Underwater Blast

Footage of an underwater explosion (nuclear?) test by the US military. (!)

Update: well, not really an update, but an add-on.

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Military footage of explosions and such is like heroin for me: I know it's bad, but I can't get enough of it... If you share my addiction - to the footage, not the heroin, heroin is very nasty - have a look at these other videos of pretty deadly blasts. If all this is a bit overwhelming for you, fear not, for you can always find solace in Him...

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... or him.
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via fogonazos

English speaking readers please ignore

Señores visitantes de fogonazos, si no entienden ingles, les invito a pasearse por esta website, mucho mas interesante y con fotos mucho mas bonitas que las que hay en Spy's Spice.

Que la disfruten!

The extreme sport of origami

Don't forget to "Click on each fold pattern to see the paper bug it spawns." towards the end of page 1.

The extreme sport of origami

Bat Hand

shared by j gilbert

Lessons in life

Lesson #1: know your limits.

Street Art

shared by on.tol.o.gy

OpticaSenS

It could only be... more visual lunacy from BibliOdyssey

Deer

shared by anniebee

part of the slightly disturbing deer set

Rinko Kawauchi

link link

via neverhappened

Hamid Sardar

Breathtaking photography by Hamid Sardar.

A year later...

shared by paulgi

The End Of The World Is Nigh

The 12th of September to be precise.

As the deadline for my dissertation is the 15th of September I have decided not to do any further work, as it would ammount to no more that an excericise in futility.

Hear, hear.

Needless to say, I will be acquiring a copy of this informative tome, so I can prepare for the worst in advance...

...just one of many fascinating volumes lurking in The Arty Bees Cabinet of Curious Bibliophilia

Via Cynical-C and Monkeyfilter

The Storm

The storm. The damage.

Sticker Oracle

sticker by erosie

via cardboardmonocle

Greek Street Art

server pics' Athens street art set

Panda Sneeze Shocker!

Call me puerile, but I found this hilarious.

Waterspouts

Waterspout off the coast of Florida. Click on image for bigger view.

Mustard Gas Party

Mustard Gas Party is home to a fantastic collection of photography of derelict buildings. A pleasure to browse.

See also: Abandoned Japan , Abandoned Theme Parks and Cane Hill.

Platige Image Presents...

Fallen Art. Watch it.

Street Art

shared by friskypics

Flight Visualisations

shared by chris rae

Here are a couple of flight visualisations for you today...

The first shows the flight paths of a delivery company's flights trying to get into the Memphis hub as a thunderstorm passes through the area. They look like a swarm of bees trying to avoid a plume of smoke.

The second, on a much larger scale, shows the flight paths of all airplanes in the U.S. in one day. here is an overview (quicktime). For the individual videos click here.

Armageddon!

doc18 likes toys a lot.

More Microscopic Goodies

Click on the pictures to find out what they are.

Japanese Ghosts

Japanese Ghosts

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Atomic Ballroom.

What's this? Another one of them adverts?

No, no, no... it's "Atomic: full of love, full of wonder". (photos)

I'd love to see a video of this.

Magic Sand

shared by lomokev and -izm

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Introducing... "magic" sand! No idea what's going on there, but it sure looks freaky.
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Update: Ok! Now I know what's going on... and you can obtain some here (you're welcome Nat).

Frozen Niagara

Niagara falls, frozen, 1911. Need say no more.

more frozen waterfalls here and here.

The Museum of Matches

Match World is a virtual museum devoted to the match. The museum houses an awesome online collection of matchbox labels from around the world - mainly Japanese though - from the late 1800s to the 1930s. The hundreds of labels in the virtual galleries are only a fraction of the 30,000 or so in the museum’s Rankei Library.

Via Pink Tentacle.

Update Recicklante links to this page, with tons more matchbox goodness.

Human Library Project

shared by Yosigo!!!

Over at the nonist jaime morrison is showcasing a series of beautiful library images from the book libraries by Candida Höfer. This inspired me to start my own library, only with humans instead of books, so they can tell me their stories whilst I close my eyes before sleep. It's a bit empty now, but it will get fuller with time...

Fear Their Anemones

Over at the Museum of Dust, they are thinking about deploying an army of anemones as security personnel aswell as night-time decorative features... The logic is undeniable.

The anemone pictured was shared by bmjenks.

where ships go to die

This is the End of the line.

photograph by Edward Burtynsky (with loads more).

A day in the life of the Soviet Union

A day in the life of the Soviet Union.
A day in the life of the Soviet Union vol. II


via Hugo Strikes Back!

B&W

shared by yosigo!!!

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Best tap dancing routined ever filmed , according to Fred Astaire at least.
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Inmense high-resolution picture of San Francisco after 1906 earthquake.
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I hadn't realised the scale of the destruction. This is what it looked like just before the earthquake.

An Acorn

"an acorn" set by trazy

Animated long exposure photographs

I wish I had more time to post, but the dissertation has me in shackles, both mentally and physically. Just two weeks to go though...

Anyways, have fun with pikapika.

Update: The fine folks at OZOUX.com have done a very nice write-up on the Pikapika project. Check it out.

via ektopia.

Wunderkammer

shared by jsdart

One of numerous jewells in Incognita's Wunderkammer pool

Don't Feed The Hand That Bites You

List of proverbs which also work the other way round.

Symphony Of The Absurd

Oh my... Another great post from BibiliOdyssey.

Microscopy

All pictures were shared by altamons and found in the microscopy pool

The Wave and the Hell's Angel.

shared by ruobby

Rock Wave.

Now for the Apparition. Oh! And the hell bit aswell.

I should work harder with the texts on this site. Tomorrow maybe.