Tag Archives: Colossal
Throwback Thursday #17
It’s Thursday, so it’s time for another Throwback! First up are some translucent ants eating a coloured liquid, colouring themselves in the process (Colossal). It looks pretty cool, especially the ants that create new colours by sampling several of the different liquids. From … Continue reading
Throwback Thursday #8
We’ve had a couple of themed Throwback Thursdays recently, so this one is more random. It’ll contain several links to pretty awesome pictures. First up, buildings! Or rather, the whimsical street art of Nomerz (Colossal). This guy has painted faces … Continue reading
Sand Creatures
What do you get when you throw sand into the air and capture the image using a high speed camera? Sand creatures. That’s what you get. This is precisely what Claire Droppert has done. She threw clumps of wet sand … Continue reading
Marine Worms
Marine worms are creepy. Really, really creepy. One might even say nightmarish. On the flip side, they also look stunning. Alexander Semenov is an amazing photographer of creepy crawly things living in the sea. He’s just released some incredible images (like … Continue reading
Chasing Storms
Chasing storms is not something that is suited to everyone. However, for those that do, you can take some truly amazing photographs (Colossal). One such storm chaser is Mike Hollingshead, and his photographs are breathtaking. The way he manages to … Continue reading
High Speed Flower Explosions
What do you get if you freeze flowers in liquid nitrogen and then shoot them with an air gun? Some pretty spectacular images (Colossal). “The life of a flower usually ends in slow, inglorious decay as petals wilt and succumbs … Continue reading
Planetary Cakes
Everyone loves cake. Everyone loves planets. That may be a slight exaggeration, but what I think we’ll all be able to agree upon is that everyone will love these planetary cakes. Created by Cakecrumbs, these cakes looks amazing, and are … Continue reading
Long Exposure Neon Waterfalls
What’s happened to the waterfall? Why is it green? The answer is rather subtle and ingenious. Sean Lenz and Kristoffer Abildgaard dropped high-powered Cyalume glow sticks in a variety of colours into various waterfalls, and captured the results using long exposure … Continue reading
Light Sculptures
I’ve posted before about an artist using scrap metal and light to create pieces of art. Over at Colossal, we have another artist, Diet Wiegman, doing something similar, whereby he uses various trash and objects to create fantastic light sculptures. … Continue reading
Volcanic Lightning
Lightning by itself is pretty scary. An active volcano by itself is even scarier. An active volcano spewing forth lightning is down right terrifying. “Why does a volcanic eruption sometimes create lightning? Pictured above, the Sakurajima volcano in southern Japan was caught erupting in … Continue reading
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