I am currently obsessed with taking pictures of small models. Here’s an aquatic scene.

Here are some tiny creatures that i photographed through a microscope! they were squirming around!

I’m not exactly sure what these are, but they look like they are made out pop bottles and are maybe models of micro-organisms.

Check out all my pictures from this visit in this slideshow!

Have you ever counted the ways to achieve death or extreme shock from electricity? Well here are 30 different ways to get you started. I found these at the Technisches museum here in Vienna. This is also where I took all the pictures of models!

Never pee on the electrical lines of mass transit!

I bet you didn’t know peeing could be so dangerous! Watch where your dog pees!

Not all practical jokes involving electricity are funny… well they might be funny, but they could be very dangerous!

Even rats are not free of the risk of electrocution. Don’t eat wires!

Christmas is dangerous, we should abolish it and save lives!

Watch them all in this slideshow!

Bre stuck inside a robot, originally uploaded by ekai.

This photo by Eddie Codel, aka, Ekai is really awesome. No post processing! Can you tell how he did it?

A Zeppelin flying through the air!

A train in the country!

A building from above!

Lately I’ve been wanting to play with Tilt-Shift photography and make real life look like tiny models. To start off though, I took lots of photos of tiny models! I was lucky enough to spend the afternoon with my friend Eddie at the Technisches Museum in Vienna and there were a ton of beautiful models! I turned the f stop on my canon 50mm to f/1.4 to make the depth of field very thin and then shot all these wonderful models. Here’s the whole set of teeny tiny world photos on flickr.

NYC’s Vincent Laforet managed to get his hands on the canon Canon 5D Mark II
and shot a stunning video. If you get excited by camera equipment, check it out. There’s also a behind the scenes video that you shouldn’t miss.

Custom Lasercut Sunglasses, originally uploaded by bre pettis.

Sometimes I have to make something, ANYTHING. So I dug out some Optik Acrylic and lasercut it into a shape I like. Then I held it over a flaming torch until it became flexible and I bent it just right.

Want a piece of the action? If you’ve got a lasercutter, here is the svg file to make your own. (Released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License.)

If you don’t have a lasercutter and you want to buy a pair off me, I’ll make you a pair. Just give me a shout and I’ll hook you up.

Besides photos of the moon, the Natural History Museum has a lot of dioramas filled with animals that have been taxidermied.

Check out this slideshow of photos from my Natural History Museum Adventure or go browse the set on flickr and tell me which photos you like and which ones creep you out.

At one point, looking at a herd of taxidermied elephants from Asia, I realized that around 1920, a group of guys had gone to China, shot a bunch of elephants and transported them back to the states. Elephants are not small and this is in the days before semi-trucks. How did they do it? It boggles the mind.

I love the photos from the expedition to the moon at the Natural History Museum here in NYC. If you ever get a chance to go there, plan to spend at least half an hour or an hour just staring at these beautiful huge prints around the second floor of the part of the museum with the planetarium in the middle of it.

Looking at the photos, I could imagine feelings of intense excitement, utter loneliness and a fear of death far away from home.

The landscape is so grey.

I love the moon buggy. The tires are especially wonderful.

You can tell that these suits were zig-zag stitched and that the velcro is failing on some of the pockets! Space boots are awesome! More photos in my Man on the Moon flickr set.