We are one in a million

‘One million stars’  – art installation by ​Maryann Talia Paul. Photos by John Englezos.

“In short, The Million Stars project is an international weaving art project sparked by a personal repsonse to a local tragedy…” read more here

We count

‘What will you leave behind’ – an art installation in the  Ardel Gallery in Bangkok, 2013 by Nino Sarabutra who filled a gallery floor with more than 100,000 miniature porcelain skulls that visitors would walk on. Words from the artist:

‘I want people to ask themselves how they live, what are they doing
– if today was your last on earth, what will you leave behind?’

Nino asked a range of people to help create the skulls – friends, family, neighbors, students, workers etc. While making them, they were asked to contemplate their life and think about what they will leave behind.

We do our own thing

In his series ‘Before They Pass Away’ photographer Jimmy Nelson created these beautiful and powerful portraits of secluded tribes from around the world whose cultures are at risk of fading away.

2013 in review

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The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 250,000 times in 2013. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 11 days for that many people to see it.

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Merry Christmas

From our home to yours, we wish you all a Merry Christmas in good health and happiness. Your Hovercraftdoggies / photograph: miüda

We play

A Father Who Creatively Captures His Kids_ find more of Jason Lee’s great, fun photographs of his children on his flickr page.

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We are a bit cold

The Nenets, who live at daily temperatures of – 35C / -31F in northern Siberia, Russia and wash just once a year and eat raw reindeer liver to survive. Documented by these beautiful black and white monochrome photographs of by documentary photographer Sebastião Salgado / found at tanta tralha

These photographs of the Nenet are taken from the forthcoming book Genesis, by Sebastião Salgado, to be published by Taschen in April 2013 to coincide with the opening of the exhibition Genesis at the Natural History Museum, London, sponsored by Vale.

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We are almost there

Photograph by Erin Quigley / winner of the DEEP Indonesia 2011 underwater photography competition in the category ‘Animal Behaviour’

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Late Night

Intriguing image from the movie Enter the Void showing a composition of two different scenes combined in into one shot.

We feel empty

photograph by José Javier Serrano

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We are in a meeting

Dinghies Clustered Around Dock / Duxbury, Massachusetts by photographer Alex MacLean

We go back to work

Nha Trang (factory in Vietnam) by Andreas Gursky

/ Photograph of industrious workers weaving cane in a furniture factory in Nha Trang, Vietnam.The photographer’s Rhein II recently sold for £2.7m,making it the most expensive photograph ever auctioned.

We are back on the road

Vintage photograph of a large suspension bridge with one side open for a large stream of pedestrians crossing the bridge in Michigan, USA, 1973 / unknown photographer

 

 

We would deserve it

unknown photographer

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all Hovercraftdoggies, Fans & Followers

Adorable, funny photograph of a running dog carrying a tennis bal / photograph ‘ball player’ by Frank Meynet

We look back

We wait

Underwater photograph of a shark hovering above the bottom of the sea, waiting for its prey /

unknown photographer

We are packing

A Bangladeshi labourer pulls a cart full of empty drums during a nationwide strike in Dhaka on December 20, 2012. Twelve like-minded Islamic parties called an eight-hour general strike in the capital Dhaka and a dawn-to-dusk general strike across the country as they seek a ban on left-wing political parties.

A Bangladeshi labourer pulls a cart full of empty drums / photograph by Munir Uz Zaman

We dont disagree

The Enemy

Collection of Vintage Alarm Clocks / photograph by Milos Luzanin

 

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We are different

Beautiful photograph of a woman at an aquarium and a baby sea cow watching each other /

Onirisme by Chenaille Valentin

We follow the light

Installation called Ganzfeld exhibited at the Kulturforum Järna in Stockholm by artist James Turrell photographed by Florian Holzherr

Installation from the “Ganzfeld series” exhibited at the Kulturforum Järna in Stockholm,  by light artist James Turrell / photographed by Florian Holzherr

We are in love

Photograph of 3 adorable ducklings walking in the snow, by C. Eichelberger

We move on

Photograph of an adorable black Great Dane puppy running along the coast. Unknown Photographer

 

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We are confused

Aerial photo of spaghetti  like tangled slides in a colorful theme park, by Alex MacLean

Happy Friday Everyone

Flatlands by Chelsea Wolfe /  found at tanta tralha

We need to calm down

Forced perspective photograph by Nils Holgersson

 

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We are on our own

Photography by Enric Adrian Gener

We are busy

Photograph of  an old moleskine black leather diary, by Anne Manteleer

We are in a dream

Balloon art  installation simulation of sunset, by Lloyd Hamrol

We want to escape

Installation of 101 suspended empty birdcages called “Forgotten Songs”, by Michael Thomas Hill

We feel the chill

‘in the Waves’ – Lava Sand and Blue Iceland Ice in Jokulsarlon, photographed by Timo Lieber

We want to travel

Photograph of wooden maneken dolls

unknown photographer

We stick together

ape Town-based artist Wim Botha is originally from the suburban outer reaches of Pretoria. His work is rooted in the officious pretensions of his nation’s capital using government texts, dictionaries, and bibles to create sculptures based on popular iconography such as trophy mounts and religious icons. In most of these works, the carved text of the piece becomes the physical substance of the work, while the collective text informs the representation of the work as well as providing its social context.
The fourth and fifth photos down from the top are shots of Botha’s recent work, Fuse. which is currently part of a group show at Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town through January 14th, 2012. This piece is made of charred fire-resistant pine while all the other sculptures in this post are made of carved texts.

Sculpture Made from Carved Texts by Wim Botha

 

We miss the city lights

Animation of the hectic flow of car – lights in the sleepless metropolis

Animation of the hectic flow of car – lights in the sleepless metropolis

After the storm

Photograph of a boat floating in the lake Kallavesi in Finland, by Olli Kekäläinen / edited by Calvin Dexter

We keep a distance

Hurricane Sandy churned the Atlantic Ocean as it barreled northward bringing fierce winds, drenching rains and flooding to the nation’s Northeast, where officials warned residents to stay home and ordered those along coastlines to head to high ground.
A hurricane is a type of tropical cyclone or severe tropical storm that forms in the southern Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and in the eastern Pacific Ocean. A typical cyclone is accompanied by thunderstorms, and in the Northern Hemisphere, a counterclockwise circulation of winds near the earth’s surface.
All Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coastal areas are subject to hurricanes. Parts of the Southwest United States and the Pacific Coast also experience heavy rains and floods each year from hurricanes spawned off Mexico. The Atlantic hurricane season lasts from June to November, with the peak season from mid-August to late October. The Eastern Pacific hurricane season begins May 15 and ends November 30.
Hurricanes can cause catastrophic damage to coastlines and several hundred miles inland. Hurricane can produce winds exceeding 155 miles per hour as well as tornadoes and mircrobursts. Additionally, hurricanes can create storm surges along the coast and cause extensive damage from heavy rainfall. Floods and flying debris from the excessive winds are often the deadly and destructive results of these weather events. Slow moving hurricanes traveling into mountainous regions tend to produce especially heavy rain. Excessive rain can trigger landslides or mud slides. Flash flooding can occur due to intense rainfall.
Between 1970 and 1999, more people lost their lives from freshwater inland flooding associated with tropical cyclones than from any other weather hazard related to such storms.

We hope you stay safe..

photograph of a huge hurricane / unknown photographer

News-carpet

Photograph of the large scale art installation “comedy carpet” by Gordon Young

Photograph of the large scale art installation “Comedy Carpet” ,by Gordon Young

We are popping out

Aerial landscape photograph of a green ‘Hexagon In the Field’, photography by Klaus Leidorf

 

We present

Cute dog puppy named ‘Gisele’ photographed by Joanna Ballentine

 

 

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Another Day At The Office

Chicago skyline, 7:28 a.m / by photographer Jürgen Bürgin

We take a closer look

“I felt the beautiful landscape of the Earth” Takaki Watanabe -National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest

“I felt the beautiful landscape of the Earth”, Salara de Uyuni, Bolivia /

National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest / by Takaki Watanabe

We invent

Photograph by Olga Cafiero

We are special

Photograph of a baby white turtle / Unknown photographer

Mondays!

Cast in two worlds, both a skillful, anonymous graffiti artist and a famous fine artist, Typoe manages to perform a perfect balancing act between rebel and refined. Hailing from Miami, his latest work, Confetti Death, features a levatating skull forcefully puking out shards of spray can tops onto a wall. The contrast of dayglo color against the white wall and skull is striking. Typoe’s other work emphasizes both religion and violence, often combining objects of peace with those of war.

‘Confetti Death’ by Typoe

We have troubles

Photograph of a child walking past of a huge rock slide / ‘Innocence’ by Claudio Allia

We count

Healthy breakfast cereal components

art by Ursus Wehrli

We camouflage

“Gravitational mystery spots” wooden installation that defies physics by Julian Hoeber

We socialize

Barcolana regatta in Trieste, Italy / photograph by Gabriele Crozzoli

We feel helpless

Photograph of a gigantic blue smoke cloud in Waldo Canyon of Colorado

 

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