Slow Motion Liquids Make for Awesome Photos May 9th, 2011 by Shane McGlaun I have a DSLR camera that I bought mostly for the fast shutter speed, so I could actually get pictures of my kids rather than photos of elbows or ears thanks to the wait for the shutter to go off on a point and shoot. I’m not artistic enough to take really cool pictures. As close as I have come to a cool photo is one of my son playing soccer where the background is blurry from him running, but he is in focus. I don’t think I could ever take photos as cool as the ones that artist Ryan Taylor has. These awesome photos are the result of milk, paint, and water that are mixed together to make all sorts of rich colors. The water balloon ones are very cool too. [via Colossal Art & Design] Raitosho Watch Tells Time with LED Light Beams Egg Machine Puts Live Chickens in Vending Machine
Carved Book Landscapes by Guy Laramee | Colossal - StumbleUpon (click images for detail) For the better part of three decades multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramee has worked as a stage writer, director, composer, a fabricator of musical instruments, a singer, sculptor, painter and writer. Among his sculptural works are two incredible series of carved book landscapes and structures entitled Biblios and The Great Wall, where the dense pages of old books are excavated to reveal serene mountains, plateaus, and ancient structures. Of these works he says: So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes. Laramee’s next show will be in April of 2012 at the Galerie d’Art d’Outremont in Montreal. Top 50 Pictures of the Day 2012 Jun 28, 2012 *Update: The Top 100 ‘Pictures of the Day’ for 2012 have just been published. Click here to check out the most up-to-date post! After the positive reception from last year’s “Top 50 ‘Pictures of the Day’ for 2011“, we promised to highlight the top 25 ‘Pictures of the Day’ at the end of every quarter, eventually culminating in an epic Top 100 for 2012. It’s hard to believe we’re at the halfway point for 2012. With that, here are the Sifter’s Top 50 ‘Pictures of the Day‘ for this year. Please note the photographs themselves were not necessarily taken in 2012, they just happened to be featured as a ‘Picture of the Day’ this year :) Enjoy!
Commitment To Sparkle Motion: Sparkler Portraits and Light Painting Twice a year we have the ability to stock up on sticks that twinkle when we light them on fire. Sparklers have a color you can't replicate. Here we will talk about how to use sparklers for lighting portraits and light painting. From common mistakes to best practices, let's lock in your commitment to Sparkle Motion! Twinkle, sputter, and fire drizzling glory from such small sticks. Sparklers were invented by Callinicos of Heliopolis in about AD 670. I fell in love with images of sparklers in other photographs. I wondered what camera, film, and exposure time was needed to take some photos without additional light sources. I started with light painting. 1. 2. 3. 4. Light painting with Sparklers: You’ll want 400 iso film for this project, if you use cameras with an f8 aperture and up. Once you have the timing down, you can light the sparkler and open the shutter. You can really create anything you want to around your friends or other subjects. Please activate JavaScript to see this gallery 5.
- StumbleUpon 1994's MOST BIZARRE SUICIDE At the 1994 annual awards dinner given by the American Association for Forensic Science, AAFS President Don Harper Mills astounded his audience in San Diego with the legal complications of a bizarre death. Here is the story. "On 23 March 1994, the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound of the head. The decedent had jumped from the top of a ten- story building intending to commit suicide (he left a note indicating his despondency). "When one intends to kill subject A but kills subject B in the attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject B. "The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old couple's son loading the shotgun approximately six weeks prior to the fatal incident. There was an exquisite twist. "The medical examiner closed the case as a suicide."
Top 50 Pictures of the Day 2011 Every day at 5pm the Sifter posts the Picture of the Day. Below you will find a collection of the Sifter’s Top 50 from 2011. It’s hard to imagine the year is almost over, time seems to fly faster each successive year so it’s fun to take a moment and look back at the year that was. Click any of the pictures below to be taken to the individual post to learn more about the photographer and picture taken.
Create Great Light Painting Imagery Using Fireworks Hello again! It’s Dana, twin cities brightest, back again with more tricks for light painting photography. I hope you have all been practicing because it’s time to deal with the unruly beast – fireworks. So, fireworks, as the name suggests involve fire. General Settings Now that we all agree to be safe we can get down to business. This means that you may have to expose a bit more after you are done with the fireworking to allow for proper background exposure. A different aspect of shooting outside is light contamination. There are several things that you can do minimize light pollution: If you are alone (which you should not be) you can set the camera on bulb and block the lens with our back until you set up. if you are shooting with a friend, don’t start the exposure until you are setup. Lastly, you can stack two images together in photoshop. Sparklers Sparklers are super fun, and even better on a sting. There are two options to light the sparkle. Roman Candles Fountains Steel wool
How to Be Happy in Life? | Happiness is a Choice Written by Naren on October 31, 2008 I am reminded of an incident from my childhood and I think it makes sense to include it in this article. Whenever I used to get ill, my mom used to give me so much care and attention that I got a little spoiled. I started taking advantage of the situation, and sometimes just pretended to have a headache or fever. I loved it when I was the center of attraction and getting anything I wanted. And, it is true that many of us also apply this trick, whenever we can, to gather sympathy and care from the others. This game that we have learned as a child is one main reason why we choose to be sad and miserable instead of happy. The second important factor is that when people see others happy, they tend to get jealous -- because it reminds them of their own inner misery. However, when we are feeling sad or something bad has happened to us, lots of our friends console us with their words of comfort. So, how can we overcome this and be happy in life? Conclusion
Amazing urban & landscape photography Martin Turner is a 36 year-old living in Bristol, UK. Photography is his hobby and passion, and he has been shooting for over six years. He mainly shoots architecture and landscapes, although has an interest in all forms of photography. For more amazing urban & landscape photography by Martin Turner, please check out his website here or drop by his flickr photostream right here. This post-apocalyptic short animation deserves its own movie Does it come with a left hand throttle like the one in the movie? Ha - I hadn't noticed that! :) But no, I don't think so. (Are there really ones with left-hand throttles? Very rarely. Yup. There are quite a few MT-01s where I live (I don't like them much, however I enjoyed its little sibling the -03 a lot, even though there's no way you can drive either like the one in the film) and that's why I knew the sound was definitely not this one :) It does sound more like a racing, medium-displacement two-stroke, doesn't it?