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We Love Friday! – Winter Wonderland

Friday 01.11.2013 , Posted by

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There used to be only three occasions when I loved snow: when I was skiing, when it was Christmas, and when it gave me a Snow Day from school or work. Now that I live in California I miss looking out my window to a beautiful blanket of snow. I miss having snowball fights with my friends, catching snowflakes on my tongue, building snowmen, and making snow angels. But I will never miss cleaning snow off my car, having wet pants at work all day from the lake sized slush puddles on every corner in NYC, or getting gray sludge splashed at me when a taxi driver passed by. Snow is one thing that I love to visit, but am just fine without. We searched Instagram to bring you a collection of photos that shows the upside of a love/hate relationship with snow. [Read more...]

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Visualizing The Chemistry of Snowflakes

Thursday 12.20.2012 , Posted by

The Chemisrry of Snowflakes

It’s the end of a natural process that many of us see millions of times every year – the creation of tiny snowflakes which together build the white wonderland of winter snow. But, just how many of us have really looked into what happens behind that process? How exactly does a snowflake form? [Read more...]

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Frosty Crop Circles Made With Snowshoes

Wednesday 11.21.2012 , Posted by

The time it takes to create great art is often unfathomable, but imagine if snow were the medium and each piece could take up to ten hours! That sounds excruciating! Snow artist Simon Beck does just that, creating intricate geometric patterns reminiscent of crop circles in the snow, often on top of lakes, in the middle of the night! He plans his designs with a ruler and protractor, then straps on his snowshoes, and super-sizes the pattern with his footsteps. Most of his designs are completed at the ski resort Les Arcs, in the French Alps, where he lives for the Winter. What a remarkable sight to see from a ski lift! [Read more...]

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Plastic Cups Become Fields of Snow

Friday 09.21.2012 , Posted by

It’s not the first thing you think of when you see a package of plastic cups, but Tara Donavan has been making beautiful sculptures with the mass produced items… and they look a lot like fields of snow. By taking transparent plastic cups and stacking them at varying heights, then placing them side-by-side, she makes a rolling field of white. It looks almost soft enough to make a snow angel. [Read more...]

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Icy Caverns Under The Tianuksa River

Tuesday 03.06.2012 , Posted by


There is a beauty that lies underneath the icy Tianuksa River in Leningradskaya Oblast, Russia. An otherworldly cavern of layered ice and glistening crystalline forming under the surface of the river. This phenomenon of a place was discovered by 55-year-old Russian photographer Yuri Ovchinnikov and his son completely by accident. Air gaps create a two foot gap allowing the brave explorers to carefully crawl into the cave in hopes that the ice would not crack beneath them. [Read more...]

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In the Land of Northern Lights

Thursday 03.24.2011 , Posted by

Ole Salomonsen spent over 6 months in and around the Norwegan city of Tromsø, capturing over 50,000 still images to make this enchanting film. His many dedicated months in the snow have created one of the very best representations of a uniquely polar phenomena, the Northern Lights. Salomonsen says he tried “to preserve the real-time speed of the northern lights, or come as close as possible, and present it the way I experienced it.” Music for the video was created by a local Tromsø talent, Per Wollen, who’s audio track “Aurora in the Sky” can be found on iTunes.

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Visual Bits #24 > I Phone, You Tube

Friday 03.18.2011 , Posted by


An eye-full of links after the jump [Read more...]

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Old School Snowboarding Ads from 78 to 92

Saturday 01.01.2011 , Posted by

Today we take a trip down memory mountain, looking at some of the iconic snowboard ads that put the sport on the map. Snowboarding hasn’t always been the popular ride of the slopes that it is today; not long ago, some of us might remember, it was actually shunned by most of the ski parks. Boarders would literally have to hike to the top of a slope or get a snowmobile ride just to cut a line through some powder.
So give thanks for the pioneers of snowboarding and board on! [Read more...]

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30 Inches of Snow in 30 Seconds

Monday 12.27.2010 , Posted by


When it snows in New Jersey, it really snows! Capturing ever-building drifts of snow over a 40 hour period, photographer Michael Black measured 32 inches of powdery snow after a December 26th snowstorm. To film the event, he used a Canon DSLR on a tripod with a remote timer taking an image every 5 minutes.

Michael Black’s photos have been featured at CNN, CBS, The New York Times, The Asbury Park Press and many others. For more on his work see his Facebook page.
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Frozen River Swim and Frolic

Tuesday 12.21.2010 , Posted by

If you’ve ever run through the snow and jumped into a hot tub you might be able to relate to what the people in these photos feel like… well, at least running in the snow wearing next to nothing. These people, however, aren’t jumping into warm hot tubs after their frosty frolick – they’re jumping into Siberia’s Yenisei River. Apparently these swim club members have made a tradition of it. Running around in Speedos and bikinis in -36 degrees? That’s just not my kind of cool. [Read more...]

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