Irradiated Love

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Locked in a Vegas Hotel Room with a Phantom Flex

quote [Violating the laws of nature. Playing God. Capturing stuff we are not supposed to see. Potentially opening up a wormhole in the fabric of time. These are a few of the things I think about while shooting with a Phantom High Speed Digital Cinema camera. The above video is a bunch of test footage I shot to get familiar with the new “Flex” version. I shot inside my Las Vegas Palms Casino hotel room between the hours of 2am and 6am. If you had a Phantom in your bedroom, you would stay up too!].

Spiders in Pakistan encase whole trees in webs

Full news quote [Eerie phenomenon may be a blessing in disguise, as the hungry spiders have significantly reduced the mosquito population].

Photos: ‘Snow monsters’ of Japan

quote [Ghostly trees covered in snow and rime ice -- known as "snow monsters" or juhyou (frost-covered trees) in Japanese -- are a celebrated feature of the winter landscape in mountainous areas of northern Japan. Here are a few photos].

Apple Destroyed Products

A gallery of Apple Destroyed Products produced by Michael Tompert and Paul Fairchild.

Your beautiful eyes

Suren Manvelyan's macro photos of eyes. See the gallery "Your beautiful eyes".

Game of Life in HTML 5

quote [Joseph Mansfield created an HTML 5 implementation of John Conway's Game of Life, the classic cellular automaton first devised in 1970. Conway's Game of Life in HTML 5
(via Boing Boing)

Glowing algae turn Australian lakes electric blue

quote [This time-lapse photo was taken in eastern Victoria, Australia, and features Noctiluca Scintillans, a type of algae that naturally produces a light-emitting chemical reaction. You can't see it during the day, but, at night, the algae glow electric blue, illuminating portions of the shoreline where wind pushed the blooms during the day. Call it Mother Nature's little light-switch rave. The backstory of this algae outbreak is every bit as interesting as the photos themselves. As told by photographer Phil Hart, this infestation of shiny is the direct result of (in this exact order) raging forest fires, massive floods and a potentially deadly outbreak of Cyanobacteria. Epic! Check out Phil Hart's full gallery of Noctiluca Scintillans photos.
(via Boing Boing)

Weird Ads for Bosch Refrigerator

Bosch refrigerator comes with VitaFresh technology, keeping your food fresh much longer. You do not understand? Hey, see here, are still kept fresh even till today. Keeps food fresh for much longer: dinosaur leg and sabertooth filet. Photographer: Szymon Plewa.
[Previously on... advertising]

Hail Storm Oklahoma City

quote [This was the most insane hail storm or storm in general I have ever seen! it was may 16th 2010. Sorry about all of the oh my Gods. I was just in shock].

Incredible Paintings by Tetsuya Ishida

HomePage (... in japanese, but you can easily borwse galleries).
quote [Tetsuya Ishida (born in June 1973, Shizuoka) was a Japanese painter who died May 23,2005 after being hit by a train. Tetsuya Ishida painted scenes of ordinary Japanese life, but with the protagonist (a self portrait) always trapped in a machine-like body, or treated as part of a production line].

The fusion of science and pornography

quote [In The Atrocity Exhibition (1970) Traven explores what most people would regard as pretty frightening pornographic imagery; he explores with the kind of eye of a forensic pathologist. He treats sexual desire as if it was something stretched out on an autopsy table; he takes a woman’s body and dismantles it – not literally, but almost literally – and constructs a kit which is literally that. I mean inside of a suitcase, as you show in the film, there is a set of the key elements that we respond to when we become sexually aroused – a pair of latex breasts, nipples, detachable pubic hair...].
(J.G. Ballard, interviewed by Jonathan Weiss in 2006, commentary track on The Atrocity Exhibition 2000; film directed by Weiss).
[Thumbnail: From the ‘Kiss’ series, by Wim Delvoye].

Iceland Live Webcams

Live stream of Icelandic nature through various high-speed webcams.

Beautiful Animal Photography By Tim Flach

quote [Tim Flach (b. 1958, London, United Kingdom) is a photographer best known for his highly conceptual portraits of animals, particularly horses. His images of animals are considered a departure from traditional wildlife photography and he has been described as “a potent example of a commercially trained photographer who’s now reaching a global audience through the boom in fine art photography].

Ultra slo-mo videos from Make Faire

quote [Last weekend 3ric and Nathan Pegram attended Maker Faire down in the Bay Area. While there, they did live demos with the Phantom camera and gave a talk about shooting mosquitoes with lasers. We conducted some pure hackery in order to make these videos. The first key part was having a "Nanoflash SDI recorder". This standalone recorder can do real-time compression of 1080p content onto compact flash. In order to film and export video at a fast rate, we needed some other method than our typical "wait 15 minutes for gigabit ethernet" process. So we wired up this recorder to the Phantom, along with a linksys WRT54G access point running rogue firmware].

Earth collapsed in Guatemala Sink Hole

quote [The Guatemala sink hole has become an Internet sensation since the weekend. However, the sink hole is also part of a national tragedy, after the country was hit by a tropical storm. It was one thing to have almost 100
people killed by the past weekend's storm, and to have a major rebuilding process ahead from that. But having this giant crater form is something else, as it still looks like something so unrealistic that it had to have been Photoshopped. However, the Guatemala sink hole is very real, and also very mysterious].