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Albuquerque Balloon Festival Timelapse
Even though I thought I could fully anticipate what this video would look like, I still wound up being delightfully surprised. Shot and edited by Joel Schat at the 2013 Balloon Festival in...
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Interactive Billboards Display the Destination or Origin of Airplanes Overhead
Created by the team at Ogilvy 12th Floor for British Airways, these awesome billboards installed in London’s Piccadilly Circus and Chiswick interactively display information about the flight that...
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Amazing Video Clips Visually Isolate the Flight Paths of Birds
Chances are if you’ve on the internet over the last few years you’ve run into a few amazing bird murmuration videos, like this one from Islands and Rivers or the one we featured on Colossal from Neels...
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A 1:60-Scale Boeing 777 Built Entirely from Paper Manilla Folders by Luca...
Inspired by high school architecture class where he was assigned to create simple paper models using cut paper manilla folders, San Francisco-based designer Luca Iaconi-Stewart went home to begin...
View ArticleThe Golden Age of Insect Aviation
This clip has been making the rounds everywhere lately, and for good reason. Just 10 seconds long and guaranteed to put an instant smile on your face. Created by Wayne Unten. (via The Kid Should See...
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Imaginative Industrial Flying Machines Made From Cardboard by Daniel Agdag
If you want to create detailed and imaginative flying machine sculptures that look like they’re about to take flight, cardboard is hardly the material to use. Unless of course you’re artist Daniel...
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Deconstructed Bird and Insect Wing Patterns by Eleanor Lutz
Artist and designer Eleanor Lutz has a special knack for science illustration. On her blog, Tabletop Whale, she recently shared this great series of admittedly non-scientific charts that deconstruct...
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Seagull Skytrails: An Echo Time-Lapse Reveals the Flight Path of Birds over...
Videographer Paul Parker used the ‘echo’ effect in video editing software After Effects to show the flight paths of birds near his home in Cornwall, UK. Parker also filmed birds flying past his window...
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A Singapore Airlines A380 Model Plane Crafted Entirely from Manila Folders by...
A traditional paper airplane takes one sheet of paper and approximately 90 seconds. A Luca Iaconi-Stewart-designed paper airplane? 1,000 hours, 100 manila folders, 50 X-Acto blades, and an entire...
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New Fantastical Miniature Flying Machines Forged From Cardboard by Daniel Agdag
“The Pilot” (2015), cardboard, trace paper, mounted on wooden base with hand-blown glass dome, 58.5 x 30.5 cm Melbourne-based Daniel Agdag (previously here and here) produces fantastical models of...
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A Photographer Captures An Airplane with Rainbow Contrails Above Japan
A digital artist and photographer who goes by the name Kagaya recently spotted this unusual sight of a commercial airliner appearing to blast a contrail of rainbows out of its engines. Spotted above...
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A Giant Illuminated ‘Castle in the Sky’ Ship Built for the Studio Ghibli...
Perched in the sky fifty-two stories above Tokyo, a new exhibition celebrates a 30-year retrospective of Studio Ghibli, the Japanese animation studio famous for anime films like Spirited Away, My...
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Airportraits: Composite Flight Path Photos Capture Planes Landing and...
For his ambitious Airportraits series, photographer Mike Kelley sets up camp outside of airports and meticulously photographs planes as they takeoff and land—shooting thousands of photos per location....
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Magnificent Cardboard Airships by Jeroen van Kesteren
Over the last year, Netherlands-based artist Jeroen van Kesteren has been toiling away at these sculptural airships as part of a series titled Orphanage for Lost Adventures. Made primarily from...
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The Shaolin Flying Monks Temple Blasts Monks Into the Sky Above a...
All photos by Ansis Starks, courtesy Mailitis Architects Perched on the Songshan mountain in rural Henan, China, this new temple designed by Latvian architecture studio Mailītis Architects brings a...
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Floaty Bird: When a Camera’s Frame Rate Matches a Bird’s Flapping Wings
When reviewing the security footage from outside his house in Austin, Texas, Al Brooks spotted an unusual sight: a bird seems to hover past the camera with its wings completely stationary. Of course...
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Seagull Skytrails: An Echo Time-Lapse Reveals the Flight Path of Birds over...
Videographer Paul Parker used the ‘echo’ effect in video editing software After Effects to show the flight paths of birds near his home in Cornwall, UK. Parker also filmed birds flying past his window...
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A Singapore Airlines A380 Model Plane Crafted Entirely from Manila Folders by...
A traditional paper airplane takes one sheet of paper and approximately 90 seconds. A Luca Iaconi-Stewart-designed paper airplane? 1,000 hours, 100 manila folders, 50 X-Acto blades, and an entire...
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New Fantastical Miniature Flying Machines Forged From Cardboard by Daniel Agdag
“The Pilot” (2015), cardboard, trace paper, mounted on wooden base with hand-blown glass dome, 58.5 x 30.5 cm Melbourne-based Daniel Agdag (previously here and here) produces fantastical models of...
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A Photographer Captures An Airplane with Rainbow Contrails Above Japan
A digital artist and photographer who goes by the name Kagaya recently spotted this unusual sight of a commercial airliner appearing to blast a contrail of rainbows out of its engines. Spotted above...
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