Shadow Sculptures

Pendulum Waves

les femmes au visage caché

via le divan fumeur bohemien

a gif for you

The Caterpillar Illusion

Birds that look like a caterpillar, a caterpillar that looks like bird excrement. Nature you weird.

Origin unknown.

Cyclops Turtle

Adorable.

Apologies for the music. You may want to turn it off.

Propeller Effect II

Remember this? Now we have a video.

Blood Falls

"Roughly two thousand years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath it a small body of water which contained an ancient community of microbes. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, they have remained there ever since, isolated inside a natural time capsule. Evolving independently of the rest of the living world, these microbes exist in a world with no light or free oxygen and little heat, and are essentially the definition of "primordial ooze." The trapped lake has very high salinity and is rich in iron, which gives the waterfall its red color. A fissure in the glacier allows the subglacial lake to flow out, forming the falls without contaminating the ecosystem within."

via Atlas Obscura

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The Acrobatic Fly

Deadly Doilies

Laura Splan's doilies:

"The design of each doily is based on the structure of a different virus." Pictured above from top to bottom are Influenza, HIV and Herpes.

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Library of Dust

"Library of Dust depicts individual copper canisters, each containing the cremated remains of patient from a state-run psychiatric hospital. The patients died at the hospital between 1883 (the year the facility opened, when it was called the Oregon State Insane Asylum) and the 1970’s; their bodies have remained unclaimed by their families."

via BLDGBLOG

Crazy Nuts Illusion

see also the dragon illusion

via fogonazos

Animal Logic

"Whose past is worthy of collection and preservation and whose is expendable and why?" Richard Barnes

Mundo Bizarro

The Dyatlov Incident:

"The Dyatlov Pass incident refers to an event that resulted in the deaths of nine ski hikers in the northern Ural mountains. The incident happened on the night of February 2, 1959 on the east shoulder of the mountain Kholat Syakhl (Холат Сяхл) (a Mansi name, meaning Mountain of the Dead). The mountain pass where the incident occurred has been named Dyatlov Pass (Перевал Дятлова) after the group's leader, Igor Dyatlov (Игорь Дятлов).

The lack of eye witnesses to the circumstances of the tragedy, and subsequent journalistic investigations into the hikers' deaths, have inspired much speculation. Investigators determined that the hikers tore open their tent from within, departing barefoot in heavy snow. Though the corpses showed no signs of struggle, two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, and one was missing her tongue. According to sources, four of the victims' clothing contained high levels of radiation—though this was likely added at a later date, since no mention is made of it in contemporary documentation, and only appears in later documents.^[1] Soviet investigators determined only that "a compelling unknown force" had caused the deaths. Access to the area was barred for three years after the incident. The chronology of the incident remains unclear due to the lack of survivors." Read more.

Dancing Plague of 1518:

"The Dancing Plague (or Dance Epidemic) of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, France (then part of the Holy Roman Empire) in July 1518. Numerous people took to dancing for days without rest, and over the period of about one month, most of the people died from heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion.

The outbreak began in July 1518, when a woman, Frau Troffea, began to dance fervently in a street in Strasbourg. This lasted somewhere between four to six days. Within a week, 34 others had joined, and within a month, there were around 400 dancers. Most of these people eventually died from heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion.

Historical documents, including "physician notes, cathedral sermons, local and regional chronicles, and even notes issued by the Strasbourg city council" are clear that the victims danced. It is not known why these people danced to their deaths, nor is it clear that they were dancing willfully." Read more.

Kris Kremo - 1984

It's a shame the music goes slightly out of synch, but what a performance this is nonetheless.

The Oldest Living Thing in the World

"Rachel Sussman photographed some of “The Oldest Living Things In The World”. This actinobacteria from Siberia (above) is supposed to be over 400,000 years old. Mind blowing."

via today and tomorrow

Red Storm over Sydney

23rd of September. Highrangers says:

"As I write this, there's an insane dust storm that's sweeping over Sydney."


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Bonus Video.



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Traces of War

"During the Vietnam War, the US flew more than 580,000 bombing missions over Laos. This is equal to one bombing mission every 8 minutes around the clock for 9 full years. In fact, Xieng Khouang, shown above, is considered the most heavily bombed place on earth. This intensive bombing campaign has left the landscape pockmarked with bomb craters."




"Some have been converted into aquafarms and even a Laotian prince turned one into a swimming pool."


"And speaking of bomb craters, here's a photo of a victory garden flourishing in a blitzed crater in London"


lifted from Pruned

Hadji Ali, Water Spouter Extraordinaire.

"The trick of a regurgitator’s act is simply a matter of controlled vomiting– learning to exercise the muscles of the stomach and throat at will, particularly the esophageal sphincters." Link.

Laminar Flow