Google Street View Hyperlapse (by Teehan+Lax Labs)
The folks over at Teehan+Lax have just released a new tool (you’ll need Google Chrome and a pretty kickin’ internet connection) that lets you scrape public data from Google Street View to create sweeping hyperlapse videos. What’s a hyperlapse? Via Teehan+Lax:
“Hyper-lapse photography—a technique combining time-lapse and sweeping camera movements typically focused on a point-of-interest—has been a growing trend on video sites. It’s not hard to find stunning examples on Vimeo. Creating them requires precision and many hours stitching together photos taken from carefully mapped locations. We aimed at making the process simpler by using Google Street View as an aid, but quickly discovered that it could be used as the source material. It worked so well, we decided to design a very usable UI around our engine and release Google Street View Hyperlapse.”
The team turned their new UI over to one of their motion designers, Jonas, who made the stunning clip above. Incredible. Some other great examples of art made with Google Street View: Address is Approximate and this clip from Giacomo Miceli. (via it’s nice that)
I’m carsick.
(thanks/via: ThisIs Colossal)
The xx US tour
Really enjoying these black and white photos from The xx US tour taken by Hanna Marshall.
(thanks/via: HannaMarshall)
Love Locks (by Islands & Rivers)
Love Locks, a modern tradition which appear in a few places around the world have no certain origin.
This is a short film about the ritual of the locks on Ponte Milvio, one of the oldest bridges in Rome. A public symbol of unbreakable love put there by locals and visitors alike, they are currently under threat… (source)
This tradition is so crazy; it’s sort of padlock graffiti and interesting to photograph.
‘Penguin-cam’ gets up close and personal, A Sneak Peak Of The ‘Penguin Cam’ (by 13jaipals13)
Wildlife producer John Downer demonstrates how he and his team went about making a documentary about penguins.
In order to get close to them he deployed 50 special cameras disguised as rocks, eggs and penguins.
Pretty cool robotics including penguins capable of swimming with penguins for up close and personal shots.
…excuse to listen to Grizzly Bear perform “Deep Blue Sea.”
(thanks/via: nprfreshair, Kanoa Zimmerman, ryandonato)
Richard Ross: Architecture of Authority
by John MacArthur & Richard Ross
For the past several years—and with seemingly limitless access—photographer Richard Ross has been making unsettling and thought-provoking pictures of architectural spaces that exert power over the individuals within them. From a Montessori preschool to churches, mosques and diverse civic spaces including a Swedish courtroom, the Iraqi National Assembly hall and the United Nations, the images in Architecture of Authority build to ever harsher manifestations of power: an interrogation room at Guantanamo, segregation cells at Abu Ghraib, and finally, a capital punishment death chamber.
Though visually cool, this work deals with hot-button issues—from the surveillance that increasingly intrudes on post-9/11 life to the abuse of power and the erosion of individual liberty. The connections among the various architectures are striking, as Ross points out: “The Santa Barbara Mission confessional and the LAPD robbery homicide interrogation rooms are the same intimate proportions. Both are made to solicit a confession in exchange for some form of redemption.” Essay by Harper’s Magazine publisher, John R. MacArthur, also a columnist for the Toronto Globe and Mail.
Articles about the project: Wired. Daily Beast, CBS News, NPR, PBS.
Richard Ross has also done some other startling series including Museology. Some images from that series below:
Booth’s Bird Museum | Brighton, England 1986
Museum National D’Histoire Naturelle | Paris, France 1982
(thanks/via: so-aware and Richard Ross)
Photographer Dana Allen waited three days and used a dummy seal to get the perfect shot of a great white shark off the coast of South Africa. Pretty awesome.
From the New York Daily News (use the link, there are more photos!):
“The strike, when it happens, takes just over a second, up and out and back into the water,” he explained, according to Cater News. “If you flinch you can miss it.”
At one point, just as his team was settled in, they heard a crash.
“In an instant the four-meter (13-foot) great white shark was up and out of the water, right in front of our eyes,” Allen said. “The water was streaming off its body and I pressed my trigger button.”
Photo credit: Dana Allen/Caters News Agency
(thanks/via: nprfreshair)
Trailer - Women Are Heroes - English Version (by SOCIAL ANIMALS)
In order to pay tribute to those who play an essential role in society but who are the primary victims of war , crime, rape and political or religious fanaticism, JR pasted huge photos of the faces and eyes of local women all over the outside of the favela, suddenly giving a female gaze to both the hill and the favela.
(thanks/via: Women Are Heroes, Photograffeur Artist JR)
Roadtrip USA (by Mike Matas)
See the whole US in a little over 3 minutes. (about Mike Matas and here)
(thanks/via: Mike Matas)
More amazing images at Aerial Photographs of Volcanic Iceland by Andre Ermolaev.
(thanks/via: Colossal)
(thanks/via: ummhello)
In Focus: The 2012 Pushkar Camel Fair
Every year in the Indian state of Rajasthan, thousands of people and camels make a trip to the small town of Pushkar for the annual Pushkar Mela, or Pushkar Camel Fair. One of the oldest and largest camel fairs in the world, Pushkar has grown to become an important attraction for foreign tourists in recent years. Aside from the trading of livestock, the fair includes music, sports, and other events such as the “longest mustache” and “Indian bride dress-up” competitions. Collected here are a few scenes from this year’s fair in India’s northern desert.
See more. [Images: Reuters, Getty, AP]
Zooplankton captured/photographed in the Pacific Ocean during the fifth stage of the Malaspina Expedition 2010, the biggest ever expedition on global change and the ocean’s biodiversity by Spanish news photographer Joan Costa.
(thanks/via: farewell-kingdom and Joan Costa)
Pretty amazing photos from Alexander Semenov, a marine biologist and a professional underwater photographer. More images here.
(via Clione.ru | Underwater)
Photographer Robert Buelteman takes pictures of shocking things — literally. The California-based photographer uses Kirlian photography techniques to capture amazing images of 80,000 volts of electricity coursing through flowers. The technique is so dangerous and tedious that very few people in the world even attempt this kind of photography. (source)
