The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek and the Future of Web Journalism

Check out this amazing article in the NYT. It’s about snow and avalanches and skiing and survival. Which is great. But more than that, the layout uses web journalism in ways that are absolutely amazing. Animated maps fly in as you scroll down, galleries of images support the text, and supplemental videos are peppered throughout. This […]

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Exquisite, Foot-Trampled Snow Art

  via Colossal Since 2004 England-based Simon Beck has strapped on a pair of snowshoes and lumbered out into the the freshly fallen snow at the Les Arcs ski resort in France to trample out his distinctly geometric patterns, footprint by footprint. Each work takes the 54-year-old artist anywhere between 6 hours and two days to complete, […]

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Adventurous Advent

Someone created a stop motion advent calendar. I can try to describe some of it for you, but words cannot properly express the madness that is on display. Be sure to click the image to continue to the site. You will find the 25 portals to Christmas there.      

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