November 28, 2009
The Old Closes
and Streets of Glasgow
(From wood’s lot
Also, Hanging
with Frank - Portrait of a
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Sheela na Gigs
are figurative carvings of naked women displaying an exaggerated vulva. They
are found on churches, castles and other buildings, particularly in
Also, Vagina
Dentata Sculpture, Mature
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Re-post: The
Degree Confluence Project is an all-volunteer project which aims to have people
visit each of the integer degree intersections of latitude and longitude on
Earth, posting photographs and a narrative of each visit online. As of October
30, 2009, 35.19% of the world's primary confluences have been completed
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The mysterious 300
Diquis Spheres of Costa Rica
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March 07, 2009
Hamburg
Two Finnish guys carving "Merry Christmas" with ice blocks at the South Pole on Christmas Eve. (From The spectacularly obtuse blog)
Photographs of Hamburg by German painter Manfred W. Juergens
Chicken Shit Bingo at an Austin, TX saloon
Alaska Volcano Observatory (Live)
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January 14, 2009
Train Graveyard
Train Graveyard - A weird place outside Uyuni in Bolivia, full of old, dead trains from the USA and UK, rusting away in the sun and the salty winds from nearby Salar de Uyuni
Corinthos Channel in Greece
Parliament Street, in Exeter, UK is the narrowest street in the world and 9 other unusual streets
How to Avoid Looking Like an American Tourist
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My name is Ramon Stoppelenburg. When I was 24 I left my house in The Netherlands, on May 1, 2001, with a backpack filled with clothing, a digital camera, a laptop, and a mobile phone.
From May 2001 to July 2003 I travelled the world WITHOUT ANY MONEY, visiting people who invited me over through this website. I crossed distance with my thumb or with help of sponsors and supporters. In return for all support I wrote about this all in my daily reports on Let me stay for a day
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December 09, 2008
1010 bikinis
Sculpture by the Sea at the Bondi beach art, Sydney. (From Hunting the Elusive)
Previously from Bondy Beach: 1010 bikini babes break record
Coober Pedy is a town located in northern South Australia and is known as the opal capital of the world, as nearly 95 percent of the world's opal supply comes from the local mines. This small town with a population of around 3000 has a unique way of life – nearly half of them live underground
Photos from the Gulf states by Richard Mosse
Sit Or Squat - When you gotta go…
The mythical founding of Buenos Aires by José Luis Borges
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September 20, 2008
Back to The highlands
Photos from the Highlands & Islands of Scotland by Scottish composer Steve Carter
Property Owner by Brian Dubé
The house at the trailhead of Mt. Marcy, where Theodore Roosevelt was staying when he received word that William McKinley had been shot. Today the house is disused and in a state of serious disrepair.
The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
Our next European trip - To a private castle in the Loire Valley, the château de Chenonceau. (Thank you, Robert). Other Mid-European castles on flickr
Belau rekid (Our Palau), the national anthem of Palau. On wikipedia, a List of anthems by country
Slide Show: A Weekend in Phnom Penh
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September 10, 2008
Fake street signs
"...A collaborative project that takes the work of artists from around the world, in the form of fake road signs, and turns the streets of Lyon, France into an enormous gallery without walls.
The round red and white signs look enough like real European traffic signs that you might take them for granted, but weird enough if you notice them to make you stop and think..."
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Women are Heroes in a Rio de Janeiro slum
Casa Mila, furniture and decorative arts by Antoni Gaudí
Murder map of London, 1888. (From My 2 Second Shelf Life)
Re-post: The Most Beautiful Machine - Trunk, prosthesis, compressor, pneumatic cylinder
Un-related: Lipstick On A Pig, the other version
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August 28, 2008
Bolivia’s Extremes
Air Conditioners of Philadelphia by Bruce Grant
A visit to the salt flats of Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni
Clingstone is a 103-year-old mansion perched on a rock in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay
The Giant reproduction of van Gogh's "3 Sunflowers In A Vase" can be seen from I-70 as you pass through Goodland, Kansas
Chand Baori is a famous stepwell situated in the village Abhaneri near Jaipur in Indian state of Rajasthan. This step well is located opposite Harshat Mata Temple and is one of the deepest and largest step wells in India. It was built in 9th century and has 3500 narrow steps and 13 stories and is 100 feet deep
INTOURIST Soviet Union Russia Labels
Isfahan's Ancient Pigeon Towers. (From Metafilter)
(Image above from Freaking News)
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June 16, 2008
Phone mining
"...Vagabond Jan Chipchase spends most of the year traveling around remote parts of the globe figuring out how people actually use technology -- particularly phones. He has noticed a new behavior among his native hosts. If they are young, they want to borrow his phone and mine if for goodies they can copy. Here is Jan's first experience in Ulan Bator, Mongolia.
Wandering around UB and chance up disciples [monks] playing football in a temple complex. They invite me into the warmth for a reason - to mine the memory of my phone of all its value. Half a dozen files transferred from my device - particularly interested in obtaining photos of women from Japan..."
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Before the advent of the airplane, acoustic location was applied to determining the presence and position of ships in fog.
Acoustic Location was used from mid-WW1 to the early years of WW2 for the passive detection of aircraft by picking up the noise of the engines. It was rendered obsolete before and during WW2 by the introduction of radar, which was far more effective. Horns give both acoustic gain and directionality; the increased inter-horn spacing compared with human ears increases the observer's ability to localize the direction of a sound. (From Hanuman)
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10 Acts of Heroism in the Sichuan Earthquake
Also, Tortilla-Board,a New Breadboard Technique ,by Jesus tortilla
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May 18, 2008
On the road again
Power Tables in Washington DC and Who Dines Where?
Also, lots of Tango sheet music
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May 06, 2008
The Borat Map
A map showing the (rough) locations where Borat - the 7th most famous person in Kazakhstan - is alleged to have made some of his rather unusual remarks about his home country
Mini Moscow. And another
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Ithaa, which means pearl in Dhivehi, is an undersea restaurant, secured five meters below sea level, at the Hilton Maldives Hotel. The five-by-nine meter restaurant has a capacity of 14 people and is encased in R-Cast acrylic, offering 270° panoramic view to its customers. The restaurant was designed and constructed by M.J. Murphy Ltd. - a design consultancy based in New Zealand - and was opened on April 15, 2005. Meals range in cost from $120 (lunch) to $250 (dinner)
Ithaa's entrance is a spiral staircase in a thatched pavilion at the end of a jetty. The 2004 tsunami topped just below the staircase entrance, and caused no damage to the restaurant
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"Half a mile down to Morgan Creek, Leaning heavy on the end of the week, Hercules (the family dog) and a hog-nosed snake, Down on Copperline, We were down on Copperline." The James Taylor Bridge in Chapel Hill . Also, James Taylor's drumming machine
WOW! TV DX Photos by Channel seen from Macomb, IL Since 1983
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April 27, 2008
El camino del Rey
Originally built in 1901, this walkway now serves as an aproach to makinodromo, the famous climbing sector of El Chorro
(From Nag on the Lake)
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The Blur Building was built for the Swiss Expo 2002 on Lake Neuchatel. It is an architecture of atmosphere. The lightweight tensegrity structure measures 300 feet wide by 200 feet deep by 75 feet high. The primary building material is indigenous to the site, water. Water is pumped from the lake, filtered, and shot as a fine mist through 31,500 high-pressure mist nozzles. It was designed by Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio
Mouth-to-mouth wild hyena feeding in Harar, Ethiopia
The toilets of King's College, Aberdeen are 1992 Loo of the year award winners
All New – Featuring the personal websites of Grow-a-brain’s readers! Today, Charlierb3’s plain looking link-blog Interesting Pile. Submit yours for consideration.
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April 07, 2008
Crybaby Bridges in Ohio
Aalsmeer flower auction (flickr). Aalsmeer is the home of the giant Dutch flower market. The complex covers some 250 acres; the auction building alone takes up some 160 acres (one-quarter of a square mile). Each day approximately 14 million flowers and 1 million potted plants are auctioned. That means 3 billion flowers and 400 million plants annually from some 8,000 nurseries. The complex includes five auction halls where 13 auction clocks operate simultaneously in a process of a Dutch auction
There are many bridges in the United States known as Crybaby Bridge. Most are named this because the sound of a baby can be, or has been, heard from the bridge. Most are accompanied by an urban legend of a baby or young child/children being killed nearby, or thrown from the bridge into the river or creek below
The Tschuggen Grand Hotel, located in Arosa, Switzerland
Calle Sueca Street of lights
Scott and Shackleton's abandoned huts in Antarctica
(I remember) La Marianne de Mai '68
Typo Hunt Across America. From an article, “Man Drives Cross-Country, Correcting Typos” that also includes the more famous blog, The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks
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March 16, 2008
Seaside Fun in Blackpool
Few films have captured the kiss-me-quick pleasures of Blackpool more colorfully, energetically and convincingly than 'Holiday' (1957). Made by British Transport Films, it chronicles a day in the life of this most British of seaside resorts as it's invaded by people hell-bent on getting the most fun possible from their precious holidays
Also, Delhi (1938) and much more at the BFI YouTube channel
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March 08, 2008
The Thames Estuary Army Forts
The Thames Estuary Army Forts were constructed in 1942 to a design by Guy Maunsell, following the successful construction and deployment of the Naval Sea Forts. Their purpose was to provide anti-aircraft fire within the Thames Estuary area. Each fort consisted of a group of seven towers with a walkway connecting them all to the central control tower
They are off the North Kent coast. During the 1950's the forts were left unmanned and taken over by pirate Radio Station in the 1960's
A brief history of the sea forts
Stephen Turner's Seafort project
Reminds you of Myst? It should. Here is some Myst architecture in the real world
Previously-posted: Urban Exploration in the UK
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March 03, 2008
Nogales
In 1972, Chinatown in Amsterdam was photographed by Ab Koers... (From All Night Surfing)
A photographic comparison of the U.S.-Mexico border in the town of Nogales, 1898 and 2008. (From Incoming Signals)
A mechanical cow that breaks wind on the hour has become Edinburgh's latest tourist attraction. The new farting cow clock of Edinburgh
Re-post: A long day's journey out of Iowa listening only to ABBA’s Dancing Queen
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