Alan Sailer is an artist that specializes in high-speed photography. He has a penchant for shooting and blowing up things up like fruit, household items or stuff he finds at flea markets, thrift store and yard sales. The results are posted to his wildly active and entertaining Flickr page where he discusses his process…
BORA BORA FROM SPACE Photograph by PLEIADES-HR SATELLITE This dramatic aerial photograph of Bora Bora was taken by France and Italy’s recently launched Pleidades-HR Satellite in January of 2012. The satellite orbits the Earth at an altitude of 694 km (431 miles). Pleiades is made of two “small satellites” (mass of one…
Artwork by JUDITH BRAUN Using only her fingers dipped in charcoal, artist Judith Braun created this incredible 48 ft x 12 ft (14.6 x 3.6 meters) mural live for the public over the course of three days. The piece was done on-site at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia. The piece…
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then an animated gif must be worth some kind of number I can’t even begin to comprehend. If you’ve ever found yourself browsing the Internet and felt compelled to respond with a witty reply, only to come up: wow, mind. blown., golf clap, etc. Then these…
Artwork by Florentijn Hofman Florentijn Hofman is a Dutch artist based out of Rotterdam. He’s internationally renowned for his large-scale sculptures which often originate from recognizable, everyday objects. In his ongoing Rubber Duck series, Florentijn takes the iconic rubber duck (that children around the world can identify), and takes it to a massive…
THE GIANT THREE STOREY INDOOR SLIDES IN MUNICH, GERMANY Photograph by MARTIN ROELL The Technische Universität München (TUM; University of Technology, Munich; Technical University of Munich) is a research university with campuses in Munich, Garching, and Weihenstephan. It is a member of TU9, an incorporated society of the largest and most notable…
Photograph by SHANE TORGERSON The Barringer Meteor Crater is a meteorite impact crater located approximately 43 miles (69 km) east of Flagstaff, near Winslow in the northern Arizona desert of the United States. Because the US Department of the Interior Division of Names commonly recognizes names of natural features derived from the nearest…
To promote LG’s latest line of ‘home theatre 3D sound’, advertising agency Y&R (Young & Rubicam) in Sao Paulo, Brazil came up with this creative print campaign that shows famous movie posters from different perspectives, transforming the flat 2-dimensional posters into a 3d environment. The idea resonates because we…
THE LARGEST TREE IN THE WORLD Photograph by JIM BAHN The General Sherman is a giant sequoia tree located in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in Tulare County, California. By volume, it is the largest known living single stem tree on Earth. With a height of 83.8 metres (275 ft),…
In this powerful and touching series by photographer Isa Leshko, we get an intimate glimpse into the lives of elderly animals. Below is a small gallery of these moving black and white photographs along with a short documentary on Isa’s Eldery Animals series by Walley Films. To see more images from this series or…
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