The body is art. Food is art.
Who knew that combined, they’d make a landscape,
also art!

It’s beautiful, it’s playful.

Created by Tiberio Simone and Matt Freedman. Learn more at La Figa.

via Brainpickings
(learn much more there as well!)

by Stephen Alvarez

via Kevin Chung at My Modern Metropolis

Excuse my laziness as I quote Pedro Costa Neve verbatim…

“The town of Chaudfontaine, in collaboration with the Les Ateliers d’Art Contemporain association (under the Belgian Presidency of the European Union), focuses its environmental policy on the protection of biodiversity and natural sites.

Above, a clothespin lifts the upper layer of the lawn six meters high (20 feet). The artist plays with scale and proportions: we travel to Gulliver’s universe to remind us that we walk on the skin of planet Earth.”

by Mehmet Ali Uysal

via Pedro Costa Neves on My Modern Metropolis.

These are firefly trails! Photographed by a German guy named Kristian Cvecek.

And guess what? He’s a physicist. Aww yeah. Science and art, thank you very much.

via Alice at MyModernMet
read more at DailyMail

Talk about affective (yes, affective) images. This is gorgeous. This is stirring. This is art.

By Paul Octavious
See more Puffin Clouds here.

via wishNYa on My Modern Metropolis.

iphone timelapse of St Petersburg Florida sunset from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.

This guy made a timelapse video of a gorgeous sunset entirely on his iPhone!

What struck me most was the contrast of the slowly morphing clouds versus the frenzy of the frantic humans.

A commenter noted that “the seagulls create a sort of ‘old film filter’ effect” which I find to be a thoroughly spiffy observation.

iphone timelapse of sunset (Vimeo)
via Cameron Moll

The man in the image is Eskil Ronningsbakken.

Yes, he really is balancing on the edge of an insanely high cliff. Just TRY and tell me this isn’t awe-inspiring.

Ronningsbakken on the philosophy behind his insane feats:

“A stunt is something you see in movies, often done with mattresses safety lines or nets. What I do, is draw a picture with vulnerable human beings and their bodies, in the surrounding of mother earth. That’s the balance between life and death, and that is where life is.“

As far as fear goes?

“I feel fear, of course I do, we are humans and we have a natural sense of self-preservation. However, I must control that before I undertake any new project because that would lead to lethal mistakes. If I ever find myself totally fearless then that is when I will stop what I am doing.”

Whew. How’s that for taking life by the horns?

Quotes from Daily Mail
More daredevil balancing acts at Telegraph
via MyModernMet

There were bison crossing over the road–two thousand pound mammals crossing over the road… It was about 60 below 0. And the bison, as they breathed, their exhalation would seem to crystallize in the air around them and there were these sheets, these ropey strands of crystals kind of flowing down from their breath…

I felt like, this was the first day. And this morning was the first time the sun had ever come up. And the shadows that are being cast right now is the first time those shadows have ever been cast on the earth.

And I was all alone but I felt I was in the presence of everything around me and I was never alone.

It was one of those moments when you get pulled outside of yourself into the environment around you and I felt like I was just with the breath of the bison as they were exhaling and as I was exhaling and they were inhaling it was all kind of flowing together…

All I was thinking of was that a single moment in a place as wild as Yellowstone, and most of the National Parks, can last forever.

Shelton Johnson in National Parks, Episode 2 on his encounter with bison while delivering mail on snowmobile in Yellowstone National Park.

The idea that humans, for all their technological might, could be put in their place by this volcano—this obscure, unpronounceable, C-list volcano—was strangely satisfying, even thrilling.

After the volcano: Earthly powers

(via marco)