Oct 29

Environmental Graffiti dishes up a great set of images.  The above pic is real!  Lots to see here.

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Oct 24


Garamond Powerline by 0c/0m/0y/0k Grafik/Designv

Whoa!  Lots of hard and wonderful work went into these.  Very well done and bravo.

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Oct 13

To go with last weeks post about the Sun, here is a wide array of shots, showing our friendly glowing orb in just about every way imaginable.  Truly a sight to behold and there is a lot to be inspired by here.  Lots of reference images for particle and noise effects, not to mention color schemes.  Very nice.

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Oct 8


The Sun

Apparently this is the sharpest yet view of our day star, and boy does it look delicious.  That giant (relatively speaking, of course), roiling mass of energy is really something to behold.  I wonder what f-stop was used to take that image?  I bet it was a little bright.

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Oct 7


Saturn V Launch Views - High Speed Cams

Whoa now this is nice. The footage is fantastic and really a great treatise on fire, smoke and flame. I see all these things are various particle effects. Seeing their behavior in real life, slowed down to such a degree is nothing short of fantastic. This coupled with some great music (from Battlestar Galactica no less) makes for some very cool viewing.

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Oct 6


Solargraph taken by Justin Quinnell

Photographer Justin Quennell has taken these amazing long exposure shots that clearly illustrate the Suns motion through the sky (or really the Earths motion around the Sun, but hey….).  These shots range in exposure from 3 to 6 months!  Taken with a pinhole camera they have an ethereal quality to them, but the cool thing to me is that that ethereal quality is made by something as fundamentally real as the Earth’s motion through space.

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Justin Quinnell’s site
All about Solarography

Oct 6


“smokey-6″ by magicnikon

Nice collection of flowing, smokey images.  Lots of variety here, from dry ice to house on fire, there is a lot of smoke in this post!

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