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.

Eerily Beautiful Monkey Portraits by Hiroshi Watanabe

From US-based photographer Hiroshi Watanabe's exhibit titled Suo Sarumawashi.

via The Fox Is Black

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! 

Two new not-cool t-shirt designs

“can I say neither is that cool? conceptually yes, but from a design point of view; neither”

— Jeff Doan (https://twitter.com/jefffis)

Over on 5 things Stuff, we have two new t-shirt designs. Both are aimed at web and user experience designers. Check them out and the other designs.

Get it here for $19.99

Get it here for $19.99

Mesmerizing Self-Drawing Sand Drawing Machine

The Sisyphus Machine uses moving magnets under the sand tray to roll the steel balls, etching out these Zen-inspired patterns. Created by Bruce Shapiro, a former physician who has working on computerized motion as an artist for the last 25 years.

Smooth Handed Hand-Lettering Master Glen Weisgerber

Master pinstriper Glen Weisgerber demonstrates the roundhand lettering technique. Weisgerber teaches pinstriping and lettering at the Airbrush Getaway Workshops. http://www.airbrushaction.com/airbrush-getaway-workshops

Glen Weisgerber taught himself how to pinstripe in the early 1970s painting: truck lettering, race cars, logo designs, guitars and bike customizations.

Airbrush Action Magazine captured him demonstrating a bunch of different hand lettering techniques including single stroke lettering, and chrome lettering. 

via Colossal

Rock Climbing Light Painting With Long Exposure and Glow Sticks

The set is a lot like the Glowstick Trails in NightWaterfalls we saw a couple of days ago. ​

 

via PetaPixel

Stunning Paper Birds from Diana Beltrán Herrera

Colombian artist, Diana Beltran Herrera makes these bright and beautiful birds out of paper. Her work is exhibited around the world.  

See also Unbelievable Papercraft Birds

via Flickr

Cloudboarding is like snowboarding but in the clouds

All those fantasies you get looking out plane windows.... yeah!

And check out the behind the scenes

Paper Cutouts from Great Masters Having Great Times by Lorenzo Castellini

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. 

Salgado behind the camera

The Stunningly Beautiful Photojournalism of Sebastião Salgado

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

Hayan Charara

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.

POTD - Rock and Hawk by Robinson Jeffers

Rock and Hawk

Robinson Jeffers

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.

"Black Hole" is a series of images, which shows paint modeled by the centripetal force. The setup is very simple: Various shades of acrylic paint are dripped onto a metallic rod, which is connected to a drill. When switched on, the paint starts to move away from the rod, creating these amazing looking structures. 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.

via PetaPixel

---

More Photography

Blog

Winning Photos from National Geographic's 2017 Travel Photographer of the Year

about 7 years ago

The Face of the Sun in Timelapse

about 8 years ago

Salt Bride — After 2 Years in the Sea this Bridal Dress is Coated with Salt Crystals

about 8 years ago

Refugees With Their Most Valuable Possession

about 9 years ago

NSFW - Gorgeous 'Calligraphy on Girls' from Molotow Markers - Four Years of 5 Things

about 10 years ago

Poem of the Day

Blog

POTD - For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry by Christopher Smart

about 6 years ago

POTD - Dire Wolf by Lucie Brock Broido

about 7 years ago

Get 5 things in your Inbox

Our system has encountered an error. This exception has been automatically logged and reported. EMHEH34DKDH8E23RWJ9M

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.

via Feel Desain

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.

40 years old; 5 feet, 8 inches tall; and 165 pounds, Camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah  outside Cairo, Egypt. 3200 calories.

Curtis Newcomer, a U.S. Army soldier, at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in California's Mojave Desert. 4,000 calories. 20 years old; 6 feet, 5 inches tall; and 195 pounds. 

Chen Zhen from Shanghai, China. 2,600 calories. 20 years old, 5-feet-5-inches tall, 106 pounds.

Robina Weiser-Linnartz from Cologne, Germany. 3,700 calories. 28 years old, 5-feet-6-inches tall, 144 pounds.

Oscar Higares, a professional bullfighter in Miraflores De La Sierra, Spain.

Farmer and mother Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo in Tingo in central Andes, Ecuador. 3,800 calories. 37 years old, 5-feet-3-inches tall, 119 pounds.

Nguyên Van Thuan, a war veteran, with his wife.

Truck driver Conrad Tolby. 5,400 calories. 54 years old, 6-feet-2-inches tall, 260 pounds.

Widow Lan Guihua from Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. 1,900 calories. 68 years old, 5-feet-3-inches tall, 121 pounds.

Beverages under a Microscope

View fullsize

Piña Colada

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. ​

via Lost At E Minor

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.”