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Cinema Photos by Franck Bohbot
Reflecting on the memories of the golden age of Hollywood, it gives the feeling that there is no such place like a movie theater to celebrate the birth of film from an artist. "The greatest emotion I have ever had in my life took place in the dark" and not in front of a smartphone or television. I have decided to spotlight the grandiose movie palaces to the independent movie houses. This is Cinema.
Open Air Hotel Room in the Alps
Located in the heart of the Swiss Alps, in Graubünden, the hotel Null Stern (Zero Stars in English) delivers for true nature lovers an unprecedented night under the stars. This "room" was imagined and created by hoteliers Frank and Patrick Riklin, without walls or ceiling for the sake of the panorama. It costs $245 a night, with a discount when bad weather arrives. It's worth noting the bathroom is a 10-minute walk.
Alice in Wonderland
A Korean Twist to Disney Fairytales
Korean illustrator Na Young Wu created this stylish take on Disney fairytales with a Korean twist. blog.naver.com
Snow White
Frozen
Beauty and the Beast
Princess and the Frog
Little Red Ridinghood
Little Mermaid
Animated Time Quilts by Qi Wei Fong
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.
See also Crazy Pink Lake Seen From Above
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.
