Train Vs. Tornado

Portals II

Billboard photos by Branislav Kropilak.

previously from him

previous portals

Murmurations III

thanks to anonymous for the tip

previously

Anticrepuscular Rays

Anticrepuscular rays from above.

loads more (not from above) in flickr

Tiger Sharks

shared by Eldad Hagar

Cloud Factories

via the rather gorgeous mecha fushigi

Bonus:

shared by rstutton

shared by qintum

Synesthesia

Synesthesia

Faeries

via le divan fumoir bohemien

Portals

Church photography by Christoph Morlinghaus

Gamelan

"A gamelan is a musical ensemble from Indonesia, typically from the islands of Bali or Java, featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums and gongs; bamboo flutes, bowed and plucked strings. Vocalists may also be included.

The term refers more to the set of instruments than to the players of those instruments. A gamelan is a set of instruments as a distinct entity, built and tuned to stay together — instruments from different gamelan are generally not interchangeable.

The word "gamelan" comes from the Javanese word "gamel", meaning to strike or hammer, and the suffix "an", which makes the root a collective noun.

In Bali, the Gamelan instruments are all kept together in the balai banjar, a community meeting hall which has a large open space with a roof over top of it with several open sides. The instruments are all kept here together because they believe that all of the instruments belong to the community as a whole and no one person has ownership over an instrument. Not only is this where the instruments are stored, but this is also the practice space for the sekaha (Gamelan orchestra). The open walls allow for the music to flow out into the community where the rest of the people can enjoy it."

Source

reCAPTCHA

Very interesting talk on CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA

via reddit

Street Art

by Jim Darling

via wooster collective

Caterpillar

Caterpillar. I think.

Jack Imel performs the Pagan Love Song

BONUS BALL:

Rare footage from the first dj Battle in history:

The Savage Garden

The Savage Garden series by Beth Moon

via wandering with the ghost

Through 150 dry wellbores

"Commission for the gas tanker “Arctic princess” (one of the ships carrying gas from the “Snowhite” field outside Northern Norway).

The four drawings depicts every dry well bore drilled in Norwegian sector from the start of Norwegian oil exploitation in 1967 to August 1984, when the “Snowhite” gas field was discovered.

“Dry well bores” are (test)drill holes that shows no trace of neither oil nor gas. They are obviously disappointments, but they are also important sources of information, pointing out directions of further search."

Torgeir Husevaag

via but does it float

A Clean River is a Fun River

via wooster collective

Slow Motion Lightning filmed from an Aircraft

Upside Down Mushrooms

Upside Down Mushrooms by Carsten Höller, the man behind the slides at the Tate Modern.

via horses think

Interchanges

The Infrastucturist (try repeating that several times) has catalogued several types of intersection.

My favourite? The trumpet:


Intersections part I & part II

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