We love the high-definition GIFs known as Cinemagraphs almost as much as we loathe the monotony of our daily routine, so when the two come together the result is both depressing and beautiful.
Check out “Routine,” a series from cinemagraph master Julien Douvier below and witness how he is able to perfectly capture the repetition of our daily lives.
For more of his amazing work please visit Behance
Brusspup, which is undoubtedly the best YouTube channel for all sorts of sciencey tricks and illusions, recently released this video that uses four lenses that bend light in a way to make objects appear invisible.
I’m not sure how it works, for me that it’s all magic.
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But apparently there is a perfectly “simple” explanation:
This is a really simple yet amazing project. It uses 4 lenses to control light in such a way that it renders an object invisible. When the light enters the first lens, it flips the image upside down. The second lens sends the light straight into the 3rd lens. The 3rd lens focuses the light into a point about 3 inches past the lens. Since the light is focused into a point, any object placed around that point cannot be seen when looking through the lenses. The light is essentially bending around the object. Once the light hits the point just past the 3rd lens, it then flips back right side up. This allows the background image to pass through all of the lenses without warping or being seen as upside down.
Reckless people who don’t much care about their own safety. It is hard to call them wise. They are just begging for a Darwin Award.
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This amazing graphic was created by Roberto Ziche and shows our solar system to scale.
Roberto explains: At the Chabot Space and Science Center there were some old, poor quality images, probably downloaded from internet and printed on office paper, showing the Sun and the planets to scale. I found the images content to be extremely interesting, but the design and quality was definitely something that could have been improved. I decided to give it a try, and create a brand new, more artistic view of our solar system, poster size (36″ x 36″), and donate it to the Center to replace those old prints.
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The 3D geometry was not too complex, but there was a lot of lighting experimentation to get the scene illuminated only by the Sun itself, and some time consuming multi-layer composition in Photoshop.”
The amount of ‘space’ between objects can also boggle the mind. For example, did you know you can fit all of the planets in our solar system in the space between Earth and our moon?
Lastly, check out the video below to see a comparison of our Sun compared to other large stars we have discovered.
It’s hard to believe that what you see below was once a solid outcrop of sandstone in rural New Mexico. Rather than seeing simply rock, artist Ra Paulette envisions amazing caves and then sets to work to create them. It’s no longer an ordinary cave, it’s not a work of art.
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Chernobyl is one of the most interesting and dangerous places on earth. The nuclear disaster, which happened in 1986 had an effect on many people in Europe. It caused so much distress hundreds of miles away, so I can’t imagine how terrifying it would have been for the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian citizens who were forced to evacuate.
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UK-based filmmaker Danny Cooke, armed with a camera and a radiation dosimeter, spent a week exploring Chernobyl and the nearby abandoned city of Pripyat in a way we haven’t seen before – using an airborne video drone. His breathtaking video, called “Postcards From Pripyat,” exposes the sheer scale of this ghostly post-apocalyptic landscape.
Cooke visited Pripyat, Ukraine earlier this year while working on a CBS documentary about the radioactive disaster site. The Chernobyl catastrophe in 1986 caused the biggest radioactive release ever, comparable to 200-300 atomic bombs. To this day, the site of the accident is surrounded by an utterly abandoned exclusion area of 1,000 square miles.
“There was something serene, yet highly disturbing about this place. Time has stood still and there are memories of past happenings floating around us”- says Cooke.
For more please visit dannycooke.co.uk | cbsnews.com
