New York City dropped into the Grand Canyon by photographer Gus Petro.
The scamp.
Kinetic iconography based on a TED talk by psychologist, sociologist and MIT professor Sherry Turkle.
Written and animated by Shimi Cohen
As his submission to the DJI Phantom Video Contest, YouTuber questpact sent his quadrotor on a flyover of the waterfall with the highest flow rate in the world (168,000m³ per minute in high flow, if you don’t mind).
A nifty 2012 short written and directed by Dublin animator Conor Finnegan in which a bird tries to avoid heading south for the winter.
Making of feature here.




Mosaïcultures Internationales de Montréal is the annual celebration of ‘a refined horticultural art that involves creating and mounting living artworks made primarily from plants with colourful foliage (generally annuals, and occasionally perennials).’
On view at the Montréal Botanical Garden until late September, the exhibition features 22,000 plant species in ten greenhouses and thirty themed gardens
Huge photoset here.
(Pix: Guy Boily)

A high speed shot of a spinning tennis ball (top) complete with logarithmically spiralling water spray by Arvin Rahimzadeh.
That’s not a pattern you’re seeing there.
It’s the pattern.
I took these pictures last night on Dollymount Strand at 8pm. They appear to be of some shark-like creature which was recently washed in with the tide. It had attracted a crowd of onlookers all trying to guess what it was but nobody could agree. Some interesting suggestions though.
We reckon it’s almost certainly some form of chimpanzee.
Or that thing from Prometheus.
Meteorologist Jeremy Kappell’s incredible photograph of a waterspout that came ashore at Old Tampa Bay in Florida on Monday.
For more, we go live at the time to ABC Action News…
Redditor Zhali0522’s Australian Shepherd’s perpetual eye-roll is caused by heterochromia iridum – a condition affecting pigmentation of the iris – which cuts across the middle of both eyeballs, leaving each one dark at the top and white at the bottom.
Either that, or she’s had just about enough of your damn nonsense.