Sentences with word «murmuration»

This three - story tall kinetic sculpture is styled after the mesmerizing murmurations of starlings in flight.

This three - story tall kinetic sculpture is styled after the mesmerizing murmurations of starlings in flight.

But unlike European starlings, which form massive daily flocks called murmurations, chimney swifts are flocking amateurs that spend most of the year in small groups.

Spectacular starling murmurations over Brighton pier, a timeless glimpse into an ancient Incan festival and lionesses wrestling with a wildebeest in Tanzania... these were just a handful of the images that you sent in to last year's Wanderlust Travel Photo of the Year competition.

Whether it's hummingbirds and their freaky flying abilities, or the swarming murmurations of starlings, birds are, by nature, fascinating creatures.

A murmuration of starlings.

Before joining Camino Nuevo, Allison Bajracharya was the founding California State Executive Director of Murmuration, a startup organization that rests at the intersection of education policy, community organizing, and data.

The market of any industry acts like a murmuration of starlings; when any small group of consumers, or a largely respected market leader (such as a book reviewer), posts an excellent review of your work, the entire flock, or herd, of consumers that are connected to them are directly affected by that opinion.

If you've ever had the pleasure of witnessing a murmuration of starlings, a swooping mass of thousands of birds whirling in the sky above you, then you'll surely appreciate this stunning art installation by Seattle and Amsterdam - based design studio Graypants.

Mimicking what you'd expect to see over Brighton's blackened West Pier each November, the hanging sculpture is made up of hundreds of LED lights made out of cardboard — all inspired by the breathtaking natural phenomenon of murmurations.

Things Pass By in the Night: Murmuration 2 (from the continuing series entitled «On the Starry Night») by Alice Aycock, 2009.

Her work uproots political and religious iconography to dismantle cultural tropes; take, for example, the animation SpiNN, 2003, which abstracts the hairstyles of gopis (female devotees of Krishna) into a flock of small black silhouettes that swirl around the screen like a murmuration of starlings.

«Like a murmuration of starlings, the sculptures appear to shift shapes as you move around them, an identity becoming and unbecoming in front of you.»

While it is possible to trace specific decisions the artist made, one can also step back and experience the work as a force of nature, like the snapshot of a starling murmuration.

(«Murmuration» by the way is the collective noun for starlings.)

Vimeo — Murmuration — Sophie Windsor Clive — You've seen them, these massive gatherings of starlings that swoop and wheel as if one organism.

Take for example a murmuration; this is when starlings, thousands upon thousands of them, come together and form a shifting blob.