The book ‘Waska Tatay’ from French photographer Thomas Rousset and graphic designer Raphaël Verona is a trippy collection of the doctors, spiritual healers and medicine men they encountered on their travels in Bolivia.
Animal Eyes up Close
Suren Manvelyan has made this outstanding photo series of the close up of Animal Eyes. Creepy, beautiful, amazing.
Drone Catches Whales Visiting a Standup Paddleboarder
Jaimen Hudson became quadriplegic after a motorcycle accident, but can control his drone with his thumbs and shoulder movements and here captures his friend Dave Price paddleboarding with whales off the west coast of Australia.
“It just so happened that he was out at the time, and a few people let me know there were whales on the beach and it all just went from there,” Hudson said in an online interview. “They were really curious and came over to meet [Dave]… Just very inquisitive about him, I don’t think it was really that dangerous at all.”
The { } and — Questions Between an Engaged Couple
“The And” project is an interactive documentary series that films couples and ex-couples having difficult conversations. The project is a collaboration between marketing agency Noise, The Skin Deep and director, Topaz Adizes.
Check out some other couples below or head over to The { } And project.
Atomic Ruin: Gorgeous Hyperlapse of The Abandoned Satsop Nuclear Power Station
Andrew Walker and friends recently had something of an experience – a visit to a Satsop nuclear power station in Western Washington, a place abandoned before it was even completed.
Finding Music in The Patterns of Cars on the Freeway
Brazilian multimedia artist Jarbas Agnelli experiments with musical phrases determined by cars crossing a lamp post on a New York freeway small loops of footage.
Historical Correction – Photos by Maxine Helfman of Black People in Historically Flemish Costumes
In her photo series, "Historical Corrections," Maxine Helfman tweaks the way we think of the Old Dutch Masters by placing black models in the dress of high society 17th century Flanders. The new narratives contrast with and highlight so much of the frame of reference for history and race in the West.
Refugees With Their Most Valuable Possession
What would you grab, if you were ever forced to flee your house and home?
NYC-based photographer Brian Sokol's project titled “The Most Important Thing,” is supported by the UN Refugee Agency.
Similar to "Toy Stories" by Gabriel Galimberti that we featured last week, Sokol's photos aren't just of refugees, but of people. Unmistakably human.
Follow Sokol's project on its Flickr page, visit his website or follow him on his instagram.All photos and text are courtesy of Brian Sokol.
More Photography Projects
Read My Poem - Brothers at Lakeside
For a long time I have known that my poems lie there, inert things, until a reader comes along and breathes life into them.
As the first in my Read My Poem series, I invited some people to record themselves reading the text for a poem called "Brothers at Lakeside" the way they would read it, and present here there voices.
You can scroll down to listen to all the recordings. Or you can check out the three soundcloud playlists:
We Burn
Brothers at Lakeside
The Salience of Sunset
Brothers at Lakeside
And after pulling through the dark green trough
of the mountain road, a dim carpark behind
a bar. The lake below. The blackened face
is smooth enough for us to see the stars.
But one of us prefers the girls who lift
heavy glasses of beer again, again
to touch their mouths with a galaxy of foam,
and the other one prefers the girls themselves.
If movement were a form of grace, the lake
a kind of pillow, not to find tonight
a darker bar, a further station, would
the moon that is and is not the sun still rise
above the hills directly across the lake
from us? Its watery twin so much requires
our diving in. A bat twivers from tree
to tree and says Go in, below is where
the action is. The moon that is and is not.
Hear All The Recordings (Soundcloud Playlist »)
Read My Poem — We Burn
As the second in my Read My Poem series, I invited some people to record themselves reading the text for a poem called "We Burn" the way they would read it, and present here their voices.
You can scroll down to listen to all the recordings. Or you can check out the three soundcloud playlists:
We Burn
Brothers at Lakeside
The Salience of Sunset
We Burn
There are bowls on our
windowsills. Bowls of clear
broth, never boiled or broken—
insoluble domes of oil, a whole
carcass in the pot, slices of
unpeeled ginger, a lemon maybe—
some moments we want to
unzip our hot stomachs onto the
subway floor, or tumble.
hands outstretched, for the third
rail which will allow us to regain
light speed—
steam lifts off the surface of
the broth. Deep in the bowl,
the heat is churning the liquid
invisibly, fields of oil coil and
separate. The spoon is coated
with it, lively and bright
going in, coated like plasma
coming out.
Magical Blue Belgian Forest
Every spring, Hallebros, or Bois de Hal (Halle Forest in Dutch), not far from Brussels in Belgium is overrun with these carpets of blue bell blossoms.
Design Wish — Aluminum Work Stool
From the industrial casters with steel bearings to the smooth cam action, this TRINITY Aluminum Work Stool is a thing of beauty and I am looking forward to adding it to my design workspace.
Abandoned Soviet Buildings - Photos by Rebecca Litchfield
London photographer, Rebecca Litchfield, has a nearly obsessive love for abandoned buildings, especially those left in ruins. "Soviet Ghosts" is her series focused on the empty shells left by the USSR in Russia, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary and the Czech Republic.
Lifesized Nude Candy Sculptures by Joseph Marr
Artist Joseph Marr has created this series of preserved sugar sculptures called Laura, each one flavored with cherry, apple, Fanta, or licorice.
Marr says:
"Any desire at all is the reason why our soul is trapped in the karmic lessons of our Ego. Sexual desire is the most accessible concept for people in general to understand 'desire.' Candy is a wonderful medium to show two things...how we are trapped in the sticky situation and how attractive the tasty desire really is."
After developing his skills with painting and video, Marr began exploring unusual mediums like food. Many of his works include liquids like cola as well as flavorings like apple, lemon, and raspberry. The series here includes four versions of Laura, each one flavored with cherry, apple, Fanta, or licorice.
POTD — Mindful by Mary Oliver
Mindful
by Mary Oliver
Every Day
I see or hear
something
that more or less
kills me
with delight,
that leaves me
like a needle
in the haystack
of light.
It is what I was born for—
to look, to listen,
to lose myself
inside this soft world—
to instruct myself
over and over
in joy,
and acclamation.
Nor am I talking
about the exceptional,
the fearful, the dreadful,
the very extravagant—
but of the ordinary,
the common, the very drab
the daily presentations.
Oh, good scholar,
I say to myself,
how can you help
but grow wise
with such teachings
as these—
the untrimmable light
of the world,
the ocean's shine,
the prayers that are made
out of grass?
Terra Flama — Long Exposure Photos of California Wildfires by Stuart Palley
Los Angeles-based photographer Stuart Palley in his series Terra Flamma has be capturing the last few years of California wildfires.
Included in this set are fires in Yosemite, San Bernardino National Forest, Etiwanda and Shirley Lake.
Enormous Wildebeest Migration
Travel to Kenya’s Maasai Mara game reserve during August or September
Ferrofluid Clock — Analog Digital
From the project page:
"Ferrolic was designed from a strong fascination for the magical material Ferro Fluid. The natural dynamics of this fluid makes that this display bridges the gap between everyday digital screens and tangible reality."