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POTD - Elk at Tomales Bay by Tess Taylor
Elk at Tomales Bay
BY TESS TAYLOR
Nimble, preserved together,
milkweed-white rears upturned,
female tule elk
bowed into rustling foxtails.
Males muscled over the slopes,
jostling mantles, marking terrain.
Their antlers clambered wide,
steep as the gorges.
As they fed, those branches twitched,
sensory, delicate,
yet when one buck reared
squaring to look at us
his antlers and his gaze
held suddenly motionless.
Further out, the skeleton.
The tar paper it seemed to lie on
was hide.
Vertebrae like redwood stumps—
an uneven heart-shaped cavern
where a coccyx curled to its tip.
Ribs fanned open
hollow, emptied of organs.
In the bushes its skull.
Sockets and sinuses, mandible,
its few small teeth.
All bare now except
that fur the red-brown color
of a young boy’s head and also
of wild iris stalks in winter
still clung to the drying scalp.
Below the eye’s rim sagged
flat as a bicycle tire.
The form was sinking away.
The skin loosened, becoming other,
shedding the mask that hides
but must also reveal a creature.
Off amid cliffs and hills
some unfleshed force roamed free.
In the wind, I felt
the half-life I watched watch me.
Elk, I said, I see
you abandon this life, this earth—
I stood for a time with the bones.
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2 - Landscapes Achingly Beautiful in Timelapse
“It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.”
– Banana Yoshimoto
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3 - Melting Icebergs
The Last Iceberg: Photos by Camille Seaman
Melting Away includes photos taken in the arctic regions of Svalbard, Greenland, and Antarctica:
The Last Iceberg chronicles just a handful of the many thousands of icebergs that are currently headed to their end. I approach the images of icebergs as portraits of individuals, much like family photos of my ancestors. I seek a moment in their life in which they convey their unique personality, some connection to our own experience and a glimpse of their soul which endures.
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4 - Firefighter Helmet Cam
A year of video taken from a camera attached to the helmet of Highland Park, MI firefighter Scott Ziegler.
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POTD - "Winter Solitude" by Matsuo Basho
Winter solitude—
in a world of one color
the sound of wind.
—Matsuo Basho
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5 - Justice League Dollar Bills
Berlin-based artist, Aslan Malik’s turns the faces on our currency into members of the Justice League.
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1 - Nat Geo Photo Contest Winners
From over 22,000 entries in 150 countries this year, the winner of the 2012 National Geographic Photo Contest have been announced. Awesome. Get your desktop/iPad/iPhone wallpapers here.
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2 - Timelapse of Flowers Blooming
Over 7,100 photos, taken over the course of 730 captures the blooming of Amaryllis, Lilies, Zygocactus, Rose, Gladiolus, and Gardenia.
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POTD - The Panther by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Panther
His vision, from the constantly passing bars,
has grown so weary that it cannot hold
anything else. It seems to him there are
a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world.
As he paces in cramped circles, over and over,
the movement of his powerful soft strides
is like a ritual dance around a center
in which a mighty will stands paralyzed.
Only at times, the curtain of the pupils
lifts, quietly--. An image enters in,
rushes down through the tensed, arrested muscles,
plunges into the heart and is gone.
The steady eye of RIlke and his ability to bring the invisible just to the edge of visibility have always made him some one I always feel I can feast on.
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4 - Fireworks in Reverse
Simple idea, really, but wow, awesome.
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5 - Supercut of Passageways in Ozu's Films
We've featured kogonada's supercuts before: Kubrick's One Point Perspective and the Sounds of Aronovsky.
From kogonada:
"The films of Ozu are filled with people walking through alleys and hallways: the in-between spaces of modern life. This is where Ozu resides. In the transitory. It’s what he values as a filmmaker. Alleys are not an opportunity for suspense but for passage.
*Passageways is made up of Ozu’s final six films: Equinox Flower (Higanbana), Good Morning (Ohayo), Floating Weeds (Ukigusa), Late Autumn (Akibiyori), The End of Summer (Kohayagawa-ke no aki), and An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji)"
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5 most astounding Timelapses from 2012
In no particular order, here are the 5 most astounding timelapses we've featured.
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5 most amazing photo posts of 2012
In no particular order, the 5 most amazing photo posts of 2012.
Award-winning photographer Tim Flach brings a portraiture eye and intention to animal photos. Just amazing.
Russian photographer Andrew Osokin makes the normally invisible visible. There are so many more on his LensArt profile.
Tiltshift does this interesting thing where it both removes a lot of the distance between you and the subject and distorts it past recognition.
4. VIBRANT JELLYFISH PHOTOS
Russian biologist Alexander Semenov amazing images.
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5 Most Beautiful Posts of 2012
Not in any particular order, the 5 most beautiful posts we've made this year.
1. Van Gogh's Starry Sky Remade with Images from Hubble Telescope
Harvard PhD student Alex Parker use the top 100 images from the Hubble telescope and a mosaic-making program to make this stunning version of Van Gogh’s masterpiece.
2. The Form of the Body
On Body Forms: Photos by Klaus Kampert
Director and cinematographer Ron Ficke (Koyaanisqatsi, Baraka) has been hard at work on Samsara for 5 years. The entire film is shot in stunning 70mm. It is a film that relies completely on its visual impact and cinematographic juxtaposition, as there isn't any dialogue.
Beautifully shot short film on the letterpress.
5. Timelapse of Meteor Shower Over Joshua Tree
via The Atlantic Master Feed:
"In Ascendance, nature photographer Henry Jun Wah Lee documents the Perseid meteor shower at its peak in August, before a backdrop of Joshua Tree National Park and the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest. It's worth watching the video full screen to appreciate the crisp cinematography and magical details -- rainbows, stars, and more. "
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2 - Shanghai Timelapse in Black and White
Awesome looking timelapse exploration of one of the world's most vibrant cities.
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3 - Fun Color Matching Game
This beautiful and challenging color matching game is a great deal of fun.
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4 - Non-Photoshopped Photo Marvels of Li Wei
Beijing-based photographer and performance artist Li Wei creates these gravity-defying photographs with only the use of balance and invisible props. Mad props.
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5 - Best Surf Photos of 2012
From The Inertia.
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Surfing has such a place in our national imagination, and rightly so, if you ask me. It is addictive and simple. It is relaxing and exciting. It is showy and low-key.
With that in mind, we've asked our surfer-cum-writer friend, Ashton Goggans to pick 5 things to get anyone aspiring to a wet life.
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1 - Water Sculpture
Slow-speed video creates ephemeral water sculptures by Shinichi Maruyama, composited by Tetsushi Wakasugi.
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