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The Billboard isn't a photoshop, it was a publicity stunt for the film.
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Reality check: If the north pole should melt, how much would the water level rise?
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Of course steam locomotives handled high water better than modern Diesel electric ones do. geira, actually the melting of the ice cap at the NORTH pole wouldn't raise sea level at all. Floating ice melting doesn't affect water level. It's the melting of the ice at the SOUTH pole and Greenland that would raise sea levels.
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the lady soup picture is a shoop.
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The guy on the public phone is in malaysia. Although, I wonder if the phone actually even works when it's not flooded since maintenance are so bad, most of it are not in working order.
Amost everybody uses mobile phone these days.
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I don't see Sean Penn anywhere in those pictures in the mid-west. Very odd. Do you think that Bush bombed the levees in those towns? I think this should be looked into immediately.
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One of those "China floods" pictures is not from China. The man trying to make a phone call from the blue phone booth flooded up to his chest is from Malaysia.
http://lh5.ggpht.com/abramsv/SGRuZFSsHTI/AAAAAAAAUmk/ee_fP4UeJrY/s640/2070170031_f4f8ae1196_o.jpg
The logo on the front of the phone booth tells me it's from 2005 or before, because in 2005 Telekom Malaysia changed it's name and logo to this http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/countries/my/126744.html
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Some photos, which were obviously Photoshop edits were tasteless considering the calamity and nature, no pun intended, of the picture. Boooooooo!
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Living in the American midwest, smack in the middle of the area hardest hit during the Great Flood of '93, I'm amazed by the tenacity of century-old farmsteads that survived the floodwaters. Granted, many are no longer inhabited, but still they stand as mute testament to their builders' craftsmanship. High water marks are visible after fifteen years at second-story rooftop level!
Interestingly, lesser 'modern' structures were instant flotsam, such as those shown in many of your photos.
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the LOL is hilarious x]
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Re: Light Signature
http://www.recreation.hu/peter/images/ligth.jpg
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The truck without another front wheel is an old Tatra. It has independent suspension (very rare in a truck), you don't need any load to drive it like that. Actually the owners manual suggests doing this in case of a flat tyre if you don't have a spare.
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The last one is from House of Gord.
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In the most popular sense of the word--that is, referring to the familiar psychedelic images widely available on posters, greeting cards and giftwrap in the mid-'90s--the chest of drawers may not be immediately recognizable as a "fractal."
Those beautiful and intriguing pictures are based on iterations of complex forms such as the Mandelbrot set. However, fractals can be based on iterations of any form, including a simple cube, such as this chest.
I think it's a fractal in the truest sense--or at least as close an approximation as a piece of furniture is likely to get.
In fact, it looks like a variation of the Menger sponge:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MengerSponge.html
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Thank you RangerGordon... loved that Menger Sponge piece.
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You can't steer the truck without front wheels.
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To me the "Fractal Drawer" seems more like it's based on the Fibonacci numbers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number (see the "tiling" image on the right)
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definitely
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"My art is made totally freehand"? indeed!
then wtf is the suv with the armature and all that business?
He walked 100 miles then drove, SLOWLY 100 miles. I think the impact on the environment is a little more visible from outer space now.
Why not make a better point and etch an image in antartcica with the same equipment
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@ Anonymous (ofcourse...)
I think it's a crane to lift the artist much higher to take pictures of his artwork.
btw: if he did actually drive the 100 miles driving... yes that is indeed a MASSIVE load on the CO2 contribution... because OMG 100 miles is disastrous. thats like a 2hr drive!! What a monster.
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@Anonymous
Yes, bringing sand painting equipment to etch ice in Antarctica would be quite a challenge!
Like eating soup with a fork.
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Here is an other example of massive art figures created between 200 BC and 600 AD : the Nazca Lines
http://www.crystalinks.com/nasca.html
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woowww, impresionante
saludos desde españa
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Just pure Awesomeness!
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I say commission this artist to make a 21st-century analog of the Nazca artwork for the people of the future to puzzle over. Why not? The Incas did it. Why shouldn't we?
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This is SO BEAUTIFUL but my heart can't help but question. Why? Aesthetic showmanship? Could the resources have been put to better use? This question does not imply an answer. I just struggle between beauty and function and I see millions of souls just struggling to survive while others have the resources to do something like this, as incredible as it is.
What is the price and reward of art.
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reminds me of andy goldsworthy stuff. my favorite form of art... fleeting, temporary, made of natural materials. just like us humans.
i find it ironic... this is the same location as burningman. and i'm happy he didn't do it during BM, because this kicks ass over anything ever created there.
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ps @ anonymous:
why? there doesn't need to be a why, does there? if everything was done based on a why, i think beauty and magic would disappear from our lives. well, at least when it comes to art.
*just because* is enough for me in this case.
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"btw: if he did actually drive the 100 miles driving... yes that is indeed a MASSIVE load on the CO2 contribution... because OMG 100 miles is disastrous. thats like a 2hr drive!! What a monster"
I just cant believe it. That someone would drive a hundred miles, its just too hard to believe! Hes destroying the planet!
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"I think it's a crane to lift the artist much higher to take pictures of his artwork."
He used a cherry picker and a plane to get the shots.
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Hey, if you guys are interested in jims art check out this video i made on youtube, more videos will be coming. The video has more shots from the desert. I made the music on garageband.
Worlds Largest Human Made Drawing+ other art by jim denevan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6tWXU1dA7s
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Nice video... thank you
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Definetly better than sticking those umbrellas up and down interstate 5 in California about 10 years or so ago very nice indeed carbon foot print or not.
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I just put out a new version of the youtube video that is much improved with new shots. check it out and feel free to leave feedback, it is much appreciated!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdD3jmyPbGo
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Very Impressive, but not the largest, I would argue. Have you had a look at the Nazca Plains near Peru recently?
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Nazca lines are smaller, look it up.
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Seems everyone is comparing these sand figures with those on Nazca desert. They remind much more to me the (ex-)'misterious' crop circles in UK and other places...
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Check out my newest video that has interesting footage from jim denevan's trip to Greenland.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eVgFXaB6-E
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That is seriously cool. I can't even imagine the amount of planning and coordination that would have to go into a thing like that.
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Its something like a miracle created by the human on the earth whose exact meaning is not yer discovered. It is often said that the lines were created so that the God can view the people over there from the sky.
Nazca lines peru
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whatever his reason, art is mostly for art's sake, especially if it seems to evoke no emotion or have no point other than to simply exist or impress by size or method. Art can be useful to express ideas or emotions, help with healing, relaxing and a variety of other things. To do something just to prove it can be done is not really a good reason to do anything. I don't see this as doing any more damage to the Earth than anything else man has done. It doesn't seem to be doing any damage at all in application or existence more than building a large hut from stone and straw. It's interesting at least, even if I don't personally find it to be particularly beautiful or evoking. As long as it doesn't hurt anything let him 'express himself'.
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That's the same office freak out you linked to before, from a different angle. makes me wonder if it is staged.
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Booooo! That's an old joke but apparently you didn't know that or cared. ;)
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If I am missing some context someone could drop a link. The internet is a big place and some of us hail from distant corners of it.
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The bar is named "Eternity".
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BTW-MIne was in reference to the "ignorance/apathy" joke at the end there. ;>)
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Andyman - my ignorance AND apathy knows no bounds
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Very nice post, never heard of exploding lakes before. The image with the pump in the center of the lake is not visible...
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The last picture could be from Philippe Ramette, a french photographer. He doesn't use Photoshop, but strange machines to create weird pictures of himself.
You can see some of them here (fr) :
http://laboiteaimages.hautetfort.com/archive/2007/02/11/index.html
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My link's been broken, sorry, try that short one, please (it's really cool) :
http://tiny.cc/GBi06
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Just to clarify, while CO2 is toxic in sufficient concentration, the deaths at Lake Nyos were due more to it simply displacing all the oxygen and causing immediate asphyxiation, than to any toxic effect.
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fascinating article.
off-topic, but a confirmation, that last pic is indeed Philippe Ramette, entitled:
Rational exploration of the undersea : irrational walk 2006
(xippas.com/en/artist/philippe_ramette)
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Sigivald, you are absolutely right. Moreover, the main toxic gas expelled by a volcanic lake - or a smoking crater or crevice - is the poisonous SO2, or Sulphur Dioxide.
Many of the people who died in lake Nyos were deprived of oxigen and poisoned by SO2.
I think that this trend of blaming CO2 for everything that happens is becoming rather fishy...
Congratulations
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Thank you for the image info - credit added.
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i heard about the lakes, it was in one of arthur clarkes' books. can't remember which one, though.
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Wow!
I posted too the Mario Sánchez gallery o.o
here:
http://hardergeneration.hu/2008/06/11/aegis-strifes-digital-hell/
i really love this works :)
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The
fountain in the middle of lake Nyos only used a pump to get it started. Now it is a self-sustaining fountain of fizzy-water, shooting 100 feet into the air.
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Lake Bosomtwi! Bosomtwi means "home of the twi people" in the language of twi. The tribe encompasses the Ghanaian Ashanti tribe and a few related ones. I lived close to Lake Bosomtwi, and the locals told me two conflicting origin stories of the twi: One that they had "emerged from the ground" at Bosomtwi, the other that they had "fallen from the sky" there. Bosomtwi is a crater lake with no inlets or outlets. It was always presumed to be volcanic, however, it is a meteor impact site.
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It would be interesting to see if a turbine could be placed over the fountain and some useful energy extracted.
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wow I love the pens. reminds me of the viagra pen my friend stole from one of our teachers (her husband worked in pharmacuticals)
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I'm pretty sure the car jump went exactly as planned. You'll notice there was no down ramp on the other side, and the guy's extensive safety gear.
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Regarding your last picture in this post (the one with the guy wrestling the giant sea-scorpion): see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3247691.stm - it's a recreation of a euryperid for a BBC TV show.
The real beasties are long extinct.
The really weird statue of a mother and children are from the Vigelandspark in Oslo, Norway. This isn't even the weirdest one!! Google it and see... i am sure there are many more pictures to be found
Re: Reuse... recycle... (more info)
-> more info here
The real beasties are long extinct.
Thank God!
The picture is of Jez Gibson-Harris holding a robotic eurypterid (a 'sea scorpion' from the Ordovician period) built by Crawley Creatures for the BBC program "Sea Monsters", aired in 2003. The picture above, as well as another of the prop, and other props from the program, can be found at http://www.crawley-creatures.com/gallery/seamonsters.htm
I don't think that people should be rewarded for putting lives at risk.
But if you watch the "car vs train" incident, the offender seems to get advertising fees. I'm sure the train driver doesn't benefit.
Re: Reuse... ->
http://gizmodo.com/5020499/cardboard-bicycle-costs-just-30-dont-leave-it-out-in-the-rain
Of course in the 10 more bridges post they have a photo of the Cheasapeake Bay Bridge (U.S. 50 in MD) instead of the Cheasapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (U.S. 13 in VA)
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