It’s the largest panoramic photo ever taken: Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in the European Alps, standing mighty and snow-capped.
Taken in 2015 by Italian photographer Filippo Blengini and Alessandra Bacchilega for the mammoth photographic project, in2white, the photograph was created over a period of 15 days at 11,482 feet above sea level from a total of 70,000 images of the stunning mountain scenery. In frosty 14 degree weather, the five-member team waited a total of 35 hours in the wild to capture every detail of Mont Blanc with a Canon EOS 70D (BrennweiteEF 400mm F2.8). A total of 46 TB of data were then processed in a two-month post-production phase to create what’s most probably the most accurate digital image of the Mont Blanc to-date.
“Mi, ki dan za dnem gulimo sedeže patruljnih vozil, smo tisti, ki najprej spoznamo, kdo ni za v naše vrste. Če molčimo, v tem sodelujemo.” Grega Zalokar.
“Globoko v sebi so moški pač od nekdaj verjeli, in mnogi v to – kot kaže – verjamejo še danes, da je lažje biti spolno nadlegovana ženska kot pa moški, ki mora živeti v strahu pred obtožbamim spolnega nadlegovanja.” Goran Vojnović ga s kolumno O napornih ženskah ta teden zmaga (via dnevnik.si). “Ja, moški so povedali svoje, in ženske naj jim pokimajo ter utihnejo. In bo svet spet lep. Tako si pač nekateri moški predstavljajo enakopravnost spolov. Tako si oni zamišljajo družbo prihodnosti, v kateri ženskam ne bo več treba biti feminističnih bojev. Tako te moške svinje sanjajo kukuruz. Pravzaprav, če dobro pomislim, so zame izmed vseh napornih pojavov v javnem in z mediji zapolnjenem prostoru v zadnjem desetletju najnapornejši moški, ki mislijo, da imajo pravico ženskam zabrusiti, da so postale prenaporne.”
“Ko nas bodo sredstva množičnega obveščanja le še usmerjala in skrbela za naše kratkočasenje, bomo usmerjeni natančno tja, kamor bodo želeli ljudje z največ moči v naših družbah.” Kristina Božič, Uslužno novinarstvo (via vecer.com).
“Media restraint might slow the spread of extremist ideas, but it can’t entirely stop it. Social media means everyone’s a publisher now. This suggests we all could engage in strategic silence too, and less ‘OMG’ meme-spreading.” Online Hate Is Rampant. Here’s How To Keep It From Spreading (via wired.com). Ekstremizem na spletu beleži ogromne dosege tudi zato, ker mediji z veseljem poročajo o njem. Klik klik.
If there’s one thing all these illusions can show you, it’s that you can’t trust your own brain. It’ll blot out peripheral colors right before your eyes to help you focus on a fixed point, turn static images into animations and completely fool you about the colors and shapes you’re looking at.
Troxler’s Effect: Colors Disappear When You Stare
Stare at the image for about half a minute without moving your eyes and watch as it gradually disappears. This is a variation of #Troxler’s effect which essentially says that if you fixate your eyes on a certain point, stimuli near that point will gradually fade. pic.twitter.com/qjIrhKpO2V
Focus on the center of this image, and before long, the colors will start to disappear, revealing either a blank white space or a gray square. Blink, and the colors are back again.
Try it again with the second image: stare at the black cross in the center. Eventually, the pink dots will disappear altogether and only the green moving circle will remain. Troxler’s effect illustrates the efficient way in which our brains ignore peripheral information around a fixation point.
What Color Are These Hearts?
What color are these hearts? That probably sounds like a stupid question – obviously, some of them are orange and some are purple, right? But when the bars around them are removed, their true color will be revealed. Watch the video to see how it works.
None of These Lines are Actually Zig-Zags
This image appears to show alternating lines of curves and zig-zags. In reality, the lines are exactly the same, but the way the light and dark elements are placed accentuate either the curves of the angles to our brains, making them seem like different shapes altogether. The illusion was created by Kohske Takahashi of Chukyo University in Japan and published in the journal i-Perception.
“In the present study, the change of luminance contrast resulted in the percepts of segmentation, which would disrupt the curvature detection. We propose that the underlying mechanisms for the gentle curve perception and those of obtuse corner perception are competing with each other in an imbalanced way and the percepts of corner might be dominant in the visual system.”
White’s Illusion: There’s Only One Shade of Grey Here
The way our eyes adjust to brightness make the very same shade of gray appear either darker or lighter depending on whether it’s surrounded by black or white, as shown in this image. This is known as White’s Illusion, while the Munker-White Illusion is a similar phenomenon that occurs with alternating bars in different colors.
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London-based illustrator Marija Tiurina recent personal project pairs green foods she’s found interesting and inspiring, and creating characters based on them.
These ordinary looking stacks of square paper notes hold hidden surprises inside: each removed sheet reveals more and more of a secret Japanese structure, completely visible once all the pages are pulled.
The Omoshiro (roughly: “fun”) Block uses laser-cutting tech to craft the initial deck with its internal architecture. It is made by Triad, a firm in Japan that mainly makes professional architectural models for design firms.
In tihs case, they have replicated a series of classic buildings from around the country, including the Kiyomizudera Temple in Kyoto and Asakusa Temple in Tokyo as well as the Tokyo Tower skyscraper.
Each block has 100 sheets or more, each uniquely shaped around the void to create the buildings within — in a way, they catalog their own order of usage, each edge profile reflecting the moment it was pulled. Subtly morphing hues between each layer reinforce the effect.
Currently, the blocks can only be bought in-store at Tokyu Hands in Osaka, along with other excavation-themed products and creations (like the book temple shown above).
Like socks, or any other paired object of everyday use, it seems the eternal curse of chopsticks to become separated and mismatched over time, at least until now.
Japanese design firm ...
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Does the same childlike awe and sense of infinite possibility you felt when looking at pop-up books as a kid translate to adult-sized versions of pop-up furniture, rooms and even entire houses today? These transforming objects dramatically expand from a flat package just by pulling on one end, revealing themselves to be surprisingly strong and usable three-dimensional objects.
Pop-Up Interactive Apartment
This ‘pop-up interactive apartment’ by students at TU Delft adapts to inhabitants’ needs by constantly changing functions, bending and sliding folding polypropylene panels to offer chairs, beds, desks and other furniture or fold up out of the way. The result is an apartment that transforms to use a single room for many functions, without requiring any physical effort on behalf of the people who use the space.
Folding Flat-Pack M.A.Di House
This flat-pack house comes in a folded sheet with connected roof panels that pop up into an A-frame with the help of a crane. Once the easy-to-transport 5-foot-tall package is onsite, it takes less than a day to install, and it comes in several different sizes from a 495-square-foot studio to a 904-square-foot family home. The profile and hinges are made of steel, while much of the rest of the home is made of strong and durable cross-laminated timber (CLT) making the whole structure earthquake-resistant.
De-Dimension Furniture by Jongha Choi
Take this two-dimensional geometric wall art down, unfold it in one swift motion, place it on the floor and you’ve got a piece of furniture. ‘De-Dimension’ is a series of pop-up flat-pack furniture by designer Jongha Choi representing his ideas about perspective. “If our perception of an object is not different on a plane image and an actual subject, isn’t it possible to substitute the two with each other?”
Pop-Up Shelf by Meike Harde
How much bookcase do you really need? Maybe you could use a full-height storage piece, or maybe you want it to be shorter to fit beneath a window. German designer Meike Harde’s ‘Stockwerk’ shelf comes as a flat-pack item and easily expands without the need for tools, with pieces that fit together like a puzzle.
Slinky-Style Accordion Chairs That Stretch and Bend
Like a slinky, the Flexible Love Sofa and Chair start out tightly packed into a small package and then expand to surprising lengths when you pull on either end. The furniture series is made from 100% recycled paper, yet the sofa can hold up to 4,232 pounds when fully expanded, and snap back to a mere 5 inches in width when contracted.
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Core samples let geologists examine layers of the Earth, graffiti fans peel back decades of art, or in this case: allow race watchers to see what a century or so of repaved track looks like. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is one of America’s favorite and most famous racetracks, and it has changed a lot over the centuries variously paved with everything from creek gravel to bricks.
IMS president J. Douglas Boles posted this core sample with an annotated graphic giving the history of the various iterations. The thickness is relatively remarkable too, given that it represents just eight repavements over 108 years.
Instead of ripping out and rebuilding, they have simply paved over the old racetrack time and time again, creating what looks like an elaborate chocolate cake when a circular section was lifted out of the ground.
Artificial core sample fans may also be interested in a Dutch building that was given a similar treatment — sampled and examined — in a horizontal direction, removing a section of graffiti-covered wall to analyze how it has changed over time.
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