http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/

The view from a bus, Heading towards the 4,900-meter Tro La pass on the road to Derge, Tibet in late December, 2008.


A figure from Antony Gormley's "Another Place" welcomes one of the Tall Ships to Merseyside as it sails past the Burbo Bank windfarm on the approach to the Port of Liverpool on July 18, 2008, Liverpool, England.


Afghan horsemen play Afghanistan's national sport Buzkashi in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, March 20, 2009.

A solar moon eclipse as the sun sets over Indian ocean.

Ghost island Hashima

see more abandoned man-made creations here

A new project

I've started another little side project with friend Mustafa.
I don't really read mails from my spam folder (I mean who does?). But I've found that when you look into something that you often look past you discover new things.

It all started when I saw a subject line that said

How to overcome a lack of sexual skills for Christian husbands.

http://shinichimaruyama.com

This guy's stuff is out of this world.









Shinichi Maruyama was born in 1968 in Nagano, Japan. He hurls black India ink into water (or visa versa) and photographs the millisecond that these two liquids collide. Capable of capturing this phenomenon at a 7,500th of a second, Maruyama takes full advantage of a recent advancement in strobe light technology which can record physical events faster than the naked eye can perceive them. In the series Kusho, which means “writing in the sky,” Maruyama’s goal is to arrest in space and time the sublime intersection of two different media before they merge into one. In some respects, the project resembles a scientific experiment, but in Maruyama’s artistic hands, the total action becomes a form of Shodo (Japanese calligraphy) performance–with the gesture executed in the air rather than on the flat surface of the paper.

paper sculptures out of a book

Saw these amazing paper scultures built from pages of a book, thought it was so poetic and beautiful.











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newobsession

I recently got myself a Holga camera.
Never in my life was I slightly interested in photography, ever. But hate to sound cheesy, I've never felt so immensely happy ever since i started using this.
I love everything about it. You can only see the photos you've taken once they have been printed, and most of the times they look so remotely different from what you envisaged! kinda like a pleasant surprise(some times). Because I've been using a digital camera for many many many years, I've never had to think about things such as aperture, shutter speed, focus and lighting. The digital camera thinks for you! So now that I've got a manual camera, its forcing me to learn about all the factors that contribute to a good image, also give me ground to experiment...
I feel attached to the pictures that comes out of it, its hard to describe, and I haven't felt that way about photographs with digital cameras...
nuff said

I've found something to blog about today.
Turn the sound up, the roll over sounds are great and the whole thing has a space feel.
This is our matrix.
I'm not sure how accurate it is exactly, but I skeem that it is probably based on statistics.

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Woman, by John Lennon

Just a song for friday and for my favorite couple in the world.