After losing his job as a bond trader in Chicago, Brandon Stanton moved to New York and started a blog called Humans of New York (HONY) in the summer of 2010. As Stanton recalls: “HONY resulted from an idea that I had to construct a photographic census of New York City. I thought it…
In this inspired TED talk, Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian to ever walk in space and the first Canadian to ever command the International Space Station, talks about fear versus danger and what he learned from going blind in space. There’s an astronaut saying: In space, “there is no problem so bad that you…
GENERAL SHERMAN Photograph by World Wide Gifts General Sherman is a giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) located in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in California. By volume, it is the largest known living single stem tree on Earth. [source] General Sherman isn’t the tallest known living tree on Earth (that distinction…
Photograph by Patrick Giblin Opened in 1998, City Museum consists largely of repurposed architectural and industrial objects and is housed in the former International Shoe building in the Washington Avenue Loft District of St. Louis, Missouri, United States. In front of the building is MonstroCity, opened in 2002 it’s an interactive sculpture/playground featuring: two…
BBC wildlife show Animal Camera placed tiny spy cameras on some of the fastest and most manoeuvrable birds on the planet, the peregrine falcon and the goshawk. The footage of a diving peregrine pulling a 10 g bottom turn and a goshawk weaving through a forest will blow your mind. These birds are amazing!…
Artist duo Hari & Deepti (Harikrishnan Panicker, Deepti Nair) started experimenting with paper cut shadow boxes in 2010 with hand painted watercolor paper which was then cut and assembled in a wooden box to create a diorama. They started experimenting with lights and simplified their pieces by losing the colored aspect of the paper.…
Australian wedding and wildlife photographer Bobby-Jo Clow had the experience of a lifetime while on safari at Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. A young male cheetah decided to check out their vehicle, getting closer than you can possibly imagine. She tells Africa Geographic that her and her group came across a mother cheetah and…
This is the most appetizing video you will see today. A beautifully shot ode to pastries and the baking process (with a side of coffee). Credit to the creators listed below: Agency : Proximity BBDO Paris Creative direction : Proximity BBDO Directors : M. Roulier et P. Lhomme Production : Le Potager Prod. Food…
Finnish magician and mentalist Jose Ahonen was curious to know how dogs would respond to a disappearing treat. Their reactions are predictably adorable, although I would have thought they would have been able to sniff out the treat. Maybe they eventually did and just edited that part out! Let us know which reaction was…
RECREATING A CLASSIC Photograph by Press Association via Anders_65 on reddit Workers at the Alton Towers theme park in Staffordshire, UK; celebrated the completion of a new $30 million dollar roller coaster called The Smiler by recreating the iconic Lunch atop a Skyscraper photo from over 80 years ago. While it’s not…
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