Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Harbin (哈尔滨) Ice Festival
The Harbin International Ice Festival revealed some of its massive snow sculptures a few weeks before its official opening in January.
Backwards Alpine Bike Riding by Norwegian Daredevil Eskil Ronningsbakken
Norwegian daredevil Eskil Ronningsbakken takes on a tortuous 850m-mountain road in under 3 minutes, while reaching top speeds of 50mph, backwards!
Into The Atmosphere - California Skies
From Michael Shainblum:
“Into The Atmosphere,” is my tribute to the state of California and the beautiful deserts, mountains and coastlines that exist there. This video showcases a variety of national/state parks as well as less recognized natural areas. The video also focuses on clouds, fog and interesting atmospheric conditions. Although California is known for blue sunshine skies, seeing a colorful storm cloud over Half Dome or an incredible sunset at the La Jolla Coves is really a sight to see. The goal of this video is to show these environments in their best possible light.
Humble Dollar Store Items Elevated in Massive Installations by Crystal Wagner
Printmaking, cut paper, and cheap dollar store items come together in Crystal Wagner's organic looking installations.
Manhattan Skyline Mirrored in Dreamlike Images
Brad Sloan captured these stunning New York City shots and reflected them to create these eery and dreamlike images.
Ideas, Art, Aesthetics - 5 Books I Love to Share
Sharing books you love with people you like/love/admire/appreciate is one of the most delicious things. You walk around with a shared interior room. You establish an invisible tribe of the heart and head. So, I like/love/admire/appreciate you. Here are the books about ideas, art, aesthetics I want to share with you.
If you want to share with me yours I would be so grateful.
Languages of Art
by Nelson Goodman
I got this book referred to me by a professor of ancient Chinese calligraphy ( a bit about that experience). It is cerebral and lovely and trusts the reader immensely with discussions of the invisible, the dynamic, the hidden flows that make art move the way it does.
Kant and the Platypus
by Umberto Eco
With a playful approach Eco gets me to a thoughtful reckoning of the heavy cognitive burden that language bears.
I have actually bought copies of this book and sent them to friends because I wanted to talk with them about it.
Twentieth Century Pleasures
by Robert Hass
With a wide range of subjects (from the image/thought of haiku, to contemplations of Tranströmer and Checkov) poet Robert Hass writes clearly and generously about the poetry he has found resources in.
The Language Instinct
by Steven Pinker
Very much interested in the way we learn and develop language and the way that language overruns the rules we think define it, Pinker puts forth the notion that language isn't a cultural artefact, isn't an invention that set our societies off from their pre-linguistic past through its instrumentality, but instead that language is an inbuilt biological activity that has shaped our evolution as it evolved beside us.
In Praise of Shadows
by Junichiro Tanizaki
The way we approach beauty, the things we allow it to say about us, the way it contributes to the moment-to-moment experience of living, this is what Japanese novelist Tanizaki discusses in this brief little discussion on everything from tableware to architecture to space and light.
Wyoming Wildscapes
One of the first websites I made as a User Experience Designer was the state tourism website for Wyoming. I'd never been to Wyoming, so I got a couple chances to go around the state. Not just beautiful, but beautiful in ways I'd never considered.
This video captures a lot of that.
Movie Trailer Mashups for 2013
FULL LIST OF MOVIES AVAILABLE HERE:http://sleepyskunk.tumblr.com/
1. 'Brooklyn Go Hard (Instrumental)' - Performed by Jay-Z (Roc-A-Fella Records)
2. 'Save The World (Knife Party Remix)' - Performed by Swedish House Mafia (EMI Records)
3. 'The Opening' - Composed by François Paul Aïche (from The Fifth Estate trailer / DreamWorks SKG)
History Told Through Instragrams
MTV designers Gusto NYC and Gavin Alaoen smash the past into our present in Histagrams.
Stunning Bengal Tiger Portraits
Exotic animal trainer Dr. Bhagavan Antle, as founder of The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (T.I.G.E.R.S.) has developed this amazing and moving series of tiger portraits.
Dr. Antle:
"a stunningly beautiful animal like a tiger captures people's attention so they become more willing to learn about critical conservation issues. Tigers are an important living example of the environmental problems facing the world, which makes them the perfect wildlife ambassadors."
Ulvøya Timelapse
Bearded Disney Princesses
It IS the last day of Movember. And of COURSE we can always count on Buzzfeed for good, quality content.
Light Painting Haunting Sci-Fi Abstract Portraits
Light Rorschach by photographer Nicolas Rivals uses a torch light and a camera with a long exposure to draw.
Rivlas:
…turns observer and observed through the eyes of spirited but ultimately see some of your own personality and therefore yourself. Cross between the work and the viewer as an introspection looks these masks seem to shout.
“Tell me what you see and I’ll tell you who you are.”
Photographs that Look Like Drawings because of Fantastic Face Paint
With just enough photographic detail (eyes, for example) still visible, the 2D or Not 2D series from Russian photographer Alexander Khokhlov (along with Valeriya Kutsan, one of the best make-up artists in Russia) is stunning and perception shifting.
X-Ray Cartoon Drawings
French artist, Chris Panda simply draws the insides of these recognizable cartoon characters in his X-Ray series.
Bird Dogs
I don't know the origin of these images. I would love to meet the twisted mind(s) that created them.
Very similar to these animal mashups, which inspired the title of my serial poetry project: Manipulated Bestiary.
Children and Where They Sleep
James Mollison uses the power of series (and its inherent qualities of comparison, contrast, expectation and surprise ) to tell the very moving story of childhood around the world in his book Where Children Sleep.
“I hope the book gives a a glimpse into the lives some children are living in very diverse situations around the world; a chance to reflect on the inequality that exists, and realise just how lucky most of us in the developed world are,” says James.
Other series we've had on kids and schools around the world include:
Kids from Around the World with Their Most Prized Possesions
Ahkohxet, 8, Amazonia, Brazil
Dong, 9, Yunnan, China
Indira, 7, Kathmandu, Nepal
Joey, 11, Kentucky, USA
Alex, 9, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Bilal, 6, Wadi Abu Hindi, The West Bank
Bikram, 9, Melamchi, Nepal
Lamine, 12, Bounkiling village, Senegal
Tzvika, 9, Beitar Illit, The West Bank
Prena, 14, Kathmandu, Nepal
Douha, 10, Hebron, The West Bank
Anonymous, 9, Ivory Coast
Rhiannon, 14, Darvel, Scotland
Nantio, 15, Lisamis, Northern Kenya
Roathy, 8, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Netu, 11, Kathmandu, Nepal
Jasmine (Jazzy), 4, Kentucky, USA
Risa, 15, Kyoto, Japan
An Instagram Timelapse Made from 852 Users' Photos
‘Instagram Short Film’ is filmmaker Thomas Jullien's timelapse editing together of 852 different Instagram users' shots.
Julian says it was his attempt to "create structure out of this chaos.”
Book of the Day: Kant and the Platypus: Essays of Language and Cognition by Umberto Eco
There are a handful of books that have been a part of my personal education, ones that I feel like I found on my own, and refer to time and again. This is one of them. There are a number of poems ( Notes Toward Identifying a Father, for example) there were, as Lucie Brock-Broido says, troubled into mind by ideas in this book.