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Easing Brain Fatigue With a Walk in the Park
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Scientists have known for some time that the human brain’s ability to stay calm and focused is limited and can be overwhelmed by the constant noise and hectic, jangling demands of city living, sometimes resulting in a condition informally known as brain fatigue. With brain fatigue, you are easily distracted, forgetful and mentally flighty … Read more
6:30 AM Series: Photos of the Exact Same Ocean View Taken at 6:30 AM Throughout 2003
For the yearlong photo project “6:30 AM Series,” photographer Robert Weingarten took a photo at 6:30 each morning of the exact same view of Santa Monica Bay, as seen from his home in Malibu. He did so for every day he was home during 2003. To keep the photos consistent, Weingarten strictly followed a set of rules: … Read more
The Art of Ofey: Richard Feynman’s Little-Known Sketches & Drawings
“I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world…this feeling about the glories of the universe.” Just like Sylvia Plath and Queen Victoria, Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman —champion of scientific culture, graphic novel hero, crusader for integrity, holder of the key to science, adviser of future generations,bongo player — was a surprisingly gifted semi-secret artist. He started drawing at the … Read more
Architecture of Density: Photos by Michael Wolf
Architecture of Density: Photos by Michael Wolf Via Faith is Torment
Revolution: The Lifecycle of Water Told in a Stop Motion Pop-Up Book
Revolution is an animated short by photographer Chris Turner, paper engineer Helen Friel and animator Jess Deacon that explores the life cycle of a single drop of water through the pages of an elaborate pop-up book. The book contains nine scenes that were animated using 1,000 photographic stills shot over the course of a year. Via Colossal
Photography by Jamie Heiden
…Muted colors, soft lines, undefined depths are not phrases a photographer would likely use to describe her photographs. Texture is not the first word used when describing the art of photography. But it is exactly these qualities that are visible in Jamie’s pictures, Jamie’s photographs. For as long as she can remember, she has been a … Read more
Color-Enhancing Glasses Let Doctors See Disease and Emotion
The ability to see the world in a broad spectrum of colors is more than just a wonderful gift—it’s a survival mechanism that humans evolved in order to identify both threats and food. But color vision also helps us read each other. Research by evolutionary neurobiologist Dr. Mark Changizi’s traces the development of color vision … Read more
More Gorgeous Photography by Marcin Sobas
More Photos by Marcin Sobas Via Faith is Torment
The Art of Rock Balancing by Michael Grab
Michael Grab is an artist that has been ‘rock balancing‘ since 2008. Much of his recent work has been done around the Boulder, Colorado area. Grab finds the process both spiritual and therapeutic. On his site gravityglue.com, Grab explains: “The most fundamental element of balancing in a physical sense is finding some kind of ‘tripod’ for the … Read more
Alan Friedman’s Astonishing HD Photographs of the Sun Shot from his Own Backyard
Alan Friedman is a fascinating guy. By day he’s a maker of greeting cards and a lover ofhats, but in his spare time he’s a self-proclaimed space cowboy who points a telescope skyward from his backyard in downtown Buffalo, directly into the light of the sun. Using special filters attached to his camera Friedman captures some of the … Read more
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