Hypervocal puts it best: “Pro tip: If a potential employer asks about your ‘passion’ and says ‘Any color you can add to your application would be appreciated,’ don’t do this. That mistake is so funny it overshadows even his Comic Sans use.” Business Insider got the scoop. And you know you’ve been working on the [...]
Excitement. Awe. An inspiring moment. Based on anecdotal evidence on Facebook and Twitter, it seems like plenty of people stayed up to watch the event and cheer on Mars Curiosity Rover surviving its seven minutes of terror early this morning. It’s a monumental endeavor — one that makes any science nerd proud that people are excited about science! When was [...]
From Reuters: “The full moon rises through the Olympic Rings hanging beneath Tower Bridge during the London 2012 Olympic Games August 3, 2012. [REUTERS/Luke MacGregor]“
Photographer Mayeul Akpovi visited Paris and during his trip he took numerous photos and video footage, which he eventually compiled into a time-lapse, stop motion behemoth named Paris In Motion. The choice to set the whole thing to a Massive Attack song makes it feel like some bad shit is going to happen to the city. Like a zombie [...]
What do you get when you combine images collected by ISS astronauts and NASA’s Johnson Space Center with one of the best themes from any movie in the past decade (yes, John Murphy’s score for Danny Boyle’s 2007 space opera Sunshine is THAT good)? You suffer from Stendhal Syndrome, that’s what. This time-lapse from Knate Myers is positively stunning. P.S. I [...]
Spotted on Ludlow & Orchard in NYC. It’s getting to the point where all I can do is slow clap each new effort by Hanksy.
Be on the lookout okay. Not sure where in Portland this flyer was found, but it gave me a good chuckle. Anyone want to send Erwin an email and see what they have to say? [via reddit]
Photographer Dinah Fried’s series, “Fictitious Dishes”, portrays meals that are described in famous novels as they would have appeared when the novel took place. Among the novels she features include: Oliver Twist, Moby Dick, Alice in Wonderland, Catcher in the Rye, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I love how this makes food so specific and [...]
Award-winning photographer Camille Seaman has turned her lens toward storm clouds above the midwest plains of America to beautiful and terribly scary effect. According to In Focus, “she partnered with experienced storm chasers and began to stalk a particular type of storm cloud - the supercell. On June 22, 2012, in western Nebraska, she encountered an enormous supercell [...]
The photo above ran on the front page of the Baltimore Sun in 1995. For the past 17 years, John Boias has been grappling with the ramifications of unintentionally being the focal point of said photo. The newspaper catches up with a now-20-year-old Boias. It’s definitely one of the more interesting “where are they now” [...]
