Cloud 9 is a floating bar in Fiji is the middle of the ocean near the Malolo Barrier Reef, about 40-50 minutes away from the main island. A bar and Italian wood fired pizza make Cloud 9 a uniquely glorious way to chill out in the South Pacific.
Zoo Fashion Photos
Barcelona based Yago Partal has this fun and funny photo manipulation series called Zoo Portraits.
What I Eat - People From Around the World With A Day's Worth of Food
Over the course of three years, photojournalist Peter Menzel and writer Faith D'Aluisio traveled from their California home to visit over 30 countries to capture people and what they eat in a single day. The book that they made of the project, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, features a fascinating array of people and diets.
Beverages under a Microscope
Each of these vibrant images is actual a drink, close up. This one to the right is a Piña Colada. Click on any of the above to see what drink it is.
Beautiful Photo Manipulations by nois7
With just a slight destabilizing nudge away from reality, the photo manipulations from Robert Jahns (nois7 as one of Instagram), are an uncanny and stunning imaginative beauty made visible.
Living Off the Grid in Europe by Antoine Bruy
Photographer Antoine Bruy’s ongoing series, “Scrublands,” grew up in urban France and began documenting the off-the-grid culture with his camera from Spain to Switzerland to Romania,
Bruy:
“Most of the farmers had been living in big cities and I really respect their decision to say, ‘This is not my thing and I can't live this way anymore.’ I think there are a lot of people thinking this way but few making the steps to change. I was interested in how they managed to live another way.”
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.
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
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.