Edge Effect

Zinedine Zidane's bronze headbutt, MoCA Cleveland, Hotel Droog and more in our look at the web this week

During an artist residency in Joshua Tree National Park, photographer Daniel Kukla placed mirrors along the edge of the Sonoran and Mojave desserts, capturing the startling contrasts between the two neighboring ecosystems—a phenomenon known to ecologists as the “Edge Effect.” The images—which look like photos-within-photos—juxtapose bushy terrain against empty desert, flat fields against mountain ranges and blazing sunsets against dark night skies.

Vertical Measures

Zinedine Zidane's bronze headbutt, MoCA Cleveland, Hotel Droog and more in our look at the web this week

The 19% of social media users who talk about politics and the 24% of Americans who learned about the presidential campaign through the Internet in 2008 are all statistics found via Vertical Measures’s Social Media Election, a well-designed infographic that tracks and measure’s each candidate’s social media engagement.

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Zinedine Zidane's bronze headbutt, MoCA Cleveland, Hotel Droog and more in our look at the web this week

1. Cultivate Examining the natural world with unconventional eyes, print publication Wilder Quarterly recently joined the team at the New York Times with a regular column in T Magazine. The first installment, penned by WQ editor Abbye Churchill, covers MoMA’s current J. Morgan Puett exhibition, Common Sense, which highlights the artist’s creative “domesticating.” 2. Hotel Droog Fans of Droog can now immerse themselves in the …