3 Things: tumblrs

Realising that the majority of recent posts are mostly video related; here are some tumblr sites for something different.

Coloring with Aloha

Sone Ki Diwaane

Franflow

At least I’m starting to ‘annotate’ some of this stuff too.

3 Things: Colossal

Was wanting to post one or two of these, but honestly, I just want to post everything that makes up the website that is Colossal.

Started up just over two years ago, this blog has been consistent from the get go in finding and posting some of the most inspiring and creative things happening out there and on the internet and my go to guilt trip for not being active enough.

Highly recommend bookmarking the shit out of it.

24 Hours of Photographs Merged into a Single Panoramic Image

Underwater Portraits by Jacob Sutton

Stupidity Captured at 2,500 Frames per Second

Reuters – Best photos of 2011

A volunteer cleans a family photo that was washed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami as baby photos are placed to dry at a volunteer center in Ofunato, Iwate prefecture, April 12, 2011. REUTERS/Toru Hanai

Oh, it’s now coming up to that time of the year where damn near everyone online is creating ‘best of’ lists to both round out the year and take a break before the next one comes hurtling along; and I’d say they’re well justified in that. 2011 has been on helluva real roller coaster ride and I always find photography collections to be the best objective/subjective summation of a year.

This is just small portion of the 100 photos collected by Reuters in their Best photos of the year 2011 and I well recommend checking them out. Some graphic in nature, some evocative of high emotion, all relevant in looking at how we’re existing in the world today.

Well recommended.

U.S. Army soldiers from the 2nd Platoon, B battery 2-8 field artillery, fire a howitzer artillery piece at Seprwan Ghar forward fire base in Panjwai district, Kandahar province southern Afghanistan, June 12, 2011. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

A plane flies through the "Tribute in Lights" in lower Manhattan in New York September 10, 2011. REUTERS/Eric Thayer

Lightning flashes around the ash plume above the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano chain near Entrelagos June 5, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos Gutierrez

Zukhro, an employee of the city zoo, walks with Vadik, an 18-month-old male lion, on the territory of the zoo in the capital Dushanbe, January 20, 2011. Employees take the lion from its cage to have a promenade along the territory two times a week while holding a piece of meat to attract Vadik's attention so it walks nearby. REUTERS/Nozim Kalandarov

Source: Reuters – Best photos of the year 2011

Irina Werning: Back to the Future 2

Buenos Aires based Irina Werning returns with part 2 of her Back to the Future photo series, where she re-enacts an old photo using the same subject, location and style.  In this series she’s branching further out from her hometown and covering more of Europe and the US and has plans for the next lot to be taken around the middle-east.

I just love these photos and the wonderful juxtaposition created from such a simple concept.  The fact that she manages to recreate even the lighting and tones of the photos so perfectly is also bloody amazing.  Be sure to check out the rest of the series at her website.