirrers Woven into Organic Forms
Jonathan Brilliant (what a name) is a British installation artist who weaves coffee sticks by the hundred into flowing sculptures showing only their own inner logic.
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2 - Baseball Jerseys Transported to a Soccer Universe
Designer M. Willis needed something to do. He decided as an exercise to test his design chops and indulge his love of soccer. "Soccer Out of Context - a look at how other identities and brand properties would appear in the soccer / fútbol aesthetic, instead of their own. "
His Rules:
- I’m not reinventing club histories, or pretending clubs were soccer teams all along, just translating their brands to the soccer “universe”.
- I’m not changing logos, colors or visual properties - just trying to play within existing boundaries.
- Today I’m using soccer kits - jersey shirts only, really, as this was a quick exercise - as the visual output. One per team, too - no away designs this time.
- Where I can, I’m making guesses about the identities to fill in blank spots that don’t map easily over to soccer.
- I’m trying to have fun, and I don’t take this seriously as anything more than palate-cleansing design exercise.
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3 - Frozen In The Water that Put Out The Fire
An abandoned warehouse in flames, it took nearly 200 firefighters to battle the blaze. So cold that water sprayed on the building froze almost instantly.
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QOTD - Andy Warhol
4 - People v. The Winter
And the people aren't winning.
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5 - Papercraft Stop-motion Music Video
Japanese singer-songwriter Shugo Tokumaru enlisted animation duo
Katarzyna Kijek and Przemysław Adamski.
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QOTD - VIRGINIA WOOLF
2 - Dancing Paintings in the Sand
Beaches make enormous canvases for this guy's enormous creativity.
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QOTD - Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫)
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
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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