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Sculpted Metal Strainers Create Beautiful Portraits With Shadow And Light

Spanish artist Isaac Cordal worked with regular metal cooking strainers, or colanders, sculpting them into mask-like mesh grids, to create these stunning cast-shadow portraits.


January 24, 2011
Geek Out

Use This Chair’s Shadow To Store Your Stuff

Gizmodo AU

Every chair can have a shadow, but none are as functional as the shadow on these chairs from Aussie design firm ClarkeHopkinsClarke. Dubbed “Purposefulness of Shadow”, the chair is designed around a false shadow, which can be used to store your belongings.


December 19, 2010
Science

The Moon As You’ve Never Seen It Before

This “illumination map” was constructed using over 1700 photographs of the same area of the moon’s south pole taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) over a six month period.


March 30, 2010

103 Shapely Shadows

Through absence of light, the shadow celebrates the unseen. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, 103 of you captured what’s so entrancing about photography that looks at what we literally can’t see.


March 3, 2010

Cast Zombie Shadows And Hope Simon Pegg Can Save You

Simon Pegg may’ve confirmed they’re never making a sequel to Shaun of the Dead, a TV series, or a radio show based on the zombie-fest, but this zombie shadow cast only costs $US15. Tempted? You bet!