Inside Insides blog has a collection of fruit and veg porn: MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) photos of fresh produce, animated in sequence to reveal a kaleidoscopic beauty.
Above is a cucumber from top to bottom. More at Inside Insides (via kottke).
April 21st, 2010
mother HUBBARD
A Golden Hubbard squash (species Cucurbita maxima, a large variety of winter squash).
Photo by wikipedia user badagnani.
April 19th, 2010
neither eruption was unusually powerful
Astronomy (vulcanology?) Photo of the Day :
Why did the recent volcanic eruption in Iceland create so much ash? Although the large ash plume was not unparalleled in its abundance, its location was particularly noticeable because it drifted across such well populated areas. The Eyjafjallajökull volcano in southern Iceland began erupting on March 20, with a second eruption starting under the center of small glacier on April 14. Neither eruption was unusually powerful. The second eruption, however, melted a large amount of glacial ice which then cooled and fragmented lava into gritty glass particles that were carried up with the rising volcanic plume. Pictured above two days ago, lightning bolts illuminate ash pouring out of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano.
(via APOD)
March 17th, 2010
Ireland
March 5th, 2010
science + photography + curiosity =
“Wooden Box with Horseshoe Magnet”, Caleb Charland.
From Petapixel photography blog:
Caleb Charland is a Maine-based photographer who combines a love of scientific experiments and photographs into wonderful and amazing photographs.
Fun stuff. More here.
March 5th, 2010
what the world eats
China: The Dong family of Beijing
Food expenditure for one week: 1,233.76 Yuan or $155.06
Favorite foods: fried shredded pork with sweet and sour sauce
Seeing the weekly diet of families all around the world gives an insight into how much we and our diet are affected by economic, social, and political factors. Reasonpad blog:
Come see What The World Eats. A few years ago photographer Peter Menzel and his wife Faith D’Aluisio started to photograph what family’s around the globe eat and wrote down what their weekly expenditure is. In 2005 they published an award winning book called Hungry Planet: What The World Eats.
This project turned out to be so educational that he’s currently still giving lectures at universities about this very subject. A current exhibition is held until May 9, 2010 is hosted by the Bell Museum of Natural History at the University of Minnesota.
As you look at the photographs and see what they spend per week, you can draw a lot of different conclusions about their dietm their surroundings, their personal/economic circumstance and how globalization has influenced what people eat.
Reasonpad have put all the images from this Time article on one page, and provided the info for how much was spent, where the families are from, etc.
March 2nd, 2010
physically absent
Photo: Luca Galuzzi (click for original size)
Abandoned former quarters of the Dalai Lama at the Potala. The empty vestment placed on the throne symbolises his absence
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February 28th, 2010
how genetics works
February 7th, 2010
meet those responsible for the sea air
The BBC website has a beautiful audiovisual slideshow with fantastically detailed photos of plankton, and a commentary to go with it.
January 30th, 2010
photographic interlude
Photo by David Fisher
Photo by Sebastian Lewis
(photos via light boner)
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January 17th, 2010
atlantic city (1904)
Just a small section of another great Shorpy image that caught my attention. See the full image.
January 5th, 2010
Martine Franck
Martine Franck. “Torry Island” 1995.
Martine Franck (born 1938) is a Belgian photographer, and a member of the Magnum Photos agency. She was the second wife of photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson after his divorce with Ratna Mohini, and is president and co-founder of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, which administrates his estate. (from wiki)
(via 3qd)
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December 29th, 2009
faking it, big time
In this mindboggling video, photostock magnate Yuri Arcurs gives a tour of his vast studio in Denmark. There he knocks out stock images on an industrial scale, selling pictures for as little as 20c each — devastating the competition.
The video offers a fascinating insight into his whiter than white, faker than fake world! (via growabrain)
December 28th, 2009
the shaggy ink cap deliquesces
Photo by Steve Greaves (lovely name, no?)
As the cap matures it deliquesces into an inky black fluid. This specimen was found by the side of a path in deciduous woodland.
It deliquesces!
1. to become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air, as certain salts.
2. to melt away.
3. Botany. to form many small divisions or branches.
There is a collection of similarly unique mushrooms (such as the “scarlet waxy cap” — poetry! — and the aptly named “turkey tail mushroom”) at Matador.
December 11th, 2009
really brings things into focus, this…
Nikon’s website has a neat little gadget that allows you to compare the effect of different lenses in their range. This is about as close as I’ll get to these lenses for a while, I think. (Sorry about that pun, by the way.) Nikkor Lens Simulator
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November 28th, 2009
101 cookbooks
Above: Heidi’s Giant Black Bean Salad
Heidi Swanson’s recipe blog 101 Cookbooks is glorious: All adventurous, healthy and yet covetable food, described intelligently and photographed beautifully.
The premise this site was built on is best summed up in two sentences: When you own over 100 cookbooks, it is time to stop buying, and start cooking. This site chronicles a cookbook collection, one recipe at a time.
Meticulously organized, lovingly maintained: what a resource this site is!
November 20th, 2009
Sparrow Lane
A series of carefully constructed scenes, nicely explained by the photographer Holly Andres.