Figure & Ground: Surreal Animated Walking City Shifts Shape
Mesmerizing as it morphs forms like some kind of architectural mutant, this latest take on the Walking City is a freshly-animated and anthropomorphic twist on a fifty-year-old ...
Category: Photography & Video
Photography is more than merely capturing a still image – the still-shot photographers featured here will amaze you with mind-bending and world-inverting techniques from glamorous HDR to dark ultraviolet and tools ranging from trash-can cams to pinhole cameras, while the urban cinematographers in this section can twist and warp reality in motion.
Time Stands Still: Sublime Slow-Motion Subway Panoramas
A subway speeds by the platform, leaving most passengers with a fleeting impression and fast-fading memories of people glimpsed only for a moment, but not this crafty slow-motion documentarian. ...
End of the Line: Exploring Unseen Terminal Subway Stations
Bustling hubs give way to spindly spokes, infrequently taking locals to particularly distant destinations and often entirely unseen by tourists and other travelers. In the city business or ...
Adventures of Double-Faced Girl: Surreal Photography Series
It's amazing what a few strokes of a black eyeliner can do - like create an unsettling optical illusion that makes it seem as if a girl has two faces. The 'Doublefaced' project by Sebastian ...
Darkened Cities: Urban Skylines Minus Light Pollution
What would your city look like if it went completely dark? Words like majestic, awe-inspiring and magical come to mind - not as descriptions for the cities themselves, but how some of their most ...
Lucky Rainbow: Time Lapse Pics of Traffic Light Piercing Fog
The right place, proper timing and a keen eye conspired to help a photographer capture this eerie nighttime phenomena at a crossroads outside of Weimar, Germany. German ...
Space in Miniature: Tilt-Shift Effect Shrinks Galaxies
The scope of all that exists beyond our own planet is so large, it's mind-boggling to contemplate. Yet a simple Photoshop trick can seemingly reduce shots of outer space, including those taken by ...
Focus on Blur: Bokeh Cityscapes Celebrate Color & Light
Stretching and reversing conventions for balancing foreground and background, one urban photographer in Tokyo is taking the Japanese concept of Bokeh to dazzling extremes. Bokeh (which ...
Naturally Us: Stunning Combinations of Nature + Humans
Photographer Christoffer Relander combines nature and human faces to create preternaturally beautiful portraits. The double and triple exposures blend aspects of the natural world and the grace ...
Color-Coded Cars: Time-Collapse Film Reorders Rush Hour
There is no computer-generated imagery behind this surreal-seeming scenography, but rather a skillful remixing of reality to sort actual automobiles by color. Artist and filmmaker Cy ...
