September 21, 2009 @ 9:10 am
The New York Times has a collection of Brian Bielmann’s surfing photographs that are quite exciting to look at. Bielmann says that he finds inspiration from fashion photographers like Howard Schatz to shoot waves creatively (which have garnered him so much fame that he has lived exclusively off of the income from his surfing photographs for a while now).
Check out the collection of photos at the NYT.
February 27, 2009 @ 3:59 pm
Photo: Andrew Shield
Surfer Magazine has a wonderful set of relatively larger photos of surfers in some really beautiful and impressive wave forms along the Gold Coast in Australia. If I ever took a picture of a wave as nice as any of these photographs, I’d consider my life pretty darn good and fulfilled.
November 16, 2008 @ 3:56 pm
AMOEBA (Advanced Multiple Organized Experimental Basin) is a prototype wave-pool developed in 1997 by the Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering in Osaka, Japan. The purpose of this water contraption is to study the effects of waves on ships in open waters.
AMOEBA features 50 “plungerlike” mechanical units along the edge of the pool that can simulate wave conditions. Each mechanical piece vibrates the water at a specific frequency and in effect the water carries along these frequencies just as they would in ocean waters.
By manipulating the frequencies of the waves, these Japanese researchers have found that they can create patterns and “pictures” using the water.
Head on over to the AMOEBA website at MoMA to see a video of this pool in action. It’s really cool to see water dance in formation.
October 8, 2008 @ 1:20 am
Remember how I said previously that I really wanted to buy that bunny mascot costume? Well, this is exactly why. [via]
I don’t even know why I find pointless mascot hijinx so funny, but I definitely find lots of joy in watching people in animal costumes walk around doing absolutely nothing in particular.
February 4, 2008 @ 10:23 am
Domingo Pianezzi of Lima, Peru owns a small cat named Nicolasa that seems to enjoy surfing as much as he does.
Check out some more cute photos of the cat inside. I LOVE CATS.
