Ter­lin­gua was once a min­ing vil­lage in Texas. Now, it’s an old ghost town where Scott Mar­tin and Lance Keimig host The Full Moon Night Pho­tog­ra­phy Work­shop, a field sem­i­nar that teach­es pho­tog­ra­phers to “see” in the dark. Need­less to say, there is an entire­ly dif­fer­ent art to cap­tur­ing images at night, a bun­dle of dif­fer­ent tech­niques and approach­es to mas­ter, includ­ing know­ing how to paint the dark­ness with light. This video runs 6:30 and gets par­tic­u­lar­ly good around the 2:50 mark…

via @MatthiasRascher

Since 1990, Dutch artist Theo Jansen has giv­en life to Strand­beests. They’re made of noth­ing more than a mass of yel­low plas­tic tubes. But these kinet­ic sculp­tures feed off of the wind. They roam the beach­es on their own. And they evolve. Soon enough, Jansen says, you will see Strand­beests liv­ing in herds, and who knows what the alche­my of art and engi­neer­ing will bring next.

This clip comes from a BBC pro­duc­tion, Nature Knows Best, that aired late last year. You can also catch Jansen intro­duc­ing his self-pro­pelling beach ani­mals at TED.

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