Revolution ( Life Cycle of a Drop of Water). from chris turner on Vimeo.
This is a beautiful stop-motion video (by photographer Chris Turner, paper engineer Helen Friel, and animator Jess Deacon) of an elaborate pop-up book illustrating the life-cycle of water. It’s brilliant. I love pop-up books. Wish they would sell it; will grab it in an instant.
(via Faith is Torment)
Eva Timothy tracks the trajectory of cameras, from the most rudimentary to the most ubiquitous.
Illuminating photography: From camera obscura to camera phone – Eva Timothy, TED-Ed
This scene of a man dressed in black standing on white snow, feeding ducks and swans on dark water makes for a stunningly perfect black and white photograph. This was captured by Polish photographer Marcin Ryczek on a winter in Krakow, Poland. (See high-res version)
From Marcin Ryczek Fotografia (via Peta Pixel)
Moonwalk from Bryan Smith on Vimeo.
As the sun sets and the full moon rises, American free climber Dean Potter traverses a highline at Cathedral Peak in Yosemite National Park. This was shot from over a mile away with a Canon 800mm by Michael Schaefer. Breathtaking.
(via Colossal)
Artists, Designers, and Photographers are donating 100% of proceeds from the purchase of their shirts and prints for Sandy Recovery. Above is a cotton shirt designed by New York based artist Sebastian Errazuriz, titled I Still Love NY (Photo courtesy Jordan Doner). Below is a limited edition print of the blackout in Lower Manhattan by NYC-based stencil artist Logan Hicks, titled New York Lights Out. See more at Colossal and maybe you could pick out one or two. You’re actually getting an incentive for helping.
Be awed by the tiny tiny world. Here are some of the 2012 winners for Nikon’s annual photomicrography contest.
These are embryos of the black mastiff bat at different ages. I think the embryos are totally shy to be photographed (by Dorit Hockman, University of Cambridge)
Ant carrying its larva (by Geir Drange, Norway)
Live newborn lynx spiderlings (by Walter Piorkowski, South Beloit, Illinois, USA)
This won first place. The blood-brain barrier in a live zebrafish embryo (by Jennifer Peters and Michael Taylor, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA)
Common fruitfly’s visual system halfway through pupal development, showing retina in gold, photoreceptor axons in blue, and brain in green (by W. Ryan Williamson, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, USA)
Green alga (desmid) near a sphagnum moss leaf (by Marek Mis, Suwalki, Poland)
Floral primordia of garlic (by Somayeh Naghiloo, Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences Tabriz, East Azarbayedjan, Iran)
Visit Nikon’s Small World and see the rest of these micro awesomeness.
(via Geekologie)
Previously known as Pier 3 (also Galbraith Dock), this now tourist pier at the foot of Spring Street in Seattle, Washington was renumbered to Pier 54 during World War Two. It was an active shipping pier and warehouse in the past. The present dock for the fireboats of the Seattle Fire Department is located to the south of the pier. At the right is Ivar’s Acres of Clams which opened in 1946. (Breathtaking photo from jsidhom).
Shortly after construction, circa 1901. Also shown is the steamer T.W. Lake, apparently unloading barrels onto the dock. (Photo from pauldorpat/Wikimedia)
These gorgeous macro photos by David Chambon show insects that might just had their refreshing morning bath. See more at 500px and Flickr. (via Colossal; Faith is Torment)
Photographer David Johnson captured these fireworks display at the International Fireworks Show in Ottawa, Canada. Using a simple refocus during the long exposure, the fireworks look like blooming colorful cacti in the night sky.
This one looks like melted crayons splattered on a black art paper (elementary school art, remember?):
See more of David’s beautiful, amazing photos HERE and HERE.
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