Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
POTD - to reverse time by Jessica Ceballos
to reverse time
I hardly remember
what 2 a.m. looks like. At 2 a.m.
his delicately hungry hallways
echoed my words. Words woven
onto autumn leaves, held together
by weathered branches.
At 2 a.m. arctic whispers
felt along my spine;
reminders that I loved wrong,
what felt right. Snow too soon melting,
lakes become warm waters
of regret to bathe in.
How I miss being awake at 2 a.m.,
naked with feeling,
chasing the sun...
I'd rather be there
than here, at 9 p.m.
wondering where 2 a.m.
has gone.
Ceballos also is a driving force in the poetry community of Los Angeles, hosting two regular poetry readings a month:
Bluebird Reading Series
2nd Sundays of the Month
at Avenue 50 Studios in Highland Park
The Great Beyond
3rd Sundays of the Month
in Venice
More at JessicaCeballos.com
Hyperphoto: Surrealism in Duplication, Juxtaposition and Recomposition
French artist Jean-François Rauzier's "Hyperphoto" uses duplication, juxtaposition and recomposition to make these immersive and wildly imaginative images.
See this post on 5 things i learned today
Dubai: Cloud City [timelapse and photos]
German photographer Sebastian Opitz, who has lived in Dubai for the past four years, took these astounding photos from the 85th floor of the Princess Tower, a 101-tall residential tower near the city’s marina.
Chalk Stop-motion Tetris
Artist Chris Carlson created this awesome stop-motion Tetris game. He is known for his 3D chalk drawings, plenty of which are available on his Tumblr.
Light Trails in the Sky
Kevin Cooley's awesome long exposure photos of airplane trails, Nachtfluge
Holi Festival of Color
We took a look at the Festival of Color last year, and glad to see it again.
Under Waves
I never get tired, especially as summer approaches, of these under wave photos. Here is a great set from Mark Tipple.
Giant Land Art Portrait
Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada, a land artist, carved this enormous (200 yds) woman's portrait outside of Amsterdam in support of the Dutch feminist organization Mama Cash.
Shakespeare Figures Converted to Gorgeous Graphs
The bard has coined a vast number of figures of speech that are central to our modern English. So many in fact that we don't often remember that they are figures of speech. Well, this NYC designer, Nicholas Weltyk, designed these three stunning charts to reinvigorate the quotes with meaning, perhaps helping us see them anew.
Reminds me very much of the rap represented in mathematical charts and graphs from years ago. Much prettier though.
Apollo 11 in 100 Seconds
Top Secret 1956 Flying Saucer Designs
Project 1794 was top secret in 1956. It was a flying saucer (remarkably looking like a UFO) meant to top out at MACH 4, and capable of vertical takeoff and landing. The Aeronautical Systems Division (USAF) recently released these images for the project.
Gobi Desert Aerial Photos
German photographer Jakob Wagner brings this stunning series of aerial photos of the harsh and stark Gobi Desert.
What is often featureless from ground level becomes contoured and beautiful when seen from above.
Nagasaki Tilt-shift Timelapse
Kinectic Sculptures from Laurent Debraux
Artist Laurent Debraux was just at the Kinetica Art Fair in London. Most of his works explore the nearly magical properties of magnets, metal and ferrofluid.
These are just three of the 40+ videos he's uploaded. Outstanding.
Eggshell Art by Nosigner
Nosigner has commercial products made from real eggshells.
Rebirth is a lighting product made from real egg shells.
Hatch is a planter made from real egg shells.
630 AM Series from Robert Weingarten
Anything done in series starts to carry more information (amount, aspect and rate of change), and starts to capture and communicate what can't be seen: time, expectation, duration, rhythm, surprise.
Robert Weingarten's 6:30 AM SERIES documents the mornings of 2003.
From the project page:
"[Robert Weingarten] established a single viewpoint, looking southeast over Santa Monica Bay, from which every photograph in the series would be made with the camera in exactly the same position."
"Each exposure would be made at precisely the same time of day - 6:30 am - measured by one quartz clock. All exposures would be made with the lens focused on infinity and at the same aperture of f/22. Just two variables were allowed into this disciplined scheme: the shutter speed of the lens, which would be adjusted faster or slower depending on the quantity and quality of light available at 6:30 a.m. each day; and, the most variable element of all, changes in the scene that were introduced by the forces of nature."
Astrophotography by Lincoln Harrison
Portraits of Captive Animals
Cally Whitham, a New Zealand-based photographer, snaps animal portraits in her series Captive. Emerging for the darkness, into the light of personality, the photos are moving and revelatory.
Sculptures Made From Suspended Buttons
Augusto Esquivel, Miami-based artist creates 3-dimensional forms by simply attaching buttons to a fishing line, demonstration how “a common object used to create a piece of art becomes transformed into something complicated and intriguing.”