Reminds me a lot of the animals made of shattered CDs (to the right), that we covered last year, only much sharper.
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POTD - How the Pope is Chosen by James Tate
How the Pope is Chosen
By James Tate
Any poodle under ten inches high is a toy.
Almost always a toy is an imitation
of something grown-ups use.
Popes with unclipped hair are called “corded popes.”
If a Pope’s hair is allowed to grow unchecked,
it becomes extremely long and twists
into long strands that look like ropes.
When it is shorter it is tightly curled.
Popes are very intelligent.
There are three different sizes.
The largest are called standard Popes.
The medium-sized ones are called miniature Popes.
I could go on like this, I could say:
“He is a squarely built Pope, neat,
well-proportioned, with an alert stance
and an expression of bright curiosity,”
but I won’t. After a poodle dies
all the cardinals flock to the nearest 7-Eleven.
They drink Slurpies until one of them throws up
and then he’s the new Pope.
He is then fully armed and rides through the wilderness alone,
day and night in all kinds of weather.
The new Pope chooses the name he will use as Pope,
like “Wild Bill” or “Buffalo Bill.”
He wears red shoes with a cross embroidered on the front.
Most Popes are called “Babe” because
growing up to become a Pope is a lot of fun.
All the time their bodies are becoming bigger and stranger,
but sometimes things happen to make them unhappy.
They have to go to the bathroom by themselves,
and they spend almost all of their time sleeping.
Parents seem incapable of helping their little popes grow up.
Fathers tell them over and over again not to lean out of windows,
but the sky is full of them.
It looks as if they are just taking it easy,
but they are learning something else.
What, we don’t know, because we are not like them.
We can’t even dress like them.
We are like red bugs or mites compared to them.
We think we are having a good time cutting cartoons out of the paper,
but really we are eating crumbs out of their hands.
We are tiny germs that cannot be seen under microscopes.
When a Pope is ready to come into the world,
we try to sing a song, but the words do not fit the music too well.
Some of the full-bodied popes are a million times bigger than us.
They open their mouths at regular intervals.
They are continually grinding up pieces of the cross
and spitting them out. Black flies cling to their lips.
Once they are elected they are given a bowl of cream
and a puppy clip. Eyebrows are a protection
when the Pope must plunge through dense underbrush
in search of a sheep.
One of the most prodigious and wryest voices writing in American poetry, Tate has a tone that challenges and invigorates.
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SKYE Photos of the Day - NEMO
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The snow keeps on coming.
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Winter storm NEMO has been dumping snow on the upper midwest and New England and is looking to drop even more before moving offshore.
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1 - Monolation: Hyperlapse Extraordinaire
In 2012, director and photographer Jess Dunlap capture over 17k photos in such gorgeous spots as Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, Convict Lake, June Lake, Mono Lake, Simi Valley, and Owens Valley to create this 4-minute time-lapse video titled Monolation.
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2 - Macro Photographs of Starfish Details
Semenov says about his underwater photography:
When I first began to experiment with sea life photography I tried shooting small invertebrates for fun with my own old DSLR camera and without any professional lights or lenses. I collected the invertebrates under water and then I’ve shot them in the lab. After two or three months of failure after failure I ended up with a few good pictures, which I’ve showed to the crew. It has inspired us to buy a semi-professional camera complete with underwater housing and strobes. Thus I’ve spent the following field season trying to shoot the same creatures, but this time in their environment. It was much more difficult, and I spent another two months without any significant results. But when you’re working at something every day, you inevitably get a lot of experience. Eventually I began to get interesting photos — one or two from each dive. Now after four years of practice I get a few good shots almost every time I dive but I still have a lot of things that need to be mastered in underwater photography.
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Phuket, Nashville, Trondheim Norway, Ft. Lauderdale and Manhattan Beach, CA.
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3 - Time Dance
Amazing short film titled "Choros":
A chorus of women are borne from the movements of a single dancer in this dreamlike "pas de trente-deux."
"Choros" premiered at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in 2012 and has gone on to play dozens of festivals worldwide. The film is currently broadcast in Europe by Canal+.
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The Grand Canyon, The Dominican Republic, snowy lanes of Indiana, Guatemala City and Taipei 101 shrouded in mist.
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4 - Mountains in Motion
From Doug Urquhart and Paul Zizka, makers of the short film “Mountains in Motion”:
"Hours and even months of change lapses in a matter of seconds, providing the viewer with a rare insight into the ever-changing nature of the landscape. Weaving throughout the film are reflections of an early mountaineer, who is deeply moved by his own encounter with the mountains and the revelations of explorers who have come before him. “What is this power that lures me upwards, into the unknown,” he wonders, “that pulls me deeper, despite snow, wind and exhaustion?”
Made on a shoestring budget and with entirely volunteer hours, the film brought together artists from two vastly different parts of North America – Banff, Alberta, and Atlanta, Georgia. Strangers at the start, the film team developed strong friendships over the course of production and were united by their common goal of capturing the beauty and essence of a place that inspires them every day.
This 100% human-powered film combines advanced time-lapse photography with an original story and musical score to bring the landscape center-stage and offers a thrilling new perspective that re-establishes the Canadian Rockies among the finest mountains in the world."
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APP of the Day - Dcovery
Travel is a space that a lot of apps (and sites before them) have tried to find dominance in. Perhaps the search for the one app to rule them all (much like the platonic spaghetti sauce) is never quite in line with the many different modes and moods of the many different travels and travelers.
Dcover ($3.99 in the AppStore) seems to aim to be the tool for thoughtful travelers, eschewing the "expert picks" of so many travel solutions for the "research organizer", allowing for people who indulge in the fun of planning/imagining their trips to capture and use their research while actually on the trip.
This description makes the app and it's feel sound so bloodless, but in fact, the polished and pretty interface exude a lot of the feelings we hope to feel while traveling (composure, gorgeous and smart).
Clipping sites and articles that you discover in a way that system smarts to connect them to location and date means there is less fumbling through the guide book, less organizing effort needed by the user.
I am excited to put it to use on my next international trip. I'll share lots of pics, I promise.
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Alaska, Peru, Hawaii, Mammoth, CA and the plains of Texas.
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5 - The Star Filled Dark Skies of Namibia
Getting to a place with clear, dark skies can pay off with some of the richest, most nuanced views of the starfields. Namibia, apparently, is one of those places.
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1 - Geometrical Stones
Jointed basalt columns, unusual columns predominantly hexagonal in cross-section, but polygons with three to twelve or more sides can be found from inches to meter in diameter.
Litlanesfoss, Iceland
Sea Cave on the Akun Island, Alaska, USA
Ghenh Da Dia
Takachiho Gorge, Japan
Takachiho Gorge, Japan
Los Organos, Canary Islands, Spain
Jusangjeolli Cliffs, South Korea
Garni Gorge, Armenia
Fingal's Cave, UK
Giant's Causeway, N. Ireland
Prismas Basálticos, Mexico
Kirkjugólf, Iceland
Svartifoss, Iceland
Hexagon Pool, Israel
Cape Stolbchaty, Russia
So much great details over at The World Geography.
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2 - Colored Powder Photos
Photographer Philippe Echaroux completed a photo shoot for a series he calls, “The Pigment Party”.
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3 - SEED - Stop-motion Film
SEED. An amazing stop-motion short by Ben Richardson & Daniel Bird.
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4 - Tornados in Timelapse
Amateur storm chaser and videographer Skip Talbot explains:
The video was shot at 30 fps, and then sped up four times. When it’s sped up, four frames are blended into one. This 4x video was sped up another four times, the frames blended again. The result is very smooth. The trick is starting with video that’s been shot with exposure times close to the length of time between frames. I get this automatically using a camcorder. A still time-lapse with large time gaps between frames would require filters to extend exposure time and eliminate stutter
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5 - Birds Up Close
From photographer Tamara Kenneally:
"The beauty of animals captivates me.
Their truth, instinct and innocence grounds me.
All I ever wanted to do was to be surrounded by animals, they tell you exactly who they are through their eyes and their behaviour.
Humans create so much pain for so many animals and without a voice they can’t tell their stories. I try to speak for them through my images.
I produce bodies of work which look at animal issues whilst also portraying the beauty of the animal.
I like to represent my subjects as the individual souls and personalities they are.
All animals are worthy of a happy, enriched life. All of them. The dog chained up in the backyard. The chicken at the factory farm. The bird in the cage. The tiger at the zoo. The pig in the sow stall. All of them."
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Taiwan
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People are amazing. Look at these amazing photos from all over that people are putting up. And once the SKYE app has ways to STAR and Comment on photos, I am gonna tell them all how amazing they are. The guy getting out of the ice water, for example, is in the Russian military and has put up some great, personable and fun photos... I want to tell him I think he is great.
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QOTD - Virginia Woolf
“The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
– Virginia Woolf