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Photography

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Feb 16, 2011

When photographer Gerco De Ruijter set out to reveal "the Dutch culturally defined landscape"—a hard regiment of efficiency, gridded out by urban and rural planners—he came up with a beautiful aerial ...

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Feb 12, 2011

If you missed our previous posts on Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal's attempt to go cyborg, here's the short and skinny: First, Bilal announced a plan to implant a camera in his head, a project entitled 3rdi ...

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Feb 10, 2011

A couple weeks ago, I attended Photo LA with my mother, a photographer. On our way out, we came across a blind man with a seeing eye dog. It begged the obvious question-- "blind photographer" is about ...

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Feb 7, 2011

Kevin Van Aelst creates witty visual "one-liners" by recontextualizing everyday, ordinary objects. With a few simple tweaks, the viewer recognizes a roll of tape as the ocean or reads gummi worms as c ...

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Jan 31, 2011

Photographer Sara Naim creates an oddly beautiful visual documentation of sound: Beethoven's classic Moonlight Sonata, envisioned with milk. Open in another tab. Listen and look. Does it do the trick? ...

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Jan 25, 2011

Alex Lewis imagines what the world would look like infiltrated by video game characters in his digital montage series "Video Games vs. Real Life".  (P.S. If you like what you see, check out Lewis' t-s ...

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Jan 24, 2011

Stunning selection of photographs from French photographer Cedric Pollet's new book, Bark: An Intimate Look at the World's Trees. The photographer traveled across five continents to capture the the ex ...

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Jan 17, 2011

Forget splurging on a fancy digital camera. All you need to do is attach a lens from a pair of dollar store reading glasses, and you'll get your macro shot. From Sean Lee, how to make a fifty cent mac ...

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Jan 12, 2011

Glacial Wanderer demonstrates how to build a high-speed air gap flash fast enough to capture a speeding bullet without it getting blurred. These types of flash units usually run around $8K+, but for a ...

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Jan 6, 2011

Luckily for us, human aging is a long, slow process. One day newborn babe... 36,500 days later, you're old. Really old. And how you looked in between is all but forgotten. To see a side-by-side mappin ...