Lovers asleep

How do lovers sleep?

In a project called The Sleep of the Beloved, photographer Paul Schneggenburger captures a couple’s most intimate moment: their sleep. Using long-exposure photography he creates these ethereal, haunting, black & white images, where faces and limbs are combined in a single aura.

The beloved are photographed inside Paul’s studio, from midnight to six in the morning, in black sheets, under candle-light. The project is ongoing and you can take part by contacting the photographer.

via Huffington Post

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A high-speed rail with a view

New Transit Yurikamome (新交通ゆりかもめ, formally the Tokyo Waterfront New Transit Waterfront Line, 東京臨海新交通臨海線): the first Tokyo transit line to be completely automated, which runs solely on computers and connects Odaiba to the mainland, passing through the Rainbow Bridge.

Photographer Appura Pai captured this journey with his long-exposure shots in the new high-speed rail.

See more photos after the jump

For the love of fonts

As typophiles, we love everything that has to do with fonts and modern typography.  And we just loved the floating version of the Akzidenz Grotesk typeface.

Playing with motion and typography, Cameron Zotter and Jinhwan Kim have created ‘elliptical forms’ of all the letters of the alphabet. By moving an iPod Touch in six rows and using long exposure photography, they have captured a floating image of each letter in a series of videos, which you can download, as the font itself.

Check out the process.

See the whole alphabet of the Akzidenz Grotesk typeface after the jump.

Northern lights, WiFi lights

Our city is a landscape of (invisible) networks. Three designers from Norway wanted to reveal this immaterial terrain. In their project titled Immaterials, Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen and Einar Sneve Martinussen used light and long-exposure photography to capture the conduits of WiFi signals.

They built a WiFi measuring rod that visualises WiFi signal strength as a bar of lights.  The more lights activated on the rod, the stronger the signal is.

“The size of the measuring rod and the light paintings it creates emphasizes the architectural scale at which WiFi operates, and situates the networks in the physical environments that they are a part of,” as Einar Martinussen wrote on YOUrban blog.

See more photos of the project after the jump