Abandoned Spaces / Georges Rousse
Georges Rousse is a French photographer who makes photos of desolate or abandoned spaces. But before he does that, he paints some precise geometrical shapes which are some kind of optical illusions.
Found Functions
Found Functions is by photographer and a mathematician Nikki Graziano. Whether seen as an act of registration of the apparently non-ordered, or as a framing of what is often our backdrop, her work is simply beautiful.
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“Innen Stadt Außen” by Olafur Eliasson
“Innen Stadt Außen” is the title of Olafur Eliasson‘s upcomming exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin.
Innen Stadt Außen concerns itself closely with the relationship between museum and city, architecture and landscape, as well as between space, body and time. The site-specific investigations within the museum are amplified and commented on through ephemeral projects in public space, thus linking the Martin-Gropius-Bau to various places within the city.
This photo of the Berlin Fernsehturm gives you an idea what to expect. The exhibition opens on April 28th and you’ll have time till August 9th to go and see it.
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Horsetail Firefall by Rob Kroenert
This photo was made by Rob Kroenert on February 18th 2010 in the Yosemite National Park. Every year during the month of February, the Horsetall Falls turn golden around sunset. Amazing.
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via today and tomorrow
Composite Shot Of Total Eclipse by Miloslav Druckmüller and Colleagues
This stunning solar eclipse is a composite of nine images (taken with a Canon 200mm lens) and 38 eclipse images layered over one another. The eclipse occurred in July. Please click on image below for higher res.
Miloslav Druckmüller and colleagues took the photos at the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands as part of an international expedition organized by the Institute for Astronomy at University of Hawaii.
The image shows how magnetic waves emanate from the sun in brilliant nano-flares. Look closely at the image and you can see the impact craters on the moon. The eclipse lasted just over 5 minutes.
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via geekologie
Zeppelin Construction Photography
Some photos of the construction of zeppelins (above = USS Macon / below = USS Akron / far below = Hindenberg on a visit to NJ) and the ridiculous ladders that it took to get there.
from b3ch:
In the first half of the twentieth century, there were great airships that sailed the skies, quite majestically. They were used both for transportation, and also in war in world war I and II. The German Zeppelin Airship company built the Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg for transcontinental and transatlantic travel. They were the cruise ships of the sky.
In the early days the Zeppelins were inflated with hydrogen gas for bouancy which worked very well, but was also very dangerous. Later the Americans found a way to effectively produce helium gas, so we had much safer airships. Although hydrogen has better bouyancy, it is highly explosive. In times of war, we would not share our safer helium with the Germans.
The German Zeppelin Airship LZ-126 “Hindenburg” had it’s famous flaming crash at the Lakehurst National Airport in New Jersy in the USA.
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via b3ch.com
The Anteroom Series by James Nizam
The Anteroom Series are photographs by James Nizam. He made rooms in abandoned house onto giant camera obscuras and made then a photo of it.
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