A Shark In The Hallway And Other Amazing Images From This Week
By Shaunacy Ferro and Colin Lecher, Popular Science, 1 February 2013.
By Shaunacy Ferro and Colin Lecher, Popular Science, 1 February 2013.
Including a solar-powered balloon, a storm on Saturn, how NASA watches the Super Bowl and more…
1. Swan Song
Credit: Marcin Ryczek via Colossal
This starkly contrasting photo of a man feeding swans and ducks in Krakow went viral this week, for good reason. See more work from Polish photographer Marcin Ryczek on his Facebook page.
2. Game Time
Credit: swb1192 via Reddit
A helpful Redditor posted this image with the explanation "my friend works for NASA. this is how they'll be watching the super bowl this weekend." A detailed discussion of copyright laws and violations ensued in the comments. Game on, NASA. Now how about some Super Bowl science?
3. Skeletons In The Closet
Credit: Klaus Pichler via Co.Design
Austrian photographer Klaus Pichler was granted behind-the-scenes access to Vienna's Natural History Museum for Skeletons in the Closet, his latest series. He highlights the sometimes bizarre storage process of the museum's collections, which contain more than 25 million specimens in total. See more of the off-beat images over on his website. As he writes in his artist statement, "Full of life, but dead nonetheless. Surprises included!" [More at Co.Design]
4. Distorted View
Credit: Jonty Hurwitz
Jonty Hurwitz puts his engineering degree to good use producing these sculptures. Using mathematical processes, 3-D printing and laser cutting, he shapes art that at first seems like an abstract blob, but appears in a mirrored cylinder as something more recognizable.
5. Stormy Saturn
In March 2011, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured a storm in full force on Saturn. It triggered a clockwise-spinning vortex that drifted more slowly than the rest of the storm. You can check out the full image mosaic here. [More at Wired]
6. Thread Walls
Credit: Wies Preijde via Co.Design
Designer Wies Preijde makes tiny spaces big in a beautiful way, adding thread screens to dull walls. Check out more over at Co.Design.
7. Hammerhead
Credit: CJ Crooks via BBC
Biologists are tagging and tracking endangered hammerheads around the Bahamas, which means we get amazing photos like this. (Would look awesome in a hallway, too.) [More at BBC]
8. LED Light Box
Credit: Squidsoup via Colossal
Submergence, an installation from design team Squidsoup, suspends more than 8,000 LEDs into what you see here. They're also rigged with motion sensors and light up when you walk through them. Colossal has a video of it in action.
9. Hedgehog Shirt
Credit: Yougsil Lee via Fashioning Tech
When this shirt, designed by artist Yougsil Lee, detects a person moving too quickly toward it, it reacts by turning on red LEDs and turning up spikes. Friendly! [More at Fashioning Tech]
10. Ski Stop
Credit: Anna Öhlund and John Pettersson via Moco Loco
Anna Öhlund, a photographer and sculptor, and John Pettersson, a light designer, teamed up to make "ICEHOTEL - a warm story about a cold place," an exhibit you ski into and out of. [More at Moco Loco]
11. Solar-Powered Balloon
Credit: Tomàs Saraceno via designboom
Artist Tomàs Saraceno made this hot air balloon that runs on solar power. Even cooler: it's made from trash bags and other unwanted materials. Even cooler: he has instructions on how to make your own. [More at designboom]
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