All Blog Posts Tagged 'Fascinating' (6)

Fascinating Photo Collages

Photographer Mareen Fischinger invites you to see the world from her point of view. She takes hundreds of individual photographs of one subject all from the same perspective. Then, she creates semi-transparent layers that overlap onto themselves until they make a complete picture. She calls it panography.

“These are not panoramas in the normal sense,” Fischinger explains, “but more the… Continue

Added by alice on August 16, 2011 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

Fascinating Photos on Animal Domestication

National Geographic recently put out a thought-provoking article titled Animal Domestication.

Here's one of my favorite excerpts:

A growing body of evidence shows that historically, domesticated animals likely played a large part in their own taming, habituating themselves to humans before we took an active role in the process. "My working hypothesis,"… Continue

Added by alice on July 14, 2011 at 9:30am — 2 Comments

Fascinating Phone Book Portraits

Back in 1995, Alex Queral was just an undergraduate at the University of Washington in Seattle who loved to paint. What he enjoyed the most was creating self portraits using a "heavy impasto technique," which required a lot of paint and sometimes even wax to make the faces a bit more sculptural. Suddenly, he hit a wall. Queral was using so much paint that it was costing him a fortune. As luck would… Continue

Added by alice on June 2, 2011 at 6:00am — 2 Comments

Fascinating Land Art (8 pieces)

Sylvian Meyer is a 30-year-old self-taught artist whose inspired by nature. "It has always been central to my inspiration," he tells us. "She speaks to me, telling me stories. Sometimes it's the material that will attract my attention first. In this case, the place of creation is chosen based on the material. I then try and create a contrast of colors and/or shapes. The harmony between the… Continue

Added by alice on January 20, 2011 at 9:00am — 3 Comments

Fascinating Double Exposure Photography (20 photos)

As a fan of double exposure photography and the surprising stories it can create, I'm fascinated by Tierney Gearon's work. Photographing at home and on trips to New York, India, Italy and South Africa, Tierney not only involves her family, she brings people from all over the world together. She calls her world multi-dimensional or kaledioscopic in that it "challenges… Continue

Added by alice on August 3, 2010 at 8:30am — 4 Comments

A Fascinating Look At American History: 1860-1971 (20 LIFE photos)

A little while ago Alice wrote a post about LIFE's photo archive hosted by Google. It's such a privilege to be able to get a glimpse of what life looked like over 100 years ago. These photographers have captured priceless historical moments over the… Continue

Added by Eugene on January 6, 2009 at 11:00am — 3 Comments

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