Long exposure photos of gold fireflies in Japan (via Petapixel)
From the new book Advice to Sink In Slowly, of snippets of advice to design students.
Happy new year! (Image credit: nytimes.com)
It looks almost like a painting, but this is actually a photo of the Dead Sea salt formations. More aerial photos from Boing Boing here.
Hefei, China: A man walks past giant vase-shaped lanterns during the first Heritage Park Lantern Art Festival
(Source: Guardian)
Now That Books Mean Nothing
A beautifully written essay about a woman’s recovery after a double mastectomy, and her struggle to find something to keep her occupied when books have lost their appeal:
Just as the possibility of doing what you love for a job risks turning that love into a chore, doing what you love during a difficult time risks illuminating the shortcomings of that thing you love because it cannot solve all—if any—of your problems.
Craig Easton’s photograph of Tweeddale in Scotland was commended in the Your View category of the Take a View landscape photographer of the year 2011 awards
Bruce Munro’s installation Field of Light in the grounds of the Holbourne Museum, Bath
New York-based artist Matt Wisniewski creates digital collages by blending fashion and nature photographs together into surreal images.
Wow.
An aerial view shows large salt formations in the southern part of the Dead Sea, near Ein Bokek, Israel.
