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International Earth & Sky Photo Contest Winners Announced

Aaron Lindberg — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:57:40 +0000

Winners of the 4th International Earth and Sky Photo Contest, hosted by The World at Night (TWAN), were announced this week with some awe inspiring photographs.

TWAN is an international effort to photograph nightscape and time-lapse videos of the world’s landmarks. According to TWAN’s website “The contest was founded by TWAN and Dark Skies Awareness project in 2008 as a regional [more]

Key & Peele’s Comedic Improv During Photo Shoot

Aaron Lindberg — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:15:48 +0000

Here is a funny glimpse into the comic shenanigans that happened during a photo shoot for Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People with Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele.

In this video directed and produced by Casey Rodgers, the two improv comedians are on set riffing off the cuff with their hilarious [more]

Time & Google Timelapse 30 Years Of Satellite Photography

Aaron Lindberg — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:47:00 +0000

Time and Google have created an astounding, multi-decade animated timelapse of the Earth. It is nothing short of amazing the amount of satellite photographs that has been collected and crunched. Trillions of pixels of satellite data which until now, have not been available to the public. Locations around the Earth can be searched and viewed through the latest project Timelapse: Landsat Satellite Images. [more]

Incredible Photograph Of Lightning Striking The Grand Canyon

Aaron Lindberg — Tue, 14 May 2013 00:51:24 +0000

In this amazing split second moment of time, Travis Roe captured a bolt of lighting striking the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.

The once in a lifetime photograph was shot last year but recently surfaced after Roe submitted the image to the U.S. Department of the Interior. [more]

Tao Lin’s ‘Facedown Generation’ of Taipei

Aaron Lindberg — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:37:14 +0000

We have all witnessed it, practiced it, you might be doing it now while reading this post. Sadly, seeing someone staring down at a mobile device in public has become such a common sight, that we might walk right past without even thinking about it.

While on a recent visit to Taipei, Tao Lin created photographs of strangers interacting with their mobile devices. [more]

Ridley Scott: Words of Advice From A Master Filmmaker

Aaron Lindberg — Thu, 09 May 2013 15:45:45 +0000

Ridley Scott is arguably one of the greatest movie directors of his time. Blade Runner, Legend, Alien, Black Hawk Down are just a sampling of his masterful works.

In the following sound clips, Ridley Scott shares his beginnings through art school, how directing television commercials for 15 years developed his lighting and editing skills and how making feature films for himself helped carry him to Hollywood. [more]

Beautifully Frozen Ocean Waves

Aaron Lindberg — Mon, 06 May 2013 14:33:11 +0000

Pierre Carreau shot at high speeds to freeze the moving ocean waves, creating sculpturesque photographs of natures powerful movements.

Carreau works intensively on his project “AquaViva”, a study of wave shapes. ”I like the fact that this energy comes from far away to be revealed on our beaches.” His facination with the waves started at a young age. [more]

“Shining” A Series Of Glowing Street Silhouettes

Aaron Lindberg — Thu, 02 May 2013 17:30:54 +0000

Eduard Zhikharev, lead motion designer at Transparent House in San Francisco, created a interesting conceptual series Shining, a body of work that depicts glowing figures from street scenes that his wife Olga Tsybulina had photographed one day. I reached out to Eduard after running across the work on Behance and asked him about the series. [more]

David Stephenson’s Long Exposure Star Paths

Aaron Lindberg — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:30:10 +0000

David Stephenson used multiple techniques to photograph the night sky in his series Star Drawings. The lines and shapes created by the earth’s rotation make for interesting views of the stars and dark sky above.

His technique is a blend of interval exposures and multiple long exposures giving each of the photographs in his series a unique look. Stephenson says he is drawn to the awesome vastness of time and space, referring to his practice as a search for a photographic sublime. [more]

Nikon Cinema – A Celebration Of Filmmaking

Aaron Lindberg — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:48:34 +0000

Nikon recently opened up Nikon Cinema, a website dedicated to HD SLR motion projects that have been created with Nikon hardware. The website currently hosts 3 short motion projects that have been shot with the Nikon D4, D800, D600 and various Nikkor glass.

The three films include Joyride by Sandro, Why by Corey Rich and Chasing The Light by Florian and Salomon Schulz [more]