Author Archives: Niall Murphy

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This amazing time lapse featurette is a mere preview of Astronomy Photographer Tom Lowe’s soon to be released feature Timescapes, memorably described by the Washington Post as ‘the Planet Earth series on crack’.

Timescapes

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One of a series of digital prints from graphic designer, Jenny Odell, made by cutting and collaging images from Google Satellite.

The above, untitled image is a composite of 195 cargo ships, barges, motorboats,  sailboats, tankers, cruise ships, riverboats, yachts and hospital ships.

See all six here.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsW8J_vuAko&feature=player_embedded#!

Mike Skinner’s recently ‘tweet-released‘ old-song-new-video for Trust Me.

It’s basically retrospective lip-syncing, but to such a catchy track.

Stereogum

Over the sumer, a new exhibition of street art featuring the work of 103 artists opened in New York city: the largest-ever show of its kind.

In the weeks since, almost no one has seen the show. The gallery, whose existence has been a closely guarded secret, closed on the same night it opened.

Collectors can’t buy the art. The public can’t see it. And the only people with a chance of stumbling across it are the urban explorers who prowl the city’s hidden infrastructure or employees of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Street Art Way Below The Street (New York Times)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daRMLyi8oO8&feature=player_embedded

This Roland Emmerich-style torrent of ice-balls fell last week in Georgia.

It’s not even all that rare in the southern and midwest States. Something similar happened last May in Oklahoma City. Here’s a clip of that one.