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Weekend Features: “Temporal Distortion” by DakotaLapse

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Stunning time-lapse footage of the Milky Way, the night sky, and Aurora Borealis shot by photographer DakotaLapse (Randy Halverson). Having personally have seen the Milky Way with great detail while on the dark roads of Saddle Road in The Big Island of Hawaii, this video brings back those breathtaking moments of the wonders of the universe.

“What you see is real, but you can’t see it this way with the naked eye. It is the result of 20-30 second exposures edited together over many hours to produce the timelapse. This allows you to see the Milky Way, Aurora and other Phenonmena in a way you wouldn’t normally see them.
In the opening “Dakotalapse” title shot, you see bands of red and green moving across the sky. After asking several Astronomers, they are possible noctilucent clouds, airglow or faint Aurora. I never got a definite answer to what it is. You can also see the red and green bands in other shots.” -DakotaLapse

***You can also buy prints of this footage HERE.

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Weekend Features: Painting with coffee by Red

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Red (Hong Yi) is an artist in Shanghai who creates images with anything but the conventional paint + brush technique. Instead she utilizes everyday objects such as rocks, ketchup, milk, salt, and seeds, etc. has her medium for creation. In her most recent work, she uses coffee and a coffee cup to create an image of Taiwanese musician, Jay Chou.

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Weekend Features: Unreal resin-cast 3D paintings by Riusuke Fukahori

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Look again closely, these are not real goldfish in a bucket. They are in fact 3 dimensional acrylic paintings of goldfish in resin done in meticulous layers-upon-layers to achieve a lifelike, 3D effect. Amazing artistic achievement by Riusuke Fukahori. He just closed out an exhibition titled Goldfish Salvation at the ICN Gallery in London however I’ll be keeping an eye out for him in the future to hopefully premier some works in the States.

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Check out more photos taken by Dominic Alves HERE.

Weekend Features: Tissue Series: Anatomical Cross-Sections in Paper by Lisa Nilsson

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Truly creative, ‘out-of-the-box’ thinking, with clinical precision and execution best describes Lisa Nilsson’s amazing Tissue Series. The detail is incredible and for sure to catch the eye of art enthusiasts and the scientifically inclined alike.

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“These pieces are made of Japanese mulberry paper and the gilded edges of old books. They are constructed by a technique of rolling and shaping narrow strips of paper called quilling or paper filigree. Quilling was first practiced by Renaissance nuns and monks who made artistic use of the gilded edges of worn out bibles, and later by 18th century ladies who made artistic use of lots of free time. I find quilling exquisitely satisfying for rendering the densely squished and lovely internal landscape of the human body in cross section.” -Lisa Nilsson

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Photography by John Polak

Weekend Features: “Blue Marble 2012” by NASA

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Last week, NASA released an image of our mother earth titled “Blue Marble 2012″. It is dubbed ‘the most amazing high definition image of Earth”. It was taken by the Suomi NPP satellite, which collected data from multiple passes of the Earth on January 4th, 2012.

The longer I stare deep into this incredibly beautiful picture, the more I feel like I am going to fall into it! (Click on image to view it full size)

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More photo sizes available HERE.

Weekend Features: Photo-realistic paintings

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No, you’re eyes are not deceiving you, these ARE paintings! Photo-realistic paintings with such incredible detail and precision. I do find the subject matter of many of these pieces strangely interesting (ie- dirty dishes, wine glasses, fruit, etc), however I realize that the artists are in a way trying to make sense of everyday life, and magnifying just how important are the details in the little things…

Steve Mills

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***Steve Mills also has a great collection of Giclee prints on paper and canvas HERE.

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***Eric also has Giclee prints on canvas for a good number of his pieces in the ‘Gallery’ section of his website

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Weekend Features: Aqueous photography by Mark Mawson

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Check out these remarkable pictures of colored ink in water titled, “Aqueous Floreau” taken by Mark Mawson. An engineer can sit and try to explain all the nuances of the fluid mechanics of water, however just looking at these pictures makes it clear to me that I’ll never be able to grasp exactly what is going on here, but it sure is beautiful. Those little molecules of H2O just breathe LIFE.











Weekend Features: Recreating a masterpiece with a single black line

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The title of this post may seem a bit far-fetched, but a closer look at Chan Hwee Chong’s illustrations and that is exactly what you see. This Singaporean designer has recreated/reinterpreted classic masterpieces such as Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”, and Vermeer’s “The Girl with a Pearl Earring” using one continuous circular line-stroke of varying degrees of thickness and line-spacing. He described it as an exercise of “precision and control”.

Chong is so meticulous with his pieces that each one usually takes months to complete due to the fact that if a mistake was made during the drawing, he would scrap the whole piece and start over! Using only a piece of paper and a Faber Castell Artist Pen, Chong’s art is proof that creation is a human element, regardless of what mediums or materials are available for use.

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Weekend Features: Time Lapse View of International Space Station (ISS) Fly Over

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This weeks feature artist is Nature itself. Stunning time lapse footage of an Earth fly over was made using a special low-light 4K-camera by the crew of expedition 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011. No special effects, no computer trickery, just the real world as you see it. And it’s really cool. Check out the vid in HD Fullscreen if you can.