See also, “The Colossal Land Art of Jim Denevan [30 pics]“.
Ephemeral beach art by Jim Denevan
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Tim Vollmer
Although I’m not a cold weather person (despite living in Montreal, Canada…), this is truly beautiful.
Is this a Monarch butterfly?
Update: butterfly. See Vanessa atalanta.
The amazing descriptive camera
The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera—point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene.
Very cool use of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk API.
Doggie water station
Recycling melted ice water to provide always-cold water for dogs. Very clever!
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