Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Staggeringly Beautiful Night Sky Photos by Nicholas Buer
I am speechlessly in love with these night sky photos from landscape and astro photographer Nicholas Buer.
Buer:
"Gazing up at the night sky has always filled me with a sense of wonder. Since advancements in DSLR technology I have been able to capture the night sky in a way I previously thought impossible and ever since my first successful capture of the milky way, I have been hooked."
Skateboard Deck Sculptures
Japanese skateboarder and self-taught sculptor Haroshi uses recycled Skateboard decks as the raw material for his sculptures.
Pop Culture Icons Made in Assemblage of Toys and Computer Bits by Elisa Insua
Argentinian-based artist Elisa Insua creates this awesome pop culture images by assembling toys and coins and other bits of computers and electronics.
See also A Room of Stuff Arranged to Create this Anamorphic Portrait
Paintings Mashed Up With Photos in London
Redditer shystone placed some old paintings of London in context in London's modern cityscape.
Flower Mandalas by Kathy Klein
Arizona-based artist Kathy Klein uses the petals of carnations, daisies, mums and other wildflowers to construct these ephemeral mandalas. She has a 2014 calendar of her best works.
Mars Desert Research Station - Photos by Jim Urquhart
Photojournalist Jim Urquhart has this great set of photos from the Mars Desert Research Station, which conducts dry runs for future Mars missions in the Utah desert.
From the Project Page:
"Mars is the great challenge of our time.
In order to help develop key knowledge needed to prepare for human Mars exploration, and to inspire the public by making sensuous the vision of human exploration of Mars, the Mars Society has initiated the Mars Analog Research Station (MARS) project. A global program of Mars exploration operations research, the MARS project will include four Mars base-like habitats located in deserts in the Canadian Arctic, the American southwest, the Australian outback, and Iceland. In these Mars-like environments, we will launch a program of extensive long-duration geology and biology field exploration operations conducted in the same style and under many of the same constraints as they would on the Red Planet. By doing so, we will start the process of learning how to explore on Mars."
Spring and Autumn - Younger and Older Relations Swapping Outfits
Photographer Qozop came up with the idea of having children (or grandchildren) swap clothes with their parents (or grandparents) for his “Spring-Autumn” photo series. So cute.
TED TALK - Iwan Baan - Homes Made in Disused and Misused Buildings
Torre David in the center of Caracas is a 45-story unfinished office tower. When the developer died in 1993, and then the crash of the Venezuelan economy 1994, it lay empty for a number of years. People started moving into the abandoned shell about 8 years ago. It is now an enormously tall slum.
Photographer Iwan Baan gave a TED Talk (watch it below) last year showing unusual uses of buildings around the world. Here are some of his amazing photos of Torre David in Venezuela. There are also photos of a city on the water in Nigeria, a trash town in Cairo and carved caves in China.
In his TED TALK Photographer Iwan Baan captures the many ways people shape their shared built environment -- from glossy starchitecture to handmade homes
Fairytales and Nightingales - Uncanny Urban Scenes from Photographer Markus Lehr
In this series of photos from his book, Fairytales and Nightingales, German photographer Markus Lehr manages to capture eerily lit scenes that seem snatched out of some narrative or movie.
From the book's introduction, we learn that Lehr uses google maps to scout location with standout figures in and around Berlin.
Balancing Barn in the English Countryside
Near Thorington in Suffolk, MVRDV built this Balancing Barn, cantilevering over a quick slope.
Citylights - the view from space
Citylights: Photos by Karin Apollonia
Citylights increases the focal distance of my previous work, documenting in found images human habitation on a global scale using the reflected light of population as seen from Earth's orbit, a graph-like portrait of human activity—desire—and its geographic distribution across the surface of our planet. Inversion of this image questions the arbitrary nature of man's sense of his own orientation in the physical realm on earth and in space, also suggesting fireflies seeking a mate against the blackness of night.
Northern Lights by Arild Heitmann
Photographer Arild Heitmann has taken these stunning northern lights images.
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5 Favorite Photography Posts - Feb 2014
Slow-speed Ski Jumper Images
Taking slow-shutter-speed photos can create some great images too. Like these from the Sochi Olympics of ski jumpers.
Film Strips Woven Together to Form Images by Seung Hoon Park
Seung Hoon Park uses 8mm or 16mm film strips and two images in a large format 8×10″ camera weave together a final print.
Desert Breath - Land Art in Egypt
To put this land art into perspective, the central pool is about 100 ft across. Created in 1997 by Danae Stratou, Alexandra Stratou, and architect Stella Constantinides, Desert Breath, near the shore of the Red Sea, covers 100,000 square meters.
Trophic Cascade - How Wolves Change Rivers
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”
Wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park after 70 years, a "trophic cascade" happened.
This video from Sustainable Man accompanies narration from George Monbiot's TED Talk: "For more wonder, rewild the world" Watch the full talk.
Fish Tornado in La Reserva Marina de Cabo Pulmo in Mexico by Octavio Aburto
Photographer and Research Scientist at Scripps Institution Octavio Aburto has captured these absolutely stunning and fascinating images from La Reserva Marina de Cabo Pulmo, Mexico, of fish swirling together in these massive tornado like structures.
POV of Double Luge at the Sochi Olympics
Matthew Mortensen of Team USA shares what it's like shooting down the Sochi luge track with his partner at 80mph.
