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Amazing landscape photography, with a MAJOR TWIST

The Observer — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:45:00 +0000

I am always amazed by beautiful and vivid landscape photography. And there are photographers who take it to a whole new level altogether. Take a look at these landscape photos. They are all breathtakingly beautiful, and the photographer’s skill for composing these shots is amazing.

Now, if you thought that these are not all that great, but just plain old very good landscape shots, please read on (although I don’t know why you would think that since they are amazing shots). First of all, they are shots all taken by the same photographer. You would think that such a person has to be a great adventurer – given that the shots include that of an erupting volcano and also one on the moon.

Well, he sure is an adventurer, but his adventure is confined to his basement. His name is Matthew Albanese. And all of the above photos are models that he created in his basement. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the following photos:

So, what do you think now? Isn’t it amazing? You can follow the link on Matthew’s name above to his Flickr profile. There you can find more of his amazing work, and even links to his process on how he builds these models (for example, the moon landscape was made from the ash at his fireplace).

Great Long Exposure Photography

The Observer — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:48:00 +0000

If you are a photographer, or just like to see well executed photography, then here I present (picked up from Flickr) some very cool long exposure photos taken by a number of photographers. There are hundreds and thousands of photos using these techniques on Flickr, so you might want to head over there for more viewing pleasure.

Here are the photos (each photo links to the photo’s Flickr page – you should follow it if you want to know more about the photo or the photographer):

Hope you enjoyed them. I specifically like the last one. Its brilliant.

Some pranks to play on your office mates

The Observer — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:47:48 +0000

The Internet gives us the opportunity to discover the funniest things – today I found some photos which depict some really cool pranks that people played on their office mates – by redecorating their cubicles. Maybe, you want to do that next to your colleagues. For every photo that you look at, just imagine if that was your cubicle when you arrived in office one morning. Here you go, have a look:

I have to say, someone did put in a lot of effort to play these pranks. I think office pranks are really the best, and let us stay kids even after we have left school.

Crazy trick photography

The Observer — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:23:53 +0000

Here’s a new term that I learned today – Sleeveface – a phenomenon wherein one or more persons obscure or augment body parts with record sleeve(s), causing an illusion.Well, pictures are louder than words, and so, here goes. All photos are taken from Flickr, and are marked under Creative Commons. Click the photo to visit the photographer’s page to see other work by the photographer.

There are hundreds of these out there, go look for your own (just search for sleeveface).

Another comic about good code

The Observer — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:32:19 +0000

I love comics, because they often put the true reality in your face. Have you seen the comic about the only measure of code quality? Well, here’s another comic (this one by Geek and Poke) which describes exactly what good code is. Great one

Great photography on a very cute subject

The Observer — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:30:00 +0000

Subject: Danbo (meaning Cardboard, an apparently popular action figure for those who follow Japanese animations).

Flickr is just full of awesome photos of an object which is basically a bunch of cardboard boxes put together in the shape of a robot. As you can see in the photos, it is much more than just a collection of cardboards. I have picked out the best ones that I like on Flickr (by various photographers) – each one links to the photo page on Flickr, from where you can find many more Danbo photos by the same photographer.

I could just keep posting these over and over, but here’s the mother load link on Flickr, sorted by interestingness – http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/danbo/interesting/

Amazing drawings of fantasy lands

The Observer — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:23:00 +0000

I always love to post about artistic and creative work that I encounter on the Internet, and here’s another such post. The artist is a Russian named Ksenia, and I encountered her work on Deviant Art. (I am making an assumption that Ksenia is a girl since searching that name on Google turns up a Wikipedia article about a Russian beauty queen). She draws landscape and architecture of places that you would have seen in movies such as Lord of the Rings. Below are some samples of her work, please visit her gallery on Deviant Art for more.

If you liked them, for some of them you can even order prints from Deviant Art.

A little bit of OS humor

The Observer — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:12:00 +0000

I came upon this nice and funny image below about how various OS fanboys see their OS as compared to other OSes. It is not clear who is the owner of this to me, since it appears on so many sites, so I will just give the attribution to the place where I first saw it, which is the blog of Joey Devilla. Here’s the image:

You can head over to his blog for other funny stuff (search for the funny tag), or for some techie stuff, which is also spread throughout his blog.

This will take your breath away

The Observer — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:39:39 +0000

Every once in a while you come upon someone’s work which is so brilliant that it takes you breath away. Well, the bird book is one such piece of work. I am posting some photos from the book below, and I will let them speak for themselves. And, following the photos is the link to the website of this brilliant piece of work by Andrew Zuckerman. This book is now one of my things to buy.

You definitely need to go to the website to see these photos in much larger sizes. There are multiple photos of over 70 species.

Here are the photos:

And here’s the link to the website: http://www.birdbook.org.

Most amazing creativity and talent

The Observer — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:13:07 +0000

I can never get over how talented a place the world is. There are so many people out there who are just geniuses of what they do. I found someone on Flickr, and her name is Alejandra Salgado. She is a painter, and she posts photographs of her work on Flickr. And all I can say is wow. The only way to explain my reaction is to share some of her work and to let you go look at the rest for yourself on Flickr.

Here are a few of her latest posts on Flickr:

If you enjoyed this, and you want to see more, here’s a link to her photo stream on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/salgadopintora/.