Power of Books: 6 Graphic Illustrations of Literal Imaginings
Ever get done reading a chapter and feel like the book is more real than the room around you? Now, what if that were literally true of your favorite volume? What might that look ...
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.
Rainbow Food Photography is Not Entirely Appetizing
Would you eat purple lettuce? How about green bacon or multi-colored pasta? Photographer Henry Hargreaves has put some of our favorite foods into an entirely new context by giving them a ...
Action Figure Booth: 3D Printer Creates Custom Figurines
Let's hope this concept catches on: a photo booth alternative that, instead of printing photos, creates an instant 3D action figure that looks just like you. Opening to the public at Tokyo's EYE ...
Visualization Vids: Moving Data Make Marvelous Movies
Raw data, as interesting as it may be to the scientists and analysts who use it, simply isn't very interesting (or understandable) to the rest of us. In order to get the general public truly ...
World-Warping Photography Bends, Twists & Tears Reality
Life feels rather rigid and unyielding sometimes, which is why it's nice to have art like Jan Kriwol's into which we can escape momentarily. Kriwol's series "Paper Realities" only consists of ...
Camouflage Posters Turn 3D Reality into 2D Illusions
Blurring the line between reality and fiction, this urban camouflage photo series by French photographer Fred Lebain features posters that blend in almost perfectly with their environments. ...
San Francisco Past & Present: Blended Images from 1906 and 2012
106 years ago, San Francisco was in ruins. The earthquake of 1906 destroyed over 80% of the city, with 30 fires that broke out as a result burning down 25,000 buildings on 490 city blocks. But ...
Rainbow Realities: 18 Everyday Objects Organized by Color
There is something inherently magical about rainbows - something that makes us look to the sky and ask "What does it mean?" That sublime spectrum of color is brought into the home in these ...
21st Century Tintypes: Incredible Old-Fashioned Photography
In an era of digital cameras, Photoshop and other high-tech photography and processing techniques, one photographer has gone just about as far in the other direction as possible. Michael Shindler ...
Crowd Control: Cool Time Lapse Shows How People Gather
Crowd-watching is one of those perennial favorite activities that never seems to get old no matter how often you do it. For the 2011 Vancouver Celebration of Light, a popular annual fireworks ...
