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Richard Renaldi has an interesting approach to street photography: he asks complete strangers to touch one another. The resulting interactions …

Here's an amazing stop-motion video created for Nissan, and promoting zero emissions mobility. It's amazing that a sense of speed and danger can be created from photographs of people sitting still in wooden chairs.

Instructables member KoZuEst made his own remote …

The Last 3 Minutes is a beautiful short film by cinematographer Shane Hurlbut, the cinematographer of Terminator Salvation. It was shot using the Canon 5D Mark II, and was sponsored by Canon to show off the latest firmware that enables 24p (frames per second) recording, giving it a "movie quality". Filming spanned 17 locations across 4 1/2 days, and a wide assortment of Canon prime L lenses were used.

Same Hill, Different Day is a series of project by Chicago-based photographer …

This video isn’t related to photography per se (though it is a time-lapse), but occasionally we like to show …

Constant Motion is a breathtaking time-lapse video by Redding, California-based freelance photographer Aaron Patterson that takes HDR to a whole new level. On his blog, Patterson writes,

This music video for the song "Doubtful Comforts" by Blue Roses is the first music video to employ wiggle stereoscopy to create a 3D effect that does not require special glasses to view.

Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse is a historical consultant in Amsterdam who loves making photographs in …

Here’s a fun little tilt-shift, time-lapse video by The Bitter*Girls showing a sumo …

Facity is an online photo project in …

Ronen Goldman is a photographer based in Tel Aviv, Israel who specializes in surreal “dream” photography: …

A History of the Sky is an ambitious project by San Francisco-based artist Ken Murphy that aims to create a gigantic mosaic of 365 time-lapse videos of the sky - one for each day of the year.

Knitting is getting quite a bit of coverage on PetaPixel this week. Just a couple days ago we featured the surreal knitting photographs of Daniela Edburg. The above is an creative commercial for natural gas by TBWA Brussels and directed by Olivier Babinet. What's amazing is that all the stop-motion animation you see is done using wool and a team of super dedicated knitters. They've also released a behind the scenes video showing how the commercial was made.

Here's a set of photographs by Daniela Edburg, who creates surreal scenes and landscapes around the theme of knitting.

Photographer Jon Beard has a terrific set of photos called "Burning Bulbs" in which he breaks lightbulbs and photographs them with the filaments exposed.

It might be hard to believe, but each of the following “paintings” is actually a photograph by artist …

This fascinating video shows how Magnum photographer Bruce Gilden does his street photography …

This amazing video clip shows the amazing collision of two vortex rings. Imagine the kind of smoke photographs you could make if you had this setup!

The White Mountain is Charles Leung's first time-lapse video, showing the stars and our galaxy sweep beautifully across the Hawaiian sky. It was shot in Mauna Kea, Hawai'i using a Canon 5D Mark II (with an assortment of lenses) at ISO6400 using 30 sec exposures and 15 sec intervals.

Luis Caldevilla creates beautiful time-lapse videos and publishes them to his website, …

Here's a video that's so creative and awesome it's sure to get your artistic juices flowing. OK Go just put up the music video to their song "This Too Shall Pass", and it's one of the coolest music videos I've ever seen. Basically the whole video shows a gigantic Rube Goldberg contraption built in a warehouse, with the timing and placement of every person and element perfectly integrated into the song.

Tokyo/Glow is a creative time-lapse video by Jonathan Bensimon showing an illuminated man leaving his crosswalk sign at a street intersection and roaming the streets of Toyko.

The Sandpit is a beautiful short film by Sam O'Hare that shows New York City in miniature using a shallow depth-of-field. In an interview on Aero Film, O'Hare says,

“Save Our Earth, Let’s Go Green”, an electron microscope photograph created by Harvard scientists, was recently …

It's amazing what simple photography and tons of time and dedication can produce. This stop motion video was created using 25,000 pieces of paper and a 10 foot wall.

Here’s an amazing and unique project by Adam Voorhes, titled Exploded.

Vans and the places where they were is an ongoing project started in 1996 …

Despite what your eyes tell you, the above image is a photograph of a real person, not a painting.

Caleb Charland is a Maine-based photographer who combines a love of scientific experiments and photographs into wonderful and amazing photographs.