Don’t let the Oz-esque colors deceive you. The emerald lakes you see above are nestled within New Zealand’s imposing Mount Tongariro, a compound volcano and one of the three active volcanoes that dominate the North Island’s landscape.
In New Zealand, tourism is a national institution contributing $15 billion to its GDP in 2010. And after watching this video, it’s easy to see why.
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Source: Hi Fructose
Blurring the hyper-realistic with the out-of-this-world, Australian painter Joel Rea stuns viewers around the globe with his movement-obsessed work. By portraying human subjects before scenes of staggering natural might, Rea hopes to challenge the viewer’s perspective on human importance. For more mind-boggling portraits, Hi Fructose has an impressive gallery for your viewing pleasure.
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In New Jersey photographer Robin Schwartz’s eyes, people are more to fear than animals. That at least partially explains the photo collection Schwartz has accumulated over ten years featuring her daughter, Amelia. Appropriately dubbed “Amelia’s World” and “Animal Affinity,” the two collections portray the demure Amelia–ignorant to the concept of fearing nature–with animals ranging from tamarins to leopards. To read more about the mother-daughter duo, head over to My Modern Met.
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Source: My Modern Met
Despite being delivered at a 2005 Kenyon College commencement ceremony, prolific writer David Foster Wallace’s speech only gained popularity posthumously. Delving into the true importance and meaning of education without coming across as overly didactic, the guys at The Gallery have sliced and diced the speech to accompany an equally profound video guaranteed to change your perspective on how to handle the day-to-day minutiae that bogs you down.
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Chinua Achebe’s timeless novel, Things Fall Apart, was written in 1958, and it is precisely that time period that master disassembler Todd McLellan seeks to examine in his art. Today, at a time of frantic mass production only to be met by expedited obsolescence, McLellan returns to the sturdy, change-immune structures of the 20th century in hopes of comparing them to miscellaneous 21st century counterparts. In so doing, McLellan has disassembled over 50 objects and revealed over 21,000 of their respective parts. To look at (almost all of) them, visit This Is Colossal.
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We might be approaching the summer swelter full-speed ahead, but that doesn’t mean we can’t reminisce over the delicate artistry that winter brings. Case in point: frost shadows. The images featured at Twisted Sifter resemble dramatic naturalist portraits made that much better since they come courtesy of a camera and, well, real life.
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Source: Twisted Sifter
