When I was a in middle school, I built the bridge of the Enterprise in my parents' basement out of old computer parts. It wasn't this cool, but I was pretty proud of my level of Trek fandom. Now, Inhabitat found something that tops that level of Trekkie swag: a coffee table modeled after the USS Enterprise.

My wife and I are fortunate in that we've been handed down many items from family members that have a long history in our families, and I was wondering which one to try and shoot. In terms of sheer emotional attachment, though, it was hard to move past the ring I've photographed here.

This is a 1920's Ludwig Thumb Rod snare drum given to me as a Christmas present, by a girl I really liked in high school. She found it as a bag of parts, labeled as "tambourine" in an antique store. Turns out all the parts were present, and it sounds great. Me and my dad reattached the snare strainer (pictured) with…

Heirloom. When you are essentially the oldest left in the family, there are a lot of things you can choose from. So what to choose.

The clean lines of rowing is why I chose it as my subject for the Rule of Thirds Challenge. This photo was taken from Christ Church meadow at the University of Oxford in England. I envisioned having strong horizontal lines, which are the boat and the shadow line. More subtly, what I consider to be the focal point of…

This shot was set up in the morning light with a black plate, two forks and a purple wine bottle for reflection.

The clean lines of rowing is why I chose it as my subject for the Rule of Thirds Challenge. This photo was taken from Christ Church meadow at the University of Oxford in England. I envisioned having strong horizontal lines, which are the boat and the shadow line. More subtly, what I consider to be the focal point of…

Story:
This photo is of our newest family member Harry. It was taken last week in the back yard, it was freezing outside and he just sits next to you waiting to go back in.
I chose to put the picture in black and white because of the shadow outline of himself, I thought it made the photo less distracting.
I picked to…

After watching the video, I looked around the house to see what I could use. I found a lime, tonic water, and a jar mug. For the background I choose a red flannel blanket. I set up pretty much like the video showed. I do not have a reflector, so I tried to make one out of a piece of aluminum foil. The results were,…

I saw this week's shooting challenge and thought it might be a little too difficult for me to find an outdoor space to try out the technique, since I live in a high-rise in downtown chicago. After some deliberation, though, I decided to head out to my building's sun deck at noon with a few boxes and some foil to give…

"You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone."

This was shot with a Canon 7D with a 24mm f/2.8, 100ISO, Speedlite 430 EX, and is 4 images layered in Photoshop.

It's Boxing Day, a British holiday you probably know nothing about. Perfect time to check in on another mysterious UK tradition: Doctor Who. Whether you've been a Whovian since the 1960s or you've never even heard of Gallifrey, the first Doctor Who Christmas Special to follow the 2005 series revival is dope.

Sushi is great because it's one of those foods that you can't get enough of. But English Russia found a Japanese restaurant in the city of Yekaterinburg (wherever that is) that measures its rolls not in pieces, but in football fields.

Goddamn. How can you not love Minute Physics? This week, Henry Reich explains a family of particles that are the talk of the physics world: neutrinos!

This is a close-up of some moss growing between the bricks in my backyard (coastal pacific northwest). We don't get much ice here, so I grabbed what natural ice I could off of the birdbath in the morning. The next day I held the ice with some frozen pliers and took the pictures. So in addition to air bubbles, dirt…

I froze two reindeer ornaments in a pyrex dish and and back lit the
block of ice with white X-mas lights while the block was wedged
between the window and the pane.

Some of the biggest breakthroughs in future tech revolve around some of the smallest materials on Earth. Even calling these technologies "micro" is magnitudes of measure larger than their actual tiny sizes. From the nano-scaled heat transfer of Nanowick Cooling down to the single atomic-level of Graphene and Quantum…