Photograph by Teed Haze Located in San Francisco’s South Beach neighbourhood, this gorgeous open-concept ‘hard’ loft has soaring ceilings and an amazing wall of exposed brick. At 2,200 sq. ft., the space is unique as it’s a fully designated live/work space so you could either live here or have a pretty sweet office…
Photograph by Dayna Mason (daynoir on Flickr) Yesterday, Redditor jokes_on_you posted a fascinating magnetic field visualization using compasses (see above). What’s interesting is that we can not only see the pattern of magnetic fields, but the direction of those patterns via the compass arrows. As usual, the picture led to some interesting comments and…
© Dean Sewell, from the exhibition Culture Jammers at the Museum of Sydney In the 1970s and 80s a group of protestors calling themselves BUGAUP scrawled anti-tobacco messages on billboards across the country, leading to an Australia-wide ban on tobacco advertising and making the group world pioneers of a movement now known as…
CANOLA FIELDS IN FULL BLOOM IN YUNNAN, CHINA Photograph via MSNBC Photoblog In this breathtaking aerial photograph via MSNBC, we see fields of canola plants in full bloom and ready for harvest in Luoping, southwest China’s Yunnan province. The expansion of China’s canola crushing capacity coupled with a lower domestic harvest will…
Below you will find a collection of optical illusions created using shadows in a variety of ways. Many of these have been floating around the Internet for quite some time but I thought it would be fun to compile all of the most interesting ones into a single post. Some of the examples below…
Photograph by PHIL HART @ philhart.com | Prints available at Red Bubble Starting in late December of 2008 and ending in January of 2009, the shores of the Gippsland Lakes in Victoria, Australia were awash in a sea of glowing bioluminescent flagellate protists known as Noctiluca scintillans. This incredible phenomenon was captured brilliantly…
Photograph by S MORITA (MRSY on Flickr) In 95% of Japan’s 1,780 municipalities you will find artistic manhole covers unique to each city and town. It has become apart of the country’s national culture and it’s fascinating to see the different designs and styles that each town and city has chosen to represent…
FRACTAL PATTERNS IN DRIED OUT DESERT RIVERS Photograph by ADRIANA FRANCO for National Geographic This incredible aerial photograph by Adrian Franco was selected as National Geographic’s Picture of the Day for April 9, 2012. In it we see the incredible fractal patterns rivers (now dried out) have made as they spread into…
At 110 kilometers (68.3 miles) in length, the Stockholm Subway System is said to be the world’s longest art exhibit. Travelling by metro is like travelling through an exciting story that extends from the artistic pioneers of the 1950s to the art experiments of today. Over 90 of the 100 subway stations in…
Empire Magazine is the largest selling film magazine in Britain and has been published monthly since 1989. To celebrate their 20th anniversary, they published a special edition of their magazine that was guest-edited by Steven Spielberg. In a special section entitled The Birthday Portfolio, Empire had an exclusive star-studded photoshoot that paid tribute to…
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