As the principal photographer of The Underwater Project; an ongoing reportage showcasing Australia’s relationship with the ocean, Mark aims to connect the different areas of his work to bring light to stories traditional media shies away from.

From the artist:

He defines the rhythm and the melody by his hand movements. He draws an abstract creation in the air with his hands with the goal of communication and that is how he becomes the composition visually and formally in the end. This way he creates a fusion between musician, artist and designer.

From his bio:

In parallel to photography, for the past ten years Suren has also enjoyed teaching physics, mathematics, projective geometry and astronomy at the Yerevan Waldorf School. From 1997 to 2011 he served as a scientific researcher at the Institute for Physical Research of National Academy of Sciences.

Suren received his PhD in Theoretical Physics from the Yerevan State University in 2001 where his research focused on Quantum Chaos. He received the President Award of the Republic of Armenia (the) next year for his research work in the field of quantum technologies.

Pretty impressive. ‘Your Beautiful Eyes’ has been featured in a plethora of publications, and rightly so. He has a similar gallery featuring animal eyes, but this gallery is far superior. Be sure to check out his other work, particularly his Rainy Day series.

The book is only $35.

From Wikipedia:

Ittoqqortoormiit was founded in 1925 by Ejnar Mikkelsen and some 80 Inuit settlers (70 persons from Tasiilaq and four families from western Greenland). They were brought on the ship Gustav Holm and settled 400 km south of the last known Inuit settlement in northeastern Greenland

The houses in this small town are literally picture perfect.

Photo by: _Zinni_

Photo by: _Zinni_

Getting to Ittoqqortoormiit is not exactly easy. According to East Greenland’s website you can only get there by air. All three airlines listed there are Icelandic airlines, however after a few searches we couldn’t find a single flight (not even from Greenland’s capital, Nuuk). According to Wikipedia, ” it is served by Ittoqqortoormiit Heliport, with Air Greenland helicopters shuttling passengers between the settlement and Nerlerit Inaat Airport, the latter also reachable by boat for a few months a year”… Good luck.

Photo by: Villi.Ingi

Photo by: Villi.Ingi, poster photo by Rainbowgirl

A 9 year old boy – who built an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad’s used auto part store – is about to have the best day of his life.

Berlin is an amazing city, so much history crammed into such a small area..Most of it is so recent its hard not to feel a little uneasy. We managed to jam about 10 years of study into our 3 days there. To be honest we didn’t even really scratch the surface.

I was lucky to have visited Berlin for about a week back in 2006 and it really is one of my favorite cities. Willy is right, so much history packed in such a small place; World Wars, Check Point Charlie and the wall, the memorials. If you ever have the chance for a layover here, do it.

What I like most about this compass is the weight. It pretty heavy for an object of its size. It also feels thick and very well put together. The inner print and design is beautiful. I currently use it as a desk decorative piece, but measuring only 2.5″ in diameter it’s an easy accessory to cary.

Inner text:

The compass opened the world to exploration and discovery. Invented in China thousands of years ago, it was primarily used by fang-shui priests, hired to advise on how and where to build. Today the compass still is a basic tool, a magnetized needle rotating on a vertical pin, pointing at the Easth’s magnetic North. 16th century sailors accustomed to following coastlines, could suddenly cross oceans. Sailors now devised a compass course, while still using their age-old knowledge of steering by fixed stars, ocean currents and prevailing winds to establish position.

I would love to paint one of my office walls in this.

Well said…

It’s amazing to watch these swallows fly. I’ve been watching a lot of Planet Earth these days, and their swarming, darting, ameba forms remind me of schools of fish. Oh, to be on that canoe…

I had a chance to pass through Bern and Interlaken back in 2003 with a group of friends and the beauty was surreal. Here is a collection of photos from Flickr.

Photo by: ritsch48

Photo by: ceca67

Photo by: santasapina

Photo by: Fronalpstock

Map from: Wikipedia. Poster photo: phiiiliiipp

At just $4.95 each, they’re a steal.

This video, titled The Water, features some amazing time lapse of water streams. So fast that the water almost looks like mist or the vapor from dry ice. Beautiful.

The video is beautiful. Makes me want to strap on those boots and discover something new.

Head over to their home page from the source below and they’ve put a stream of the photos taken as the music video was shot. It’s amazing.

These photos are from his trip to Ibiza while shooting photos for an album cover.

I look at these pictures and I’ll admit I’m a little creeped out. These are from his set ‘Cement Eclipses,’ in which he’s placed small figurines around urban environments. Super cool. Check out the rest of the set on his Flickr stream.

From Amazon:

Through harmony and rhythm, resonance and pitch, Ann Rand inspires readers to listen to the tuneful play of her text as it sings off each page. Illustrated with graphic designer Paul Rand’s colorful, witty artwork, Sparkle and Spin is a children’s classic (now happily available again through Chronicle Books) that reveals to young readers the power and music in the words they use every day.

The first thing I attempted was to make the site as modular as possible. This is definitely something I still need to polish, but it worked out pretty well. Making the site modular (as much as possible) was immensely helpful in building a responsive layout, and way speedier to finish overall.

Desktop

I’m using media queries, of course, to style the site in different ways based on your browser window’s width. Go ahead, resize your window! Here are some samples of what you should see at every stage:

You’ll also notice that if there are any videos on the page while you made the window smaller, the video will be replaced by its screen cap.

iPhone and Mobile

Typically, responsive layouts are great for mobile design. However, the issue that you’ll always run into is that even though your layout is properly loaded on a mobile browser, the full sized images are still being loaded. This is really slow. So what I wanted to do was to load different content altogether if a user is on a mobile device.

The easiest way to do this is by detecting the browser’s user agent. It’s not an end all solution by any means, but it works quite well. Using PHP I’m looking for three things; Mobile, iPad, and iPhone. Now, all three of these have “Mobile” in their user agents, but I also want to be able to sniff out iPhones and iPads specifically. Here’s what Gjunkie looks like on an iPad:

Rather than displaying full sized posts on the home page, as well as the archives, I’m displaying a wall of thumbnails. Additionally, if a user is on an iPad or mobile phone, I load a small bit of javascript that allows you to tap a thumbnail to see an overlay of its title. On a desktop browser I do this with CSS3.

Finally, the iPhone/Mobile version of the site looks like this:

There are still plenty of things for me to work on. Particularly, Internet Explorer support. It’s basically not here unless you have IE9. Also, broader mobile support for screens of lower resolution.

Check out Areaware for the full animal collection.

These photos are from her set 365 Travel Memories. I absolutely love the idea of capturing a memory every day for a year, let alone doing it while traveling the world. These photos are simply stunning.

Make sure to check out the rest of her set on Flickr.

I don’t typically like the idea of adding bluetooth keyboards to iPads or making them look like iPads because I think it defeats the purpose of an iPad. But these are awesome.

Going for $149.

Make sure to follow the link to his Flickr account. He’s posted tons of his work there.

Brodbeck was able to break films down to their basic components; sound, video, and subtitles. He then was able to infographically (is that a word?) display all the information. Nuff said, just watch.

The house’s control system is designed to provide detailed real-time monitoring of its behavior and its interaction with the environment, creating historical profiles and sharing these socially.

The company produces and sells a range of solar homes of sizes from 12 square meters to 96 square meters. Watch a video of the building process at the bottom of this clipping.

We wanted to create something different. We wanted to create something better. We started with a clean sheet, throwing all of our preconceptions about these kind of structures out of the window. We set out to create something that was sustainable, stylish, flexible, functional and future proofed.

This set of 6 will set you back a cool $150 on Etsy.

Gingiber is my online shop, where I create darling doodles for quirky kids (although I find that many adults enjoy my art as well). My work has been described as whimsical and expressive, but I like to think of it as having a touch of “POW” and a splash of “ZIPPA-D-DOO”. By the way, Gingiber is the Latin word for “ginger”. I just liked the sound of it.

That means that everything from the doors, floors, windows, lumber, porch posts, glass, door hardware, and even the siding has been saved and re-used to create houses that we hope will last for a century or more.

This particular house is 336 sq. ft. and is occupied by a young couple in their 20′s and their 3 year old son. It’s got a bedroom in each loft upstairs, a full kitchen, bathroom, and so much more.

These fake Criterions, however, are posters of, well, films made to look like they’re a part of the Collection. Click the source link below to see thousands more.

Frame has been artist in residence, visiting artist, or guest lecturer at more than 50 museums, universities, and art-related institutions around the United States. He has also taught at the University of California at Los Angeles, Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and at the Claremont Graduate University. He lives and works in Wrightwood, California.

They sell for only $20 over at Etsy.

“140 dB” is experimental film about interaction between sound and physical bodies. The main idea is to show how sound can change objects form and structure including human mental state.

The night of the 5th of May we took to the streets at midnight on our journey from Malasaña to Lavapiés, we left 50 small ecosystems, living in the harshest and greyest areas of the city cemter.

The biggest challenge was cloudy nights and the wind. There were very few nights, when I could shoot, that were perfectly clear, and often the wind was blowing 25mph +. That made it hard to get the shots I wanted. I kept most of the shots low to the ground, so the wind wouldn’t catch the setup and cause camera shake, or blow it over.

I went through my photo collection and picked out some of the more memorable ones.




















I had been to Slovenia once before in 2003 but only for 24hrs. Eastern Europe is such a beautiful place. I plan on going back and driving through the rest of former Yugoslavia as soon as time and money allows.

Web Urbanist has done a great job at giving us a little history on each of the eight theaters and what the plans are for restorations. Head over there for more photos.

My favorite natural phenomenon is one I do not even know the name of, even after talking to meteorologists and astrophysicists I am none the wiser.What I am talking about I have decided to call The Arctic Light and it is a natural phenomenon occurring 2-4 weeks before you can see the Midnight Sun.

These photographs are from his RX series.

The one mile private drive approach to The Sky Ranch offers a dramatic wilderness taste of what is to follow. Step from the front door to the 360 degree breathtaking views of characterful moorlands, lush green forest and undulating mountains in the distance. Winding streams cut dramatically through the moors and lead right past the house, traditional stone walls keep the grazing sheep at bay. The spacious garden offers ample space to relax and absorb the vista, the built in stone seating area and the outside dining table are perfect for an al fresco brunch or candle lit dinner. With over 16,000 acres to explore you will have your weekend well and truly mapped out.

There’s a lot of artwork out there most as posters, lithographs or prints so I wanted to do something different. While watching The original Star wars I realized that talk of money is thrown around quite a lot but you never actually see it (other than Han flipping the bartender a coin after shooting Greedo). I thought it would be cool to design a piece of Imperial currency as I saw it. I designed it mostly after American money but used some European influences as well.

It is probably no coincidence that around age ten I had a large, elaborate model train layout that my father built for my brother and me. Everything about it was meticulously detailed. Especially with this train set, there was an infinite number of people, cars and buildings one could arrange on the landscape of a perfect little world.

I’m a huge Stanley Kubrick fan, and this beautiful teaser pays homage to his masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey. The teaser actually features Keir Dullea, which makes the whole experience that much more amazing. But what is the Immersive Cocoon? From their website:

Imagine a digital experience that is intuitive and holistic, where your interface is not reduced to a mouse click and two-dimensional analog of a writing desk. A surround display dome complemented by the sophisticated motion-sensing software that inspired the technology depicted in the film ‘Minority Report’. With natural, intuitive movements, your entire body becomes the interface.

Check out some of the behind the scenes shots. There are a ton more over at their website.

The project meets the requirements of high environmental quality as it includes rainwater collection, the use of solar energy (hybrid) and geothermal energy.

Take a look at these images. The first one is of the original hunting house.

The capsule was built and designed by Maurizio Martinucci, an Italian interdisciplinary artist and producer currently working in Amsterdam. He uses technology as a means to explore perceptual effects and the relationship between sound, light and space. He focuses primarily on generative compositions with spatialized sound for live performances and installations.

I would love to have one of these in my living room.

Do you see all the little tails that each piece of cardboard has attached to them? Those all spin at a continuous speed making it sound like it’s raining. The piece features 200 DC motors and 2000 cardboard elements. The total dimensions are 49.2 x 29.5 x 14.7 ft. Check out the video to see it in action.

Pe Lang’s poetic and elegant hand built sculptures combine mechanized systems with new materials to mandate and manifest a different approach to kinetic movement.

Check out this awesome machine in action over at his website.

Shot over the 2011 New Year weekend when a winter storm arrived in Yosemite. Overcast skies the first day, followed by heavy snow on the second day, partly cloudy the third day and sunny the fourth day. You’ll see a mixture of shots from the different weather conditions.

Of course it doesn’t hurt that his choice of soundtrack happens to be one of my favorites; Xibalba by Clint Mansell from The Fountain.