Wake up! Wake up!

Link Scroll down for today's pictures & links. Wake up! Wake up! Cute video, featuring one very considerate cat. url Today's pictures & links: Click to enlarge images. Retro-Futurism Very intense visualization, considering it was made in 1949: (looks almost like a rebel base in "Star Wars". Click to enlarge) (source: retro-futurismus) Unortodox wall of a Japanese office building: (image credit: Stereophonic) Spectacular Weather Mike Hollingshead from Extreme Instability is a storm-chaser. Naturally he stumbles across the craziest sights. His Flickr photostream is nothing short of astonishing. Here's just a couple pics: (aftermath of an August storm) (images credit: Mike Hollingshead) Perhaps the best "extreme weather" picture of all times: the National Press "Best of Photo Journalism" Still Photography Runner-Up by Kimberly Grabovsky. A desert storm in Navajo Nation, AZ off route 98 between The Grand Canyon and Monument Valley; 21 July 2006 The picture is currently making rounds around the web, subtitled "tornado, lightning, rainbow - all in one picture". Yes, rainbow and lightning are there, for sure, but not tornado. What we see is rather a "rain shaft", or "cloudburst". Mixed fresh links for today: Most Earth-like planet found - [space] The World's (Un)Luckiest Man - [weird] Great fantasy art portfolio - [art] - via Ambigrams: info and examples - [cool art] Abandoned Stalin's Railway - [spooky] Six very unusual plants - [nature] Most Bizarre Scientific Papers - [fascinating] Another one of these photo-a-day projects - [video] - via There is always a way out - [fun video] Extreme Pumpkins Just like the picture says, go check out Extreme Pumpkins website for some Halloween weirdness. Make sure to check out the previous years contest winners, here is a little taste: Cannibal Pumpkin: A Giant Squid Pumpkin: Squash Suicide: (images credit: Extreme Pumpkins) More X-Ray Art: As a sort of update to our article X-Ray Art: Benedetta Bonichi presents "To See in the Dark", an exhibition of artworks created from x-rays. - via Violinista: this lizard... did it eat something? (original unknown) The advantages of Adobe Photoshop's (tm) clone tool? No, the real set-up. "Love is... Flying into your arms" (photo by Jorge De Sousa) Permanent Link...