Plus rocks! Razor-sharp rocks only meters away from the wave-tossed ship (possibly SS "Cork" on the Bering Sea)... A harrowing video, good addition to our popular "Heavy Seas" series:
Goliath Beetles weigh almost a quarter pound (think about a burger), and are the heaviest insects in the world. Being a species of a scarab beetle (which plays a major part in Ancient Egypt mythology), these creatures live mostly in Africa - but a beetle on the lower right image - Megasoma acteon (caleóptero) - lives in Equador and can easily crawl up the map to North America, if it so desires.
Photo by Akka Constantin - She says, "Believe it or not, this scenery is in the city heart. Intrigued? Come visit Canberra, Australia."
We had further communication from Akka Constantin, which sheds better light on what's this all about: this is the work of an Indonesian artist and it refers to the Indonesian political dissidents:
"The series of heads... refer to the relentless cruelty of humankind among those of different faiths or political systems. The disappearance of multitudes of Indonesian political dissidents during the mid-1960s purges, when Dadang's father was lost without trace, is a recurring theme in the artist's oeuvre."
Preservation Photography, a growing urban-exploration and abandoned places photography site, is featuring the ghastly remains of a Black Diamond Colliery:
"These buildings, some constructed as early as 1930, remain standing as a testament to our nation’s mining history. No two look alike, but they all served the same purpose: process raw coal and break them into useful sizes. One feature most had in common was a covered conveyor that ran from the head of the mineshaft to the top of the preparation plant. There the coal would start it’s descent through cleaning and crushing machinery, through sizing screens and then moved out of the building. In some plants, this process happened in as little as 12 minutes. These once modern wonders have been replaced with more efficient plants, but will continue to stand until time or vandalism finally takes it’s toll." (source)
See another gallery of this incredible place at Urban Atrophy
A one-year-old female orang utan smiles (sort of) at the camera at Bukit Merah Resort in Malaysian central state of Perak. "Having started with just three orang utans in 1999, the island primate population has grown to 23, twelve of which were born on the island itself."
A weird appearance on the streets of Mumbai:
(original unknown)
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Down the Rabbit Hole
"Best of the Best" of Spiegel Photography (see a huge gallery) yielded this gem, by Andreas Teichmann:
Don't worry if you can't figure out what this means. Here is an Internet Meme Database, if you are still curious (some nsfw).
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Events:
Seattle, Washington's Northwest Film Forum will be hosting a screening of two classic films from Lon Chaney, Jr: "The Ghost of Frankenstein" and "The Mummy's Curse" on Monday, March 16 at 7:00 p.m. The event is going to be hosted by "Shambling Towards Hiroshima" author James Morrow. Check out the details (there's a five dollar donation at the door to cover expenses). Here is a very atmospheric poster and some screenshots:
Making all sci-fi punks in the world "feel lucky", since 2008
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HI, the link to the Robert Byron gallery is not working. This sound very interesting. Anyway to fix it? I checked the website but it seem confusing to me.
The first poster is from a danish amusement park, and the text reads (roughly translated): "For safety, we use Castrol" and "See the champion drivers Capt. Wulfhorst and his partner Miss Iris Johnson in their phenomenal car- and motordriving on the vertical wall (Wall of Death)".
Haha! If driving a motorcycle in a giant hamster wheel isn't dangerous enough, obviously the best solution is to put a freakin' lion on your motorbike too.
Reality Hacking was utterly ludicrous, but I thought this post was a bit interesting. Anyway, no one pays for this content and it's usually fantastic, so sod off.
I have bought at least one thing from a advertisement here (a book). So maybe the ones not contributing to the income stream should sod off? It is a comment section, not a praise-only defender of the faith section.
"The Man Who Shrunk The World" cover is golden. Love the skeleton-influenced costume. A bit of blog-hunting suggests that it's a Jack Kirby cover from Strange Tales #92, January 1962.
Oops, didn't quite get to the end of the blogtrail before posting. Somebody scanned and upped the Kirby story from that issue, since it's never been reprinted (guess why).
If anyone's interested: http://monsterblog.oneroom.org/stories/?story=shrunk&page=1
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The photo you labeled "Ice Train" appears in the fantasy art compilation "Spectrum 15 here's the Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Spectrum-15-Contemporary-Fantastic-Underwood/dp/1599290278
It's one of my favorite images in the book! If you are a fan an fantasy art (like me) you should check it out!
Wowsers, Mr. Simon is the real deal. About time the Future looked like itself again, isn't it?
Looking at these images takes me back to the best psychedelic trip of my life. One merry night in 1981 I spent a pile of cash on naughty things and a copy of Syd Mead's book "Sentinel." Hours and hours in Tomorrowland...
If it weren't for the creepily starved and pin-up girls he envisions as pilots... Maybe they put so much money in their vehicles that they could afford neither food nor protective clothing.
Those will never sell. Here's the design process that works:
Homer: All right, you eggheads! I want a place in this car to put my drink! Designer: Sir, the-the car has a beverage holder. Homer: Hello! Hello, Einstein! I said a place to put my drink. You know those Super Slakers they sell at the Kwik-E-Mart? (Makes a large circle with his hands.) The cup is this big! Designer: (Talks as he writes on a clipboard.) Extremly large beverage holder. Homer: I'm not done yet. You know that little ball you put on the aerial so you can find your car in the parking lot? That should be on every car! Designer: (Talks as he writes on a clipboard.) Little ball. Homer: And some things are so snazzy, they never go out of style! Like tail fins and bubble domes and shag carpeting.
The picture with two green tram cars is most probably taken in the AnsaldoBreda workshop. The damaged vehicle on the right was involved in a crash in Milan, near Porta Romana, on 10 october 2008: it derailed due to an error of the driver, who was using his mobile phone while driving. After going out of the track, the Jumbotram hit another tram, an older model made in 1927 (those tram, called "Carrelli" are one of the symbols of the city). Noone was injured, but people on the older vehicle got blocked inside the car due to a failure of emergency opening of the doors.
The video at the end isn't a train hitting a concrete wall, it is a crash test for nuclear waste transport containers. The container is on a flatbed train car that has been turned on it's side, and the train hits the container (the yellow box)
Sorry if you know this already, but it has happened that trains that are to be scrapped have been cleaned up and then dumped in the sea to make artificial reefs for wildlife and divers to enjoy. That may explain the underwater image. Or maybe not! :-)
The crushed black tanker car was the result of implosion. "The general-purpose tank car in the photo below was being steam cleaned in preparation for maintenance. The job was still in progress at the end of the shift so the employee cleaning the car decided to block in the steam. The car had no vacuum relief so as it cooled, the steam condensed and the car imploded." Keep in mind that steam has around 1600 times the volume of condensed water.
Two links:
How tank car implosions work. http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2008/04/22/how-tank-car-implosions-work/
Lessons Learned in 2001: Over/Under Pressure Relief Required for System Safety from the Richland Operations Office Department of Energy http://www.hanford.gov/RL/?page=525&parent=506
I'd have to watch the episode again, but the underwater subway car is probably a screencap from an episode of CSI: New York. It' looks awfully familiar...
The train on the "unfinished" bridge is out there deliberately; there's nothing that will stop it from backing up in that image.
The imploded tank car might be from a test/demonstration that was done - I'd have to dig out the video again and see if it's the same location.
Train disaster happen quite often, luckily mostly without fatalities. One example for a catastrophe is the disaster in Eschede/Germany, where a high-speed train derailed and collided with a bridge, killing 101 people on board.
montparnasse is a station in paris, france, quite in the center of the city. its original name is "gare montparnasse". from there, trains depart to the south-western part of france.
You should look up the train wreck in Prince George, British Columbia about 2 years ago. We all stood in the park and watched the train burning across the river. You could see the smoke all around town.
Picture #6 in the Russian section shows two rubber tired wheels attached to some wreckage between the two trains. The spiked objects to the right are diamond harrows which are not quite obsolete farm equipment. There's another harrow in the center further back and a badly bent on on the left. The wreckage with wheels is the harrow cart. It looks like a farmer was crossing the track when he shouldn't have.
Ad. Utterly Surreal: Tilt-Shift Train Wrecks I'm not convinced... these look as actulal tilt-shift photos, not "PS trickery". Of course tilt-shift can be immitated by retouching a photo on PS or other software but why bother? The fun You get with a tilt shift lens (such as PC-E Nikkor 24mm for example) is worth a lot more than time spent on your PS. The PS tilt-shift retouched photos will NEVER look as good as taken with an actual perspective-correction lens. Peace to You all. I love this blog.
The photo of former New York City rollingstock unit 9577 is *definitely* not a train wreck. As someone mentioned before, this is one of the repurposed Redbirds that have been stripped of usable parts, cleaned, and dumped off the eastern seaboard. Please get it right, or note it.
If you're going to show an accident involving NYC rollingstock, at least show a real accident
Check this out.. Two photos of the only train wreck in US history where four steam locomotive trains collided... occurred at East Thompson Connecticut, Dec.4, 1891.
@ujanja They were intentionally put there to encourage reef growth on the otherwise flat and featureless ocean floor along the eastern seaboard off the coast of the Carolinas. This reef growth has also been great for tourism and fishing in the area.
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HI, the link to the Robert Byron gallery is not working. This sound very interesting. Anyway to fix it? I checked the website but it seem confusing to me.
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Hi, i managed to find it. I should have been more patient :
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/SearchExecXC.asp
The Obama portrait is by none other than the great Alex Grey who has been the artist most synonymous with the band TOOL.
I think Robert Byron’s photo is actually of Gosprom Building in Kharkov, Ukraine
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