Beautiful Sensations

The Pieces Fit

2008-05-01T10:35:00.001-07:00

Midnight Sun

2008-04-30T04:15:00.000-07:00

Midnight sun in Northern Norway.

Jungle

2008-04-29T02:57:00.000-07:00

Paper Cut

2008-04-28T11:53:00.000-07:00

Amazing stuff made out of a sheet of A4 paper.

Extreme Earth

2008-04-27T04:43:00.000-07:00

Extreme Earth from National Geographic.

Lady In The Water

2008-04-26T07:54:00.000-07:00

A photo by Toni Frissel from the year 1947.

Fractal Vegetables

2008-04-25T02:25:00.000-07:00

Fractal cauliflower and broccoli.

Beautiful Nightmares Of Zdzisław Beksiński

2008-04-24T03:01:00.001-07:00

Although depicting a harrowing world, Benskinski claimed that much of his work is misunderstood. Like Kafka, the Polish painter was often amused by his own work and insisted his vision was ultimately optimistic.

Maxwell's Fire

2008-04-23T01:34:00.000-07:00

This building was a victim of the fire and when the firemen were putting it out, the water immediately froze on the building and everything nearby.

Huashan Hiking Trail

2008-04-21T01:49:00.000-07:00

Deadly but beautiful, the Huashan hiking trail is perhaps the most dangerous hiking trail in the world. Photos on Flickr.

Smile

2008-04-20T16:03:00.000-07:00

Just believe. I'm not there.

Nothern Lights Of Kirovsk

2008-04-19T06:40:00.000-07:00

Winter pictures of Kirovsk, Russia.

Oscilloscope Demo

2008-04-18T06:15:00.000-07:00

Some amazing stuff done on the oscilloscope.

Art By Peter Gric

2008-04-17T04:20:00.000-07:00

Art of Peter Gric. Amazing interface as well.

Ornamental Typography

2008-04-16T03:30:00.000-07:00

Feast your eyes on some ornamental typography. That's fancy letters for the uninitiated. Via BibliOdyssey.

Wildlife Photographer Of The Year

2008-04-15T02:20:00.000-07:00

Shell Wildlife Photographer Of The Year

Food Sculptures

2008-04-13T04:48:00.001-07:00

A bunch of sculptures made out of various foods.

Breathtaking Monasteries

2008-04-12T08:13:00.000-07:00

Breathtaking monasteries around the world.

Ghost Town Buried In Sand

2008-04-11T06:23:00.000-07:00

Kolmanskop is a ghost town in southern Namibia, a former diamond mining village now buried in the sand. It was built after the diamonds were discovered there in 1908. It had a hospital, a school, power station and even a casino. After the diamond prices crashed, it was abandoned and left to the reclaiming forces of the desert.

Photography by Richard Ehrlich

Trembled Blossoms

2008-04-10T03:54:00.001-07:00

Trembled Blossoms, a fancy animation by Prada. Go to prada.com and click on THE ANIMATION.

Sun And The Moon

2008-04-09T02:14:00.000-07:00

Autumn moon; hills rise about lakes
against sunset
Evening is like a curtain of cloud,
a blurr above ripples; and through it
sharp long spikes of the cinnamon,
a cold tune amid reeds.

From Canto 49 By Ezra Pound

Be Your Own Jackson Pollock

2008-04-08T04:04:00.000-07:00

You can be your own Jackson Pollock at http://jacksonpollock.org/
Clear the screen with space, change the colour with mouse click and try to follow the footsteps of Jackson Pollock. It's harder than you might think :)

Here's another Jackson Pollock Generator.

And here's the original.

Animated Short Film Academy Awards

2008-04-07T06:43:00.000-07:00

YouTube videos of almost all the animated short films who received the Academy Award for Animated Short Film.

19310-1932 Flowers and Trees
1932-1933 Three Little Pigs
1934 The Tortoise and the Hare
1935 Three Orphan Kittens
1936 The Country Cousin
1937 The Old Mill
1938 Ferdinand the Bull
1939 The Ugly Duckling
1940 The Milky Way
1941 Lend a Paw
1942 Der Fuehrer's Face
1943 The Yankee Doodle Mouse
1944 Mouse Trouble
1945 Quiet Please!
1946 The Cat Concerto
1949 For Scent-imental Reasons
1950 Gerald McBoing-Boing
1951 The Two Mouseketeers
1952 Johann Mouse
1953 Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom
1954 When Magoo Flew
1955 Speedy Gonzales
1956 Mister Magoo's Puddle Jumper
1957 Birds Anonymous
1958 Knighty Knight Bugs
1959 Moonbird
1960 Munro
1961 The Substitute
1963 The Critic
1946 The Pink Phink
1965 The Dot and the Line
1974 Closed Mondays
1978 Special Delivery
1980 The Fly
1983 Sundae in New York
1986 A Greek Tragedy
1989 Balance
1990 Creature Comforts
1991 Manipulation
1992 Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase
1993 The Wrong Trousers
1996 Quest
1998 Bunny
2000 Father and Daughter
2001 For The Birds
2002 The ChubbChubbs!
2003 Harvie Krumpet Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
2006 The Danish Poet Part 1 Part 2

Deer Forest Fire

2008-04-06T10:08:00.000-07:00

This amazing photo of two deers amidst a forest fire was thought to be photoshopped, it's real however. Bitterroot forest fire.

A Full Rainbow

2008-04-05T07:02:00.000-07:00

Pictures of a beautiful full rainbow by Dan Bush.

Top 20 Sexiest Athlete Wives

2008-04-04T06:01:00.000-07:00

Sexiest Athlete Wives, complete with galleries.

Dew Bug

2008-04-03T04:48:00.000-07:00

Photography by Martin Amm. Water drops on flowers.

Water Loving Cat

2008-04-02T04:24:00.000-07:00

Another water loving animal, the cat.

Cup Duckies

2008-04-01T07:59:00.000-07:00

Moonset Timelapse

2008-03-31T11:30:00.000-07:00

Moonset.

Transient Rainbow

2008-03-30T07:02:00.000-07:00

On June 29th, 2002, New York was lit up with a transient rainbow, concieved by artist Cai Guo-Qiang, celebrating the opening of MoMA QNS.

Creative Photography

2008-03-29T13:48:00.001-07:00

A nice selection of creative photography.

Smoke Silhouette

2008-03-28T05:46:00.000-07:00

Silhouette of a woman rising from the smoke of a cigar.

3-D Stereograms

2008-03-27T09:52:00.000-07:00

A set of beautiful 3-D crosseyed stereograms.

Viewing instructions: Close your left eye by squinting. Start covering your right eye from the periphery inwards with your right hand such that only the image on the left hand side is viewable. Close your right eye without moving your right hand and cover your left eye with the left hand such that you can only see the image on the right hand side. Open both your eyes and cross your eyes such that the two images you see superimpose and focus to get the 3D view. Practice crossing eyes without covering your eyes.

Bridge Crossing

2008-03-26T04:47:00.000-07:00

I'm a snail and I'm gonna cross this bridge.

Yay!

Sea Turtle

2008-03-25T03:36:00.001-07:00

Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove,
Of golden sand, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines and silver hooks.

There will the river whispering run,
Warmed by thy eyes more than the sun.
And there the enamoured fish will stay.
Begging themselves they may betray.

When wilt thou swim in that live bath,
Each fish, which every channel hath,
Will amorously to thee swim,
Gladder to catch thee, than thou him.

If thou, to be so seen, beest loath,
By sun or moon, thou dark’nest both;
And if myself have leave to see,
I need not their light, having thee.

Let others freeze with angling reeds,
And cut their legs with shells and weeds,
Or treacherously poor fish beset
With strangling snare, or windowy net.
Let course bold hand from slimy nest

The bedded fish in banks out-wrest,
Or curious traitors, sleave-silk flies,
Bewitch poor fishes’ wandering eyes.

For thee, thou need’st no such deceit,
For thou thyself are thine own bait;
That fish that is not catched thereby,
Alas, is wiser far than I.

The Bait by John Donne

Life Will Find A Way

2008-03-24T09:10:00.000-07:00

A palm, rising from from ashes.

Previous: tree growing in rotten paper.

In the news: Scientists discover a new kind of fungi growing inside the Chernobyl reactor, feeding on the gamma radiation.

Abandoned

2008-03-23T08:35:00.000-07:00

Amazing pictures of abandoned places. Via Art Deliverance.

Across The Universe

2008-03-22T10:30:00.000-07:00

Images of broken light which
dance before me like a million eyes
That call me on and on across the universe...

World's Largest Diamond Mine

2008-03-21T06:02:00.000-07:00

The world's largest diamond mine in Mirny, eastern Syberia. It's so big, it's closed for helicopters traffic as they could be sucked in by the downward air flow.

The red arrow is pointing to a 20 foot rock-hauling truck.

College Photographer Of The Year

2008-03-20T03:35:00.000-07:00

Winners of the 62nd year.

When Waves Collide

2008-03-19T03:54:00.000-07:00

By Andrew Castellano.

Rock Balancing

2008-03-18T03:50:00.000-07:00

Collection of rock balancing.

Cloud Heart

2008-03-17T05:57:00.000-07:00

Love, Hope, and Self-esteem, like clouds depart
And come, for some uncertain moments lent.
Man were immortal, and omnipotent,
Didst thou, unknown and awful as thou art,
Keep with thy glorious train firm state within his heart.
Thou messgenger of sympathies,
That wax and wane in lovers’ eyes—
Thou—that to human thought art nourishment,
Like darkness to a dying flame!
Depart not as thy shadow came,
Depart not—lest the grave should be,
Like life and fear, a dark reality.

from Hymn To Intellectual Beauty by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Drops

2008-03-16T10:32:00.000-07:00

Photography of Marília Gomes.

Paper Vikings

2008-03-15T09:28:00.000-07:00

Viking sculptures made out of paper.

Kitty Tamed By A Bird

2008-03-14T04:13:00.000-07:00

Butterflies

2008-03-13T04:21:00.001-07:00

Butteflies by Kelvin Hudson.

Crystal Cave

2008-03-12T03:36:00.000-07:00

A cave with giant crystals - translucent beams of gypsum was found near the town of Delicias, Mexico. Full story.

Bloom

2008-03-11T04:19:00.000-07:00

Rooms and hallways paved with flowers. By Anna Schuleit.

Hall Of Mirrors

2008-03-10T07:10:00.000-07:00

Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles.

Shadows

2008-03-09T06:37:00.000-07:00

Remarkable uses of shadows in advertising.

Phone Booth Fish Tank

2008-03-08T08:12:00.000-08:00

Benedetto Bufalino rediscovers a phone booth, a glass cage slowly dying in today's world of mobile phones and transforms it into an aquarium full of extically coloured fish, an invitation to travel and escape.

Animated Fractals

2008-03-07T07:42:00.001-08:00

Videos of animated fractals.

X-Ray Flowers

2008-03-06T03:58:00.000-08:00

Steven Meyers' X-ray pictures of plants.

A House Laser-cut In A Book

2008-03-05T02:09:00.000-08:00

Olafur Eliasson created this book with a laser cut shape of his house. More at Visionen in Papier.

Cloud Trumpets

2008-03-04T03:25:00.000-08:00

There must be Gods thrown down, and trumpets blown
Of triumph calm, and hymns of festival
Upon the gold clouds metropolitan,
Voices of soft proclaim, and silver stir
Of strings in hollow shells; and there shall be
Beautiful things made new...

from Hyperion: Book I by John Keats

Natural Jewelry

2008-03-03T05:01:00.000-08:00

Jewelry made out of natural materials like leaves, seeds, rocks and spices.

Cute Kitten

2008-03-02T04:46:00.000-08:00

Cute little kitten the size of a hand.

Feather Paintings

2008-03-01T02:35:00.000-08:00

Most amazing painting on feathers.

Slides

2008-02-29T07:22:00.000-08:00

Giant slides at the Tate Modern Museum.

Bodypaint

2008-02-28T05:27:00.000-08:00

Various beauties from Sports Illustrated wearing nothing but bodypaint.

Nature's Best 2007

2008-02-27T01:47:00.000-08:00

Best nature photography of 2007.

Sunset Over The Earth

2008-02-26T00:41:00.000-08:00

Adown the west a golden glow
Sinks burning in the sea,
And all the dreams of long ago
Come flooding back to me.
The past has writ a story strange
Upon my aching heart,
But time has wrought a subtle change,
My wounds have ceased to smart.

(from At Sunset Time by Paul Laurence Dunbar)

Glass Hermit

2008-02-25T05:45:00.000-08:00

Hermit crab in a glass shell.

View From Everest

2008-02-24T05:15:00.000-08:00

The view from the top of the world. Click on image for a full panoramic vista. From Astronomy Picture Of The Day.

Abandoned Places

2008-02-23T10:20:00.000-08:00

Images of Vanishing America and Cuba by Michael Eastman.

Lion's Kiss

2008-02-22T06:44:00.000-08:00

A woman found a dying lion, took him home and nursed him back to health. This is what happened when they met again at the local zoo.

Just Sign Here

2008-02-21T05:31:00.001-08:00

Cyberpunk Insects

2008-02-20T02:38:00.000-08:00

Christopher Conte makes these intricate and beautiful mechanical structures that will just blow you away.

Harbin Ice and Snow World 2007

2008-02-19T06:58:00.000-08:00

A report from China’s premiere winter event - The Eighth Annual Harbin Ice and Snow World

Lightning Reflection

2008-02-18T05:07:00.000-08:00

Lightning reflection on a side of the building.

Kitten And The Crow

2008-02-17T04:41:00.000-08:00

Another case of unusual animal friendship, this time it's a heartwarming story of a kitten and a crow.

17 Interpretations

2008-02-16T11:00:00.001-08:00

17 interpretations of a single photograph.

The Noblest Poem That Ever Was Wrote

2008-02-15T02:44:00.000-08:00

This year is 400th anniversary of John Milton's birth. And in his remembrance you can read the noblest poem that ever was wrote, Paradise Lost.

Japanese Sewers

2008-02-14T02:28:00.000-08:00

Sewers can be beautiful too. At least in Japan.

Solar

2008-02-13T03:20:00.000-08:00

Solar.

Angel Of Light

2008-02-12T03:21:00.000-08:00

This was made with a LED pen and a slow shutter.

Sand Art

2008-02-11T07:08:00.000-08:00

Jim Denevan makes art on the beaches of sand. And the sea washes it away every day.

Clouds Over Sahara

2008-02-10T06:49:00.001-08:00

White clouds silently marching across the Sahara desert.

Wikimedia Commons Picture Of The Year 2007

2008-02-10T06:39:00.000-08:00

Here are the winners of The Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2007 competition.
And this one's my favourite. Salt mounds in Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia.

Winter In Russia

2008-02-09T05:35:00.000-08:00

Charming pictures of winter in Russia. From Weird Russia.

Rarindra Prakarsa

2008-02-07T10:17:00.000-08:00

Photos by Rarindra Prakarsa.

Eye

2008-02-06T11:03:00.000-08:00

Mine Eye Hath Played The Painter And Hath Stelled

by William Shakespeare

Mine eye hath played the painter and hath stelled
Thy beauty’s form in table of my heart;
My body is the frame wherein ’tis held,
And perspective it is best painter’s art.
For through the painter must you see his skill
To find where your true image pictured lies,
Which in my bosom’s shop is hanging still,
That hath his windows glazèd with thine eyes.
Now see what good turns eyes for eyes have done:
Mine eyes have drawn thy shape, and thine for me
Are windows to my breast, where-through the sun
Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee.
Yet eyes this cunning want to grace their art:
They draw but what they see, know not the heart.

Desert Oasis

2008-02-05T09:40:00.000-08:00

Huacachina, a city by the mermaid lagoon in the middle of the desert.

Cocktail Snail

2008-02-04T10:17:00.000-08:00

This migh seem a bit tacky for some. Tacky as in tasteless and tacky as in adhesive, one of them for sure. I for one think it's kinda nice and probably one of the nicest piece of crap DIY things you could do. Has a nice rhyme to it as well.

Embryo Of A Little Horse

2008-02-03T10:00:00.000-08:00

How the horses came to be...

Worms

2008-02-02T08:24:00.000-08:00

Beautifully simple game of chasing dots. By games1.org.
Move your worm with arrow keys.

Amazing Sand Sculptures From Around The World

2008-02-01T05:22:00.000-08:00

An entire world of unbelievable sand sculptures.

Monkey Finds Love With A Pidgeon

2008-01-31T04:42:00.001-08:00

A bit like this unusual relationship, a macaque monkey abandoned by his mother developed a friendship with a white pidgeon. Now this unlikely duo is never far from each other's side.

The abandoned monkey who has found love with a pigeon

HDR Skyline

2008-01-30T08:22:00.000-08:00

Photograpy of a Tokio nightscape made with high dynamic range technique. More stunning HDR photos on Flickr.

Dolphin Plays Bubble Rings

2008-01-29T02:59:00.000-08:00

Dolphins create beautiful ring shaped air bubbles and play with them like they were little children.

Rosette Nebula

2008-01-28T15:24:00.000-08:00

Rosette Nebula, interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen and plasma five thousand light years away, with stars shining like the streetlights.

Driven By The Snow

2008-01-27T13:13:00.000-08:00

Winter in Michigan South Haven. Hundred year old lighthouse standing tall against the wind and rain, graciously gathering bits of frost.

Aurora Borealis & Aurora Australis

2008-01-26T07:58:00.000-08:00

Some say it's just collisions of charged particles... The polar lights - northern lights of Aurora Borealis and southern lights of Aurora Australis. I'll let you decide which ones are prettier.

Here's an amazing shot of Aurora Borealis from space.

The Life Of Alison

2008-01-24T02:52:00.000-08:00

Jack Radcliffe explores relationship with his daughter by following years of her life through photography.

Life Through Death

2008-01-22T14:47:00.000-08:00

Hailing of a new dawn. A tree growing amidst the rotten paper depository.

Tesla Coils

2008-01-20T14:03:00.000-08:00

Observe these amazing and beautiful pictures of Tesla Coils and other electric devices in a display of awe inspiring color and shape from the high voltage people at the Tesla Down Under.

Cheetah Love

2008-01-20T03:45:00.000-08:00

Amazing pictures of cheetah cubs playing with a gazelle. It was caught unharmed by their mother so they could learn how to hunt, but the cubs seemed to have other things on their minds.
Photographs were taken in the Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya by a top environmental photographer Andy Rouse.

Moths Drink The Tears Of Sleeping Birds

2008-01-19T10:58:00.000-08:00

Sounds like something from a poem... tears of sleeping birds. Beautiful, ain't it? There are in fact moths that do this. It's a bit rough actually, as the moths use a proboscis to pierce through eyelids, but the bird doesn't get hurt.

Ever wondered why sleeping birds are so cute?

Moths Drink The Tears Of Sleeping Birds