Sara Robertson

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photojojo:

If you ever stumble upon a swarm of fireflies, slowing your shutter speed can produce dazzling results. Yume Cyan has been shooting long exposure images of the bioluminescent insects in a forest outside Nagoya City, Japan.

Long Exposure Photos of Fireflies in Japan

via Colossal / Thanks Morgan!

shooting fireflies is super challenging, these are gorgeous 

jtotheizzoe:

So as many of you know, I’m in San Francisco for the summer working on a science writing fellowship at Wired magazine. It’s been a hectic but exciting change for me.

My first story is up today! Check it out below, and please share with every single person you know so I can boost traffic and impress everyone :)

Alien Invasion? No, It’s Just a Massive Supercell Storm | Wired Science - I spoke with photographer Mike Olbinski about the adventure that brought him face-to-face with this massive supercell storm over Booker, TX last week. He was able to capture a stunning time-lapse video of the rotating UFO of a storm, but you’ll have to click over to Wired to watch that! Trust me, you’ll be glad you did.

mesmerizing and terrifying 

pbstv:

For more info, visit: http://to.pbs.org/remix

Small lobsters are tearing this nation apart. ;

It’s a “boo-wie” knife in Texas 

soundcheckradio:

Hear “Defriended,” a brand new song from Beck.

nanoramas:

Mad Glitches. An Audio GIF.

► Play Zeega ►

BEACH HOUSE - “WISHES” - Directed by ERIC WAREHEIM (Official Video) - PLEASE SET TO 1080p!!! (by BeachHouseVideoZone)

How many times can I watch this music video today? Let’s find out.

wired:

futurejournalismproject:

Why It’s Time to Rethink Web Video Entirely

Producer Adam Westbrook recently built an essay called The Web Video Problem about how cinematic video content is wrong for the web, and that we can and ought to recreate the visual storytelling experience on the web entirely. Toward that end, he’s working on web publishing house (Hot Pursuit).

He writes:

In visual storytelling on the web we are still talking about images in deliberate sequence. We are juxtaposing these images, either over time (in a linear audio/visual way) or in space (like a web comic might).

If we accept this definition of visual storytelling (in the purest sense) then it doesn’t matter if it’s video, a web comic or even an animated GIF - or a combination of all these and more.

Combine this with the growing capabilities of the web browser, and the connectedness of the internet, and potentially we have the ability to tell dynamic, visual stories in a way that hasn’t been done before.

This excites me very much.

The essay is nicely built and designed with bold, scrolling visuals (using the curtain jquery plug-in, which yes, is very popular these days and can be downloaded here for your own building pleasure) so that you can choose to read the whole thing or just get the highlights. It’s worth checking out. 

Bonus: He provides some great resources on visual storytelling:

A good briefing on the principles of visual storytelling are featured in the second issue of Inside the Story Magazine, available here. If you don’t want to pay for the whole thing, this free articlecovers a lot of the same ground. Scott McCloud’s comic book on comic books is an essential read for visual storytellers. Craig Mod’s essay on Subcompact Publishing informed some of the ideas about thinking web-natively, as did this article by John Pavlus and this piece by Bryan Goldberg. Finally, Steven Benedict’sanalysis of Spielberg’s cinematic storytelling skills demonstrate what visual narrative can acheive, and let Steven Soderbergh tell you why this new thing shouldn’t become like the movie business.

Image: Screenshot from The Web Video Problem

Today in good reads.

likeafieldmouse:

Francis Alys - Fabiola (2008)

“The story of St. Fabiola, a 4th-century Roman aristocrat from the Fabia family who is supposed to have been an early Mother Teresa, became popular in the late 19th century, and an 1885 portrait of her by a French academician (which is now lost) has since been endlessly copied around the world.

Appearing on postcards, posters and religious trinkets, Fabiola has been a beloved subject for countless painters, most of them amateurs. The portrait’s format is almost always the same: Fabiola is seen in profile facing left, her head covered by a rich red veil.

Mr. Alys, who was born in Belgium in 1959 and moved to Mexico City in 1990, began collecting Fabiola paintings—as the genre is called—about 15 years ago, buying them at thrift shops, flea markets and antiques stores primarily in Mexico and Europe. He has previously shown his collection three times, when it was much smaller; the current presentation includes more than 300 works.”

renderplease:

nprfreshair:

News you can use?

Beautiful Decay:

Lauren DiCioccio uses a simple needle and thread on cotton muslin to mummify and honor an endangered artifact– the printed newspaper. In each piece, as The New York Times’ text fades, its correlating cover portraits puncture the surface with pockets of strung together color, reminding us of a certain tactile human unraveling as we adaptively wave goodbye to the Industrial Age.

poynterinstitute:

explore-blog:

No female reporter before her had ever seemed quite so audacious, so willing to risk personal safety in pursuit of a story. 

How to pack like Nellie Bly, pioneering Victorian journalist who raced around the world in 80 days.

UPDATE: By popular demand, the illustrated packing list is now available as a print.

Nellie Bly was a groundbreaking journalist, both for women in the field, and for the field itself. She traveled around the world, but also pioneered healthcare reporting by feigning insanity to go undercover at a mental institution. Her expose helped change the field for the better. You can learn more about her at PBS! 

pbsdigitalstudios:

WHOA. 50 Year old photographs get transformed into GIFs. 

Via: Design Taxi

thelyonrampant:

How To Tell If A Toy Is For Boys or Girls

blackcontemporaryart:

Stanley Whitney, “Other Colors I Forget (2012), oil on linen, 72 x 72 inches (all Whitney images courtesy Team Gallery and the artist)

I like this. Reminds me of a quilt and/or color bars.

natgeofound:

Swimming lessons are part of these undergraduates’ curriculum at Tulane University in New Orleans, April 1930.
Photograph by Edwin L. Wisherd, National Geographic