random musing

Attention! Trends! Attention!

“Won’t nobody be to blame but yourself,” Azealia Banks.

Just watch: Magic Boy and Hodor are gonna win the Game of Thrones.

Pokemon Moon: Reflecting the Pokemon Sun.

Belarus sent naked Ivan and a pack of wolves to Eurovision. 

Orange is the New Black is the new trailer.

Avengers Academy: Look, don’t think about it too hard. They all go to school together, okay?

Prince Harry: Sup?

Rehydrated grape Ted Cruz.

Persona 5: This time they’re farmers. (They’re not.)

And quote-unquote “quotes.”

Hey! Down here! Tumblrs!

Tanis Podcast (@tanispodcast): One spooky story. Told week bi-week.

Mariko Cook (@marikocook): Lunch boxes of Japan.

Flying 250 miles above the Earth aboard the International Space Station has given me the unique vantage point from which to view our planet. Spending a year in space has given me the unique opportunity to see a wide range of spectacular storm systems in space and on Earth. 

The recent blizzard was remarkably visible from space. I took several photos of the first big storm system on Earth of year 2016 as it moved across the East Coast, Chicago and Washington D.C. Since my time here on the space station began in March 2015, I’ve been able to capture an array of storms on Earth and in space, ranging from hurricanes and dust storms to solar storms and most recently a rare thunder snowstorm.

Blizzard 2016

Hurricane Patricia 2015

Hurricane Joaquin 2015

Dust Storm in the Red Sea 2015

Dust Storm of Gobi Desert 2015

Aurora Solar Storm 2015

Aurora Solar Storm 2016

Thunderstorm over Italy 2015

Lightning and Aurora 2016

Rare Thunder Snowstorm 2016

Level 5 are generating fabulous work for Diversity NOW 2015. Diversity NOW has a mission to ‘Challenge existing fashion industry dependance on limited body and beauty ideals, and celebrate diverse representations of race, age, size and physical appearance.’ http://www.allwalks.org/2014/10/diversity-now-2015/

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Andreas Müller-Pohle - Hong Kong Waters (2008-10)

"With hundreds of miles of coastline as well as numerous harbors, bays, rivers, clear-water reservoirs, and waterfalls, Hong Kong is a city of water.

Müller-Pohle embarked on a project to show the city from a perspective that can, in a way, define it. Most people are impressed by Hong Kong for its rapidly changing skyline and take the water, including the charming ferry-boat cruises between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, as a welcome side aspect. The skyline and high-rise vistas are indeed breathtaking. But what made them possible in the first place was the water, he said via email.

Müller-Pohle used a digital SLR in a large underwater housing to photograph the city from a ‘divided view’ at the water’s surface, a technique that he first used to create a ‘water portrait’ of the Danube River.

If you want to portray a river, you cannot avoid getting close to the water—that is to say, to immerse yourself into it, to get in touch with it. So it was quite natural to put the camera into the water. I did so, as a test, with my video camera. One day in Berlin, I put it into an underwater bag and threw it into the Spree so that it would swim on the surface. I was very excited with the results. I then began to study the technique and took advice from underwater photography experts—and found out that shooting pictures with the split technique is relatively popular among divers. 

HOW’S ABOUT A PANTONE COLOR CODED BREW?

It would make it considerably easier to order a 1595 C than say the usual menu of 25 different crafted brews that take me 20 minutes to decipher before I can taste. Spanish creative agency, Txaber reimagined beer label designs by packaging them as a Pantone-inspired brew, each brew was matched to a corresponding Pantone color.

Right now it’s just a concept, but these trendy brew cans seemed destined show up at a hipster bar near you. What can I say, the typeface (Hipstelvetica - created by Spanish typographer José Gomes) sealed it’s fate.