We've seen Time Quilted Photos from Fong Qi Wei before, where a series of photos show changes in light across time in a single image. Here, the quilts are animated.
Gorgeous Overhead Shots by Julieanne Kost of Salt Evaporation Ponds in the Great Salt Lake
Julieanne Kost is able in this set of turning something as unbeautiful as evaporation ponds into images that evoke Rothko's considered color fields.
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Le Mouvement de L'air - Dance Production by Claire Bardainne and Adrien Mondot
"The performance matches seemingly impossible visions: images look alive while bodies fly, defying gravity. The acrobatic and digital choreography outlines a body language that involves a new relationship to time, space and the whole world. Beyond looking for technical achievement, what matters is the attempt at creating a motion dreamscape by way of images."
A Panoramic Photo Stretching 6,000 miles from Russia to South Africa
6,000 miles in length and 120 miles wide, this panorama stretches from East Russia to Northern South Africa. NASA calls this work of art ‘The Long Swath’, and it comes in at 19.06 gigapixels.
The full 15 min version, if you have the time, is worth it. The continuous shot shows direct and immediate comparisons and changes on the earth's surface.
You can view the full interactive version on Gigapan, watch the tour video, view the entire panorama in 15 minutes, or load it up on Google Earth.
Celestial Size Chart
This is a crisp and clear star size chart to help me understand my place in the universe.
Kite Fights from the Rooftops of Rio de Janeiro
With handmade kites, and waxed kite strings coated in ground glass, these kids (and adults) compete with their neighbors to see who can cut whose string first.
Lovely little documentary from the NYTimes
Million flamingos
At the right time, Kenya's Great Rift Valley is a riot of flamingo pink.
Read MoreRio de Janeiro and Iguazú Falls in Time-Lapse
Joe Capra of Scientifantastic is a Los Angeles-based time-lapse cinematographer, filmmaker and photographer made this vibrant and beautiful video of Rio and Iguazú Falls.
Photo of the Day — The Milky Way Reflected in Bolivia's Salt Flats by Daniel Kordan
Daniel Kordan captured this amazing shot on the world's largest salt flat in Boliva Using long-exposures.
“There are not so many places in the world where you can enjoy absolute dark sky,” Kordan told My Modern Met. “Light pollution is in the cities and even small villages.”
Dreamwalking Barcelona - Gorgeous Backwards Time Run Forward
This run-backwards beautiful, dreamlike, journey takes us through Barcelona during the Feast of St. Joan and includes fireworks and dancing and gigantic bubbles all ticking backwards in time.
I was fortunate enough to meet Brandon Li a few years back, and have been following his travels and work ever since. We loved his focus on the docks of Dubai in The Shipping Yard.
Check out his blog about shooting well with minimal gear: rungunshoot.com
Design Wish — Blue Yeti Desktop Microphone
Said to be one of the best desktop mics for podcasting the Blue Yeti USB mic looks pretty good.
Episode 2 of Word Machine — Komunyakaa & Glück
The second episode of WORD MACHINE puts together two Pulitzer-Prize winners, Yusef Komunyakaa and Louise Glück. Each poem addresses a specific person in the audience, under wholly different circumstances.
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Beautiful Dance Photograhy
From Pickled Thoughts this series of dance photography that I find just beautiful, bright and stylish.
The Big Canyon and the Grand Apple
Michelle Obama in Carpool Karaoke
The song "This Is for My Girls" benefits Let Girls Learn, an initiative launched last year by the first lady and President Barack Obama to address the barriers that keep more than 62 million girls around the world out of school.
Terrão de Cima - Photos of Soccer Pitches in the Sao Paulo Slums by Renato Stockler
From Renato Stockler:
A “terrao" is an oasis in the urban landscape. The reddish tone of a soccer field turns into a stage for the resistance of popular soccer. These fields are increasingly rare to see because of property speculation and land occupation. Some of them have their own football clubs, while others are public spots. Some of them are mainly dirt, while others are of sand and weathered grass. But they are a breath for the hard daily life of those who live in the outskirts of Sao Paulo. These fields show the urgency for public and communal places to practice sports, a portrait of those who fight for leisure in a city as Sao Paulo. Colored and powerful in the face of the greyish scenario, these fields are a solid basis of soccer’s spirit in Brasil. It’s not hard to find friends, relatives, adults and children cheering together for their local teams. Even through social and political difficulties, a “terrao" shows us the real soccer, far away from a society mediated by powerful media groups. The rawness of a “terrao"can't be fitted as a media spectacle.
Tires Recycled into Sinister and Sinewy Sculptures
Korean artist Yong Ho Ji takes recycled tires and turns them into these sculptures built on cast-iron frames.
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Unbelievable Papercraft Birds
Netherlands-based artist Johan Scherft discovered papercrafting at 14 quite by accident when he started making hand-colored paper bird models. "It appealed to me because it combines so many different techniques like working in three dimensions combined with drawing and painting."
"Of course, it is impossible to capture every curve of the bird's body in paper, compromises have to be made, or the model would have too many gluing tabs, making it too difficult to make. A lot of the realism is suggested with the paintwork. For this part, I take the most time. With very fine brushes, I try to achieve the most realistic effect in color and detail. I use watercolors or gouache paint. It's always an exciting moment once the template has been painted to assemble the bird and see what the result is."
A Monument of Light - Turning a Gigantic Gas Tank into 320° LICHT | SPATIAL EXPERIENCE
This gorgeous reuse of an industrial gas tank as a canvas for a light project show called 320° LICHT | SPATIAL EXPERIENCE melds the spatial and the virtual to amazing effect.
From the project page:
"The ‘320° Licht’ installation of URBANSCREEN uses the cathedral-like beauty of the Gasometer Oberhausen as the starting point for a fascinating game with shapes and light.
Within a radius of 320 degrees graphic patterns grow and change on the 100-metre high inside wall of the Gasometer.
The observer experiences the interplay between real and virtual space, in which the Gasometer seems to dissolve into its own, filigree structures and yet finally always reverts to its clear shape. ’320° Licht’ is achieved with kind project support from Epson Germany.
With approx. 20,000 square meters of area played upon, the installation is among the world’s largest and technically most sophisticated interior projections - interconnecting 21 powerful projectors to one projection screen."
The Soothing Art of Rock Balancing
The Boulder Colorado artist Michael Grab works through mental and physical noise to reach a balanced and still place:
“The most fundamental element of balancing in a physical sense is finding some kind of ‘tripod’ for the rock to stand on. Every rock is covered in a variety of tiny to large indentations that can act as a tripod for the rock to stand upright, or in most orientations you can think of with other rocks. By paying close attention to the feeling of the rocks, you will start to feel even the smallest clicks as the notches of the rocks in contact are moving over one another. In the finer point balances, these clicks can be felt on a scale smaller than millimeters. Some point balances will give the illusion of weightlessness as the rocks look to be barely touching.
Parallel to the physical element of finding tripods, the most fundamental non-physical element is harder to explain through words. In a nutshell, i am referring to meditation, or finding a zero point or silence within yourself. Some balances can apply significant pressure on your mind and your patience. The challenge is overcoming any doubt that may arise. “Try not, there is no try…only DO.” – Yoda (Star Wars)”
Visit his website www.gravityglue.com