A clever stop motion short by Charlotte Arene in which a nighttime bedroom takes on the characteristics (and sounds) of an angry ocean before the calm of morning.
German educational design channel Kurzgesagt applies its trademark blend of pop science and animation to the last great frontier of the planet – the deep sea and its shadowy denizens.
Previously: The Egg
In Scotland…
Breakingnews.ie reports:
A new factory dedicated to turning plastic waste into material for roads and car parks has opened, as part of efforts to tackle ocean pollution.
MacRebur opened its site in Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, today, creating 12 jobs.
The process the firm uses sees rubbish granulated, mixed with an activator developed by the company, and then distributed to asphalt producers.
In fairness.
New factory opens to turn plastic waste into road surfacing (Breakingnews.ie)
Still images of water photographed by Ray Collins, transformed into mesmerising animated cinemagraphs by Rotterdam-based photographer Armand Dijcks.
Full screen for optimum effect.
More here.
Washed Up: an ongoing project at the protected Sian Ka’an reserve in Mexico by artist Alejandro Duran, who collects the plastic detritus washed up on the Carribbean coast, grading and rearranging it (in rather pleasing ways) to draw attention to ocean pollution.
Images of waves crashing on the Nantucket shore in Massachussetts last week by photographer Jonathan Nimerfroh, who noticed that, while not completely frozen in the -7°C conditions, the sea was thick with ice fragments, causing the waves to move as if they had the consistency of Slushy.
Like Greg Klassen’s excellent river and lake furniture, the Abyss table by Duffy London also evokes marine topography, in this case, an unspecified section of am unspecified ocean in layered wood and perspex.
The images above are only digital representations of the as yet unmade tables.
The effect is lovely. The production run is limited to 25. The abyss into which your wallet will plummet, judicious buyer, is €5,800 deep.
New York based artist Samantha Keely Smith’s multilayered abstract ‘seascapes’ that are not in fact seascapes. In an interview with Never Lazy magazine she described them as:
…not at all real places or even inspired by real places. They are emotional and psychological places. Internal landscapes, if you will. The tidal pull and power of the ocean makes sense to me in terms of expressing these things, and I think that is why some of the work has a feel of water about it. My work speaks of things that are timeless, and I think that for most of us the ocean represents something timeless.
Kiwi photographer Andrew Smith’s idyllic shots of ocean landscapes around his New Zealand home. As detailed in his Before And After Lightroom Blog, all photos are shot with a NikonD800 and processed in Adobe Lightroom.
Hundreds more sumptuous shots here.
