Posts Tagged ‘nature’
Winner of the 2021 Underwater Photographer of the Year Contest
Escape the pandemic by stapping on an aqualung and diving into the oceans. its gorgeous down there. The winners of the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2021.
The winning entry was ‘Sharks’ Skylight’ by Renee Capozzola: “This image was taken in French Polynesia, which happens to be one of my very favorite places to photograph sharks.”
Lead image: by Oleg Gaponyuk.
Posted: 11th, February 2021 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Eugene von Ransonnet-Villez: built a submarine to draw the ocean floor
Eugene von Ransonnet-Villez (1838 – 1926) was an Austrian a diplomat, painter, lithographer, biologist and explorer who built a personal submersible and drew what he saw beneath the waves. the sea.
This above image Ransonnet drew sitting in a diving bell in 1864-65 in Ceylon (today Sri Lanka).
Spotter: flashbak
Posted: 1st, December 2020 | In: Technology | Comment
Exhibiting nature: artist plants 300 trees on a football pitch
Klauss Littman planted 300 trees on the pitch at Klagenfurt, Austria as part of his For Forest — The Unending Attraction of Nature.
Using 300 trees, some of which weigh up to six tonnes, landscape architect Enzo Enea will cover the entire playing field with a mixed forest characteristic of Central Europe.
From the grandstands, visitors can admire the spectacle of the trees day and night (from 10am until 10pm). Admission is free. A sight that is as unfamiliar as it is fascinating and bound to stir up a range of emotions and reactions! Depending on the time of day (or night), the trees will constitute a constantly changing landscape that is shaped by the weather as well as the autumnal turning of the leaves. The installation is a clever play on our emotions when faced with what should be a familiar sight, placed in an entirely different context. With this monumental work of art, Littmann challenges our perception of nature and sharpens our awareness of the future relation between nature and humankind.
The project also sees itself as a warning: One day, we might have to admire the remnants of nature in specially assigned spaces, as is already the case with zoo animals.
Looks out for Wolves.
Littmann shaped his project on a 1970 drawing by Austrian architect and painter Max Peintner:
What if nature becomes an exhibit?
Posted: 11th, September 2019 | In: News, The Consumer | Comment
The colours of blindness and love
When Ashley was blind, her nearest and dearest described colours to her like this:
Yellow. I didn’t touch anything for this, they just told me that whenever you laugh so hard you can’t stop, that that happiness is what yellow looks like.
Green. I held soft leaves and wet grass. They told me green felt like life. To this day it is still very much my favorite color.
Spitter: Kottke
Posted: 8th, September 2016 | In: Technology | Comment
Watch a weird Roll Cloud float over Chicago
Amy King was on the lakefront in Chicago to record this video of a cloud rolling in.
Meteorologist Cheryl Scott explains:
What is a Roll Cloud and how does it form? It’s a low, horizontal, tube-shaped cloud. It is formed by winds changing speed/direction when the air temperature reverses its state (resulting in warm air on top of cool air). The shear in the atmosphere sets up a rolling motion, think [of a] rolling pin used in a baking.
Spotter: v@kingartcollective
Posted: 1st, September 2016 | In: Strange But True, TV & Radio | Comment
The sublime beauty of ice braking up on Lake Superior near Duluth
On Lake Superior near Duluth, the thin ice is backing up. The effect is great. The noise of the ice cracking as it banks up is beautiful:
Watch A Terrifying Amount Of Geese Nearly Fly Into Some Cackling Humans
YOU’VE heard of Sharknado? Well, how about a Geesenami? That’s right. Someone caught, on camera rather than ‘by hand’, hundreds and hundreds of geese in flight.
Of course, this sounds a bit tedious like Springwatch. However, these geese were sat toddling around, all sinister, and then took off across some school playing fields.
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Marriage proposal hit by massive wave (video)
ROMANCE. It doesn’t work. Kissing in the rain isn’t nice, it’s horrible. Rose petals on a bed? That’s just a load of decaying bits of flower that’ll need hoovering up. Chocolates give you diabetes and making love requires you to take clothes off your horrible string of sausages body.
One chap found out that romance is stupid when he took his loved one to the sea to pop the special question (please note: there is absolutely nothing special about getting married because any idiot can do it – it is less special than whistling because not everyone can do that). (Did she turn you down – ed?)
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Catfish strike knell for end of humans while eating birds out of water (video)
YOU may have heard the blues song which sings “I wish I was a catfish, swimming in the deep blue sea, I’d have all you pretty women, fishin’ after me.” A lovely, evocative image, right? Well, imagine if the song said: “I wish, I was a catfish, swimming in a grotty stream, I’d wriggle to the edge of the water and disgustingly catch pigeons with my teeth.”
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Posted: 10th, December 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Foxes soon to control London after mugging mother-of-two
LONDON is a place where human contact is at a minimum, with people crammed into steel cylinders, underground, hiding in their iPod earphones and Kindles, only to be spat out toward offices and silent commuting trudges. Fear and loathing grips the capital and on the blindside, while the middle classes coo at lidos and bicycles, and the working classes baulk at rent, the foxes are taking over.
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Blackbirds found blind drunk in playground
SOME young tearaway blackbirds found dead at a primary school in Cumbria, which doesn’t sound very funny. However, when you consider the fact that they were dead from alcohol poisoning, it suddenly feels more amusing.
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Posted: 7th, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
That Stupid Whale Tries To Make Friends With An Engine
EVER since that episode of The Simpsons aired, where dolphins started walking around and killing everyone, humans have had a very real fear of our sea-dwelling chums rising up and handing our arses to us in a lobster pot.
Or is that just us?
Either way, we needn’t worry because everything in the sea is so ridiculously dim, that we can have a great time polluting their habitat and harpooning them through the face without fear of repercussion.
Unless you count plankton. We don’t trust plankton one bit.
So what gave us the notion that the creatures of the sea are more stupid than a boxset of The Only Way Is Essex? Well, take whales. Whales seem pretty smart don’t they? They sing and have sonar. However, they also try to make friends with out-board engines on boats, to the point where they’ve actually bothered to learn how to do an impression of one.
Watch this video and sleep easier tonight, knowing that, while whales may resent us humans, they’ll be too busy trying to stir up a rebellion with inanimate objects.
The dicks.
Posted: 30th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
