Barcelona-based photographer Xavi Bou turns bird flight into art in a project he calls Ornitografías.
Using his degrees in geology and photography and experience as a lighting technician in the fashion industry, Bou extracts high-resolution photos from video stills to illustrate the path of birds in motion.
The result is a spectacular piece of art hinged on the physics and mathematics of flight.
How neat is this sodalite mineral rock?
A rare discovery, sodalite rocks form from crystallized from sodium-rich magmas and are typically blue or violet in nature.
Think of the sodalite as a normal stone with special effects — a la tenebrescence — that make the minerals glow when exposed to light. Check out its cousin, the fire opal.
The green dragontail butterfly (Lamproptera meges) of South and Southeast Asia is a mesmerizing insect.
Small and delicate, it is one of the few species of swallowtail butterfly with transparent wings. With a life span of 7 to 12 days, Earth’s real-life fairies are truly nature’s flying jewel.
Credit to wildlife photographer Kazuo Unno for snatching these photos of the whirring creatures — like poetry in motion!
If you like the dragontail butterfly, be sure to check out the dead leaf butterfly as well. Also worth viewing: the beautiful Archduke butterfly in its baby caterpillar state.
A storm nicknamed the “Dragon Storm” made its way through Egypt on Thursday.
The storm produced a mixture of high winds, heavy rain, and hail that caused sand storms and flooding, respectively.
With all that’s going with the Coronavirus today and the bushfires raging over Australia at the end of 2019, it feels like a maelstrom of “biblical” phenomenons are happening in the world all at the same time.
The Dragon Storm reportedly killed over 20 people, making it the worst storm in Egypt since 1994.
But where there’s natural destruction, there’s often beauty.
Take the photography above over the Great Pyramids for instance.
While there’s some debate over the authenticity of the photo, it nonetheless illustrates the fascinating intensity of nature.
Images via AccuWeather and Jason Benz
James Mollison of TOPIC ventured into one of Tokyo’s animal cafes where you can sip your coffee with your animal of choice (cats, dogs, and rabbits). But this coffee shop was a little different.
Tokyo’s Pakuchi Bar is apparently one of eight owl cafes in the big city. The owner, Tomo Nanaka, owns 30 of them which she allows in public on the weekends and on special holidays. Even more, she’s named them after musicians and bands.
Below are some of my favorite. From left to right: Kurt Cobain, The Chemical Brothers, Beck, and The Cure.
(All images via James Mollison)
Strange-looking but cute — if you can even see their faces — the Valais Blacknose sheep is a type of mountain-breed sheep from the Valais region of Switzerland.
These fancy-looking lambs are called ‘luxury sheep.’
Although they’re used for their wool and meat in Switzerland, the sheep are growing in demand in the UK as pets with a value of up to £10,000 each for newborns.
