Still in Love with Polaroid

When I was little, my mom would give us arts and crafts projects to do with pencils and crayons, including making our own scratch-art (color a piece of paper with many colors of crayons and then do a full layer of black, so when you scratch away at the black with a pencil or other object, the colors are revealed), melting and re-creating crayons in multi-colors, and drawing pictures for hours. Countless artists have re-imagined these simple artistic instruments into a finer art.  See their work below » Diem Chau This Seattle-based artist carves sculptures out of Crayola crayons and carpenter pencils, as well as toothpicks, and thread. She has had several show around the world, displaying her intricate sculptures, as well as large scale prints of the work. photos: Diem Chau alphabet crayons A-F orca #102 (2012) raven "The raven's beak and round bead is carved from graphite, the rest of the bird is carved from the pencil's wood.  When I carve graphite ...

Who doesn't like itty bitty things? Israeli artist Shay Aaron makes tiny food sculptures 1/12 the scale of the regular food (about 1 inch). It's making me hungry...  He's also got an Etsy store so you can have your food and wear it too! photos: Shay Aaron via  thisiscolossal.com

This is such a cool video, combining the technology of Google Street view photos and time-lapse video. This video was compiled with a single point of interest (your sights are set on one spot in the distance), and it looks like a road trip in a rocket ship! Google Street View Hyperlapse from Teehan+Lax Labs on Vimeo . The idea for this video came from motion designer Jonas at  Teehan+Lax Labs , and took many, many hours to stitch. Here's another one: Artist Giacomo Miceli made this hyperlapse video, called " Chemin Vert ," using Google Street View footage and an extreme wide-angle perspective, called polar projection (so it looks like a mini world). This video encompasses five continents and four seasons, and he created three versions: normal and high resolution immersive videos, and the regular video below. Much like the first video, hold onto your lunch, because you'll be taken on a hyper-speed trip around the world. Chemin Vert from Gia...

Mexico-based photographer Carlos Alvarez Montero took these photos of locals in Mexico City who have tattoos on their faces and necks. In his description of the photos, he says they wanted to stand out from the crowd, and use tattoos to illustrate their life experiences. These photos are part of his collection, "SCARS." Personally, I would go with more of a clean, white or solid, gradated color background that complements a color within the tattoo, but I do like the poses. Dick   Sonrisas Miguel Rash photos copyright Carlos Alvarez Montero via  featureshoot.com

In analog photography, making a pinhole camera is commonplace among college courses. I made one out of a tea tin, and it worked relatively well. I exposed a latent negative image onto photo paper and then developed it in the darkroom onto another piece of photo paper, making the positive. I came across this on my blog searches: The Trashcam Project A group of German garbagemen converted a garbage bin into a giant, portable pinhole camera. They'd wheel it around Hamburg, frame the photo, open the shutter, and wait patiently for up to an hour while the paper is exposed. These photos are beautiful! You can see how wide the frame is at the warped edges of the photos. photo by Mirko Derpmann   the first Trashcam photo, exposure time: 4 minutes photo by  Michael Pfohlmann, Christoph Blaschke and Mirko Derpmann, exposure time: 10 minutes photo by Werner Bünning, Christoph Blaschke and Mirko Derpmann, exposure time: 30 minutes via thisiscolossal.com

These look like sculptures! German photographer Markus Reugels meticulously lights and captures precision water droplets and splashes. Take a look at his website and Flickr page for even more photos. setup for the water splash images (^check out that snoot!) examples of Reugels' refraction water drop photos all images by Markus Ruegels via thisiscolossal.com

I remember  a "contact sheet" assignment when I took photo classes in college; shoot a scene six photos across and five down (like this one 5x5 below) via Mary Melteski It is certainly a challenge, especially shooting in film, to visualize the edges of each frame and to shoot with a distorted perspective. I came across Brian Matthew Hart 's work with light writing in digital photography. He shot hundreds of frames and, like puzzle pieces, placed them together in an almost seamless single image. It takes a TON of thought to pull this off:   all images copyright Brian Matthew Hart original post on thisiscolossal.com