Beauty: The Art of Cutting Feathers
Fall in Celje
These are pictures taken by Grisa Miheljak @ Grishman Photography of his home town in Celje, Slovenia. Check out his other wonderful pictures of his home town and his portfolio at GrishmanPhotography. Thank you Grisa for allowing me to share your work.
They never looked so good…
Look closely. Those are gummi bears and worms.
“Gummy Big Bang II” is an explosion composed by a light bulb and tons of red, orange and yellow candy gummi bears, worms, sharks filling a 120-square-foot space. The piece was included in the 2006 Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum.
Source: Shin Sekai
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Nature’s Color Explosion (A Slideshow…)
↓ click for audio (“Woods” by George Winston From His Album “Autumn“)
Sources & Credits for these shares (and many other autumn photos) can be accessed with a Tumblr account @ dkfalllights. Thank you Rob Firchau @ The Hammock Papers for the music inspiration.
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“The Kingfisher makes a perfect dive at 100 km/hr into the little frozen hole in Germany to catch fish for food. This amazing moment captured by photographer Gisela Delpho.”
Source: goodmemory via opticoverload
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Sunday Morning: Holi. Festival of Colors.
“If you notice the instances under which people gather in large groups, in coliseums, in stadiums – it usually has to do with contention, competition, rivalry, partisanship. The Festival of Colors stands out from those events because there is none of that competition or rivalry or sectarianism. People are gathered together just about celebrating our own spirituality and creator from whom we come…He’s present within his name. Whenever you are chanting any bona fide name of God, God is dancing on the tip of your tongue. Life becomes simple. Life becomes streamlined and pared down – - to love of God and love of one’s fellow living beings…We’re all basically the same. There’s unity in diversity. Underneath all that, there is a natural outpouring of love.”
Holi. Festival of Colors. 2012 from Good Line on Vimeo.
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A Golden Eagle. Source: fairy-wren
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Look closely at this. (I mean really closely)
This photo was drawn with a ballpoint pen by Samuel Silva. The 29-year old Portugal based artist is an attorney by profession. Art is his hobby. He uses just eight different colored ballpoint pens and creates photorealistic portraits of people, animals, and landscapes. Each drawing can take from 5 to 50 hours to finish. He doesn’t mix colors or blend them. Ballpoint pen ink dries instantly and cannot be erased. Read more and see more of Silva’s beautiful drawings at Deviant Art.
Source: Kaushik @Amusing Planet via Madame Scherzo
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Clark’s Grebe. This species nests on large inland lakes in western North America and migrates to the Pacific coast in winter. It maintains local populations year-round in California, Nevada, Arizona, and central Mexico. It feeds by diving for carp, herring, mollusks, crabs and salamanders.
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“I am not good at it…” (right)
Utham has a photography blog @ Light Touch with a tag line of “Just wondering at the miracle called life.” Utham is from Kochi, India. He is a neurosurgeon by profession and an amateur photographer. His world as he describes it is “mostly of diseases, disabilities and deaths, mixed with occasional hopes and some happiness. Perhaps, that keeps me humble, with feet firmly on the ground.” He states in his bio “the charm of photography is in freezing the fleeting moment in time – forever. And, often, making the invisible, visible…all plain and simple.” Utham shares some background on himself at this link including “beauty is something I love to see in people…(I love) caring for the less fortunate…and he goes on to assess his competency in photography stating that “I am not good at it.” Sorry, Utham, I’d have to strongly disagree…you and your (spare time) work are “plain and simple” inspiring. Check out Utham’s blog at Light Touch.
Source: Thank you Cristi @ Simple. Interesting for showing me the way to Utham
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Time out with Claire…
Claire Shotter @ Claire Shotter’s Blog describes herself as “a happy workaholic enjoying the best job in the world: Artist.” And it certainly shows. Be sure to check out Claire’s blog to see more whimsy, happy, family…
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Spray Paint? Seriously?!
Megan @ Make Something Monday’s is back with another color blast. This series of paintings is by David Walker (an artist for 3 years) who uses only spray paint. Check out more of his work and other great posts at Megan’s blog.
89°F and got that Summer feeling…
I have been following David’s blog @ David R. Wetzel’s Photography. In addition to being a “semi-professional photographer”, I learned that David is an author, a writer and a painter. (Oh, if I could become a Master in just one of his exceptional talents.) David was kind enough to let me share two of his paintings that grabbed my immediate attention. While David currently resides in Alabama, he has managed to transport me to another place and time for a few minutes this evening. I do have that Summer Feeling.
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Painting With Sound (and Colors!)
Check out Megan’s post at her cool site @ Make Something Monday’s where she features Martin Klimas’ photography. “Klimas splatters colors of paint on a speaker and cranks up the volume.” The paint splatters from vibrations from the speaker and Klimas takes the shots.” See more photos and background information at Megan’s site. Awesome shots…
Saturday Morning Work-Out Inspiration: The Color Run
Two short one-minute clips to prod you out the door, or at minimum bring a smile to your face…which has to be worth a few clicks on the calorie count burn…
Source: Thank you Dietandridicule.com
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Big Colors. Like No Other…
Let’s hit BIG COLORS one last time.
- Location: Glasgow
- The Site: The 23-story Queens Court was subsequently demolished. Residents were moved out in May 2006 in anticipation of the block’s demolition and prior to production.)
- Music: Gioachino Rossini’s “Thieving Magpie” first performed in 1817.
- Supplies: 70,000 litres of paint, 358 single bottle bombs, 33 sextuple air cluster bombs, 2 triple hung cluster bombs 268 mortars, 33 Triple Mortars, 22 Double mortars, 358 meters of weld, 330 meters of steel pipe and 57 km of copper wire. The non-toxic water-based paint was delivered in one tonne trucks and mixed on site by twenty people. Filming of the paint explosions took place over ten days and involved 250 people. Sixty people stayed behind to clean up over five days.
- Production Challenges: ”Apart from the challenge of working with a highly explosive set and pacifying the locals, the crew had to work within the confines of unpredictable Glasgow weather.”
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Thank you RAK for the inspiration and The Inspiration Room for background details.
Life is Color (and 250,000 bouncy balls)…
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I could not take my eyes off this soothing and mesmerizing video clip.
It reminded me of bouncy balls (on steroids) in my childhood.
Settle in and watch 250,000 colored balls being dropped down Filbert and Leavenworth Streets in one of the world’s greatest cities – San Francisco.
José González (one of my favorite artists) sings “Heartbeats” for the catchy background music.
Set your troubles away for 2.5 minutes – - forget about your work week – - kick back – - and enjoy.
Heartbeats
One night of magic rush
the start a simple touch
one night to push and scream
and then relief
ten days of perfect tunes
the colors red and blue
we had a promise made
we were in love
to call for hands of above
to lean on
wouldn’t be good enough for me,
no to call for hands of above
to lean on
wouldn’t be good enough
Thank you Aestheticsofjoy.com for the inspiration…and The Inspiration Room for background details.
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