These recent photos of Saturn and its system of moons could as easily be viewed as graphic compositions. Seems there must be somebody with a great feel for aesthetics at NASA.

The ISO50 blog pointed me to The Soft Moon a young post-punk band from San Francisco. Especially the lo-fi black-and-white abstract video for Parallels (above) got my attention. It turned out that the band just added the audio to an existing very old piece of expressionistic movie history: Rhythm 23 by Hans Richter from the year 1923. Inspiring!

Such a simple idea, yet so much Awwwwwwwwwww!

Done with iPhone 4 and Camera+ cross process.

Not only is John Carey of fiftyfootshadows.net an excellent photographer, he is also kind enough to bundle up 33 of his images optimized to use it as a background on a iPhone 4 high res display. Sweet!

Just a little heads up: I am currently on family holiday in a sweet spot in the Allgäu alps. We took our Nikon D90 and of course my iPhone 4 with us. Some fresh photos of mountains, trees and the occasional baby photo might hit my flickr account this week: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tlman/

I just bought a copy of this fresh new print magazine. (Yes, these days you need to mention that it is a PRINT magazine.) The designer and publisher Elliot Jay Stocks asks eight designers what typefaces they would choose if they could use only eight for the rest of their lives. I'm especially interested in Jessica Hische, Jason Santa Maria, Jos Buivenga and Jon Tan. Erik Spiekermann is also among them, he will mostly choose his own fonts. The design of the magazine seems to be up to par with the content, judging from the photos on the site. (Although I personally don‘t like the cover with eight portraits crammed into the negative space of a big eight.)

Johannes Heuckeroth, one of my students at the Ohm Hochschule Nürnberg started a new daily photography blog. Each day he posts a new shot of the sky. Great idea, beautiful execution.

Ok, I'm a space nerd for as long as I can think. But how can anyone not love these photos of astronauts in full space suits in everyday situations. By Hunter Freeman.

Noa Emberson took 25 of his favourite music albums and made 25 posters out of them. The titles, the lyrics, some layout lines and shapes, plus a big backdrop photography. Nothing special you might say. But Noa‘s feeling for juxtaposition, color palettes and typographic structure let me gasp in awe. So beautiful. My favourite is Iron & Wine‘s Our Endless Numbered Days (above).

Sean Stiegemeier went to Iceland and took some time-lapse shots from and around Eyjafjallajökull. Gorgeous. (And on a side-note: How can it be this guy still has no sponsor? Look at the view stats on the vimeo page! Over half a million views! Seriously.)

Artist Peter Root made this gorgeous miniature cities from stacks of staples and then photographed them. The making-of video contains some sweet time-lapse shots. Also check the other works on his site, some great ideas there!

Lightning strikes within Eyafallajökull’s ash column. If this were from a movie or a fantasy illustration, I would consider this to be totally over the top. But this is real photography, albeit with long exposure time. Gorgeous! Check out the other images.