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Legendary modernist architectural photographer Julius Shulman (seen in the self-portrait at right) passed away Wednesday night at age 98, and over the course of his rich, visionary career, he captured some of the most legendary modern structures of the 20th century, both in the U.S. and abroad, by architects like Richard Neutra, Frank Lloyd Wright, [...]

Today, for some unfathomable reason, is the day when going down to the woods is sure to give you a big surprise. We’re told there’s lots of wonderful things to eat (humans, presumably) and wonderful games to play. Beneath the trees, where nobody sees, they play hide and seek as long as they please, because [...]

Until recently, we didn’t know that there was such a thing as a pet wedding, we were so naive. Now, the revelation has us contemplating all manner of fascinating repercussions and implications. Like, for instance, who takes pictures at pet weddings? Is it only the lowliest of human wedding photographers who have to stoop (literally) [...]

Today is Camera Day, an obscure and apparently random holiday that is exactly what it sounds like: a day to celebrate (and, presumably, use) a camera. Accordingly, we’re paying tribute to some of our favorite camera-wielders by focusing on the moments when they turned their instrument of choice upon themselves. Because everybody nowadays can make [...]

We’d like to say that it qualifies as some kind of public performance art, like defacing some symbolic monument whose legacy you disagree with (like the scene in Life of Brian where the titular Messiah defaces the Roman temple), but really the practice of pretending to have sex with statues is just an obvious and [...]

We see them so often that it becomes very easy to forget that some of our favorite (or at least most familiar) logos were born in the rugged wilderness. Like the Puma puma, Camel camel, Linux penguin or Lacoste crocodile, these animals have become the symbolic figureheads of major multinational corporations, but at one point [...]

Those poor professional table tennis athletes, forever doomed to live a life of partial ridicule and partial heroism. Is Forrest Gump somehow to blame? Do court tennis players perpetually undermine the truly demanding athleticism of table tennis players? We’re not sure, but it’s fairly clear that Best Week Ever’s listicle of The 10 Most Intense [...]

While we’ve never been totally sold on the merits of light graffiti/painting/drawing, it’s clearly pretty in right now. From galleries to artsy shorts, the swooping light forms seem to be everywhere at the moment. Accordingly, we’ll proudly pander to the light graffiti-loving masses by passing along Oddee’s listicle of The 15 Greatest Works of Light [...]

It’s been a little while since we invited you, dear readers, to bliss out with us in front of some stunning nature photography. We’re feeling a little hippie-dippy today, though, so we suggest you check out Environmental Graffiti’s compilation of 15 Phenomenal Images of the Aurora Australis. Or, if you’re lazy like us, you can [...]

For today’s first of two editions of our weekly moving image showcase Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos, we look at three recent stop-motion shorts that use other art forms (photography, painting, installation) to take the medium in exciting new directions. After all, filmmakers with the time, patience and attention to detail can turn just about anything [...]