Posts tagged science
‘Qué bien se ven, todos. Descubran algo maravilloso este fin de semana’ <3
Lookin’ good everybody. Discover something wonderful this weekend.
La del pollo y los changos rulea. Todas, pues.
Absolutely captivated by this entire series from photographer Tim Flach, who has taken seven years and an innovative approach to photography to not just shoot, but also truly understand his subject.
As described in the description for his animal portrait book, More than Human:
“By taking striking close-up shots of various animals, Tim attempts to demonstrate how close can animal gestures and poses get to those of the humans.
What looks like images of unselfconscious and spontaneous reactions of the animals, is actually a result of long research and observation done by the artist. Every animal responds differently to temperature changes, light, human presence and even sounds – some of them would feel better with the music on, while the other would get intimidated by it.”
New Scientist: If The Doctor had a camera, it might look like this
IT’S a still image that is more about time than space. Remarkably, the picture has not been Photoshopped: it’s simply a different way of looking at the world. If The Doctor had a camera, he might take shots like this. And as it happens, the title sequence for the BBC show in the 1970s was created with a similar “slit-scan” technique.
Slit-scan cameras take many images in vertical slices, and stack them side by side. The result is that anything stationary, in the background, appears blurred, while anything passing by the slit jumps out at you, clear against the smear. This photo shows a field in Siem Reap, Vietnam, taken by photographer Jay Mark Johnson of Venice, California.
It’s hard to get your head around. The camera views the world through an unmoving vertical slit, taking successive shots over time. The left side of the image here corresponds to the earlier shots and the last sliver on the far right is the most recent. It’s a time-panorama. The background didn’t move, so is smeared out, but the farmer and his buffalos passed by. If the farmer had stopped for a while in front of the slit he would appear elongated; had he raced past the camera, he would appear compacted.
“I make photographic time lines,” Johnson says on his website. “Because the photographs seamlessly blend visual depictions of space and time into a single hybrid image they provide an altered ‘spacetime’ view of the world.”
En esta animación, se narra la creación de la vida y el mundo como lo conocemos. Con tonalidades científicas y religiosas. La pantalla, igualmente dividida entre la versión religiosa y la científica. Lovely
For basic user interface, God installed Zodiac, a celestial based time management application.
hahahahaha.
Duelity, An Animation Showing Two Takes On The Origin of Life
La luna, por siempre <3.
Moon Meets (Eats) Morning Star
Not a star at all, that’s actually Venus, captured in its morning conjunction with the Moon from earlier this month.
Remind anyone else of Pac-Man?
Fun little note: You can see how the moon turns red near the horizon, thanks to the filtering out of the shorter wavelengths of light as they pass through the thicker atmosphere between us and objects at the horizon.
(via APOD)
Elia Colombo Illustrations
- Sending a dream into the universe
- Maybe one day I will Fly. Never stop dreaming
- Noble Gas
- Pluto leaves the University of Planets
Adore.
La Tesla-electricidad es mucho más cool que todo lo demás. Hahahaha.
The Oatmeal’s Matt Inman Tests Out His Tesla Cannon on Matt Harding of Where the Hell is Matt?
Sweet Home Teslabama
It’s like if Zeus started a midi-inspired southern rock band. Half a million volts o’ Southern Praahhide y’all! Or something.
