Compressed 01

Compressed 01 by Kim Pimmel

“Ferrous printer toner particles floating on the surface of water are attracted by a magnet and align to the invisible magnetic field around them. The patterns and motions that result are strangely ordered and organized. Time-lapse sequences were created from individual photos shot with a Nikon D90, DIY macro lens and custom intervalometer. Edited with Adobe Premiere.”

Cities

Oh my... I really like these city illustrations/renderings from Atelier Olschinsky, a small design studio in Vienna:







It's well worth checking out the rest of their work... especially metamorphosen and structures 2, as well as the cities and cities 2 series of illustrations (obviously).

Via PYTR 75

ESO ALMA Antenna

Time-lapse of a whole night at the ALMA Array Operations Site (AOS):


[needs a cool soundtrack!]

"As the sky appears to rotate clockwise around the south celestial pole (roughly on the upper left edge of the video), the Milky Way goes down slowly, until it is lying almost horizontal before sunrise. The center of our galaxy becomes visible during the second half of the night as a yellowish bulge crossed by dark lanes in the center of the image, just above the antennas."

Technology

More industrial abstracts... this time from photographer Greg White:

Aeronautical

Abstract industrial images from photographer Benedict Redgrove's aeronautical portfolio (they look so much better big, like most things):

The Martian Way

Haven't posted any covers for a while... so here we go:



Most Coveted Covers

Distorted

Very cool paintings by German artist Jens Hesse, inspired by photo and video distortions and effects:





Via today and tomorrow