On a foggy day, a drone was able to catch this stunning footage of the Dom Tower of Utrecht, for the Dutch filmmakers Jelte Keur and Reinout van Schie.
Super Secret Lives [Not Very SFW, albeit just comics]
Greg Guillemin imagines The Secret Life of Superheroes, and they are super secret, the sort of stuff you do too. You can purchase them as prints through Guillemin’s Society6 page.
Surfing Among Glaciers and Icebergs - Photos by Chris Burkard
Chris Burkard travels from his Central California to places like Alaska, Norway and Iceland to take these blindingly beautiful photos that aim to “portrays the humble placement of the human in contrast to nature.”
Cartoon Anamorphic Street Paintings
Anamorphic Paintings French street artists Ella and Pitr that assemble into nearly 3D images when viewed from the right vantage.
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Design Wish - Nomad Collapsible Hot Tub
The Nomad Collapsible Tub is an ultra-portable 225-gallon tub you can set up in 20 minutes and heat with either propane or wood fire.
Book of The Day: Women Who Run with Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
I asked on facebook this last week "What's a book you wish more people had read?" and first among the answers was Clarissa Pinkola Estés's Women Who Run with Wolves.
What book do you wish more people had read and why?
Osterich Egg Carvings
An artist who calls himself Eggdoodler chisels ostrich eggs to create these startling reliefs of animals: elephants, giraffes and rhinos.
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Book of the Day: Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coatzee
It's one of those books that plants a seed, J.M. Coatzee's Waiting for the Barbarians certainly affected me when I read it in a literature class, but it was the disquiet that it planted deep in me that had me reaching for it again when I began to need to address more directly the distortions caused by my own privilege.
Snow Crystals In Electron Microscopes
Normally, researchers observe snow crystals at moderate levels of magnification (30X-500X). The electron microscope, however, allows for observation at over 100,000X.
50 years of Space Exploration in an Infographic
There is so much of this I hadn't the slightest idea about. It is certainly one of the great strengths of an infographic: being able to take it all in, nearly all at once.
Beautiful and Fascinating HD Images of the Sun by Alan Friedman
"My photographs comprise a solar diary, portraits of a moment in the life of our local star. Most are captured from my backyard in Buffalo, NY. Using a small telescope and narrow band filters I can capture details in high resolution and record movements in the solar atmosphere that change over hours and sometimes minutes. The raw material for my work is black and white and often blurry. As I prepare the pictures, color is applied and tonality is adjusted to better render the features. It is photojournalism of a sort. The portraits are real, not painted. Aesthetic decisions are made with respect for accuracy as well as for the power of the image."
Weapons Transformed into Musical Instruments
Mexico City based artist Pedro Reyes transformed a mass of rifles, pistols, and shotguns taken by the Mexican army from drug cartels to build the musical devices that are controlled by computers and can be pre-programmed, a fully mechanized orchestra. Titled Disarm.
900 Classic Arcade Games in Your Browser
Yesterday, the Internet Archive released 900 classic arcade games for you to play for free in your web browser.
Commander Chris Hadfield - Space Oddity Redux
UPDATE: After over a year, the rights have been secured again for this amazing version of Space Oddity. Read the story »
Commander Chris Hadfield has made his own version of David Bowie's Space Oddity, shot and recorded on the International Space Station.
I am so blown away by this guy: photographer, creative as all get out, funny, an ASTRONAUT, doing it all from his tin can. Bad ass!
POTD - After Mayakovksy by Denis Johnson
AFTER MAYAKOVSKY
It’s after one. You’re probably alone.
All night the moon rings like a telephone
in an empty booth above our separateness.
Now is the hour one answers. I am home.
Hello, my heart, my god, my president,
my darling: I’m alarmed by the alarm
clock’s iridescent face, hung like a charm
from darkness’s fat ear. This accident
that was my life will have its witnesses:
now, while the world lies wholly motionless
and sorry in a crapulence of stars,
now is the hour one rises to address
the ages and history of the universe;
I swear you’ll never see my face again.
Denis Johnson wrote only poems for a while, and a lot of them. His third book, Incognito Lounge, showed a voracious imagination and relentless voice. Both of these have found full expression in his Pulitzer Prize winning novel Tree of Smoke.
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Cartoon Character Dressed as Other Characters
My mind melted a little bit. Click each to see its full glory.
Squirrel Sticks His Head In A Jack-o-Lantern
Photographer Max Ellis of Teddington, London:
"My kids love Halloween and beg to start decorating the house and carving pumpkins from about October 1. Obviously cut pumpkins only last a couple of days so I carved a small one to keep them quiet. I thought we could have a bit of fun with it making it hover spookily in the back garden."
Ellis waited days to capture the curios creature donning the pumpkin. What an adorable accident.
Shot Face - A Tumblr of Portraits the Moment After Taking a Shot
Shot Face - Tim Charles is a project from photographer Tim Charles catching his friends and subjects the moments after taking a shot. I quiver to think how I'd appear. Sounds like a great party photobooth idea though.
Eagle-Wing View of Paris
A non-profit FREEDOM put a Sony Action Cam Mini to the back of a white-tailed eagle named Victor, and let him fly from the observation deck of the Eiffel Tower.
SpaceTime-Lapse of Boston
A full-time engineer at GE Aviation, Julian Tryba calls this spatial-temporal slicing in video “layer-lapse.”
With time lapse locations around Boston sewn together to create this fast shifting time and space show.