Macro Photographs of Dew-Covered Dragonflies and Other Insects by David Chambon. Over the past few months photographer David Chambon has been working on a phenomenal series of photos featuring insects covered in tiny water droplets.
Gorgeous Bird Paintings by Adam S. Doyle. Artist Adam S.
Doyle who recently relocated to Hong Kong creates beautiful gestural paintings of birds, where the seemingly incomplete brushstrokes form the feathers and other details of the animal. Amazing Light and Shadow Art by Kumi Yamashita. Living and working in New York City, Japanese artist Kumi Yamashita has a series of work using simple shapes and objects with light to create the most incredible shadows.
Using a single light source that projects light onto the material, Yamashita forms silhouettes of people and faces in the series entitled Light & Shadow. First image: Untitled (Child) A to Z City View City View closeup. Unusual Long Exposure Firework Photographs by David Johnson. While attending the International Fireworks Show in Ottawa, Canada earlier this month photographer David Johnson had his camera in hand to document the night.
When Spain’s entry into the competition begin he decided to try something a little different resulting in the photos you see here which are unlike any long exposure firework shots I’ve ever seen. Via email David tells me how he accomplished the effect: An Interactive Cloud Made of 6,000 Light Bulbs. CLOUD is a large scale interactive installation by artist Caitlind r.c.
Brown that appeared September 15th as part of Nuit Blanche Calgary in Alberta, Canada. The piece is made from 1,000 working lightbulbs on pullchains and an additional 5,000 made from donated burnt out lights donated by the public. Visitors to the installation could pull the chains causing the cloud to sort of shimmer and flicker, I can’t tell you how much I would have enjoyed seeing this up close or at least on video. Did anyone film it? Eric Standley’s Intricate Laser Cut Stained Glass Paper Windows.
Eric Standley works with hundreds of layers of colored paper creating intricate laser cut stain glass windows.
These beautifully constructed works are made up of interlacing positive and negative spaces that seem to “float” in a fabricated suspension. He begins with a drawing, this helps him create the complex range of imagery needed to make a workable design, before cutting and assembling the paper pieces. Alpha Lyrae. Vega Zaishi Wang. Rethinking Products. Why Design – Herman Miller. Buy your hövding! Barkschat, Blumel and Arnold's 63 Grad Fold-Flat Bench.
Studio Gorm's Wood Peg System: Furniture that Hangs Around. Somewhat ironic given their name, but the Shakers never had to deal with subways rattling their walls, and their system of hanging chairs on wall-mounted pegs served them well.
Netherlands-founded, Eugene, OR-based Studio Gorm (remember their Flow Kitchen?) Takes that idea further with their Wood Peg furniture line, a series of benches, stools and tables that all break down flat and can be stored on a rail on the wall. The components are interchangeable, and we know this will scandalize you Ikea fans but there's no Allen keys required; everything goes together and comes apart by hand. 102 Resources for Fiction Writing « Here to Create. UPDATE 1/10: Dead links removed, new links added, as well as Revision and Tools and Software sections.
Are you still stuck for ideas for National Novel Writing Month? Or are you working on a novel at a more leisurely pace? Here are 102 resources on Character, Point of View, Dialogue, Plot, Conflict, Structure, Outlining, Setting, and World Building, plus some links to generate Ideas and Inspiration. Also, I recommend some resources for Revision and some online Tools and Software. Too many links? 10 Days of Character Building Name Generators. Ghostly International presents Matthew Shlian. How to make an origami business card holder. Here's a quick and easy origami project: a business card case or gift card holder.
Use patterned gift wrap (I like heavier-weight wrapping paper for a sturdier case), graph paper, a paper bag, magazine pages, or origami paper. Decorate the case with washi tape or stamps for a cute way to present gift cards. It will look like you put a lot of thought and effort into a gift that was probably the easiest thing you could buy. Slacker. Just kidding. To make a holder for a standard 3.5 x 2" business card, start with an 8.5" square of paper. Place the paper pretty side down.
Fold the left and right edges inward to meet the center fold. Open the paper again. Close the left and right flaps. Turn the paper over and fold the top down so that the exposed diagonal edges meet precisely at the fold. Fold the bottom up in the same way, tucking the bottom edge into the diagonal flaps. Experiments in Garden Hose Hydraulics. Dave Sharp of the Hive76 hackerspace has been playing around with garden hose hydraulics, and the result is rather cool: The pressure in your typical garden hose is nominally around 40 psi or so, so my first hydraulic cylinder should be able to develop about 125 pounds of force if it had really good seals.
