I’m a sucker for stereoscopic photography (making little “planets” out of stuff), so this Google Maps Street View stereoscopic transform hack is crazy fun for me. I hope you like it too.
One year in one image - 3888 photos stitched together using one vertical line from each.
Time Lapse View of Earth from the International Space Station
(Source: vimeo.com)
Burning Man 2011: Rites of Passage - Burn Night Timelapse Video
I had an amazing time at Burning Man. This timelapse is one of the few recordings of any sort that do the event justice.
Guitar string oscillations captured with an iPhone. Reminiscent of earlier camera phone tricks.
(Source: youtube.com)
This up to 1000 years old snow has metamorphosed into highly pressurized glacier ice that contains almost no air bubbles. Thus it absorbs the visible light despite the scattered shortest blue fraction, giving it its distinct deep blue waved appearance. This cavity in the glacier ice formed as a result of a glacial mill, or moulin.
Rain and meltwater on the glacier surface is channelled into streams that enter the glacier at crevices. The waterfall melts a hole into the glacier while the ponded water drains towards lower elevations by forming long ice caves with an outlet at the terminus of the glacier. The fine grained sediments in the water along with wind blown sediments cause the frozen meltwater stream to appear in a muddy colour while the top of the cave exhibits the deep blue colour.
Due to the fast movement of the glacier of about 1 m per day over uneven terrain this ice cave cracked up at its end into a deep vertical crevice, called cerrac. This causes the indirect daylight to enter the ice cave from both ends resulting in homogeneous lighting of the ice tunnel.
(via nickelcobalt)
National Geographic’s *photo* of a dune in Namibia - it’s almost impossible to believe this is a real photo.






