The sweetness of honey. The bite of 80,000 bees. Watch the making of the video where Dewar's Highlander Honey bees build real sculptures out of natural honeycomb.
Master beekeeper, Robin Theron, and The Ebeling Group assembled as many as 80.000bees to create a bottle and a bust of honey, made by bees.
The project was Dewar’s latest promotion of their new Highlander Honey whiskey.
Bees build their honeycomb inwards, and given an inverse scaffolding on which they could build, several colonies finished building after about 6 weeks.
Julieanne Kost is able in this set of turning something as unbeautiful as evaporation ponds into images that evoke Rothko's considered color fields.
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28-year-old Marinus from the Netherlands has been making these animated GIFs, I presume to make the point that animated GIFs are not just awesome and funny, but awesome and more awesome.
"I am bored, therefore I make GIFs" -René Descartes (1596-1650)
These are just a small portion of them. Catch them all on his blog: Head Like an Orange
The circle of life makes for some dramatic photos, from some fantastic photographers...
From Wikipedia:
"The Manpupuner rock formations (Man-Pupu-Nyer; Мань-Пупу-нёр) or the Seven Strong Men Rock Formations or Poles of the Komi Republic are a set of 7 gigantic abnormally shaped stone pillars located north of the Ural mountains in the Troitsko-Pechorsky District of the Komi Republic. These monoliths are around 30 to 42 m high and jut out of a hilly plateau formed through the weathering effects of ice and winds."
"According to a local legend, the stone pillars were once an entourage of Samoyeds giants walking through the mountains to Siberia in order to destroy the Vogulsky people. However, upon seeing the holy Vogulsky mountains, the shaman of the giants dropped his drum and the entire team froze into the stone pillars."
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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
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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Quotes of the Day
“We sit together, the mountain and I, until only the mountain remains.”
― Li Po
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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“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”
― Vladimir Nabokov
'Manhattan breaking apart in front of your eyes', says filmmaker James Balog. The largest iceberg calving captured on film.
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Gift Guide
Kummakivi means "strange rock." It's an extremely rare natural phenomenon in Valtola Savoni, Finland. One enormous rock balanced on another, in the middle of the forest? Yeah, "strange".
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Winter Study
Two days of snow, then ice
and the deer peer from the ragged curtain of trees.
Hunger wills them, hunger
pulls them to the compass of light
spilling from the farmyard pole.
They dip their heads, hold
forked hooves
above snow, turn furred ears
to scoop from the wind
the sounds of hounds, or men.
They lap at a sprinkling of grain,
pull timid mouthfuls from a stray bale.
The smallest is lame, with a leg
healed at angles, and a fused knob
where a joint once bent.
It picks, stiff, skidding its sickening limb
across the ice's dark platter.
Their fear is thick as they break a trail
to the center of their predator's range.
To know the winter
is to ginger forth from a bed in the pines,
to search for a scant meal
gleaned from the carelessness
of a killer.
Wunderlich's name lingered in the halls of my grad school when I got there. He had just won the Lambda Literary Award. He came back to with Brenda Shaughnessy, a classmate of his, to speak with us in Lucie Brock-Broido's First Book Architecture class.
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Mary Oliver
by Mary Oliver
The kingfisher rises out of the black wave
like a blue flower, in his beak
he carries a silver leaf. I think this is
the prettiest world—so long as you don’t mind
a little dying, how could there be a day in your whole life
that doesn’t have its splash of happiness?
There are more fish than there are leaves
on a thousand trees, and anyway the kingfisher
wasn’t born to think about it, or anything else.
When the wave snaps shut over his blue head, the water
remains water—hunger is the only story
he has ever heard in his life that he could believe.
I don’t say he’s right. Neither
do I say he’s wrong. Religiously he swallows the silver leaf
with its broken red river, and with a rough and easy cry
I couldn’t rouse out of my thoughtful body
if my life depended on it, he swings back
over the bright sea to do the same thing, to do it
(as I long to do something, anything) perfectly.
Mary Oliver will certainly be a poet I often reach for. This first POEM OF THE DAY from Oliver shows her greatest strength: being a fearless and talented student of the world.
On June 23rd, 2010 a line of nasty storms rolled through Chicago in the early evening hours. I stayed late at the office that night to work on some things and to avoid the rush hour chaos that was going on. Once I returned home I wasn't really paying attention to what was happening outside until someone asked me if I was watching the lightning. I took a quick look out my window and saw some quick hits of lightning and ran back to my room to grab my camera and tripod. I was standing out there randomly hitting the record button and hoping I would catch some of the strikes. About 15 minutes in nothing was happening during my current recording so I reached to stop it and start a new one. At the moment I touched the camera three of the tallest buildings in Chicago were struck by lightning at the same time. Willis Tower (Tallest), Trump International Hotel and Tower (2nd Tallest) and the John Hancock Building(4th tallest). If you listen closely, you can hear me lightly say "yes!" after the triple strike happens. **** 6/27 - Posted the sequel with more strikes from this storm! http://vimeo.com/12905965 *** HD Video was shot on a Canon EOS 7D. Video was edited with Sony Vegas Movie Studio. Music: Sufjan Stevens - To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea Concerning Your Predicament
Just amazing.
What a fantastic answer to the mystery of these underwater 'crop circles' found off the coast of Japan. The whole story is over at Spoon and Tamago.
"While diving in the semi-tropical region of Amami Oshima, roughly 80 ft below sea level, Ookata spotted something he had never seen. And as it turned out, no one else had seen it before either."
It turnes out these mysterious and organic shapes are the work of a small little pufferfish and is probably a mating ritual. And in fact it seems it is a sort of nest building, the mounds and ridges are meant to protect eggs from currents.
Play full screen so you can count the meteors! Shot in Joshua Tree National Park and the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest during the Perseid meteor shower. Features ancient trees, lightning, rainbows, meteors, the Milky Way, and lots of stars. Enjoy! Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/evosiastudios Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/evosia Website: www.evosiastudios.com Music is Fields of Honor by Justin R. Durban, www.justindurban.com Ascendance is a tribute to nature's unpredictable power and beauty. I went out to film the Perseid meteor shower but I encountered so much more. When you are out there, you never know for sure what nature will bring. Always be ready for a magical experience. :) Film is shot, directed and edited by Henry Jun Wah Lee Available in 4K Henry is a Kessler sponsored shooter. http://www.kessleru.com
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. "
Mako Shark - 80 kph - 50 mph - Rare Footage
Not that I ever thought I could outswim a shark, but... damn.
