Birds
October 30, 2025

Composer Rewired an Old Pay Phone To Play Local Bird Sounds

Public pay phones may seem like relics of the past, but one structure still standing on Flower Avenue in Takoma Park, Maryland, has been given a new lease on life as a piece of public art. In 2016, local resident, composer, and audio producer David Schulman transformed an old pay phone into an interactive art installation that plays recordings of different bird species from the area.

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Photo Contest
October 30, 2025

A Rare Circular Rainbow Wins the 2025 Weather Photographer of the Year Contest

A perfectly circular rainbow has come away with the big prize at the Royal Meteorological Society’s Standard Chartered Weather Photographer of the Year Competition. Geshuang Chen and Shuchang Dong took the unique photo that earned them the overall win in this 10th anniversary edition of the contest. Engineer and astronomy photographer Geshuang Chen flew his drone above a lake for the spectacular capture, which shows a rare full-circle rainbow.

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Photo Contest
October 29, 2025

Breathtaking Winners of the 2025 Epson International Pano Awards

The 16th annual Epson International Pano Awards has announced the winners of its 2025 contest, and the results are as breathtaking as ever. Italian fine art landscape Alex Wides (Alessandro Cantarelli) was named 2025 Open Photographer of the Year for his stunning ultra-panoramic photos, which elevate the landscape into art. His vast portfolio ranges from the Northern Lights in Norway to a sunset in the Algerian desert.

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Painting
October 29, 2025

Japanese Artist Celebrates Their Rescue Cat With Endearing Traditional-Style Paintings

Cats have long been artists’ muses, across time and around the world. Their beauty, aloof personalities, and sometimes sassiness are both intriguing and amusing to us. And for the creatively inclined, they beg to be memorialized in art. Japanese artist Poshichi finds familiar inspiration for their paintings: their rescue cat. Working digitally, they combine contemporary media with nihonga, a term for Japanese painting that originated in the 19th century.

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