Duncan Murrell aka "Whaleman" has been taking intimate close-range photos of whales for 20 years. He takes a small craft out every summer, tracking the whales as they hunt for food, and paddles up to 30 miles a day. These amazing shots were taken in the Tenakee Inlet in Southeast Alaska.
If you haven't seen these videos by Rick Mereki, you are in for a treat. These three videos were commissioned by STA Travel Australia, and are a great way to promote travel. They really make me want to jump on a plane and go somwhere.
"3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage... all to turn 3 ambitious linear concepts based on movement, learning and food ....into 3 beautiful and hopefully compelling short films.....
= a trip of a lifetime.
move, eat, learn"
Check out vimeo to learn some more about this wonderful series.
Will Cotton and Elle Fanning team up to bring us this amazing fashion candy land. Even at the age of fourteen, Elle displays style and grace.
Wow! Fabrizio Bensch and Pawel Kopczynski developed a groundbreaking system that allows photographers to remotely operate a camera with a joystick. Using this technology, Mike Blake at Reuters took some incredilbe shots of gymnasts in never before seen angles. Read the article at My Modern Met for a more detailed look into how these photos are taken.
In the eyes of Ernie Button breakfast cereal has changed from "mere nutrition to sheer entertainment." He says the cereal aisle has "become a cornucopia of vibrantly colored marshmallows" that represent people and characters. His time in Arizona allowed him to see the resemblance between cereal and the colors and textures of the southwestern desert. He used this idea and cleverly placed the cereal in front of enlarged photographs of actual Arizona skies. The result is this awesome set of landscape photos that look oddly realistic.
Matt Wisniewski is a web developer and self-taught artist based out of Brooklyn, NY. He has been using Photoshop since he was a child, and he loves to create visual experiments through collage. His art usually begins with a portrait, and he quickly combines textures until something catches his eye. If you want to learn more about his work, check out this great interview on Yatzer.
Ise Ananphada is an illustrator from from Bangkok, Thailand. She is known for her beautiful drawings of feminine figures and use of delicate pastel colors. Each illustration feels like there is a wonderful story waiting to unfold.
One giant leap for mankind. by the Imaginary Foundation
Welcome to the seventy-eighth Facebook inspiration roundup. Here we'll post just a few of the things you are missing if you aren't following Who Designed It? on Facebook. Click on the images to see credits. Enjoy!
