“Mercury Ahead!”: The BepiColombo Mission Has Captured Its First Views of Planet Mercury
The closest approach took place at 23:34 UTC on 1 October at an altitude of 199 km from the planet’s surface. Images from the spacecraft’s monitoring cameras, along with scientific data from a number of instruments, were collected during the encounter. The images were already downloaded over the course of Saturday morning, and a selection of first impressions are presented here. Continue reading »
Jacob Riglin’s Travel Photography All Over The Planet Will Amaze You
Jacob Riglin is a young photographer who travels the world in search for the next perfect shot. I selected some of his nature shots that are simply extraordinary. Continue reading »
Planet Pins: Tiny Hand-Painted Solar System Stationery
Hold the entire solar system in the palm of your hand with this unique set of planet push pins. Add a bit of outer-space to your home & office space. The 8 planet shapes are moulded in the UK over german-made, black steel pins, then sent to Tokyo where they are painstakingly brush painted by hand and assembled into their serial-numbered, polished-acrylic display cases. Continue reading »
These Lamps Allow You To Have A Planet At Home
Maria Elena from Pulsarmoonlight uses recycled garden globes to create lamps, and she turns them into something truly incredible. Continue reading »
Breathtaking Aerial Photos That Will Alter Your Perception Of Our Planet
The Daily Overview is a project that celebrates our planet and aims to highlight human impact through stunning aerial shots of locations around the globe. Considering that its central focus is on Earth, you might be surprised to learn that the inspiration for this venture initially began in outer space. Founder Benjamin Grant began thinking about this idea when he found out about the “overview effect”, an experience shared by astronauts who have just seen Earth for the first time as a tiny, blue sphere surrounded by darkness.
Hạlong Bay, located in the Quảng Ninh Province of Vietnam, is a stunningly beautiful destination. Here, towering limestone pillars and tiny islands topped by a rich, green forest rise from the beautiful waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. Halong translates as ‘where the dragon descends into the sea’ and local legend suggests that this seascape was created when a great mountain dragon charged towards the coast, its flailing tail gouging out the valleys and crevasses in its path. Continue reading »
Shampoo Planet: Paintings Of North American Urban Landscapes And Interiors By Marc Trujillo
Photorealistic paintings of discount retailers, members-only wholesale clubs, fast food restaurants, car washes, and gas stations by San Fernando Valley-based artist Marc Trujillo. The interior spaces and commercial architecture he depicts are often places that are designed to be enjoyed and frequent by most people but move past through. These “nowhere places” inspire and fascinate Trujillo as they dominate the country’s urban landscape. Continue reading »
An Alien Planet Of Candy-Like Rocks And Plants By David Brodeur
‘Celestial Series’ is a project by Chicago-based digital artist David Brodeur. In this series Brodeur created an alien world with glowing crystals, berry-like plants, and candy shaped orbs that sprout from the ground. Continue reading »
Abandoned Hotels In The Egyptian Desert May As Well Be On Another Planet
The word ruins ordinarily conveys a connotation of scarcely delineated brick walls and rubble dating back hundreds if not thousands of years, but the work of German artists Sabine Haubitz and Stefanie Zoche serves as a powerful reminder that unfortunate events, especially economic ones, can easily create ruins of much more recent vintage almost anywhere. Continue reading »
These Are Some Of The Greatest Lipstick Designs On The Planet
Give makeup artist Andrea Reed a challenge of creating any kind of lipstick look and the chances are she’ll nail it. The Canadian artist (who goes by the name Girl Grey Beauty) has created all manner of brilliant designs, from broken pixels to honeycombs and even rainbows. Her tools of the trade are quite simply numerous shades of lipsticks and a few brushes to help create the clean edges and lines. 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 »
“The Value of Food: Sustaining a Green Planet” Exhibition at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Sculptures by Tom Otterness are installed within the support columns at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, among the works of 30 artists in the multimedia exhibition “The Value of Food: Sustaining a Green Planet”, Wednesday, October 7, 2015, in New York. The exhibition, installed in the cathedral’s seven chapels and 14 bays, explores food accessibility, sustainability and other food-related issues and runs through April 3, 2016. (Photo by Bebeto Matthews/AP Photo)
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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 »
‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ with Andy Serkis and Gary Oldman
Andy Serkis as Caesar, the leader of the ape nation in ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.’ (WETA/Twentieth Century Fox)
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Planet Mercury Unmasked: Fantastic Photos Of Crazy New Discoveries
There are competing theories about Mercury’s formation. Physical models pictured here invoke one or more giant impacts (left) or the vaporization of surface by a hot solar nebula to remove the planet’s original crust and outer mantle. Image Credit: Left: NASA/JPL/Caltech; Right: Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Nature [473(7348):460–461, © 2011] (NASA) Continue reading »
NASA Turns to Exploring Our Planet With a New 3D Map
Mount Whitney, California; The 3D map is produced from images taken by the ASTER camera aboard Nasa’s Terra spacecraft. The 3D effect is created by taking ‘stereo pairs’ of two slightly offset images. Continue reading »
Evolution of The Planet of the Apes
The latest version of the Planet of the Apes doesn’t depart from the franchise’s apocalyptic outlook, but it does make the earlier efforts look technically dated.
Planet of the Apes (1968). The original Planet of the Apes film, starring Charlton Heston as the time-displaced astronaut Taylor, was an immediate box office and critical hit when it was released in February 1968. Based on the French novel, La planete des singes, by Pierre Boulle (who also wrote Bridge over the River Kwai) it tells the story of group of astronauts who crash land on what they think is an alien planet, only to discover it’s a post apocalyptic Earth ruled by apes. The script, originally penned by science fiction legend Rod Serling, underwent many rewrites. Continue reading »
Planet Shanghai
Justin Guariglia’s book Planet Shanghai excerpted here is filled with wonderful snapshots of every day life in Shanghai. The skyscrapers next to run-down neighborhood. The food and fresh fruit being sold at the market. The shoes people wear there. Their hairstyles. Old guys hanging out in chairs they set down on the streets. And yes, people in pajamas. Lots of people in pajamas.
Take a look, then go get the book. Like the people of Shanghai, it’s full of charm.
