werereallydoingit.com is the inspirational (and jealousy inducing) ongoing project of former pro skateboarder Heath Kirchart and photographer Jeff Vallee who annually take on – and document – a feat that they, really, have no business doing. They are currently in the midst of rafting 225 on the Colorado river through the grand canyon, completely unguided and […]
Following our Mt. Everest Gigapixel post, is a photo that is somehow even more breathtaking – Andrew Bodrov digitally stitched together over 400 HD pictures taken by the recently landed Mars rover, Curiosity, and built an interactive spherical panoramic photo of the red planet. Go check out the 360° of martian horizon, desolate rolling red hills and […]
In case you hadn’t noticed we like our photos and videos, so we were fascinated when we came across this DIY camera concept – particularly in the fact that it isn’t merely a pinhole camera. Utilizing medium format film, three apertures, and a simple slider for exposure, this camera yields some pretty great action-sequence photos. […]
When we came across artist Melanie Hoff‘s new experimental wood art and accompanying stop-motion video, we were immediately taken. The process appears to involve placing nails into sheets of ply wood and then running a current through the nails into the wood which results in flowing, almost tree-like burns branching out from the nails. See some […]
We frequently feature artists who find their muse in nature or, at times, even use it as their medium. But sometimes nature can be it’s best artist, as seen here in beautifully intricate nests of the South African Sociable Weaver Bird. These birds, found in the Kalahari Desert, weave immense nest structures on the telephone […]