Thumbs In Place of Guns
Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Birds Drawn on Vintage Envelopes
Antarctica Shot With a Drone
Stockholm-based filmmaker Kalle Ljung shot this with a GoPro camera stuck on a DJI Phantom 2 drone.
This movie was shot during our 20 days trip to Antarctica in December 2014 to January 2015. We started from Ushuaia in Argentina and went to Port Williams in Chile, rounded Cape Horn and crossed the Drake Passage towards the Melchior Islands in Antarctica. We spent 16 days in the Antarctic and got to experience the most amazing scenery and wildlife before we returned back to Ushuaia.
Design Wish - Grilled Cheesus - Sandwich Press with a Jesus Face on It
There is so little that needs to be said about the Grilled Cheesus. It toasts the face of Jesus on your sandwich as you grill it. Can I get an Amen?
Get some heavenly blessings on your sandwich now »
The Genius of Bird Nests - Photos by Bianca Tuckwell
From the project page:
The Growth That Is Our Own Cradle enquires into the form and make up of a selection of British bird’s nests. Nine nests from different species of birds are carefully studied and documented in order to heighten our appreciation of each construction.
They are so delicate in design. A nest might have a thousand pieces to its make up. Each piece taken on a single trip. Not only that but the birds have to find each piece, and find a place for it in their nest. It’s like a builder building a house. Their construction: unbelievable that they never fall out and are so safe. Built for strength but also for comfort. Amazing really, that birds can make these homes like they do.
(Fred Mills, nest finder)
Giraffe Diving in "5M80"
I think all 3D animation films should be centered around giraffes diving like "5M80" by Nicolas Deveaux.
Girls Who Skate in Afghanistan
Photographer Jessica Fulford-Dobson has brought us this project, titled “Skate Girls of Kabul,” from a country where girls, forbidden from riding bikes, have turned to skating.
Happy Endings for Abandoned Plane Wrecks
German photographer Dietmar Eckell trekked to 15 remote plane wrecks (each crash was completely free of fatalities) for his project “Happy End” capturing these images of the fuselages anywhere from 10-70 years after the fact.
His indigogo project to turn this series into a glossy book are well underway.
Tiny Adventures in Stylish Foodscapes by William Kass
Very similar to Miniature Foodscapes by photographers Pierre Javelle and Akiko Ida, Brazilian artist William Kass has created these stylish foodscapes with tiny adventures in them — too fun to not share.
Photos of Gurung Honey Hunters in Nepal by Andrew Newey
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
Photograph by Geir Halvorsen
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.
See also The form of the Body and Sensual Silhouettes
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.
