Badlands in bloom
Every few years, for a few fleeting days, when conditions are just right, these otherwise arid lands burst into color with carpets of flowering Scorpionweed and Beeplant. Caineville, Utah. Photo by by Guy Tal.
Years: Playing The Rings Of A Tree
German artist Bartholomäus Traubeck found a way to “play” cross-sections of a tree, generating sound by scanning the spinning rings on the surface of the wood with a PlayStation Eye Camera. This data is transmitted through the control arm (which has a stepper motor attached) to a computer, which generates a music track.
Every bird should get to fly
A commercial from the Washington Lottery. Agency: Publicis in the West, Seattle.
New Landscapes
Chinese photographer Yao Lu has created a series inspired by traditional Chinese paintings. Mounds of garbage covered in green protective nets are assembled and reworked by computer to create images of rural mountain landscapes shrouded in the mist.
Life Below the Surface
Photographs mounted on the shipwrecked Vandenberg are part of the underwater art gallery set up by Andreas Franke. The digitally layered photographs are attached to the ship’s weather deck with strong magnets. Franke, an avid diver and professional photographer, explored the Vandenberg last year and took several photos of the wreck, which rests in 120...
Matt Stuart’s street photography
British photographer Matt Stuart finds humor and irony in London. He calls these photos “Happy Accidents”.
Industrial scars
American photographer J. Henry Fair shows in his works the strange beauty of industrial waste. A plume of foam in bauxite waste at an aluminum manufacturing plant. The inside of a holding tank at an oil sands upgraded facility. Heavy metal waste, resulting from fertilizer production. Herbicide manufacturing...
Burrowing Owls by Rob Palmer
Burrowing Owls live throughout the Americas where they hunt insects and rodents for their daily meals. The owls love to eat juicy termites and are one of the only species of owls to consume vegetation such as the fruit of the prickly pear cactus. When excited, Burrowing Owls can be observed to bob up and...
Yoga Dogs
If you love yoga and you can’t get enough of dogs, then you’ll probably love Yoga Dogs, a book dedicated to some flexible furry creatures. Inspired by a friend’s mastiff that would imitate its master’s morning yoga routine, photographer Daniel Borris made a collection of 45 different dogs and puppies doing human yoga poses. Of...
