Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Eerily Beautiful Photos of Underground Stations by Robert Götzfried
Robert Götzfried is becoming a favorite of ours. First we saw his stadiums, then his gorgeous swimming pools. Here there are some beautiful empty metro stations.
Startlingly Beautiful Spanish Skies
El Teide, Spain’s highest mountain (3,718 metres) is the location for this gorgeous timelapse.
Norwegian photographer, Mr TSO:
‘The goal was to capture the beautiful Milky Way galaxy along with one of the most amazing mountains I know El Teide. I have to say this was one of the most exhausting trips I have done. There was a lot of hiking at high altitudes and probably less than 10 hours of sleep in total for the whole week. Having been here 10-11 times before I had a long list of must-see locations I wanted to capture for this movie, but I am still not 100% used to carrying around so much gear required for time-lapse movies’.
LA Timelapse Set to the Opening Score of "Heat"
That first sequence in the movie Heat has always has such an LA feel too me, and so this timelapse of LA, set to the score of the opening sequence seems right and moving.
Classic Paintings Meet Snapchat
I don't know who created these, but maybe it was "the internet."
Airplane Light Trails in Gorgeous Time-lapse from Singapore
Photographer Milton Tan:
“Living about a 10-minute drive away from the airport, the streaks of light were none other than airplanes flying to and from the airport,. Then it struck me — to do a whole time-lapse short film dedicated to airplanes flying at night.”
Art Remade with Recycled Objects by Jane Perkins
UK-based artist Jane Perkins uses a whole host of objects to reconstruct work from impressionist artist and famous portraits.
Vibrant Burning Man Photos from Trey Ratcliff
Burning Man is one of those things that seems to capture the imagination. Over the years, Trey Ratcliff has captured some really vibrant and imaginative images of the event.
Here are some of my favorites from his enormous collection.
Soviet Era Buildings Mouldering Quietly
The years between now and 1989 (when the Soviet Union started its disintergration) are the same as between 1989 and 1964. Twenty-five years.
English photographer Rebecca Litchfield spent over twenty of those 25 years sneaking around Russia snapping pictures, sometimes at the peril of her safety and freedom.
Litchfield:
“Not many explorers travel to Russia, where the rules are very different, locations are heavily guarded and a strong military presence exists everywhere. There are serious consequences for getting caught. We managed to stay hidden for all of the trip, we maximised our stealthiness, ducking and diving into bushes and sneaking past sleeping security. But on day three our good fortune ran out as we visited a top secret radar installation. After walking through the forest, mosquitos attacking us from all directions, we saw the radar and made our way towards it, but just metres away suddenly we were joined by military and they weren’t happy…”
The whole project is presented in her new book, Soviet Ghosts.
Light-Based Rube Goldberg Machine
auひかり (au Hikari) is a high-speed optical internet service in Japan, and this super slick and clever ad uses light and lenses to power a Rube Goldberg. Super fun.
Fantastic Interactive Seasonal Produce Guide from the LA Times
Focused on the produce and seasons of Southern California, the LA TIMES Seasonal Produce Guide should month by month the fruit and vegetables to find and the farmer's markets to find them in and the recipes to cook them in.
Short Video of Nan Goldin on Photographing Children
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POTD - Book of Isaiah, Part I by Anne Carson
Book of Isaiah, Part I
BY ANNE CARSON
I.
Isaiah awoke angry.
Lapping at Isaiah’s ears black birdsong no it was anger.
God had filled Isaiah’s ears with stingers.
Once God and Isaiah were friends.
God and Isaiah used to converse nightly, Isaiah would rush into the garden.
They conversed under the Branch, night streamed down.
From the sole of the foot to the head God would make Isaiah ring.
Isaiah had loved God and now his love was turned to pain.
Isaiah wanted a name for the pain, he called it sin.
Now Isaiah was a man who believed he was a nation.
Isaiah called the nation Judah and the sin Judah’s condition.
Inside Isaiah God saw the worldsheet burning.
Isaiah and God saw things differently, I can only tell you their actions.
Isaiah addressed the nation.
Man’s brittleness! cried Isaiah.
The nation stirred in its husk and slept again.
Two slabs of bloody meat lay folded on its eyes like wings.
Like a hard glossy painting the nation slept.
Who can invent a new fear?
Yet I have invented sin, thought Isaiah, running his hand over the knobs.
And then, because of a great attraction between them—
which Isaiah fought (for and against) for the rest of his life—
God shattered Isaiah’s indifference.
God washed Isaiah’s hair in fire.
God took the stay.
From beneath its meat wings the nation listened.
You, said Isaiah.
No answer.
I cannot hear you, Isaiah spoke again under the Branch.
Light bleached open the night camera.
God arrived.
God smashed Isaiah like glass through every socket of his nation.
Liar! said God.
Isaiah put his hands on his coat, he put his hand on his face.
Isaiah is a small man, said Isaiah, but no liar.
God paused.
And so that was their contract.
Brittle on both sides, no lying.
Isaiah’s wife came to the doorway, the doorposts had moved.
What’s that sound? said Isaiah’s wife.
The fear of the Lord, said Isaiah.
He grinned in the dark, she went back inside.
Anne Carson
From The Earth - From Sowing to Harvest
From the project page:
It is truly amazing thing to see what can come from only a bare patch of the earth, some hard work and time. This documents our season on the farm (from mostly the efforts of my wife), from beginning of the season to the harvest.
Ephemeral Smoke Figures by Thomas Herbrich
Photographer Thomas Herbrich winnowed his Smoke series from more than 100,000 images of down to the 20 he felt captured his vision. Shot at speeds of 1/10000 or faster, the series reveals forms even the eye would miss.
Lake of Dreams - Jaw-Droppingly Beautiful Burning Man Timelapse
Burning Man is described in some many terms, and here is a visual description which stands above them all.
An Enormous Carpet Made of 750,000 Begonias in Belgium
Belgium's Grand Palace in Brussels host this phenomenon every other August, when three-quarter of a million begonias are arrange into a Turkish Kilim about 24 meters wide and 78 meters long.
photos by IBTimes/Getty and FlowerCarpet.be
5 Photo Series for Talking About Empathy With Your Kids - 5 things TV
It can be hard to talk to your kids about how much they have without falling into the trap of pitying others or a sense of superiority.
Weekly Video Things - August 30
We're back with weekly wrap-up videos, in a different format from most of the 5 things TV. Hope you like it.
Great Mural Made of 1,700 Box Packages
Designers Gerlinde Gruberand Christine Strempel who used over 1,700 packages to created this mural of Mayr-Melnhof Packaging (MMP) for this year’s Interpack processing and packaging trade fair in Düsseldorf, Germany.
