Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Eggshell Sculptures
Historic & Contemporary Japan Erupt into Each Other
A Japanese artist classically trained in Yamato-e (traditional Japanese painting), Akira Yamaguchi's large format watercolors demonstrate a refinement on par with the old masters. These paintings, however, take another look. They are of an historic color, bristling with the tools, locations, things and situations of contemporary Japan. Skyscrapers seem clearly the cousins of the Heiji Castles they replaced. Rocket launchers, airplanes. Truly astounding.
Capturing the World's 2nd Largest Tree in a Single Shot
This is so gorgeous on so many levels.
Named “The President” the giant sequoia that was photographed is named “The President” and is located in Giant Forest of California’s Sequoia National Park.
Photographer Michael “Nick” Nichols captured a photograph of the 247-foot-tall tree that scientists estimate is at least 3,200 years old.
Check out the whole Nat Geo story.
Photographing Silly Laws Being Broken
NYC photographer Olivia Locher created this photo series called ‘I Fought The Law’ demonstrating some of the US's sillier laws.
Drone Over Hong Kong
With their Discovery PRO first-person quadcopter Team BlackSheep captured the parts of Hong Kong, green mountains and bays and floating villages, not often captured.
Time-slice Photo of Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse - Photo of the Day
Mike Mezeul II shot this tremendous time-slice photo capturing the process of April 15th's Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse from a blooming field in Ennis, Texas
Close up
Tatio Geyser Field in Chile Photos by Owen Perry
El Tatio in the Chilean Andes is the largest geyser field in the southern hemisphere. British Columbia-based interactive web designer and visual artist Owen Perry took these fantastic shots. Find a lot of his other work at Circa 1983.
Infrared Timelapse of Vietnamese Landscape
Dmitry Pisanko shot this disorienting timelape with an infrared camera.
3D LEGO Chalk Drawing of Terracotta Warriors
The Planet Streetpainting (Leon Keer, Ruben Poncia, Remko van Schaik and Peter Westerink) created this “anamorphic street painting”for the 2011 Sarasota Chalk Festival.
Banksy's newest: Cell Phone Lovers and Other Favorites
Banksy, despite all the hype, is still worth covering.
JR's Wrinkles
JR, who made his way onto the world stage with his TED Prize in 2011. has been adding his large format photographic murals to the cityscapes around the world.
And his Wrinkles in LA, and apparently Havana, are some of my favorites.
The Boneyard Project: Painting Decommissioned Aircraft
Eric Firestone and Carlo McCormick, created The Bone Yard Project inviting renowned artists and street artists to use the decommissioned military planes at the Pima Air & Space Museum as canvas and muse.
COMBO - Stop-motion Street Art Graffiti Movie from Blue
Blu has made a name for himself making some truly gorgeous graffiti projects that play with time and location. Here is one of the ones that introduced me to him.
Here too is a collaboration with JR.
Watching Kids Try to Figure Out The Walkman
What a great experiment! And for each of us who feels a bit unsophisticated next the 6 year old who grew up with iDevices, here is a little payback!
Living Things More Than 2,000 Years Old - Photos by Rachel Sussman
Rachel Sussman‘s Oldest Living Things in The World Book is the result of her near decade long efforts, alongside biologists, which took her around the world and into some of the harshest and remotest climates to document living things that have lived continuously for more than 2,000 years.
The book, which is a passionate and insightful melding of art, science, and travelogue, includes 124 photographs, 30 essays, infographics and forewords by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Carl Zimmer, all centered around her quest to capture and share the scientific knowledge that we have discovered about these temporal giants.
There is also at the end of this post a great Creative Mornings talk that Sussman gave about the project while she was in the middle of it (Nov. 2010).
Spruce Gran Picea #0909 – 11A07 (9,550 years old; Fulufjället, Sweden)
Welwitschia Mirabilis #0707-22411 (2,000 years old; Namib-Naukluft Desert, Namibia)
Jōmon Sugi, Japanese Cedar #0704-002 (2,180-7,000 years old; Yakushima, Japan)
La Llareta (up to 3,000 years old; Atacama Desert, Chile)
Sky Between Buildings Used For Whimsical Drawings
French artist Thomas Lamadieu’s “Sky Art” amazing illustrations on photographs of sky between buildings.
Stunningly Vibrant Photos of Snails by Vyacheslav Mischenko
In a forest near his home city of Berdychiv, Ukraine, amateur photographer Vyacheslav Mischenko has captured these surprisingly dynamic photos of snails.
"I spent a lot of my childhood out and about in forests as my family are big wildlife lovers so I'm always on the lookout for unusual animal shots which I can capture. I don't like taking just simple macro shots as you can find them everywhere so I always try to create pictures which I hope people will love."
Pleiades: Dance and Light Animations by Enra
The A to Z of Dance
i-D and Diesel had Jacob Sutton create this video a-to-z encyclopedia of dance. Arabesque, B-Girl, ou encore Krump, Step, Twerk, Vogue Hands, shot in and around sunny Los Angeles.
