Cooper Griggs

ymutate:

Macha Suzuki, ‘Nice Try (black)’, 2010, MDF, wood, enamel, courtesy of the artist

spartisa:

yes.

via http://cghub.com/images/view/29464/

i’m 60 miles from this relatively modest quake, but it still woke me up. of course, being a life-long californian, i went back to sleep.

tokay gecko (Gekko gecko) by Mark Dumont

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Many parts of the world honor this year’s St. Patrick’s Day with ample applications of green colors, including Chicago’s dyed river, festive wigs worn in London’s parade, and Ireland’s illuminated Trim Castle.

See, and share, more photos in the St. Patrick’s Day Festivities gallery.

Photos from ChicagoPhotoShop, PeteTsai, WildebeestEyes, Mista Sparkle, tj.blackwell, ElenaK@Chicago, Vemsteroo, dexout, Chencho Mendoza, D464-Darren Hall, christennyson2008, irishman6351, and bigjoephotos LIPF.

nevver:

Dublin

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check out these two dingalings, diving under their news-mother’s apron at the first sign of trouble!! i only trust journalists who get on top of their desks and shake their fist at the earth shouting “bring it on, you tectonic motherf

Back in 2012 we posted about “Alternate Perspectives,” the mind-boggling distorted panoramas of filmmaker and photographer Randy Scott Slavin. Slavin recently released a second part of the series, which includes many more of his digitally composited images. Prints are available on his website.

via My Modern Metropolis

It’s been over two years since we last featured the work of French duo Lucie Thomas and Thibault Zimmermann of Zim&Zou (previously here and here). The pair of graphic designers create paper sculpture, installations, and illustrations for leading luxury brands, books, magazines as well as their own edification. Collected here are a number of works from the last few years and you can explore much more over on their website and on Behance.

via http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/005462.html

phil had a hanker for brunch at the side door. in addition to the chicken & waffles, the prime rib sandwich and the charcuterie plate, we sampled the “bloody stoplight”, 3 different types of bloody mary (presented on a little wooden door… clever):

• spicy red tomato mix with vodka
• heirloom yellow tomato with gin
• green tomatillo & cactus with tequila

yep, about as amazing as it sounds.

Two galaxies are squaring off in

Since 2008 Hungarian/German graphic designer David Szakaly has been churning out some of the most dizzying, hypnotic and wholly original gifs on the web under the name Davidope. His blend of twisting organic forms, flashes of black and white, and forays into pulsing technicolor shapes have inspired legions of others to experiment with the medium, many of whom have been featured here on Colossal. It’s hard to determine the scale of Szakaly’s influence online, but a simple Google image search for “animated gif” brings up dozens of his images that have been shared around Tumblr hundreds of thousands of times.

Szakaly began experimenting with the vector animation program Macromedia Flash back in 1999 where he used the software to create presentations, banners, and other creatives for clients. It was nearly a decade later when he decided to dedicate more time to experimenting with motion graphics and found that Tumblr was a great platform to share his quirky gifs. While he still works in the corporate world on other digital projects, he has also found commercial success making animations for clients around the world. Though it’s his personal work that really stands out. If or when gifs end up on gallery walls, it will be hard to deny Szakaly’s role in getting them there.

To celebrate our 10^th anniversary, we asked you to share up to 10 of your favorite photos from the past 10 years in the #Flickr10 group. Today we’re starting our Samplr series featuring some of our favorites, and we’ll continue posting more of your faves throughout the next 10 days. We hope you enjoy the selection!

Photos from Lou Bert, sandeepachetan.com, dacbild, dinesh.I, Karthi KN Raveendiran, Studio d’Xavier, Maveeran Somasundaram, ginaballerina., Stéphane Dégremont, and Austin Tott.