Single Line Animals Brought to Life

Single Line Animals Brought to Life:

Loooop Studio has made a name for themselves by expertly interpreting forms and brands using a single, unbroken line treatment.

The ability to convey meaning and precision with a single line requires skill and inherent talent.

Moving Nature is one of their latest projects, and it takes the elegant one-line drawings, and brings them to life, with just the right rhythm, pace, and movement.

Images © Loooop Studio and artist Stephane Leopold.

Cheetah

Stingray

Elephant

Hawk

Gazelle

Snake

Horse

Whale

Lion

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Lawns are just green wastelands.

 

Starry Night

 

Stunning Landscapes and Textures of Mars

Stunning Landscapes and Textures of Mars:

For the last 16 years, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured stunning images of the Red Planet with its HiRISE camera.

Finnish filmmaker Jan Fröjdman has transformed those flat stills into breathtaking 3D landscapes, crafting a cinematic flyover that feels eerily real.

We’re struck by how Earth-like the textures and landscapes are. Parts feel like familiar deserts, and others show clear signs of a watery past.

Using painstaking detail, Fröjdman stitched together the data into a serene, otherworldly film that brings Mars to life like never before. It’s a haunting, beautiful glimpse at a planet we’re inching closer to.

Watch it fullscreen, in full resolution. Mars has never felt so close.

We’re struck by how Earth-like the textures and landscapes are.

Parts feel like familiar deserts, and others show clear signs of a watery past.

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A Baby Swordfish Fits on a Fingertip

A Baby Swordfish Fits on a Fingertip:

While referred to as the Gladiators of the ocean, a baby swordfish is unbelievably small and helpless. In the photo below, we see a diminutive swordfish baby perched on the top of a single fingertip. Even at this tiny size, the fish’s unique sword-shaped bill.

Photo by Dr. Jay Rooker via Juan C. Levesque.

Swordfish (Xiphias gladius) are some of the most fascinating predators in the ocean, known for their speed, power, and unique physical traits.

These sleek fish can grow to over 14 feet long and weigh up to 1,400 pounds, with females reaching larger sizes than males. In their first year of life, swordfish can grow to 39 inches.

This juvenile swordfish is still tiny, but growing quickly. Credit unknown.

To keep their populations strong, female swordfish release millions of eggs into the ocean, where they are fertilized by males.

A single female can produce anywhere from 1 million to 29 million eggs per year! Most of this spawning happens in warm waters, in oceans around the world.

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The Earth Laughs in Flowers

 “The earth laughs in flowers."

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

a geological meet cute

a geological meet cute:

A little plate tectonics humor

Today in History: March 6 1836 The Almo Fell

This is the earliest photo of the Alamo taking in 1849.  13 years after the famous siege. 

The roofline had not been rebuilt into the famous outline 

[Alamo, Texas 1849 [San Antonio] | Briscoe Center Digital Collections](https://digitalcollections.briscoecenter.org/item/420115)

ADOPT!

 

Deep Time Thought

 

The Age of the Dinosaurs was a very very long time. 

When the asteroid that struck the Earth and wiped them out the T-Rex was one of the top preditors stalking what is now North America.  This happened about 65 million years ago.

The iconic Stegosaurus,  one of my favorites with its mysterious life leaf structures on its back and its spikey tail lived over 150 million years ago.  Simply put, the T-Rex lived closer to our own time than it did to the Stegasours.   Dinosaurs ruled the earth for over 180 million years.  All that history came to an end one day 65 million years ago. 

The earlist human like primates exist about 7 million years ago.  Our own species has only been around about 300,000 years.

Dinosaurs Overrun a World Post Climate Disaster in Michael Kerbow’s Paintings

Dinosaurs Overrun a World Post Climate Disaster in Michael Kerbow’s Paintings:

After ending another year of record-breaking climate statistics, we stand at the precipice of 2025, which has already revealed its own devastating challenges. As the window for meaningful change continues to narrow during the next several years, we’re left to wonder what the world might look like if we stay on this path. Through the lens of hyper-consumerism, San Francisco-based artist Michael Kerbow (previously) envisions the future in his wry and imaginative landscape paintings.

Swarming decayed gas station roofs, perching atop abandoned vehicles in forests, and sauntering past crumbling highways and fast food joints, the dinosaurs in Kerbow’s paintings govern a world overrun by the effects of late-stage capitalism. Hints of climate devastation reveal themselves through small details in the background, such as volcano eruptions, dense, hazy skies, and pools of floodwater.

“Bypass”

Kerbow scatters familiar signage and advertisements from recognizable chains within his scenes to introduce humor and make his work more approachable. However, the artist emphasizes the gravity of the issue at hand:

We like to believe everything we currently have will always be there for us, but I suspect it could just as easily fall apart and slip away.  I try to stay optimistic about the future, but the truth is I am troubled by where I see things appear to be headed, specifically with the health of our ecosystem. Each passing year seems to bring more alarming statistics, and this comfortable place we call home seems to grow more precarious.  It is sobering to consider my artwork as foreshadowing a future reality.

As Kerbow continues to make new paintings, you can follow along on Instagram and see his website for more.

“Adaptive Reuse” “Vestige (Golden Arches)” “Black Monday” “Highwater” “Glade” “Economic Decline” “Siren Song” “Shadowplay” “Oasis”

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Today in History: March 4, 1865 -- Booth at Lincoln's Second Inauguration Address

 

John Wilkes Booth was present at Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration on March 4, 1865.

While it's not widely known, Booth's presence at the inauguration is documented.  He even made a comment to a fellow actor about how it would have been a "splendid chance" to kill the President.

It's chilling to realize that just a few weeks later, Booth would carry out his assassination of Lincoln at Ford's Theatre.

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