Erik Johansson: Impossible photography

This guy is doing with photography and digital manipulation what René Magritte and M.C. Escher did with drawing and painting. Pretty interesting stuff. I wish they didn't cut off his talk at the end, he was just getting around to explaining how he actually created these images.

Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters Trailer

I'm adding this to my Netflix queue right now. Gregory Crewdson is arguably the most famous living American photographer today. His work is both dreamlike and hyper-real in a very unsettling way. Every tiny detail in his photographs has been fussed over and, behind the scenes, the sets for his photographs often look like the film sets for major motion pictures.
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters Trailer from Benjamin Shapiro on Vimeo.

Rare color film shows what London looked like in 1927

From DeathandTaxesMag.com:

In 1927 Claude Friese-Greene shot some of the first-ever color film footage around London. He captured everyday life in the city with a technique innovated by his father, called Biocolour.

A Supercell Near Booker, Texas

This is possibly the most beautiful cinematography of a weather event I have ever seen. It's filmed in super high definition and you can see every little nuance of the cloud formation. Purely by coincidence the storm was near Booker, Texas (no relation to me that I know of). 

It was filmed by Mike Olbinski.

Photos of Dew Covered Insects

These are amazing photos that were taken before dawn, when insects are still covered in the tiny water droplets of the morning's dew. The artist is Polish amateur photographer Mirosław Świętek.

I love impossibly vertical mountains.

Cities at Night, an Orbital Tour Around the World

Back on the subject of architecture, except this time on the larger scale of city planning, this is an amazing video from a few years back of images of cities around the world taken from space. It is very interesting to see the differences in the shapes of the cities. Much of this, of course, has to do with local geography such as moutains, lakes and coastal regions. But look at the differences between the newer cities and the older ones, and then even the differences between eastern and western cities.

The more grid-structured cities as opposed to the more organically-structured is my main interest. The obvious connection between the structure of cities and the structure of the brain is unavoidable when you look at these images.

This is another video well worth watching full screen.

Amazing jellyfish- the Siphonophorae

CreatureCast - Footage From The Deep from Casey Dunn on Vimeo.

This is from the latest Creature Cast video. I've never seen a jellyfish quite this beautiful. It's worth viewing full-screen.