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The Beemer trashed by the saws is a prop/promo from the bond film "the world is not enough"
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The Southwest Airlines 737 photos are from an accident that took place in December 2005.
From Wikipedia:
Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 (WN1248, SWA1248) was a scheduled passenger flight from Baltimore-Washington International Airport to Chicago Midway International Airport. On December 8, 2005, the airplane slid off the runway while landing in a snowstorm and crashed into automobile traffic, killing Joshua Woods, a 6-year old boy in a car.
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1248
There were no other fatalities.
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The black and white photographs in section "The road seems to be too small" are by swiss policeman Arnold Ordenmatt (born 1925) who's job was to take photograps of the aftermath of car accidents. His keen sense of composition and impeccable technique has earned him a place among "serious" photographers and his prints are widely available for sale. "James Kelly Contemporary" in Santa Fe is just one of the galleries where his work is now exhibited and for sale.
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The ball in the back of the car is actualy a wrecking ball that fell off a crane and rolled down the street.
Story here.
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Fantastic work by Arnold Ordenmatt!
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The BMW cut in half is from a James Bond movie. The metal contraption was used in the movie to trim trees from a helicopter. dunno if they are real.
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The BMW is indeed from a Bond movie, it's a real BMW and they really cut it in half.
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The picture with the roundabout-sign must be in luxemburg or france next to it, and might be staged, since the ad-panel promotes some driving licenses. I might be wrong tho.
Two pictures below, the car squeezed between pole and train must have happened in paris or close to it, ratp is the paris dept. train.
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This picture http://lh5.google.ca/abramsv/R7OtrqoD1sI/AAAAAAAAIYE/Y39gzesmAeE/s1600-h/1030.jpg
takes place in Belgium, and was taken because the panel the car stands on is an advertisement for a driving school.
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The majority of these images were taken in the less civilized parts of the world.. Doesn't surprise me one bit, since pretty much the only trucks I saw were MAZ, VAZ and KAMAZ models. The drivers of these trucks are never sober behind the wheel.
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25 cartons of 36 eggs= 900 eggs.
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"The-Worlds-Greatest-Music-Collection" ebay link is broken.
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fixed... thank you. these ebay urls are looooong.
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great links, i like the surreal art, the lovely owls and the egg dude.
About the music collection -
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i like that one
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it's like something out of the george peppard movie "Damnation Alley"!
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Those ETF trucks looks fantastic, indeed, but for now it seems to be only a dream of a single (Dutch) engineer, since i haven't seen any picture of the real thing or even a real company building.
Those images of a truck in a mine are rendered from a 3D-model.
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Do not foregt The Overland Train built by R. G. LeTourneau. See it at:
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/wheels/overland.htm
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The German vehicle at the end is actually designed for crossing minefields. Hence the solid tires with no body structure around them and the heavily armored cab. Think of it as the ancestor of the MRAP.
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A hoax, well done!
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Thank you SlowJoeCrow - i updated with your info, interesting.
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http://www.garbee.net/~cabell/m37misc/jerrypark/0877075-R1-E059.jpg
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I wouldn't insult a good looking Ultra Large Truck by calling it a "monstrosity" as the dictionary defines that word as:
1. Very ugly thing: an object, animal, or person that is very unpleasant or frightening to look at, often because it is large and strangely shaped.
2. Monstrousness: frightening size, shape, and ugliness
a figure of overwhelming monstrosity.
And that ETF 190 Truck is really good looking for a such a large truck.
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re: "Test tubes for the aspiring mad scientist":
did someone actually make the ancient egyptian 'thingy' seen here?:
http://ancientx.com/images/sued1_big.jpg
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The London panorama is great!!
Thanks!
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Wow, Jon - I think you're onto something!
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Jon, Thats amazing.
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I remember seeing the man with the sewing machine in a National Geographic
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Re: Strange assembly in Portland, Oregon. What does it do?
(probably some kind of an air duct)
It's a dust collector assembly, most likely to collect sawdust.
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My favorite line from Barbarella:
"Angels don't make love... Angels ARE Love!"
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When I was young, I discovered a stack of Playboys from the '60s in my uncle's old room in my grandmother's basement. One of them had a pictorial of the set of Barbarella you would've loved.
http://www.dtmagazine.com/cmopg1924/pb368.html
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I would like to see some screen shots of the fantastic outfits from "The Third Element", especially the air/space line hostesses!
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Thanks for the UFO pics. Great show, with some very attractive space ladies: Gabrielle Drake, Ayshea, Wanda Ventham, Delores Mantez and Antonia Ellis.
Also don't forget Christine Kochanski in Red Dwarf and many Doctor Who companions and Star Trek and... I just exposed myself for the ubernerd I am.
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YOu forgot to mention that Barbarella has an amazing title sequence where Jane Fonda strips and the letters from the titles dance to cover up her lady bits:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH8snUjAAUE
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Ubernerds rule the Earth
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Avi, you are right. We do rule the earth and rightly so!
Thanks again for your great website. A day is not complete without my Dark Roasted Blend.
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Anonymous, do you mean The FIFTH Element?
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what about nova from planet of the apes?
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The Remake has Rose McGowan playing Barbarella and is being directed by Robert Rodriguez. Just thought you would appreciate the Info.
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And you can't forget Marta Kristen from the original Lost in Space: http://www.martakristen.com/marta/gallery/marta_68.jpg
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When I was young, I discovered a stack of Playboys from the '60s in my uncle's old room in my grandmother's basement. One of them had a pictorial of the set of Barbarella you would've loved.
http://www.dtmagazine.com/cmopg1924/pb368.html
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Superb post, a subject after my own heart.
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That "unidentified carnivorous plant" looks suspiciously like Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors...
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Regarding the Ford Focus Orchestra, as visually entertaining as that video was, I suspect the music is overdubbed or at least enhanced by real instruments. It sounds too clean to be coming from those contraptions.
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The final "mystery" picture reminds me of some of the album art for the musicians "The Moog Cookbook"
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The what is it pic is an aerial shot of a croc snout.
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If that's not Moog Cookbook, it's someone inspired by them.
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RE: "Child Bear"
Obviously it's a misspelled version of "Chilled Beer"; but it's get weirder when the Hindi script there says "Government's Chilled Beer Store"!!! WTF!!
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I truly love the UFO drawn above the electricity sign
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The 'Child Bear' one says 'Prakash's Teddy Bear Shop'
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The crushed mercedes is in downtown Macon, GA. I used to drive by there pretty regularly. I'm pretty sure the church spire in the background is St. Joseph's
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"vyhod fasistu z okna" in the antifa picture means "throw the fasist out of window"
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The first one's a warning that there are jellyfish, I believe.
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The top one's a jellyfish warning. Jellyfish in Northern Australia are some of the most toxic animals on earth (most toxic is the Stone fish, which also lives there), so if beaches are prone to jellyfish the warnings are valid.
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I've seen the Church of Uncertain sign several times. It is in Uncertain, TX. Uncertain is a very small town with population just over 100. I always laugh at all the different Uncertain signs there.
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Thank you for the info, campblood... interesting!
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One of my favourites is the "
No Dog Poop" sign.
When I was living in Belgium, I got one of these at the local hardware store and put it up next to my desk at work. I don't think they ever got the joke....
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i'm pretty sure the "the joy of not being sold anything" is a work by Banksky
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I found the "used rainbows" to be the best, although many were good. But about the holy ground: The chucks has a russian orthodox cross, the cell tower has a roman catholic cross. That could be a deliberate thing.
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A note on the http://lh5.google.ca/abramsv/R7Dx-aoDzzI/AAAAAAAAIG4/y27mLScsZXE/79C01484-B431-40DC-B672-2D62558841E7.jpg?imgmax=512 sign. The funny thing about it is a very odd way in which one of the letters is drawn, so it became hard to read the last row differently than 'to shit' in Russian. 'Welcum' would be a good translation, I think.
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The first of the Jon Dunbar photos is especially funny - the Korean words are transliterations of the original English words.
Going word by word, the Korean is pronounced as follows:
Kuh Rab (crab)
Bee Em Tee (BMT)
Ham (Ham)
Bee Jee Suh Dee Ra Ee Tuh (Veggie Delite)
So Buh Way Kul Lobe (Subway Club)
Chee Keen Bu Ray Suh Tuh (Chicken Breast)
and so on... The Korean characters spell out the English words - the only actual Korean word on the sheet is Cham-Chi, the word they used for Classic Tuna!
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"inhaled. burned. Thrown away. if it were anything but a cigarette, it would surely be crying"
Not really engrish at all ... thats actually what it says in Japanese as well.
I think its a really good sign actually.
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The BIG "van seumeren" crane:
This company (now: Mammoet") owns the two largest cranes in the world. Both can be transported in 40 foot container sized parts. THe assembly on site takes a mere two days. They´re the same people thatraised the Kursk submarine in murmansk. A wonderfull example of dutch stuborness...
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Once again a great line up.
Keep up the good work.
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look this after very strong vind http://picasaweb.google.com/c25land/JeB
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haha the first 4 pics of the 2 part happened in holland they where lifting a dredging boat wich has sunk.
the first crane fell over and the mamoet had to come whit a crane
link
http://www.waldnet.nl/fotonieuws.php?d=1163946127
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s u p e r b
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The big tube thing lifted from either end is part of the pylon (upright) for a wind turbine. Great collection of photos!
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This puts on the desk the importance of training and knowlege in fisics and mechanisms that a crane operators mus have before taking the machine's controls.
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The last photo of the tree girl is from a movie poster of some sad Sandra Bullock movie that just came out and no one heard about.
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yer the movie is premonition. not that im a fan of it. i just work in a video shop.
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The video is by a french guy called Remy from nimportequi.com. He does great stuff and it would be nicer to give him the creds than to post a link to youtube....
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wonderful... I updated credits.
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Thank you for cool blog!
Regarding the tree lady... Here is a "real" on i shot in Amsterdam: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rasta_p/2238385373/
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That Sandra Bullock movie is called Premonition.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477071/
Cool image though.
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I just can't beleave that "Huge load flatten car" is real...
I think you need to start putting a warning on more of your links. It doesn't happen very often, but that arm and a leg video is just too much. The worst I've ever seen here and something I did not expect from you.
about that "arm and leg"... yes it's pretty graphic. In the "Happy Tree Friends" tradition. I put "very gross" against it.
Thank-you for that. The change is appreciated.
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