Archive for the ‘ life ’ Category

A Good Perspective in São Paulo

Great use of design, color and perspective. love it. Via CoolHunting and Arrested Motion: Five Spanish artists take graffiti and mural painting to the streets of Vila Brâsilandia in São Paulo, Brazil. The favela’s winding streets are given a 3D effect with brilliant colors and words that are legible from specific points of perspective. Boa [ READ MORE ]

The 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World

FastCompany has a good list and good insight into what they claim are the 50 most innovative companies in the world. Check out the whole list, here are the top 5: Apple For walking the talk Facebook For 800 million reasons to share Google For expanding its hit lineup Amazon For playing the long game [ READ MORE ]

How Long Do Animals Live?

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Incredible Images of Mars

It’s well known I’m a space geek, and these latest images from the ESA’s Mars Express blew me away. Taken by the 9 year old Mars satellite, the images provide amazing detail of our planetary cousin. Click the photos to see them large. Via Space Fellowship: New images from ESA’s Mars Express show the Syrtis [ READ MORE ]

Classic L.L. Bean Covers, Recreated

Via Laughing Squid: For their 100 year anniversary celebration, Maine-based outdoor retailer L.L. Bean brought on commercial photographer Randal Ford to create modern-day photo reinterpretations of their classic catalog cover art from the past. For the photo of the 1933 catalog cover art, Ford shot the images of local residents at Maine’s Acadia National Park [ READ MORE ]

The Dark Side of the Moon

Perhaps you’ve worn out your Pink Floyd record, but chances are, you’ve never actually seen the dark side of the moon. In its orbit, the moon’s bright side is always facing us, leaving a mysterious dark side, which is highly cratered and rugged. via Cnet and NASA: NASA revealed the first unique views of the [ READ MORE ]

Anatomical Cross-Sections Made with Paper

Awesome cross-sections, via Colossal: For her Tissue Series, artist Lisa Nilsson constructs anatomical cross sections of the human body using rolled pieces of Japanese mulberry paper, a technique known as quilling or paper filigree. Each piece takes several weeks to assemble and begins with an actual photograph of a lateral or mid-sagittal cross section to [ READ MORE ]

NASA’s New Blue Marble

For those that say NASA doesn’t serve a community purpose, just glance at this stunning new photo composite of our earth. Amazing. Via Colossal: NASA has just published what it calls the “most amazing highest resolution image of Earth ever”, dubbed Blue Marble. The 64-megapixel image weighing in at 8000×8000 pixels is actually a composite [ READ MORE ]

Endangered West Indian Manatees

These endangered creatures in Florida are quite graceful in the water[ READ MORE ]

Amazing Undersea Life

Via io9: Russian photographer Alexander Semenov creates photographs of marine life that just burst with color and energy. You may have understood, on some intellectual level, that the ocean depths are an ecosystem, teeming with life and all connected. But looking at these stunning photos will make you seeit in a new way. Semenov is [ READ MORE ]

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