David Pelaez

blazepress:

National Geographic’s Top 20 Photos Taken in 2016

blazepress:

Watching This 573-Pound Firework Explode Is So Insane It Doesn’t Look Real

Artist Lui Ferreyra draws colorful portraits of hands and faces, works that use discrete shapes of color as highlights and shadows. These geometric fragments are blended by the viewer’s eye rather than the artist’s hand, producing color fields that Ferreyra intends to call attention to the connection between seeing and language.

“There’s a double move at play here,” explains Ferreyra’s website about his work. “The first move is substantiated by a geometric matrix which functions as surface: it embraces and emphasizes the aspect of flatness within a complex network of geometric shapes, each unique unto itself. The second move is fulfilled by the cumulative effect of all the shapes functioning together as a color-field in which each shape contextualizes every other shape, thereby providing all the necessary visual cueing to manifest a kind of window one can look through. Surface and window, at and through, like language which points both at the world and back at itself.”

You can see more of Ferreyra’s colorful drawings, in addition to oil paintings, on Instagram, Facebook, or William Havu Gallery where he is represented. (via This Isn’t Happiness)

victimsofcomics:

A Christmas Carol: 2016

by Wrong Hands

itsfullofstars:

APOLLO 11 FLIGHT PLAN

digitally remastered and enlarged by a Redditor.

the details are just… magnificent.

don’t you think?

(via articulateantagonist)

schauteraber:

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Le surfer Mick Fanning, champion du monde à trois reprises en 2007, 2009 et 2013, s’est rendu en Norvège dans les îles Lofoten. Il a affronté les eaux glaciales pour nous offrir des images hallucinantes d’une session qui l’est tout autant. En effet, il a eu la chance de surfer au-dessous de la lumière d’une aurore boréal dans la nuit Norvégienne. Le tout immortalisé par Red Bull et les photographes Mats Grimsæth et Emil Sollie.

Here’s a fun piece called Radio Garden. It’s exactly what the title says. Pan the globe and listen to live radio at all the green dots.

Tags: globe, radio

If 2016 was a bird.

pdlcomics:

Knowledge

by Maxwell Klaus

orbo-gifs:

Otter belly slide

designed for an older couple that like to travel, the home serves as a low-maintenance home that can be left for extended periods of time, or capable of hosting larger groups.

The post coy yiontis architects design humble house for traveling couple appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

rollersinstinct:

Roads I’d like to ride (down): Los Caracoles Pass, or The Snails Pass is a twisting mountain road located in the Andes Mountains on the Chilean side of the border with Argentina. The path climbs to an elevation of 10,419 feet and has no roadside safety barriers, and is frequented by large trucks.

The photo is published in Benjamin Grant’s Overview. 

(via flapper_jack)

retro2mod:

Berkeley ‘70

Gaphic designer Stephan Brusche (aka iSteef) continues his journey to transform bananas into art. These Fruitdoodles, as the Dutch artist has dubbed them, are one part sculpture, one part drawing, and one part pure imagination. Brusche is able to see unlimited possibilities with his edible canvas, though his work mainly focuses on animals, pop culture, and Biblical stories.

More info: Stephan Brusche, Facebook, Instagram, Society6 (h/t: mymodernmet)

Originaire d’Islande, Bragi J. Ingibergsson est un photographe amateur amoureux de son pays. Très à l’écoute de la nature, il a réalisé de très beaux clichés des plages islandaises, ou encore, des aurores boréales. Dans cette série de photos, ce sont des chevaux sauvages que l’on découvre. A l’aise devant l’objectif, ces animaux sont de parfait modèles photo.

Photo by Joel Santos/Barcroft Images

Purev’s reflection is perfectly captured in the icy water in Altai Mountains, Mongolia, September 2016. Navigate the snowy wilds of Mongolia with this nomadic reindeer herding family. Photographer Joel Santos dived 1000km into the depths of Northern Mongolia to visit the Ganbaa family near Khovsgol Lake. Despite only being able to spend three days in the Tsaatan familyÌs camp, Santos travelled for four days to reach them – three driving and one on horseback – before repeating the epic journey to return home. Travelling with an interpreter and a fellow photographer from Màràn, Mongolia, the photographer met the Ganbaa family, led by matriarch Purev who lives with Buyantogtokh, a widowed reindeer herder.

Purev of the Ganbaa family poses next to one of their teepees in Altai Mountains, Mongolia

Photo by Joel Santos/Barcroft Images

One of the youngest members of the family cuddles her reindeer in the woods in Altai Mountains, Mongolia

Photo by Joel Santos/Barcroft Images

To visit the Tsaatan people the photographer travelled 1000km into the furthest reaches of the North in Altai Mountains, Mongolia

Photo by Joel Santos/Barcroft Images

Matriarch Purev poses with the family reindeer with Batbayar and Bayardalai in Altai Mountains, Mongolia

Photo by Joel Santos/Barcroft Images

Purev gives her snow white reindeer a stroke next to the lake in Altai Mountains, Mongolia

Photo by Joel Santos/Barcroft Images

The Tsaatan people rely on their reindeer for milk, cheese and transportation in Altai Mountains, Mongolia

Photo by Joel Santos/Barcroft Images

Uchraa is already well trained in riding the family reindeer in Altai Mountains, Mongolia

Photo by Joel Santos/Barcroft Images

Purev stokes the fire in her teepee oven, heated with reindeer dung in Altai Mountains, Mongolia

Photo by Joel Santos/Barcroft Images

Purev’s reflection is perfectly captured in the icy water in Altai Mountains, Mongolia

Photo by Joel Santos/Barcroft Images

Purev and Buyantogtokh enjoy the warmth of the fire in the snow in Altai Mountains, Mongolia

Photo by Joel Santos/Barcroft Images

Purev is the matriarch of the Gabaa family in Altai Mountains, Mongolia

Photo by Joel Santos/Barcroft Images

Buyantogtokh is a widowed woman who lives with Purev in Altai Mountains, Mongolia

Photo by Joel Santos/Barcroft Images

Bayardalai, nicknamed Jijee, rides his reindeer in the snowy forest in Altai Mountains

Photo by Joel Santos/Barcroft Images

Purev, Bayardalai and Batbayer take a reindeer trek through the snowy forest in Altai Mountains, Mongolia

Photo by Joel Santos/Barcroft Images

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the structure originally opened in 1962, and served as trans world airlines’ terminal until 2001 when it was no longer able to support modern aircraft.

The post work starts on transforming eero saarinen’s JFK terminal building into TWA hotel appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

Check out this incredible shot of the Faroe Islands that we found on @globelusters. The archipelago is located between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic, roughly halfway between Norway and Iceland. Despite its northerly latitude, temperatures here average above freezing throughout the year due to the Gulf Stream. /// LINK IN BIO to our new book 📘 /// Photo found on @globelusters, 📷 by @kpunkka (at Faroe Islands)

obviousplant:

I added some new toy options to my local toy store

Mini bucking bronco. [full video]