50-year-old Brent Christensen, an artist from Alpine, Utah, makes these extraordinary ice buildings.
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Some gorgeous snow photos, plus a great one from the coast of Portugal. And I believe this Asmara is the very first photo I personally have ever seen from Eritrea.
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4 - Biking on the Crystal Ice of Lake Michigan
Photographer Aaron Peterson ice-biking off the Upper Peninsula…
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5 - A Day in India
Such beauty. And such importance — the observant eye. Good cameras help too.
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Happy to get a tweet from @AppStore
Prefer a robust, feature-rich #weather app? Check out @aol's SKYE Weather+Photo. tw.appstore.com/9j4
— App Store(@AppStore) January 29, 2013
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Special Collections at the library, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, via flickr/mystuart
POTD - Mowing by Robert Frost
Mowing
BY ROBERT FROST
There was never a sound beside the wood but one,
And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground.
What was it it whispered? I knew not well myself;
Perhaps it was something about the heat of the sun,
Something, perhaps, about the lack of sound—
And that was why it whispered and did not speak.
It was no dream of the gift of idle hours,
Or easy gold at the hand of fay or elf:
Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak
To the earnest love that laid the swale in rows,
Not without feeble-pointed spikes of flowers
(Pale orchises), and scared a bright green snake.
The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.
My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make.
Frost died 50 years ago today.
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QOTD - Li Po
“We sit together, the mountain and I, until only the mountain remains.”
― Li Po
1 - Hand-crafted Chaotically Organic Ceramics
From Irish sculptural ceramist Nuala O’Donovan:
"I have used the characteristics of irregular/fractal patterns in nature as a system of constraints or guidelines when making decisions about the forms: The patterns are regularly irregular. The patterns and form are self-similar. The pattern records a response to random events during the making process. The result of using the characteristics of fractal geometry in making decisions regarding the form of the sculptural pieces, is that the form is resolved but retains a sense of potential change. The viewer engages with the piece by allowing their own visual experiences to influence their view of the outcome of the form and its future possibilities. I hope that this aspect of my work also evokes the transitory quality of living organisms, combining traces of history, the present and the future, in the patterns that make up their surfaces and forms.
My decision to research patterns and forms from nature stemmed from my interest in the narrative quality of irregularities in patterns. The history behind a scarred or broken surface is what fascinates me. The evidence of a response to random events visible in patterns in nature, is testament to the ability of living organisms to recover, to respond, and to continue growing and changing. It is the imperfections in the patterns caused by a unique experience that are evidence of the life force in living organisms."
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2 - Bird Ballet
Waiting to catch a helicopter against a bright sunset, commercial filmmaker Neels Castillon and his DP Mathias Touzeris caught this achingly beautiful footage of starling murmation and set it to Hand-Made by Alt-J.
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Badung, Indonesia
Islamabad
Doha, Qatar
Beijing, PRC
Tokyo, Japan
Wanted to feature some of the great stuff that people are putting up all around the world on the SKYE Weather+Photo app.
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3 - Award Winning Short: Voiceover
Award-winning... damn straight. Moving, fun, lovely.
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QOTD - Annie Dillard
4 - Lots of Inspiring Images from 2012
Images have such power to amaze and inspire. Here are a lot that reached some degree of impact this last year.
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5 - CRAZY PINK LAKE SEEN FROM ABOVE
Sent out to shoot some pretty photos for the walls of a hotel in Perth, photographer Steve Back chartered a small plane to look around for something. While up there he took a look at the Hutt Lagoon, a body of water on the Western Australia that through a quirk of nature is pink. Really pink.
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APP of the Day - Vine
The makers of Twitter have release VIne. You get 6 seconds of video (and sound) to tell a bite sized story. A lot of the ethos of twitter, in video.
So slick and easy UI helps make this a fun little app. It will be interesting to see how well it lets me express and experience the things I want to express and experience.
You can find me through my twitter @rtsnance
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QOTD - Nabokov
“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”
― Vladimir Nabokov
1 - Coffee Stirrers Woven into Organic Forms
Jonathan Brilliant (what a name) is a British installation artist who weaves coffee sticks by the hundred into flowing sculptures showing only their own inner logic.
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2 - Baseball Jerseys Transported to a Soccer Universe
Designer M. Willis needed something to do. He decided as an exercise to test his design chops and indulge his love of soccer. "Soccer Out of Context - a look at how other identities and brand properties would appear in the soccer / fútbol aesthetic, instead of their own. "
His Rules:
- I’m not reinventing club histories, or pretending clubs were soccer teams all along, just translating their brands to the soccer “universe”.
- I’m not changing logos, colors or visual properties - just trying to play within existing boundaries.
- Today I’m using soccer kits - jersey shirts only, really, as this was a quick exercise - as the visual output. One per team, too - no away designs this time.
- Where I can, I’m making guesses about the identities to fill in blank spots that don’t map easily over to soccer.
- I’m trying to have fun, and I don’t take this seriously as anything more than palate-cleansing design exercise.
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3 - Frozen In The Water that Put Out The Fire
An abandoned warehouse in flames, it took nearly 200 firefighters to battle the blaze. So cold that water sprayed on the building froze almost instantly.
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QOTD - Andy Warhol
“The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.”
– Andy Warhol