Shadow Sculptures

Pendulum Waves

Map of Japanese Earthquakes leading up to and after the large Fukushima event

Cloud Tree

Origin unknown. via reddit

see also cloud factories

Fishing Under Ice

Apologies for crappy music. The video is quite a bit of fun though.

Rainbow Fountains

I was bored the other day so I went on flickr, typed "rainbow" and "fountain" into the search thing, pressed enter, and proceeded to sieve through roughly 7 thousand pictures of fountains with rainbows.

At the end I made a little selection of my favourites here.

And invited them and the best of the rest to this little group.

This is possibly the gayest thing I have ever done.

P.S.: a few other galleries I made in the past are gathering dust in the internet purgatory here.

cropped cycle

"Iela Mari: The World Through a Lens, Babalibri, Milano, 2010 (Italian and English language). Catalogue for the first Italian survey exhibition of Iela Mari's work, held as part of The Bologna Children's Book Fair. An overdue study of her children's books, including sketches, prototypes, and edition variations, beginning with her first book from 1960 (in collaboration with her then husband, Enzo Mari). She currently lives in Milan."

via stopping off place

celery transportation system

"A plant transportation system experiment with celery from The Little Kid's Craft Book by Jackie Vermeer & Marian Lariviere, TaplingerPublishing, NY, 1973"

via stopping off place

Santería

Santería may be a load of old bollocks, but these illustrations of Orichas by Alberto del Pozo are an absolute joy to look at.

background & thoughtful analysis, as always, is readily available over at BibliOddysey

movement

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les femmes au visage caché

via le divan fumeur bohemien

a mountain for the Netherlands

via pruned

metamorphosen

metamorphosen

Mirai Mizue

CHAOTIC ORDER from MIRAI_MIZUE on Vimeo.

robotmafia tells us: "Mirai Mizue is a representative figure of the new generation of abstract animation in Japan. His films have been shown in more than 100 festivals in about 20 countries. His strong obsession towards cells forces him to draw every frame with surprising density. His rhythmical animation overwhelms viewers."

you can see a few more of his videos and follow his progress here

waterfalls flowing upwards

via the award winning (congrats!) fogonazos

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Image Bonus:

rummaging around the net I found this picture from our old friend David Maisel which although completely unrelated reminded me of an upwards falling waterfall...

a gif for you

Anyone there?

How the hell do I make images show up bigger in this thing?

Inside Job

The dead bodies of Aphids on a Virginia Creeper showing the tell-tale sign that a small parasitic wasp has been in the neighbourhood.

img source

Recreating space without the use of CGI

i.e.: recreating space with dirty water.

Strange Encounter

Tribes people, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea. "I was shooting in Papua New Guinea for the BBC’s landmark documentary Human Planet. I randomly met these guys in the forest near a local singsing ritual. We couldn’t understand each other, and I don’t know anything about them, who they are, or where they came from..." Photograph by Timothy Allen, UK. Link.