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Ok so the last bridge is the "Pont de Normandie" in France (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_de_Normandie).
That was an easy one.
Well OK I am French and used to drive throught this bridge on a regular basis a few years ago ;)
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i'm somewhat appalled. no calatrava bridges?
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Being from the Pacific Northwest, I'd have voted for the Astoria-Megler bridge to be on there. I believe it's still the longest "continuous truss" bridge in the world (but don't quote me on that) and is 4.1 miles long, with a main span of 1,232 feet.
And it's just fun to drive across :-)
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Prawdziwe cudeńka .
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My favorite was the Hangzhou Bay Bridge. I would love to drive accross that one! I imagine it would feel pretty weird having all that ocean surrounding your car. 36 kilometers means that you wouldn't even be able to see land at some point! There's no way I'd drive accross that in a storm!
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Here's a link to a really neat bridge from British Columbia. Scroll down to find the one that was there in 1872. Low tech and incredible. http://michaelkluckner.com/bciw10hagwilget.html
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Here is a link to a bridge in Redding California that is very cool. http://www.turtlebay.org/sundial/sundial03.shtml
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Thank you all for great suggestions! We will get them into next articles.
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I was surprised that the Charles Bridge in Prague wasn't included.
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Check out my photos and a couple of videos of the
Millenium Bridge featured in your post.
I see that bridge every day of my life and it's still amazing watching it open after dozens of times.
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I have three good photos of the Turtle Bay Bridge, but really, it's so photogenic that it's hard to take a bad one.
Pic IPic IIPic III
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There is also
Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul in Turkey. It connects two continents to each other. Asia to Europe or Europe to Asia. ;)
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you forgot the "pont du Gard", "bridge of Gard" which date from the romans and still stand in south of france. besides it was also an "aqueduc", at the top goes a canalisation to bring water to a city.
here's a link for the story http://www.interlog.fr/candi/PdG/PdG_description.html
and one for pictures
http://www.interlog.fr/candi/PdG/pont_du_gard.htm
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Yes.There is also Bosphorus Bridge in
Istanbul.Not interesting but it meets two continents each other.
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The bridge across Niagra Falls. The first strand was laid down by a kite, and built up from there. Engineered by the same man who engineered the Brooklyn Bridge (John Augustus Roebling). Beautiful.
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I'm from New Orleans and I used to drive the Lake Ponchartrain Causeway about once a week...It's a long drive, but pretty at sunset.
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The Fixed Link is indeed a thing of beauty, and the uprights are coincidentally the highest points in Denmark.
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Superb mind-blowing pictures!!!! Hangzhou Bay Bridge, China, what a beauty... really enjoyed a lot.. thanks for sharing
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The Mostar bridge was later rebuilt by Spanish UN troops.
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There is a bigger train bridge in Lethbridge, AB, Canada...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethbridge_Viaduct
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http://www.mackinacbridge.org/facts--figures-16/
needs some representation!
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very cool buddy!! great collection
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I think I feel a bit green around the gills. And I admit, it's likely to make me blanch a little when I think about going to the Maryland beaches.
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Gruinard Island Coordinates
Latitude 57°53'32.80"N
Longitude 5°28'7.13"W
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Dumping chemical weapons into the ocean is a scary thought, but most of that stuff degrades and becomes inert very quickly when diluted into that much seawater. Oddly enough, agricultural and industrial run-off is usually much more threatening to ocean ecology than these dumped chemical weapons.
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I clicked on the link to thinkprogress.com. Credibility went out the door for this entire page. think bee ess.com would be more correct.
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and lots of chemical, nuclear, and bio weapons oops in the US of A over the years. Lots of it happened in Utah.
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tried to put a link up too, but it ate the link
www.deseretnews.com/dn/sview/1,3329,250010322,00.html
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^ I was just about to post the same link James...
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,250010322,00.html
Another casualty was Ray Peck's family in Skull Valley. They were likely hit with low doses of the nerve gas from a Dugway Proving Ground test that accidentally killed 6,000 sheep near their home in 1968. The Pecks lived but haven't been the same since.
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There was an incident at Fort Polk, Louisiana in the late spring/early summer of 1987 in which containers of mustard gas were unearthed while trenches for underground cables were being dug. It took nearly a month to clean up the site, and all involved, including myself, were told to keep our mouth's shut. The Army clamped down on this, and the story never went public...how many times has something like this happened, I wonder?
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Thanks for pics!
>> I think the following 3 photos are fake. What do you think?
I think so. Looks like an advertisment of a camera with powerful zoom.
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Some amazingly funny pics there..great fun!
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This photo is staged (photoshopped) but too funny
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the guy who bumbs a vase is not photoshopped, it was a dutch commercial....
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nilbaedThe last one must be true: when the 110 film size was introduced, around 1981, we received in our lab a lot of films to process with the same kind of pictures: an ear (blurred because too close) and a nice landscape, the one located behind the photographer...
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Photographers often are rude people.Just for their good shot they can do silly things.I have a bad experience about that.
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Sports photogs are pack mules first and artists second, and Canon (big white lenses) owns the market.
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The guy with the glasses and the printer hanging on his neck actually works at the Fontana di Trevi in Rome, Italy.
I've been there several times and I used to talk a lot with the guy who said me he's been working there for the last 8 years and this is how (through all these years) he is living.
He uses to work there with his wife.
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>> I think the following 3 photos are fake. What do you think?
my guess is they're fake. the guy with the camera seems to be wearing the same shoes in all 3 shots
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So funny! hihih
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Very good!
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Ha ha - some very funny stuff -
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Another great automated musical installation is If VI was IX, a huge automated sculpture by Trimpin at the Experience Music Project in Seattle. It plays loops of music in different styles on a number of automated guitars, banjos, keyboards, etc. Plus it looks awesome. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimpin
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What about that: http://www.graffagnino.net/wwwpeart/ ?
:)
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thank you guys... will update with the first opportunity. good stuff.
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All the automatic instruments look fantastic.
Post by Dan,
Webmaster of http://www.gadgets-club.com the newest gadgets blog
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Interesting post!
Godfried-Willem Raes may have some original ideas about things, but at least some of what he builds is nothing new...
First, let's take a look at his "Klung", a supposed "metal anklung" that he built.
Raes KlungIf you look at it, you may notice it bears a striking resemblance to the vintage percussion instrument the Deagan Shaker Chimes (AKA "Deagan Organ Chimes"):
Deagan photoDeagan articleAs you can read in the article, these vintage production-line chimes WERE based on the Anklung... so really, Mr. Raes' idea is nothing new.
Neither is automating them, apparently. The House On the Rock in Wisconsin has no less than THREE sets of Deagan Shaker [Organ] Chimes, all rigged to play (more-or-less) automatically with various ensembles; respectively the Blue Danube Room (opened in 1991),
Blue Danube Roomthe Red Room (opened in 1978),
Red Room and the Circus Room Orchestra (opened sometime in the 1980's).
Circus OrchestraThe chimes in the Blue Danube ensemble (a rather ersatz affair made from an old Mortier dance organ facade) are especially notable, not only because each chime assembly has been taken out of its stand and arrayed visually at the top of the ensemble (rather than being left in the original rack like the other 2 sets),
Upper part of Blue Danubebut also because they are the only real tuned musical instruments in the whole ensemble! (the string and other non-percussion sounds are produced by synthesizers and emanate from a large speaker hidden behind the tympani on the far right).
Speaker in Blue Danube
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Wow Andrew, thank you for the wonderful info.
The first Blue Danube image link is broken.
Will cover some more in our next part in this series!
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I wonder what that thing sounds like>
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Fantastic automated musical instrument!! wish i have musical instrument someday!! give a thumbs up on su!!
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Last one's probably fake - that's a London Eye gondola...
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That map of Bag End looks like Karen Wynn Fonstad's work— I recognize the handwriting.
And I am such a geek...
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I love the Woodland home! Very inspiring...
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You know, even if this was a photoshop project, it is a very good photoshop project. As much fun as it would be to be inside a hobbit house, it would be a huge amount of work. So whether it was a lot of work in the real world with a saw or in the imagination and with photoshop, it is beautiful! I know how hard it is to make something, even in a virtual world. I just finished building some hobbit houses in Second Life, not little squashed things, but nice
hobbit houses and I can tell you it isn't easy.
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The Vancouver one suspended in the trees was featured in the TV show Worlds Most Extreme Homes. It is used as a cottage.
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I have never seen a real panda before (does TV count?:P) but they are sooooo adorable!! Thanks for posting!
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I never thought I'd say this but those are even cuter then pygmy marmosets! Are there any up for sale?
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How cute!!! I never knew that pandas were so minute in size, the second photo he is only 5 inches!!!!!
Fred Smilek
Email- Fred_Smilek@yahoo.com
Webpage- http://sites.google.com/site/fredjsmilek/
Fred Smilek is the acting president of the Society to Save Endangered Species. It was founded in 2006 by Fred Smilek along with his two best friends Charles and Jonathan.
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VERY cool! I hate graffiti when it's just a way of pissing on a wall to mark territory but when it's art it's amazing. So glad you included the fun folks of Graffiti Research Labs.
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- and then there's this brilliant idea: graffiti as interactive storytelling: http://tinyurl.com/27xw98
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I love Banksy! He had a secret art showcase in Los Angeles last year, too. Awesome artist/activist.
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cool
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M.Christian - interesting interactive idea, thanks...
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More street art from melbourne, australia.
http://davowade.blogspot.com/2007/02/street-art-pt3.html
http://davowade.blogspot.com/2007/02/street-art-pt2.html
http://davowade.blogspot.com/2007/02/street-art.html
http://davowade.blogspot.com/2007/01/more-megs.html
http://davowade.blogspot.com/2007/01/graf-pics.html
http://davowade.blogspot.com/2007/01/train-monkey.html
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Thanks Dave!
Definitely good material!
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These are great. I noticed a lot of fun and artistic graffiti when I studied abroad in Lausanne, Switzerland. I don't have all of my favorites online yet, but here are some good ones:
http://picasaweb.google.com/nora.mcdaniel/Graffiti/photo#5190169559015112306
(on a the back of a podium at our technical school)
http://picasaweb.google.com/nora.mcdaniel/Graffiti/photo#5190166410804083714
I found this one around town. The writer wrote "you wish"...
http://picasaweb.google.com/nora.mcdaniel/Graffiti/photo#5190166410804083714
This was on the inside of a bathroom door at school. It says "my height," "my nose," and "my mouth."
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And this is some more about Light Graffiti... as well as my own attempts..
http://www.thednalife.com/2008/09/light-graffiti-is-fun.html
You can also see other art we find interesting on our blog.
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http://www.ekosystem.org/
check that out,
Its got the most AMAZING graffiti posts
i mean it
Im a graffiti artist here in Sao Paulo, brasil
Iv been all over,
but nothing compares to the art we have here
so check out the Sao Paulo section
With love,
Elly.
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"This is definitely staged"
Really? No shit.
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I live in/near Cincinnati & have been dying to explore the subway!
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Go and explore the subway then.
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OK I call hoax on that Calgary abandoned subway pic. I lived there during the 70s and early 80s during LRT construction (C-Train) and although there is one short underground portion soth of downtown (Cemetery Hill), there were never any tunnels built under the downtown area, all the lines were planned from the outset to run along the 7th avenue Transit Mall.
I have a hard time figuring out where in Calgary that alleged photo is from, there are no obvious identifying landmarks. Source?
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there are no photos... but local explorers keep speaking about that. The information is suppressed for obvious reasons.
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The information about Calgary's tunnel under downtown can be found in the book "Calgary- Secrets of the City". I would list author and publisher but alas my books are packed at the moment
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Stampede city gal..... I have lived here all my 32 years and in fact the tunnels do exist. If you go to the alderman's level of city hall parkade, there is a steel ladder. This descends to below the parkade, where the ORIGINAL plans for part of 7th ave c-train lines run. You can do a search and find them. There has been some hoopla about what to do with this vast amount of opens space built below the existing lines. There have even been suggestions in the Calgary herald about using it as part of the Downtown Public library!
If you have ever ridden the c-train just as you leave the Victoria park train station and head into downtown it is a very short, but completely underground section(before the cemetery which is south of the Erlton station) As you are surfacing, you can plainly see where the tunnel was suppose to branch into two, where it would connect UNDER city hall, not go around it as it does now.
look into it....
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Undernead the city of antwerp in Belguim are also kilometers of subway that arent in use.
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Here's a very cool documentary about abandoned spaces:
http://www.amazon.com/Echoes-Forgotten-Places/dp/B000EBDHIW/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1214615674&sr=8-1
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Good article - had the privilege of seeing a few of these places.
It's hard to qualify the Cincinnati tunnels - they're simply just an abandoned platform with some tunnel stubs - not in the league of GCans!
I tender one of the most amazing, the Niagara Falls tunnels ['confluence']
http://quantum-x.ice.org/episodes/niagara-falls-power-station-confluence-tunnels/
NY's abandonned subways legs also rate a mention
http://sleepycity.net/photo/785/
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Thank you for these links... by the way the last link's not working.
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Cool, I was there in Balaklava, it's open for visitors, I took about the same pictures :)
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This looks so much like Half-Life 2
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I love this site, London underground lost stations would make a great addition to this list. Some stations can be glimpsed whilst travelling in on the central line [they still have the original posters etc when they were sealed up from above]
Fans of all your posts
The Wykeman
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Title should be Modern Spanish Design, not Italian!
From artist's bio:
"Complementing a precise, science oriented undergraduate instruction, a Master of Industrial Design from the prestigious Domus Academy in Milan... Infusing a materials and technology savvy character with the rich, bold, and sensual styling associated with leading modern Italian Design."
Wow, Extreme Submarines. I wonder how much overtime they put in coming up with that original name. The extreme tag is so overused and generic, it just sounds stupid.
Wow. Beautiful designs... (in into the aquatic vehicles and underwater activities in particular) -- I've got some additional photos of other types of subs at my website squidoo.com/submarines --and I'd like to link to this site as well! If only cars could be designed like this as well--the aerodynamics would improve fuel economy as well!
Thank you Dave, you got good site there.
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