Artistry and Inspiration

"Some of the Web's best sites consist of variations on one simple idea. In the case of Dear Photograph, that idea is taking a snapshot — usually one featuring one or more people and dating from the film-photography era — and holding it up against the original setting so that past and present blend into a new work of art. The images contributed by the site's readers are wonderfully evocative. Looking at the family photos of strangers was never so transfixing." - Time Magazine

http://dearphotograph.com/ ;

We declare the world as our canvas

Doing the impossible, four members of the Philadelphia Orchestra turned a three-hour flight delay into something magical.

Genentech employees set a Guinness World Record for the Largest "Human" DNA Helix on April 21, 2011 in South San Francisco. More than 2,600 employees gathered.

Watch as the camera tracks an act of kindness as its passed from one individual to the next and manages to boomerang back to the person who set it into motio...

The 2013 Art of Science competition challenges Princeton University scientists to share the moments when experiments transcend science and become art. Here are a few of our favorite images from the competition.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/06/art-of-science/

This is a video presentation based off the recorded audio of Daniel Burwen's 2012 SXSW solo panel. Burwen's talk looks at the way we value our media as it transitions from tangible to digital to service, with a case study of the interactive graphic novel CIA: Operation Ajax for the iPad.
(http://www.cognitocomics.com/operationajax/)

Background about the creation of the Virtual Choir is described in Whitacre's TED Talk at: http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_whitacre_a_virtual_choir_2_000_voices_strong.html

17 Countries. 343 Days. 6237 Photographs. One incredible journey. Follow the adventure at http://kienlam.net/around-the-world and http://kienlam.net After I ...