Gurung people of Nepal collect honey from Himalayan cliffs as they have centuries. This particularly vivid and risky lifestyle has attracted a great deal of attention and tourism. Photographer Andrew Newey gorgeously documents the waning tradition.
Social Network Football Clubs
If social networks were Football Clubs, what would their kits be like?
Site juanfutbol wondered and created the 'Social Media Network League' in which they imagine and design the crest and jerseys of some of the most popular web hangouts.
Long Exposures of Fireflies in the Japanese Woods by Yuma Cyan
“Last Dance of the Fairies” was shot by Japanese photographer Yume Cyan near Nagoya City, Japan. In long exposure, the fireflies' blinking draws dashed lines through the dark.
See also Glowstick Trails in Night Waterfalls
Enormous Bonfire For Norwegian Midsummer
Every year in June, in the city of Alesund, Norway hundreds of wood pallets are stacked to a height of over 130 feet, and then set on fire in celebration of Midsummer and John the Baptist’s birthday.
Photos by Ruben Molnes, Geir Halvorsen, Staale Watto/Sunnmørsposten and Kenneth Enstad.
John Malkovich recreates famous portraits with a crazy eye to detail
Sandro Miller brings us this new photo-series Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to photographic masters.
Long Exposure of Lighted Wakeboards at Night from Red Bull
Patrick Rochon shot the Red Bull Riders doing some amazing wakeboarding on boards outfitted with amazing LCD lighting at the Orlando Watersports Complex.
NSFW - Gorgeous 'Calligraphy on Girls' from Molotow Markers - Four Years of 5 Things
A collaboration between Molotow Markers and Fierce Frog Films, brings us the calligraphy of Russian Pokras Lampas. Using script size and lettering density in response to the curves and contours of the models leads to some gorgeous patterns and gorgeous images.
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Kickstarters Worth Supporting - Moving Ethos Dance Company in Sarasota Florida
If you're a fan of dance, here's a kickstarter to support. Moving Ethos is a Sarasota Florida dance company interested in choreography and movement that explores shape and form, aims to speak to the heart and head as much as to the eyes. Headed by Leah Verier-Dunn the project is called As We Fall.
POTD - The City Limits by A.R. Ammons
The City Limits
by A. R. Ammons
When you consider the radiance, that it does not withhold
itself but pours its abundance without selection into every
nook and cranny not overhung or hidden; when you consider
that birds' bones make no awful noise against the light but
lie low in the light as in a high testimony; when you consider
the radiance, that it will look into the guiltiest
swervings of the weaving heart and bear itself upon them,
not flinching into disguise or darkening; when you consider
the abundance of such resource as illuminates the glow-blue
bodies and gold-skeined wings of flies swarming the dumped
guts of a natural slaughter or the coil of shit and in no
way winces from its storms of generosity; when you consider
that air or vacuum, snow or shale, squid or wolf, rose or lichen,
each is accepted into as much light as it will take, then
the heart moves roomier, the man stands and looks about, the
leaf does not increase itself above the grass, and the dark
work of the deepest cells is of a tune with May bushes
and fear lit by the breadth of such calmly turns to praise.
I love thinking how so much of Ammons' greatest poetry he wrote while an elementary school principal, a real estate salesman, an editor, and an executive in his father's biological glass company. His surprising and swerving mind embues the world we live our lives in with the radiance of meaning and beauty.
Gorgeous Dresses Made of Food
Korean artist Yeonju Sung created this series of clothes from edible materials. Some of my favorites include the lacy lotus root dress and the corset made of enoki mushrooms. Just stunning.
Yosemite in Achingly Beautiful Timelapse
From the project video:
"A 200+ mile backpacking experience through Yosemite National Park captured by Colin Delehanty and Sheldon Neill. This project was filmed over the course of 10 months. We spent a combined 45 days in the park capturing the images in this video."
Post-Punk Superheros by Billy Butcher
There is something so pitch-perfect about this work from mashup artist Butcher Billy that elevates it. Certainly its style and wit help quite a bit, but even more than that, there is some thing about identity and fame here. Just great.
Visit Billy’s Behance for more work.
See also Super Secret Lives & The Justice League of Parks and Rec
Patterns in Urban Architecture
Munich-based photographer Nich Frank (http://www.iso72.de ) sees geometry all around him and captures images that let us see them too.
“[it's] about self-discovery, finding something new or to interpret it differently, change the own point of view, leaving the rhythm and the usual paths. It’s about time, places, moments, but also technology.”
Beautiful Bird Sculptures Made of Telephone Wires
UK-based sculptor Celia Smith makes these subtle and nuanced bird sculptures with telephone wires.
Celia says:
Birds are my main inspiration; capturing their movement and character is my primary concern. I find that wire has a spontaneity that can give my sculptures a feeling of life and energy.with the wires representing a quality of line.
Star Wars Speeder Bike Quadcopter Mod - A Maker's First Person Video
ADAM WOODWORTH, a hardware engineer at Google has a detailed step-by-step of his mod of a quadrotor to become an Imperial Speeder with a first-person camera to boot. Check out the photos.
5 Apps to Look At - Citymaps, Super, Nutshell & More
Apps that make living in the world easier, more fun and more expressive. Too many good apps out there, and these are the ones I am looking at this week. Stay tuned for more in the weeks to come.
Thanks for all the suggestions for Apps to Look At. Send me yours at twitter.com/5tilt.
Citymaps - citymaps.com
So much of what I ever wanted from Foursquare, Yelp and Google Maps is about places, not locations, but places. Places I've been to, places I've loved, places to share and places to meet at. This is focused way to find and collect those places. You can find my growing maps @rtsnance on Citymaps.
Super - super.me
Visual, fun memes to be made for your friends and the world, Super walks you through building a meme-worthy message. It's a way people love to communicate with their friends, just made easier to find, make and share.
Nutshell - nutshell.prezi.com
Life's little stories, short and sweet
Snap three pictures. Add captions. Choose graphics. And let Nutshell turn it all into a shareable cinematic story.
Reuters TV - www.reuters.tv
TV doesn't mean what it used to mean. It used to be a box you sat in front of. Now it is something that comes streaming through the things we carry around with us. The Reuters TV responds to that in an exciting way: a pre-downloaded, custom-tailored 5 to 30 min selections of news segments, ready for you to watch whenever and wherever you are.
Timeline - Timeline.com
Weaving together the reports that cover events in a quick succession creates a more complex and nuanced story. Such is the essence of Timeline. See how a story evolves over time. Quickly dive into its roots and beginnings. All this helps make sense of the news.
Burma Through the Attentive Lens of Photographer David Heath
Adventure photographer David Heath created this gorgeous photo series of his 5 years of travel in and around Burma.
“From the moment I first set foot in this magical land, I fell under its spell. I found it to be one of the most enthralling and visually captivating countries I have had the privilege to explore – truly a photographer’s paradise,” explains Heath, “I aspired to convey the soul of the beautiful Burmese people, their mystical culture and mysterious customs, in the most artistic way possible”.
The book “BURMA: An Enchanted Spirit” has even more unforgettable photographs.
Superhero Soccer
Super fun to see so many favorite characters in this.
Sculptures On The Land by Nils-Udo
German artist Nils-Udo creates site-specific arrangements using materials around. They are striking and beautiful and provocative.
POTD - Odysseus Hears of the Death of Kalypso by Donald Revell
Odysseus Hears of the Death of Kalypso
All their songs are of one hour
Before dawn, when the birds begin.
I sing another.
In helpless midday, at the hour
Even sparrows have no heart to shrill
Comes news . . . Suddenly, the unimaginable
Needs imagination and finds none.
Violet ocean only nothing.
Smoke of thyme and of cedar,
Ornate birds, nothing.
Even a god who came here,
Hearing a sweet voice,
Would find only old fires now,
Brittle in the blackened trees.
She was mast and sail. She was
A stillness pregnant with motion,
Adorable to me as, all my life,
I have hidden a cruel, secret ocean
In sinews and in sleep and cowardice.
She forgave me. Once, she wept for me.
Our child died then, and she is with him.
From his first book, New Dark Ages, I have found such peering intelligence and vision in Revell's work.