Beautiful New Zealand: Earth’s Mythical Islands
Milford Sound, perhaps New Zealand’s most famous scenic location, was long overlooked by early sailors and explorers, who didn’t realise the narrow entrance concealed an enormous and beautiful interior. It wasn’t discovered by Europeans until 1812. Named the eighth “wonder of the world”, its actually one of the wettest places on Earth, with rainfall creating cascades of waterfalls, some reaching a 1,000m in length. (Photo by Tom Walker/BBC Pictures/The Guardian) Continue reading »
The Day After Tomorrow: Eerie Concept Art Depicts Earth After The Apocalypse
I like to introduce you to the dark visions of Noro8 aka Norbert. He is an artist from the UK who specialises in digital art and photo manipulation, with a very special interest in post-apocalyptic wastelands. Noro8 loves designing images that focus on end-of-human-civilization scenarios with dark sci-fi elements strewn copiously. He believes society is broken and selfish and utterly brainwashed and envisage a morose future where survival is a nightmarish hell. In that sense, Nero8 serves as a kind of harbinger. His art conveys visions from his mind’s eye and they are dark and gritty and devoid of hope. Continue reading »
The Day The Earth Stood Still: Post-Apocalypse Worlds Of Michal Karcz
Art is undoubtedly one of the best ways to take journeys to the places of your fantasy and dreams, and this is exactly what creating photo manipulations is to Michal Karcz. The Polish photographer, a graduate of the High School of Art in Warsaw, couldn’t decide between painting and photography until he discovered the possibilities of digital photography. Continue reading »
This Street Art Duo Show Their Concerns With Planet Earth
Staying true to their focal and ongoing analysis of the relationship between humankind and nature, NEVERCREW has illustrated their observations on walls and shipping containers in India, United States, and Europe. Concerned with climate change and the future of humanity, pieces like “Black Machine” and “Ablating Machine” depict whales and polar bears in artistic and thought-provoking ways. Continue reading »
Earth, Then And Now: Dramatic Changes In Our Planet Revealed By Incredible NASA Images
Image credits: wwf.org
If you compare some of the photographs which can be found on NASA’s website, you can really see how human beings have changed the appearance of our world over the years. The time difference between these images ranges from five to 100 years. Incredible stuff. Continue reading »
German Artist Turns Google Earth Pictures Into Amazing Photographs
German artist Meike Nixdorf got the idea to give back all the beauty of mountain landscapes that we can see in three dimensions on Google Earth. Continue reading »
Mirrored Ziggurat Connects The Earth And Sky In Sydney
A mirrored artwork is turning heads in Sydney with its eye-catching optical illusion. Continue reading »
Customer at Starbucks Draws Detailed Map of Middle-Earth From ‘The Lord of the Rings’ & ‘The Hobbit’ on Coffee Cup
Redditor Carpe_Natem was recently given an inspirational boost during their shift after discovering one customer’s geeky coffee cup that had an extremely detailed map of Middle-earth drawn on it. Continue reading »
Giant 650-Feet Long Horse Earth Sculpture
Welsh artist Mick Petts’ massive raised-earth sculpture “Sultan the Pit Pony” is the largest figurative earth sculpture in the United Kingdom and extends of 200 meters. Continue reading »
The Most Colorful Places On Earth
Forget dreary winter landscapes — these vibrant places around the world are guaranteed to brighten your day. Continue reading »
The International Flag of Planet Earth
The International Flag of Planet Earth is a graduation project at Beckmans College of Design (Stockholm, Sweden). Continue reading »
Oymyakon, the Coldest Village on Earth
A local woman enters Preobrazhensky Cathedral in a swirl of freezing mist in the city of Yakutsk, Russia, considered to be the coldest city in the world, January 2014. (Photo by Amos Chapple/REX Features)
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Save the Earth, Go Vegan
Model Renee Somerfield is photographed with her body painted as the earth with a sign reading “Save the Earth, Go Vegan” for a new advertisement by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in Sydney on July 3, 2014. PETA is telling the world to stop eating meat and dairy products and switch to a healthy and animal friendly vegan diet. (Photo by Peter Parks/AFP Photo)
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“Falling Back To Earth” Exhibition in Australia
“Falling Back To Earth” promises to be both spectacular and meditative, and presents a beautiful, thought-provoking vision of our relationship with the earth and with each other. (Photo by Dave Hunt/EPA) Continue reading »
Amazing Places on Earth Most People will Never See
Hike the Haiku Stairs in Oahu, Hawaii — also known as “The Stairway to Heaven” — a steep trail with a wooden ladder spiked into the side of a cliff. Technically it’s not open for public use, but people still climb it, and rave about the views from the top.
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Shots of Earth from Space
Australian desert. (Photo by NASA) Continue reading »
Anthropocene Mapping: The Human Influence On Earth
Defined according to Wikipedia it is “a recent and informal geologic chronological term that serves to mark the evidence and extent of human activities that have had a significant global impact on the Earth’s ecosystems. The term was coined by ecologist Eugene Stoermer but has been widely popularized by the Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen.”
The images here where created by Felix Pharand-Deschenes depicting how various human influences, from road and rail, to internet cables and airlines create significant patterns covering the Earth. What can we learn from these patterns in how they are influencing the environment
Air traffic routes over Eurasia. Continue reading »
Satellite Eye on Earth: March 2012
The Paraná River floodplain along the Mato Grosso-São Paulo border, Brazil. The river appears as a wide, blue strip with the muddy brown water of the smaller Verde River entering from the north-west (top left). An extensive wetland (dark green) and the floodplain reaches a width of 11 kilometres (about 7 miles). The thin line of a road crossing the floodplain also gives a sense of scale. The floodplains are bordered by numerous rectangular agricultural fields, containing coffee, corn, and cotton crops. (ISS/NASA) Continue reading »
Solar Storm Threatens to Slam Into Earth, Spectacular Flares Detected by NASA
Solar blasts of energy from the sun began reaching the Earth on Friday and could disrupt some communications, according to scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Storms are brewing some 93 million miles away and three solar flares erupted on the sun starting Tuesday, touching earth’s magnetic field on Friday in the form of fast-moving “solar wind” and is blowing by the Earth. (NASA / NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center / IBITimes) Continue reading »
