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More than 10 years of hard work wrapped up in this short video reflecting on some of the key moments from the Scott Expedition.

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Made by Washington-based Pink Tank Ltd, Marks for Books are super sleek, lightweight bookmarks cut from stainless steel, perfect for any paper-based bibliophile. Now available in eight designs.

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Nearly three years after sharing the trailer for their short film Noise, polish animators Katarzyna Kijek and Przemysław Adamski (previously here and here) have just released the full version online for the first time. The short was screened at more than 60 film festivals globally over the last few years, receiving numerous awards and accolades along the way. I won’t spoil it for you, but the innovative short explores the visualization of sound through stop motion animation. Via their website:

[Noise is] inspired by the theoretic work of George Berkeley and basics of synesthetic perception. It’s a game of imagination provoked by sound. Individual sounds penetrating into the apartment of the main character relieved of their visual designates evoke images distant from its origins.

You can see a few making of photos over on their blog. FYI: it gets a little dark.

Glassy Sunset, 2013

Tanah Lot Sunset, 2013

Shanghai Freeway, 2014

Chinatown Sunset, 2013

Several months ago we featured a photographic series called Time is a Dimension by artist Qi Wei Fong that depicted layered collages of landscapes and cityscapes photographed over a 2-4 hour period. Fong has since taken the project a step further by animating the images in this new series called Time in Motion. The new photos, shot in locations around China, Indonesia, and Bali show the change in light at sunrise or sunset through angular rays and concentric circles that shimmer as time passes. You can see more from the series on his website.

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Photo by D.A.ST. Arteam courtesy the artists

Photo by D.A.ST. Arteam courtesy the artists

Located near the Red Sea in El Gouna, Egypt, Desert Breath is an impossibly immense land art installation dug into the sands of the Sahara desert by the D.A.ST. Arteam back in 1997. The artwork was a collaborative effort spanning two years between installation artist Danae Stratou, industrial designer Alexandra Stratou, and architect Stella Constantinides, and was meant as an exploration of infinity against the backdrop of the largest African desert. Covering an area of about 1 million square feet (100,000 square meters) the piece involved the displacement of 280,000 square feet (8,000 square meters) of sand and the creation of a large central pool of water.

Photo by D.A.ST. Arteam courtesy the artists

Photo by D.A.ST. Arteam courtesy the artists

Photo by D.A.ST. Arteam courtesy the artists

Photo by D.A.ST. Arteam courtesy the artists

Photo by D.A.ST. Arteam courtesy the artists

Photo by D.A.ST. Arteam courtesy the artists

Photo by D.A.ST. Arteam courtesy the artists

Photo by D.A.ST. Arteam courtesy the artists

Photo by D.A.ST. Arteam courtesy the artists

Although it’s in a slow state of disintegration, Desert Breath remains viewable some 17 years after its completion, you can even see it in satellite images taken from Google Earth. You can learn more about the project in the video above or read about it here. (via Visual News, Synaptic Stimuli)

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Today in Kiev: 18 Dead (In Focus)

Double the Pleasure

Behind the Garage Doors

Child-Proof Minimalism

Love during wartime

Calling Cards

Following the film footage of the 1932 Winter Olympics (ice skating on stilts! Keystone Cops ski jumping!), here's a collection of photos from In Focus of the first 12 Winter Games, from 1924 to 1976.

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Here's a bit of film footage from the third-ever Winter Olympics, held in Lake Placid, NY in 1932. The ski jumping segment is amazing and terrifying.

Here's how those Games compare to the modern day Olympics.

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Pictures in boxes

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Iain Burcke