Zin and Zoot are our friends from Planet Zoom. Or put another way, visual metaphors with anthropomorphic features that represent…
Happy Easter
Happy Easter from the Zoom-Out team! We hope you and your family have a wonderful break! It doesn’t look like we will…
Pale Blue Dot
The greatest selfie ever taken? From a Zoom-Out perspective, certainly. Also the greatest distance – you’d need a very long…
The Blue Marble
This image literally caused the whole world to Zoom-Out. The Blue Marble is an image of the Earth made on…
Art as Zoom-Out
Maria Popova (Brain Pickings) on art as Zoom-Out: “[Art] unsettles us awake, disrupts our deadening routines, enlarges our reservoir of…
Peering at the inner workings of the universe
This is a modification of the Flammarion wood engraving by an unknown artist. It is referred to as the Flammarion…
Art of the Underground
The London Underground (rail network, aka Tube) is a source of dread and daily misery. However, it’s full of beauty…
OMENS
This was the sight that greeted me each morning as I emerged from Waterloo Station, London, during 2016 when I was…
The Doors of Perspective
The Doors of Perception is a philosophical essay, released as a book, by Aldous Huxley. First published in 1954, it details…
Dog head
How many times have you thought someone was a low-down, rotten ‘dog’? Was their ‘dogginess’ purely a result of your…
Fish head
An amusing photo, capturing an instant in time, where the environment, a person and the viewer combine in a very…
What do you see?
What do you see in this painting of a rhino painting? One interpretation is that the rhino doesn’t realise that…
Escher stairs
Relativity MC Escher July 1953 Lithograph 27.7×29.2cm
Fear of Falling
Ever had an overwhelming feeling of falling or a fear of falling? Later, looking back, realising it was just…
