WTF!? Why is this series so damn cute!! I love Yago Partal's series titled: Zoo Portraits. It's another animals dressed up like humans series but this time compared to Miguel Vallinas' portraits, this has a white backdrop (high key lighting) and only the top torso is photographed. He photographed about 50 animals or so; check out my favorite critters posing above.
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Madrid's Miguel Vallinas' photo series titled: Second Skin is brilliant! I love the antropormophic project where animals are dressed up as people. It is so convincing to me for some reason. The lights, the composition and the photoshop make it all so life like. It reminds me of 1984 by George Orwell, when the pigs stand up at the end. That scared me a bit!
Once again I found another amazing photographer/ cool photography theme on Facebook, and he is the same one who did the taxidermy photos I blogged about in March, 2013! So I guess I didn't find him, more like rediscovered this wonderful photographer. Klaus Pichler's project: Just the two of us, is pretty great. I love his idea of dressing up and posing in ordinary situations around the house, or being someone else. Just the two of us is about the costumes and the people behind them. I would really like to try some of these ideas in my own photography, that way people wouldn't be shy hiding behind a mask and would be more comfortable posing. Check out his photos below.
God, What can I say? I found this photographer through BoredPanda's Facebook page titled: Would you give up your phone, internet, and tv to live free like them? Jimmy Nelson traveled around the world documenting more than 30 secluded and vanishing tribes for his book: Before they Pass Away. He is also coming to NY next week for a book signing! He would endure extreme temperatures and conditions for these photographs. Nelson would also photograph their ceremonies, traditions, rituals and cultures. I am amazed by these beautiful portraits and landscapes. They are stunning and out of this world. So I have to say this is one of my dream jobs to travel the world and photograph these amazing people and Yes, I would give up my internet, tv and phone to see them.
Last week I went to see the Dark Universe exhibit at AMNH. It was really mind blowing! It was at the Rose Center for Earth and Space, the glass cube containing the space theater designed by Polshek and Todd Schliemann. The building consists of a six-story high glass cube enclosing a 87-foot (27 m) illuminated sphere that appears to float — although it is actually supported by truss work (from Wikipedia). I was wondering about the height and support. Inside the top half of the planetarium, is the space show which uses hi def full dome video to project the movies.
I learned about dark matter and dark energy. I've always been interested in space, the universe etc and I have a limited and very broad knowledge on cosmology and astrophysics. It's really a hard science to learn and get your mind around. I've been hearing about dark matter and dark energy for a while, but never really grasped it, but now I feel like I have more confidence in explaining, but in a very broad sense. This is how I explained it to my husband: Ordinary matter is what we know that is on planet Earth or around us: people, food, shelter, animals, atoms, electrons, ocean's tides, gravity, forces, moving vehicles, technologies, our galaxy, stars, etc. Scientist can explain these concepts. Dark matter is matter that does not absorb or emit light, but is responsible for clusters of galaxies. This matter keeps them together. We can not see dark matter and we do not know what it is, but we know it is like a "fabric" or web keeping the galaxies together. I'm sure it is responsible for others things too. Dark energy is energy responsible for the expansion of the universe. We can not see dark energy either and we don't know what it is, but I can't wait until scientists figure it out! I really can't think that big, its too astronomical! Where is the universe expanding to? I felt infinitesimally small! Anyway scientist say the total mass energy responsible for the known universe is 5% ordinary matter, 25% dark matter, and 70% dark energy. So basically, we really don't know that much! |
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