As far as weather goes, rotating supercells are no small talk banality: With their powerful, perpetually spinning mesocyclones or updrafts, they are the least common and most dangerous of all thunderstorms. But this didn’t stop photographer/ storm chaser Mike Olbinski from driving through the pinnacle of a supercell near Booker, Texas to shoot the unearthly phenomenon on his Canon 5D Mark II and provide is with this epic time lapse.
After four years of trying, Olbinski is finally happy with his results, even though the experience itself was “creepy as all heck. And intense.”
Benjamin Muzzin's work evokes the third dimension by rigging flatscreen television screens to a machine capable of spinning them at very high speeds. This creates, beautiful fleeting structures of light. Watch the sculpture change its entire fluid digital shape with only small variations on the thickness of the lines presented on the spinning…
The latest in a string of unlikely friendships for Chris Christie--Booker, Springsteen, Obama--is none other than Mr. Facebook himself, Mark Zuckerberg. In Zuckerberg's first step into national politics, he'll host a fundraiser for the outspoken New Jersey governor in his Palo Alto home next month. Zuckerberg, who recently donated $100…
Spanish video artist Nacho Guzman knows how to make your brain feel fuzzy with some simple low-budget lighting techniques. In this clip from his upcoming music video for French electro group Opale, he expertly manipulates the lighting on his subject's face, creating a series of eerie, psychedelic optical illusions. Using a Canon 5D…
