magic!
Annular solar eclipse at Tokyo by Yoshihiro Sekine
time lapse!
The history of Mars missions since 1950, in an infographic.
Color codification dot drawings by artist Lauren DiCioccio. To make each painting, she lays a sheet of frosted mylar over a magazine page and assigns a color to every letter, with numbers as shades of grayscale, then applies tiny dots of paint over every character on the page according to the color-code.
“Making the paintings is a lot like solving a cryptogram,” says DiCioccio, “and the result is a legible blur of dots in the form of the article’s layout, a kind of Braille for the color-inclined.”
Also see other examples of color as data visualization for magazines and art.
The jellyfish Atolla lives worldwide in the deep sea, where light levels are very low. The jellyfish is bioluminescent — emitting blue-green light — and so are most of its prey. Scientists think that the deep red color of the animal’s stomach serves a purpose — to keep the blue light of its luminescent lunch from escaping and giving away Atolla’s location to its own predators.
“ To create anything… is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic.”
(via explore-blog)
