Brazilian artist, Lorenzo Castellini, on his instagram account, Art.Lies, presents these witty collages bringing photography and paper cutouts from great works of art.
Salt of the Earth - A film about Photographer Sebastião Salgado by Wim Wenders
An unparalleled interest in and empathy for the people of the world marks the work of photographer Sebastião Salgado. Here is the trailer for the forthcoming documentary covering his life and work by the great filmmaker Wim Wenders.
Check out the link below for more of Salgado's work.
POTD - Elegy with Apples, Pomegranates, Bees, Butterflies, Thorn Bushes, Oak, Pine, Warblers, Crows, Ants, and Worms by Hayan Charara
Elegy with Apples, Pomegranates, Bees, Butterflies, Thorn Bushes, Oak, Pine, Warblers, Crows, Ants, and Worms
The trees alongside the fence
bear fruit, the limbs and leaves speeches
to you and me. They promise to give the world
back to itself. The apple apologizes
for those whose hearts bear too much zest
for heaven, the pomegranate
for the change that did not come
soon enough. Every seed is a heart, every heart
a minefield, and the bees and butterflies
swarm the flowers on its grave.
The thorn bushes instruct us
to tell our sons and daughters
who carry sticks and stones
to mend their ways.
The oak tree says to eat
only fruits and vegetables;
the pine says to eat all the stirring things.
My neighbor left long ago and did not hear
any of this. In a big country
the leader warns the leader of a small country
there must be change or else.
Birds are the same way, coming and going,
wobbling thin branches.
The warblers express pain, the crows regret,
or is it the other way around?
The mantra today is the same as yesterday.
We must become different.
The plants must, the animals,
and the ants and worms, just like the carmakers,
the soap makers before them,
and the manufacturers of rubber
and the sellers of tea, tobacco, and salt.
Such an ancient habit, making ourselves new.
My neighbor looks like my mother
who left a long time ago
and did not hear any of this.
Just for a minute, give her back to me,
before she died, kneeling
in the dirt under the sun, calling me darling
in Arabic, which no one has since.
Intensely Vivid Photographs Iran’s Mosques By Mohammad Domiri
Mohammad Domiri, a remarkably talented Iranian photographer, has amassed this startlingly gorgeous portfolio of the interiors of Middle Eastern mosques.
POTD - Rock and Hawk by Robinson Jeffers
Rock and Hawk
Here is a symbol in which
Many high tragic thoughts
Watch their own eyes.
This gray rock, standing tall
On the headland, where the seawind
Lets no tree grow,
Earthquake-proved, and signatured
By ages of storms: on its peak
A falcon has perched.
I think, here is your emblem
To hang in the future sky;
Not the cross, not the hive,
But this; bright power, dark peace;
Fierce consciousness joined with final
Disinterestedness;
Life with calm death; the falcon’s
Realist eyes and act
Married to the massive
Mysticism of stone,
Which failure cannot cast down
Nor success make proud.
Colorful Centrifuge Photos from Fabian Oefner
Swiss photographer Fabian Oefner writes:
The motion of the paint happens in a blink of an eye, the images you see are taken only millisecond after the drill was turned on. To capture the moment, where the paint forms that distinctive shape, I connected a sensor to the drill, which sends an impulse to the flashes. These specialized units are capable of creating flashes as short as a 1/40000 of a second, freezing the motion of the paint.
More Photography
Poem of the Day
Get 5 things in your Inbox
Mid-Ocean Floating Bar in Fiji
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.
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.