L’astronaute français Thomas Pesquet a la chance de faire partie, depuis le 17 novembre 2016, de la mission Proxima. Il séjourne actuellement et ce durant 6 mois dans la Station Spatiale Internationale jusqu’en mai 2017. Il nous fait partager son expérience à bord de l’ISS sur les réseaux sociaux mais également la richesse des vues que l’on peut avoir sur notre petite Planète Bleue, qui nous dévoile toute sa beauté. L’expérience de l’astronaute est à également chaque jour sur sa page Facebook.
La NASA alimente son compte Instagram à l’aide de clichés splendides en provenance de notre univers. Le télescope spatial Hubble y est pour beaucoup. Les habitants de la Station Spatiale Internationale nous offrent aussi de magnifiques images saisies à travers les fenêtres. Les outils spatiaux permettent également de capturer des phénomènes impressionnants, comme les trous noirs. Nous avons sélectionné 20 des plus jolis clichés spatiaux publiés en 2016 par l’agence spatiale américaine. Un court voyage loin de notre Terre vous est offert.
Festo es una compañía dedicada a la automatización industrial con todo lo que se espera que tenga una compañía dedicada a la automatización industrial. Por supuesto, no le falta un equipo de ingenieros capaz de desarrollar algún juguete que cause asombro en los medios no especializados.
Es el caso de este trío de animales imaginarios que parecen creados para ambientar cualquier película o serie de ciencia ficción.
Los tres son voladores: una especie de mariposa que nos gusta menos que una especie de pingüino que, a su vez, nos gusta menos que una especie de medusa que es la bomba, con alas.
Kevin Pogorzelski, November winner. “On safari in Kenya, we were forced to stop our jeep for this family of ostriches to cross the dirt track. What made it so engaging was the mother attentively waiting for the chicks to cross while, out of shot, the father was leading the way”. MICK RYAN, JUDGE: Funny-looking flightless birds and their offspring give us comedy and cuteness – and an immediate emotional response. A clear monthly winner by anyone’s standards – and what lovely colour. (Photo by Kevin Pogorzelski/The Guardian)
Damian Black, October winner. “A burst of the aurora borealis over Kirkjufell, taken in September 2016. This shot has been a holy grail for me and was finally captured after many trips”. MICK RYAN, JUDGE: Iceland is a hotspot for aurora photography and this composition of the symmetric, free-standing Kirkjufell and the trident waterfall is much-sought after. If you can time your visit when the aurora “kp” index is high and know the settings for nighttime aurora images, you may end up with a beautiful photograph like this. (Photo by Damian Black/The Guardian)
Jim Metcalf, January winner. “The summit of the Weismiess, a mountain above Saas Fee, on the border of Switzerland and Italy. I was fortunate to be, with my son, the first to summit on the day. We saw another party following our footsteps along the summit ridge”. MICK RYAN, JUDGE: With a sense of scale added by the three figures, this above-the-clouds mountain scene has a strong narrative from foreground to background. When trekking or climbing in the mountains it is often useful to look out for people to include in your composition rather than pure landscape compositions. (Photo by Jim Metcalf/The Guardian)
Jason Pemberton, February winner. “A sculptor in one of Kolkata’s many idol-making workshops inspects his work while adding the finishing touches. A multitude of clay deities are made for immersion in the Hooghly river at religious festivals”. MICK RYAN, JUDGE: A wonderful, atmospheric glimpse of a man making clay heads. Although his surroundings are busy with decorations and tools, the pastel colour palette and subtle lighting evoke feelings of calm and mystery. (Photo by Jason Pemberton/The Guardian)
Keith Urry, March winner. “As we were leaving the Manang valley, Nepal, early in the morning I looked back to see this gorgeous light over the valley and got this shot before the scene changed”. MICK RYAN, JUDGE: Zoom lenses should be used more often for landscape photography, rather than just the usual wide-angle lenses. In this stunning photograph the scene is compressed with a zoom lens bringing the distant mountains nearer to add great contrast of scale to the village on the rocky mesa. Add a serpentine river, low clouds and you have a powerful winning photograph. (Photo by Keith Urry/The Guardian)
Tim Daw, May winner. “The snowpack in Oregon may be good this year, but it will take several years to emerge from drought in the western US. Here a tractor is harrowing rather than ploughing, to prevent the soil surface from drying out too much”. MICK RYAN, JUDGE: Often photographers are advised to fill the frame, but sometimes it is best to give the subject space and let it do the talking. Everything’s happening in the lower fifth of the frame here: a tractor, its dust trail, fence line and grassland, all against snowy mountains, and above lovely emptiness giving those subjects emphasis. (Photo by Tim Daw/The Guardian)
Jill Sett, July winner. “Piazza Garibaldi, Cefalu, Sicily. My favourite bar with Marcella the waitress staring off into space”. MICK RYAN, JUDGE:Wandering around when travelling, especially off the beaten track, is a way to get a real feel for a place. Take a camera and you observe and enjoy more. Good street photography is hard, especially in daylight. When the sun sets and the lights are turned down you are hidden and less self-conscious. Use a high ISO and hand hold, and you may get something like this moment, where there is mystery and tension. (Photo by Jill Sett/The Guardian)
Ben Goodwin, August winner. “Rio de Janeiro as seen from Corcovado, with the shadow of Christ the Redeemer projected onto the clouds and framed by a rainbow”. MICK RYAN, JUDGE: What perfect timing, and not just because of the Olympics. Landscape photography is often dependent on light and weather for that wow factor, and being in the right place at the right time. This dramatic image, taken early morning with the light shining through the mist, produces a broken spectre – a rainbow shadow – of the statue. It must have taken some planning and effort to get such a wonderful photograph. (Photo by Ben Goodwin/The Guardian)
Ben Moore, December winner. “The gorgeous little children of the Hamar tribe in southern Ethiopia were only too happy to make this circle of feet for me. They laughed their heads off the whole time”. MICK RYAN, JUDGE: Maybe a set-up shot, but many are. The most poignant memories of a trip often aren’t the grand vistas or the glorious sunrises and sunsets, but the smallest details. These children sitting in a circle and this lovely composition of just their toes, feet and legs, says so much. You decide what. (Photo by Ben Moore/The Guardian)
Simon Cove, April winner and 2016 runner-up. “Bus stop, rush hour, Bangkok. I was attracted by the symmetry of this Bangkok footbridge. The waiting people enhance the composition and show something of city life”. MICK RYAN, JUDGE: Sometimes it is not the popular landmarks that grab our attention and it is good to explore the less obvious. I find this photograph mesmerising. A beautifully composed study yet with so many subject points – apartments, plants, aerials, wires – framed by the bridge and steps and people. The processing of the colour in retro-film tones adds calm to this chaotic scene. (Photo by Simon Cove/The Guardian)
Simon Dunn, runner-up, September winner. “South Ari Atolls, Maldives. The photo shows my partner and dive buddy, Emma, surfacing after the last dive of the day to 1.5 metre swells and dark monsoon clouds. The image shows just how unforgiving the sea and weather changes can be in the Indian Ocean”. MICK RYAN, JUDGE: This is active travel photography, with the photographer and subject in the thick of it. This beautiful portrait of a diver below a menacing sky stands out for its emotional and elemental beauty. It is a reminder that while we may play among nature, we are always dwarfed by its power. (Photo by Simon Dunn/The Guardian)
Alastair Swan, overall winner, June winner. “Balloon flight over Old Bagan, Myanmar. Bagan has temples and pagodas as far as the eye can see. Experiencing this sight at dawn from a hot-air balloon will remain engraved in my memory for ever”. MICK RYAN, JUDGE: This photograph makes me want to be there. Alastair has got the composition, depth of field, exposure, colour and subjects all perfect. It is the early morning light on the pagodas that makes it for me, the golden hour providing beautiful illumination of the retrogression of the temples and balloons toward a misty. (Photo by Alastair Swan/The Guardian)
According to fold7 advertising agency: “Our next installment of ‘If Carlsberg did’ activity broke yesterday with the launch of the world’s first ever beer-serving poster at The Truman Brewery in Shoreditch. For one day only, the public were able to pour themselves a Carlsberg direct from the poster, which was embedded with a Carlsberg tap and a stack of glasses. As you’d expect, the announcement of free beer coupled with a burst of early summer sun caused quite a commotion, with punters queuing from midday right through to the evening.”
“The twist on the traditional poster, which is also being supported by a social media drive, quickly became a hit with folks lapping up the chance to boast about the one-off experience with their peers on their social profiles. Coverage was gained in Sun online, Mirror.co.uk, Metro, The Telegraph online, the Guardian, Time Out London and internet phenomenon, The LAD Bible. This form of creative advertising even saw global attention, generating fans all over from Ireland, to Ukraine, to France and Russia. American weekly news magazine TIME were also keen not to miss out on the beer hysteria. Probably the best poster in the world? No need for ‘probably’ anymore it seems…”
So a few days ago, Vanity Fair published this piece
It’s pretty scathing. And a genuinely good restaurant review piece.
Then, about 14 hours later, our president-elect (who’s too busy to go to security briefings), took to Twitter to respond
Vanity Fair took it and ran with it.
When you click that banner?
So, of course, I subscribed. And I bought the $5 gift subscription for my mom, who’s…VERY republican.
I’m going to be spending the next 4 years supporting every publication that speaks out in any way against Trump. Yeah, that means Vanity Fair and Teen Vogue (if you haven’t read their article on how Trump is gaslighting America, you need to get on it). And if that means also getting some fantastic articles on pop culture and skin care, I’m on board.
Fun fact, Vanity Fair is edited by Graydon Carter, who has a longstanding feud with Trump. In fact, he was one of the first people to note how tiny pawed Trump was when he called him a “short-fingered vulgarian” in Spy back in 1988.
So the review was totally a hit piece meant to improve sales and poke fun at a long term nemesis.
What is REALLY cool is how VF, Carter, and Conde Nast in general handled things for Tina Nguyen, the writer of the piece.
Naturally writing something as savage as her review was going to invite hate, which any journalist is familiar with and well inoculated to.
So good guy Carter and friends actually went out of their way to protect Nguyen. They screened calls to her office line and set the whole VF PR team on a mission to find and stop any attempts to dox Nguyen.
And this is so so so vital. Generally speaking writers are expected to deal with the hate themselves unless it’s life threatening. They’ve had the luxury of decades of dealing with US Presidents who’s nastiest response would be to kick someone out of their press pool or deny access.
Trump AGGRESSIVELY pursues journalists who personally insult him or his “policies.” He won’t necessarily send police to their homes (we hope), but he will mobilize his few million followers, and as we’ve seen with Gamergate–a bully movement that absolutely fed into Trump–that’s a VERY DANGEROUS THING.
Le jeune photographe français Yoann Olawinski s’est lancé l’été dernier, le défi de faire un tour de France de 3300 kilomètres à pied, accompagné de Darwin, son malinois âgé de deux ans. Avec pour objectif de découvrir le pays sous un autre angle, dans l’inconfort et au plus près des habitants. Il a ainsi documenté son périple à l’aide de clichés qu’il a mis en ligne sur son blog. Un livre est actuellement en préparation.
On this day, forty eight years ago, the Apollo 8 spacecraft swept around the dark side of the Moon to begin its journey home. As Earth climbed above the Moon’s horizon, astronaut Bill Anders pointed his customized Hasselblad 500 EL camera out the window and took this photograph – Earthrise . ‘It’s ironic,’ Anders remarked later. ‘We came to discover the Moon and we actually discovered Earth.’
Until now, only 551 humans have made the journey into space where they could gaze down in wonder at our small blue planet, floating in the infinite vastness of the cosmos. The experience has given them a new perspective, allowing them to appreciate the true extent to which everything on Earth is connected and interdependent. The anecdotes and descriptions provided by these astronauts led science writer Frank White to coin a term for this profound psychological shift. He called it the ‘Overview Effect’.
It is that same idea that inspired this project and all of our daily posts. Three years in, we are beyond humbled to see everything that has happened and wildly excited about all of the new perspectives out there to discover.
Most people will agree that 2016 wasn’t the best year. But these pictures prove that it wasn’t all bad.
Bird builds her nest on police car, the cops attach an umbrella to the windshield to keep her safe from the elements and tape off the parking spot so nobody bothers her:
