Welcome To The Working Week

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Things seem to be going pretty well

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Van Orton Design Creates Retro Inspired Movie Posters Of Cult Film Classics

Van Orton Design has recreated cult classic movie posters as vibrant digital works of art. The team is a creative collaboration of twin brothers from Turin, Italy. Using digital illustration tools, the brothers have created stained-glass reminiscent, 1970s retro themed images that are unbelievably elaborate and profoundly structured. Each poster is formulated by using the classic “one point perspective.” This is a a formula used by old masters that organizes an entire image based on a single vanishing point in the center. Every line is aimed to draw attention to the exact middle of the work — perfecting it’s perspective while simultaneously controlling the viewer’s eye.
The posters portray a familiar scene from each film.

 

These Science Photos Are So Beautiful They're Basically Art

The winners of the 2015 FASEB BioArt Image and Video Competition have been announced, and they’re amazing. Chosen from a diverse cross-section of biology, they feature everything from the proteins that make up the Ebola virus through to roundworms feasting on bacteria.
 Here’s the best, most beautful science photos the year had to offer.

 

Paris Climate Talks

World leaders began assembling in Paris Monday to try to do what they haven't been able to for two decades: steer the world away from climate disaster.
Here is what you need to know to understand two of the most important weeks in our planet's future.

 

Striking View

Photograph by J. Cho

 

Boston fountain

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Succulent Living Wall Planter Kit

When Smithsonian horticulturalist Janet Draper wanted to build a green wall in the garden adjacent to the Hirshhorn musem, she selected the heat-seeking, water-retaining succulents. Starting in March, she planted the fleshy, thick leaf plants into a well-drained potting mixture. “I really was looking for dramatic color and texture,” she wrote, “so I tried to ‘paint’ with the plants by creating patterns through my placement choices.” The result was an eye-catching display that won enthusiastic admiration from visitors enjoying the garden’s meandering pathways. Try Draper’s method using her tips—start four months ahead of growing season under lights, and start them first flat on a table to establish the roots, watering must be closely monitored—employing this artful wall planter kit designed by Heather Auchter out of reclaimed woods at Uncommon Goods.

 

Marimo Moss Ball Light Bulb Terrarium

Found only in lakes in Iceland, Scotland, Japan and Estonia, marimo are tiny balls of algae that get swirled by the currents into living pompoms. This marimo terrarium, sold by Uncommon Goods, is made from a recycled light bulb that encloses the adorable moss in its own Lilliputian ecosystem, ideal for display on desks or coffee tables. The portable plant ball is very much alive and needs ample light and a change of water every week or so. Here you can find more gifts for science geeks.

 

Burning Man

Gerome Viavant

 

Calvin and Hobbes

Remember as days get colder animals are attracted to the warmth of cars so check wheel arches or other hiding places.

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Did I scare you?

Close up and personal: Pedro Jarque Krebs's haunting animal portraits

 

The internet has united to create the Islamic State of ducks

As the hacker collective Anonymous continues its cyber war against the Islamic State, other internet users have also joined the fight.
The hacker group has vowed to hunt down members of the terror group, while creative users of imageboard 4Chan have decided to fight back with humour using rubber ducks.

 

A Biology Class

Wang Jinsong 

 

A Beautiful New World No.7

Zhao Bo

 

Be Afraid of the Enormity of the Possible

Alfredo Jaar 

 

Advent in Zagreb

Goran Mehkek / CROPIX

  Zagreb’s most important tourism event – Advent in Zagreb – started yesterday and will last until January 10, featuring a number of entertainment and other Christmas and New Year programmes. Zagreb Tourism Board head Martina Bienenfeld said this year’s Advent in Zagreb would last longer than before not only because of school children, but because of the many guests who are staying in Zagreb after New Year’s Eve and this will provide them with an opportunity to experience some more fun in January, she said.

Esmé and Bori

Zsofia Zsemberi

 

Amelia and the Animals by Robin Schwartz

These photographers see things differently and invite you into unfamiliar worlds.

 

Surreal Landscape Photography by Jati Putra

In Jati Putra’s world, gravity doesn’t apply. People, nature and urbanism move around in total freedom. The sky becomes the ocean, dolphins dive in between seas and people enjoy a day at the beach inside a stadium. The pictures’ new aspect and the washed out colors resemble surrealistic landscapes inspired by Salvador Dali. The Indonesian graphic designer knows how to manipulate and distort the simplest sceneries and create bizarre yet reassuring new environments. Using photo manipulation, he flips the main subjects around, alters ‘normal’ angles and shifts his characters into intriguing scenarios.
 The process is achieved in an unpretentious manner.
 Each picture demonstrates the ability for Jati Putra to envision an imaginary set as close to reality as possible.

 

Kiss Of Death

E. LEE