De Zuid-Koreaanse illusionist Jaehoon Lim, a.k.a. The Birdman doet even voor hoe dat moet.
A Tesla coil is an electrical device based on a type of resonant transformer circuit invented by Nikola Tesla around 1891. It is used to produce high voltage, low current, high frequency alternating current electricity. Here are two Tesla coils playing ‘Dueling Banjos,’ an instrumental composition by Arthur Smith.
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The severe flooding in Australia isn’t just impacting humans, it’s also forcing spiders to vacate their homes along swollen riverbanks. Here are creepily pretty photographs of a sort of spider refugee camp near an inland residential area.
The cubicle is a partially enclosed workspace, separated from neighboring workspaces by partitions. Although cubicles are often seen as being symbolic of the human condition of working in a modern office setting due to their uniformity and blandness, they actually afford the employee a greater degree of privacy and personalization than was found in the previous work environment.
At some companies people are allowed to modify their cubicle. Here are 40 hilarious and provocative cubicle modifications.
With a double dose of wit and color Nikita Nomerz transforms derelict buildings, towers, and crumbling urban spaces into whimsical, quirky faces in locations around Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
Wau (the ancestor of the Latin letter F) is an archaic letter of the Greek alphabet which originally stood for the sound /w/ and later remained in use only as a numeral symbol for the number ‘6’. Whereas it was originally called wau, its most common appellation in classical Greek is digamma.
Buenos Aires – Inception Park, directed by Fernando Livschitz.
Buenos Aires – Inception Park from Black Sheep Films on Vimeo.
Here’s something you’ve probably never seen before. For a 30 hour spell – on February 7 and 8, 2012 – NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured plasma caught in a magnetic dance across the Sun’s surface. The results closely resemble extreme tornadic activity on Earth. A solar physicist at NASA said the tornado might be as large as the Earth itself and have gusts up to 300,000 miles per hour.
Miss Atomic Bomb is an icon of some sort for the relationship of the bomb with society, or, perhaps the bomb and Vegas, which is where this picture was taken. Here’s a publication of the bomb in popular culture.
This is pretty strange. Weird squeaking and creaking sounds of the frozen Black Sea in Odessa, Ukraine.
Tilt-shift photography refers to the use of camera movements on small and medium format cameras, and sometimes specifically refers to the use of tilt for selective focus, often for simulating a miniature scene. Sometimes the term is used when the shallow depth of field is simulated with digital post processing; the name may derive from the tilt-shift lens normally required when the effect is produced optically.
Here are more than 100 examples of brilliant tilt-shift photography.
We normally associate shipwrecks with the bottom of the sea but with the recent tragedy of the Costa Concordia our perceptions have changed. Many ships end up on or near beaches. Here are just a few of the ships around the world which did not sink but were shipwrecked nonetheless.