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Starling vortex wins £10,000 Landscape Photographer of the Year prize

25 Oct

2016 Take a View Landscape Photographer of the Year winners

Landscape Photographer of the Year 2016 Matthew Cattell – Starling Vortex, Brighton, East Sussex, England

The winners of the 2016 Take a View Landscape Photographer of the Year competition have been announced, with a shot of a flock of starlings flying in front of Brighton Pier taking the top prize. The competition, which accepts entries from around the world of pictures taken in the UK, is in its tenth year, and is run by landscape photographer Charlie Waite.

There are ten main categories for manipulated and un-manipulated images taken by adults and by those 17 years and under, as well as additional competitions for supported by sponsors – such as railway company Network Rail’s Line in The Landscape, Adobe and the Visit Britain tourist service. The top prize is £10,000 and category winners receive £1000 or £500 for the youth prizes.

Commended and runner up photographers get their images published in the Landscape Photographer of the Year book, and an exhibition of selected images runs at London’s Waterloo station for 12 weeks from 21st November.

For more information and to see more of the winning images visit the Take A View website. You can also read our interview with Charlie Waite.

2016 Take a View Landscape Photographer of the Year winners

Adult Classic view – Winner Dougie Cunningham – Shelter from the Storm, Loch Stack, Sutherland, Scotland

2016 Take a View Landscape Photographer of the Year winners

Adult Classic view – Highly commended Scott Robertson – Binnein Beag through Steall, Scottish Highlands

2016 Take a View Landscape Photographer of the Year winners

Adult Classic view – Runner-up Scott Robertson – Stob Dearg, Buachaille Etive Mor, Glencoe, Scotland

2016 Take a View Landscape Photographer of the Year winners

Network Rail ‘Lines in the Landscape’ Award – Winner Francis Taylor – Sunshine breaks through, Ribblehead Viaduct, North Yorkshire, England

2016 Take a View Landscape Photographer of the Year winners

The Sunday Times Magazine Award – Winner Rachael Talibart – Maelstrom, Storm Imogen, Newhaven, East Sussex, England

2016 Take a View Landscape Photographer of the Year winners

Adult Living the view – Winner Martin Birks – Chrome Hill, Peak District, Derbyshire, England

2016 Take a View Landscape Photographer of the Year winners

The GREAT Britain #OMGB Award – Winner Mark Gilligan – Finding Gold, Wast Water, Cumbria, England

2016 Take a View Landscape Photographer of the Year winners

The Adobe Prize – Winner Damian Ward – Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk, England

2016 Take a View Landscape Photographer of the Year winners

Adult Your view – Winner Tony Higginson – Shifting sands, Silverdale, Lancashire, England

2016 Take a View Landscape Photographer of the Year winners

Adult Your view – Runner-up Daniel Pecena – A82, Glen Coe, Highland, Scotland

2016 Take a View Landscape Photographer of the Year winners

Young Landscape Photographer of the Year 2016 Hannah Faith Jackson – Mirror Bar, Glasgow, Scotland

2016 Take a View Landscape Photographer of the Year winners

Youth Living the view – Winner Rowan Ashworth – Sunset Explorer, Hushinish, Isle of Harris, Scotland

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Vortex: Black Whirlpool Spins Endlessly in a Movie Theater

30 May

[ By Steph in Art & Installation & Sound. ]

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A seemingly bottomless vortex of black water spins endlessly in the unlikeliest of places: the floor of a brightly-lit movie theater in San Gimignano, Italy. Peer into its mesmerizing depths, however, and it’s easy to forget where you are, feeling as if you might get sucked inside.

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‘Descension’ is an installation by artist Anish Kapoor, specifically conceived for the former cinema, which has now been transformed into a gallery. The whirlpool is among a series of works by Kapoor on display in the space, including alabaster sculptures and large-scale works in fiberglass.

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“I have always thought of it (the void) as a transitional space, an in-between space,” says Kapoor. “It’s very much to do with time. I have always been interested as an artist in that very first moment of creativity where everything is possible and nothing has actually happened. It’s a space of becoming.”

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The artist, who’s best known for massive inflatable buildings, London’s ArcelorMittal tower and Chicago’s iconic Cloud Gate, previously installed a spiraling black whirlpool in the floor of the Aspinwall House in Fort Kochi, India for the country’s 108-day-long contemporary art biennale.

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Chromatic Vortex: 3D Art from 4,416 Sheets of Photo Paper

23 Sep

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A site-specific installation in a New York City storefront, this twisting multi-colored tunnel was suspended in mid-air and held together with no less than 17,000 standard office bind clips.

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Composed of over 4,000 panels of high-gloss photographic paper, CHROMAtex from SOFTlab (photos by Alan Tansey) was designed to suck passers by right in (proverbially not literally, fortunately for pedestrians).

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Situated in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, this sculptural work was built from the outside in. As illustrated in the video above, it slowly took shape as it moved from the front of the empty shop toward the back, breaking out into various subsidiary tunnels along the way.

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These twists in turn split and curve, morphing from circular tubes into square ports and providing other internal perspectives for those curious enough to enter the interior space in order to see more of the suspended sculpture.

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SOFTlab itself is composed of “artists, believers, listeners, directors, geeks, architects, sketchers, dreamers, programmers” and above all: designers. It was created by Michael Szivos who has a degree from the “Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. The studio has since been involved in the design and production of projects across almost every medium, from digitally fabricated large-scale sculpture, to interactive design, to immersive digital video installations. As the studio adjusted to a wide range of projects, we began to focus less on the medium and style and more on ideas [and] we are able to approach every project from a fresh perspective to create rich spatial, graphic, interactive and visual experiences.”

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Photoshop tutorial – Elaborate Abstract Vortex Made Simple

23 Oct

Please comment, rate and subscribe thats the only way i will no weather to make more of these Abstract videos. In this Tutorial I showed how to make a very cool and elaborate looking vortex using only photoshop filters. the main filters used were twirl, render clouds and mezzotint. Photoshop…

 
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Inter-Dimensional Beings Visible in Water Vortex?

16 Apr

I have recently noticed that an interesting phenomenon takes place when I shine my 250MW Green Laser directly down the center of the vortex. It seems to disrupt the rotation of the neodymium magnets within the container and eventually the rotating magnets begin to rattle in a pattern that sounds almost like electricity, or the Schumann Resonance. Additionally, the reflection/refraction of the laser light as it is pointed down the vortex displays a fascinating and very dynamic fractal symmetry. At approximately 2:39 I begin shining the laser down the vortex take a close look at 2:41-2:49, and 3:49-3:51. Notice the strange silhouettes visible within the top of the vortex… Try taking screenshots of this and enhancing them in photoshop… I enhanced some of the screenshots last night and was thoroughly creeped out by the result. I’m looking forward to your thoughts about that! Try the experiment out for yourself and by all means share your thoughts with me. YoungTesla www.extropedia.org The book “Living Water- Viktor Schauberger and the Secrets of Natural Energy” by Olof Alexandersson was the root of my inspiration, which inevitably led to this experiment.
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