Seattle-based artist Diem Chau creates amazing miniature carvings from the graphite of pencils. Chau combines common mediums and common means to create delicate vignettes of fleeting memory, resulting in works that combine egalitarian sensibility and minimalist restraint.
A new genus of bat has been discovered in South Sudan, the world’s newest country. The strikingly striped bat has been placed into the genus Niumbaha, which means “rare” or “unusual” in the Zande language of the region.
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 22: A Competitor jumps infront of a rainbow during the Australasian Supercross Championship at Melbourne Knights Stadium on October 22, 2011 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)
Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde is interested in the ephemeral -- impermanent states of being which he documents through photographs. For Nimbus II, he used a smoke machine, combined with moisture and dramatic lighting to create a hovering indoor cloud in the empty setting of a sixteenth-century chapel in Hoorn, a small town in Holland. “I imagined walking into a museum hall with just empty walls. The place even looked deserted. On the one hand I wanted to create an ominous situation. You could see the cloud as a sign of misfortune. You could also read it as an element out of the Dutch landscape paintings in a physical form in a classical museum hall.”
“I started photography in June 2009. At the time, I was searching for a way to express both the rigorous scientist and the creative artist in me. There are few hobbies that let these two approaches work together, so I really was enthusiastic about it: I am now spending all my free time studying various techniques, contemplating others' fantastic work, and of course, making pictures”. – Christophe Kiciak. Photo: “The Hero”. (Photo by Christophe Kiciak)