#thenewbigpicture

[levysoft]

Why Garfield phones have littered French beaches for 35 years

Investigators have found the source of Garfield phones that have washed up on a French beach for 35 years.

[forsakebook]

'Selfie harm' and the damage done by social media

A photographer shows how hard it is for teenagers to be themselves in the age of social media.

[ajourneythroughtime]

50 years ago, 'Earthrise' inspired the environmental movement

"People realised that we lived on this fragile planet and that we needed to take care of it."

Earth RISE. Follow the light and ascend towards the deception that has been carried on for eons. What would we do without more stories? We’d be Lost.

Lost in #SPACE

Reign in the age of Aquarius 

[ct3ch]

Twitter bot's 'Glitch Art' is a digital impressionist dream

Twitter bot’s ‘Glitch Art’ is a digital impressionist dream

While most people find video glitches or artifacts distracting, some folks see the beauty in them. One of those is programmer and visual artist David Kraftsow, known for his trippy YooouuuTuuube generator and delightfully droll First Person Tetris. One of his latest projects is a Twitter bot called @youtubeartifact that generates so-called Glitch Art out of the occasionally delightful hiccups…

View On WordPress

[ct3ch]

The world's largest solar farm, from space

The world’s largest solar farm, from space

Just over two years ago, California’s 550-megawatt Topaz Solar Farm was the world’s largest solar project. A year later, the 579-megawatt Solar Star farm, also in California, laid claim to the crown, and in 2016, India’s 648-megawatt Kamuthi Solar Power Project was top photovoltaic dog. However, China is now the leader of this planet-friendly competition, by far, with the 850-megawatt Long…

View On WordPress

[ct3ch]

Our digital future as a 'Forest of Numbers'

Our digital future as a ‘Forest of Numbers’

Over the next ten years, we’ll see ever-faster chips, artificial intelligence and exponentially more data. Forest of Numbers, an exhibition by architect Emmanuelle Moureaux at the National Art Center of Tokyo (NACT) gives viewers a chance to contemplate that future by gazing into what looks like a never-ending string of digits. Careful observers will also spot two girls and a cat, showing…

View On WordPress

[ksmitt76]

A fire at a power plant in Puerto Rico left almost 1.5 million homes and businesses without power on Wednesday night. On the ground, businesses were forced to c...

[adguy]

This week's Big Picture neatly coincides with Earth Day and the Sony World Photography Awards.

It's Gadget Friday & here's a gadget I hope we never have to use here in the USA.