Call me crazy, but I adore art like this below. Tumblr users Rrrrrrrroll have created a series of GIFs that feature a woman spinning around in a series of environments. There's really not much to say about this work, you have to just see it. Even the creators were quoted as saying "We don't really [...]
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This is some pretty awesome imagery – ready? WTF! Ok, that was outstanding for me, I hope it was good for you. It is Monday morning, after all! This is the work of Harold Feinstein, photographer of life and master of light. Harold is known for some of his Coney Island photography, but in my [...]
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I have been doing a lot of sitting on my couch when I'm not at work; I generally spend my off-work time working on articles and doing my own personal research in light. I think I'm losing some of my social skills! While at home, I typically like to have a movie or something going [...]
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Take a pico projector, add an iPhone feeding it some content, and film the whole thing with some fun music, and you have a pico projector cop chase. You also have a handful of awesome: GAH! Sweet. The film is from The Theory and Nexus Productions — from the Vimeo site: The world's smallest all [...]
Read More iphone, pico projector, projection, projectors, Qumi Q2, Speed of Light, Video, VivitekOops. As far as the lamp goes, oops. Really, the inside of an incandescent lamp will always be awesome to me. Really, I just wanted to share this beauty with you all. … … here's my Pinterest!
Read More broken, filament, incandescent lampOur sun is absolutely astounding, and that's no news, especially for JOL readers. However, the grand winner of a National Geographic exploration trip through X Prize, Joe Capra, entered with a stunning video about our home star's polar seasonal effects so delightfully, I had to share. In areas north of the arctic circle or south of the [...]
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Earlier this year, the light painters JanLeonardo Wöllert and Anton Julmy used a Real Time Light Painting program. It works for both live performance and video production! On a basic level, this video is well worth a watch because it shows how many of the more intricate light painting photographs are created. However, when you get in to what the [...]
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Ok, have a look at this image — if you click on it, it gets really, really big: That's our Milky Way. The image below here represents the material within the white square on the left — a star-forming region called G305 to astronomers and astrophysicists — again, a click makes it bigger: That cutaway [...]
Read More Astrophysics, celestial bodies, G305, Milky Way, stars, UKIRT, University of Edinburgh, VISTAThe above photo by Andrew Tallon was taken at 10:30 pm! What I love about this image is it perfectly exemplifies that our moon is just a reflector for sunlight. So why don't we see our night landscape this way, if a camera can capture it? A number of fascinating factors! Our moon's albedo (the [...]
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