benski.kimchezki

ihatemyparents:

pictures with dad

Can I sit here?

Fallen Angels (1994, HK) Directed by: Wong Kar-wai

climateadaptation:

From Michael Marten’s series, Sea Change, which explores rising sea levels from regular tides and also climate change. His statement:

‘Sea Change’ is a study of the tides round the coast of Britain. The views in each diptych are taken from identical positions at low tide and high tide, usually 6 or 18 hours apart.

I am interested in showing how landscape changes over time through natural processes and cycles. The camera that observes low and high tide side by side enables us to observe simultaneously two moments in time, two states of nature.

Recent landscape photography often focuses on human shaping (and reshaping) of the environment - urbanisation, globalisation, pollution. Even when critical and committed, this approach can emphasise, even glamorise, humankind’s power over nature. I’m interested in rediscovering nature’s own powers: the elemental forces and processes that underlie and shape the planet.

The tides are one of these great natural cycles. I hope these photographs will stimulate people’s awareness of natural change, of landscape as dynamic process rather than static image. Attending to earth’s rhythms can help us to reconnect with the fundamentals of our planet, which we ignore at our peril.

‘Sea Change’ also comments on climate change. The tide floods in and quickly recedes again, but rising sea levels will flood our shores and not recede for thousands or millions of years. Many of the views in these pictures may have disappeared in 100 years’ time.

— Michael Marten

Lens Culture

I don’t expect you to be as depressed as I am, but I don’t think that your happiness is quite appropriate.

bobbycaputo:

The Body in Nature: Unusually Beautiful Photographs

Photographing the nude is just about as old as the camera itself… from cheesy pinups to surreal body landscapes, the form has been explored in just about every way imaginable. That’s why, when I ran across the work of Arno Rafael Minkkinen I was truly blown away. His work is filled with almost magical abstract forms created using just creatively positioned figures in the landscape and his well placed lens… nothing more. Each photograph is a revelation, something to decipher for its mysterious form and appreciate for its lyrical beauty.

Making these images even more astounding, most of them are self-portraits. Minkkinen says he does this because of the often underestimated danger in creating such images (which sometimes involve hanging off cliffs or staying under frozen snow for long periods). He also uses no assistant to position himself in the shots, so he must click the shutter button and accurately dance himself into position in just 9 seconds before the shutter fires. For more difficult shots he has sometimes employed a long cable release which he throws out of the scene before the image is taken.

Perhaps this is the element that makes Minkkinen’s images so incredible: he whole heartedly embraces reality. He has been working since long before photoshop and uses the image as it was taken by the camera with no manipulation of the image. He explains his thinking:

“If you are going to be under the snow, be under the snow. ‘Out of limitations new forms emerge,’ Georges Braque said. My translation: know what you will not do. For me this means embracing reality as a collaborator in the invention of the image, not overlaying multiple images to create such impressions. In the end, my negatives will never give away how I made any one of my photographs. They will always print with the same information as found in them the day the negatives were made.”

thekhooll:

Diamonds Forever !

(1) Mir Mine also called Mirny Mine is a former open pit diamond mine located in Mirny, Eastern Siberia, Russia.

(2) The Diavik Diamond Mine in Canada

whatwouldkhaleesiwear:

Today, at midnight, is the last time EVER to get my dip dye tanks! I’m sad it’s coming to an end, but I’m happy I’m spending the day with my wonderful mama for Mother’s Day (whose battle with cancer, as most of you know, is the reason we bonded and started making these shirts in the first place!).

whatwouldkhaleesiwear:

Hey guys! If you missed the announcement on Wed., I’m headed to grad and med school. So, I’m slowly phasing out my Game of Thrones shop!

While all the jewelry will remain until it’s all sold out, tanks and shirts are made-to-order. This means last chance EVER to get a dip-dye sigil tank! We’re making our very last batch in mid-May, so order by May 15th!

I’d ppreciate any help to get the word out! Would love to go out of business with a huge bang, and have a little extra money for med school! :]

If you all like Game of Thrones, check out my homegirl’s shop while you still can!

nevver:

I’ll take Manhattan