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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

No Reflection in the Mirror



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No Reflection in the Mirror

Simply genius set-up, making you doubt your existence.
What happens if one morning you came to the mirror and did not see your reflection?


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Today's pictures & links:
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Retro-Futurism

Very cool and rare German Retro-Futurism concepts (more on this site)








Robert Bruno's Rusted Steel House
(see more examples of his heavy metal architecture on his site)




Police Oops
Russian drivers have a cause to celebrate.


(image credit: Leteha)


Mixed fresh links for today:

The Crime Channel makes a Kid's Show - [gross? video ad]
History of Religion in 60 seconds - [animation] - via
Junk mail turned into sculpture - [art]
More Underground Wonders of the World - [urban exploring]
Another Weird Swastika - [weird]
Strange and cute art by Meredith Dittmar - [art]
7 Worst Killer Plagues in History - [gross article]
Pretty good 80s car commercial - [car video]
"7:35 in the Morning": award winning movie - [cool video]



Pitaya, or Dragon Fruit

It grows on a giant cactus and only blooms at night!
Read more info. (thanks Paul Ridell)




(image credit: Dapan)

Its night flowers are called "Moonflower" of "Queen of the Night"


(image credit: otbucad)



Mystery Photo:
We'd like to put a credit on this photo and find out the location. Please let us know.

UPDATE
That photo of mountains was taken from the climber's entrance/exit of the Aiguille du Midi, Chamonix, France.

Anybody can stand in that spot and see this view by riding the cable car up. You'll never forget it! (Thanks, David)


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3 Comments:

Blogger David said...

That photo of mountains was taken from the climbers entrance/exit of the Aiguille du Midi, Chamonix, France. It was taken about where the lone individual is in this picture: http://content.cxnx.net/chamonix.net/3316.jpg

Anybody can stand in that spot and see this view by riding the cable car up. You'll never forget it!

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Blogger Feroz said...

Heey¡¡¡ These is not a Pitaya, Pitaya its a fruit from Nopal.

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Anonymous KarmaAdjuster said...

re: Police Oops -
This reminds me of the only traffic accident I saw while in Rome, Italy for an entire summer.

It stuck with me because if you've every witness the traffic in Rome, it seems totally chaotic, yet I almost went throughout the entire summer walking the roman streets without witnessing a single crash.

The one wreck I did see though was a police officer rear-ended a guy driving a Vespa, and even that accident wasn't that serious. The Vespa owner walked away from the collision just fine. I didn't get to see what happened to his moped though.

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