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Thanks for sharing a nice blog.I really like your post. The picture you have posted here is really very nice. Great post!
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Hello - Thank you for featuring one of our maps in your article. We appreciate the publicity.
Could you please credit "University of Washington Special Collections" for the 1570 Asia map and link to it at:
http://content.lib.washington.edu/mapsweb/images/Viewer/G7400_1570_O67.htmlThanks again,
Angela Rosette-Tavares
Digital Initiatives Program
University of Washington Libraries
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Thank you Angela, the info is added
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Your ...
"Africa also unfortunately figures prominently in this map showing the world distribution of doctors per inhabitants."
... entry should be titled:
"Africa also unfortunately figures prominently in this map showing the world distribution of inhabitants per doctors."
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WOW! really great list. Thanks for sharing.
Found this website full of maps
chartsbin.com
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The Leviathan map by far outshines the rest of the maps. It's just so fantastic. It's the reason I spent $20+ on the book.
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Very cool maps!
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Notice how Russia has the greatest number of doctors per capita. Trouble is, some of those doctors are not as good as those, let's say, in the U.S. So the numbers aren't everything!
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Cool stuff, such imaginative maps, awesomeness.
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Something similar to that Russian professor's split-USA map appeared in a recent Clive Cussler novel as a possible prediction.
Also, since when is the Palestinian Authority a country?
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This is the most amazing post I've read this summer. What a fascinating collection you've got here. Certainly provides more than enough inspiration for a writer.
Thanks!
Miranda
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Just poking around and found your site... noted that this site:
http://www.barron.co.uk/Lilian+Lancaster
gives credit for the Scottish caricature map to Lilian Lancaster.
I wish I had copies of all these lovely maps! Really nice blog. THanks for sharing.
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I am in absolute awe.
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If you look at the following google maps link, the San Zhi resort is clearly visible on the satellite images. HOWEVER, when you switch do Google Street View from the adjacent road, it seems it has been completely torn down and no traces remain... :(
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=111907161747963613254.0004832a87bc9f5047f7d&ll=25.261192,121.477638&spn=0.004163,0.006518&t=h&z=18&lci=com.panoramio.all
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Damn, what fascinating stuff! I must try to visit Battleship Island next time I visit Japan.
I was lucky enough to see the Walled City in the early '80s, though I was strictly warned not to go into it. Somehow it seemed to represent, all by itself, the popular notion of "the teeming streets of Hong Kong". And yes, it just screams 'cyberpunk'.
Great images--many thanks!
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Are you sure it is 30000 police in the raid as compared to 3000?
Wikipedia Chinese says 3000, and I personally find that 30000 police in a raid is too. NYC currently has 30000 police officers. You don't need a force that big to attack a small area.
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Fuxoft is right, the whole thing has been razed. Even the landscaping is gone. all that is left is the front parking lot. Someone screen cap that satellite image and add it to the post before it goes away...
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Some of the images in your blog post are from this site:
http://home.f01.itscom.net/spiral/hashima/hashima001.html
You should give credit to the site owner who is the original photographer.
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Thank you for this info, credit added
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They do tours of hashima now. They do have a website, and i'm fairly sure you can get to it via japan-guide. I was tempted to go when i visit Japan but it's too out of the way to justify going.
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Given the ingenuity of the Japanese I'm surprised they havent filmed a surivalist game show on Battleship Island
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I just discovered that the Blaxploitation movie 'Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of gold' was partly shot in Kowloon.
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It reminds me of Infinity Fortress from the Getbackers manga. Just amazing...
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Fabulous.
I feel the need to direct a Survival Horror movie on Battleship Island at my earliest convenience!
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how much for a one bedroom apt? :)
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This just another ghetto, or the slums. Nevertheless still very fascinating indeed. Thx for sharing.
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Battleship Island would make a beautiful resort. Get rid of the wooden buildings that have become kindling, restore those breathtaking stone walls and the cool cement buildings. Wallpaper magazine would have a field day there. It's hard for me to fathom so much wealth and beauty just sitting there unloved. It's an immense asset, just sitting there.
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And there are big, beautiful stone walls on the interior of Battleship Island. You can't see them in these photos, but they are in the series of photos at the link I followed. It's like the Imperial Palace in Tokyo or some other castle from old Edo.
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Rivet-City as it should be :-)
BTW, i wonder, if this failed resort might have a chance now. Exactly the pace to have guided walkthroughs for an hour or two.
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Last part of my "experimental" video
http://www.moju-video.com/untitled3project.html
was shot in Gunkanjima, from the sea, as at that time it was forbidden area, now tours are organised.
Definitely worth the trip !
Another great movie about Gunkanjima from CM von Hausswolff & Thomas Nordanstad released on DVD by Errant Bodies Records.
great blog, btw !
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freerun paradise!
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Kowloon city is one of the most hauntingly beautiful things I have ever seen... its like something from a dream.
All of those people cast out from society, creating something new and incredible. Its shameful that it had to exist, but while it stood it was a glorious monument to the human spirit in the face of impossible adversity. The people built a city housing 50,000 people out of scrap! Its sad to think that its gone.
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awesome places, a complete shame that have been demolished, at least we have these magnificent photos.
Battleship island it's great, it really show us how will be the planet without our influence.
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I was amazed looking at these pictures. A few years ago I was privileged to tour Chernobyl and it was so haunting. There is something strangely alluring about ruins like these.
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Yes, the San Zhi resort was torn down about 3 years ago or so...fortunately enough I was able to sneak in to take a look even before that...now I think it is used as some kind of garden/farm field?
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Haha, there are some great links here, thanks for posting them. I especially like the quirky inventions one with the Iron Dynasphere which looks incredible. The tandem bikes were also interesting, I never knew they had different types.
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That first Monza painting looks a lot like Syd Meads work
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Hyllie Water Tower, Sweden
Grown up with this in view. Used to be a restaurant on top where I did eat as a kid many years ago. Locally know as "svampen" wich means "the mushroom".
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=55.563993,12.978802&spn=0.00432,0.013282&t=f&z=17&ecpose=55.55684739,12.97906887,338.39,-0.564,68.248,0
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It is apparent here that despite their large size, retro cameras are so much more sexy than modern designs.
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The proliferation of the camera phone has a good benefit in the prosecution of criminal police officers, but a terrible effect on photography in general. Unless they come out with a digital camera that can also make phone calls, the emphasis will always be on the camera as a whistle/bell add-on, ensuring that the majority of pictures taken are both 1) crappy and 2) taken by crappy photographers.
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What about the Leica? Wasn't that one of the most ground breaking inventions when it came to 35mm? All of the FED clones from USSR were copies of the Leica. How about the invention of the 35mm SLR?
I understand the premise of this post, but the evolution of the camera is far more extensive than a few history pieces made by Kodak.
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It is apparent whoever wrote this learned the history of cameras last week, on the internet.
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As two previous anons said, that's a very brief surface scratch and partially wrong. Eg. first fully digital consumer camera was Fuji DS-1P from 1988. No mention of 110, Pak, Rapid or some other important films.
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I love this review! I actually own a Kodak Disc camera to this day. I found it in my attic about a year ago, and it's still brand new. I thought that the Disc camera would become an urban myth since no one talks about it. Thanks!
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The disc camera was cool for it's time. Suddenly they were everywhere, and then Poof! they were gone. It was an early "magical" device...
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we have a "roll" of disc film in the frige,the camera is around someplace.
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I had been a fan of your site for a quite a while but I must say that the amount of commercialism on your site is over the top. I was reminded today, why I do not visit here.
I could not even find the article itself in all of the adsense ads. I hope you are making money.
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just get adblock plus man
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As always, Cool stuff from a cool site.
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Don't forget Bill Fontana's art installation 'Harmonic Bridge' which used vibration from the millennium bridge to create a sound art piece in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall.
More information here: http://www.resoundings.org/Pages/Harmonic_Bridge1.htm
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Thank you for your article touching linkages between Architecture and Music of various genres. I am interested as a musician and student of architecture in expressions of the profound harmonies and beautiful lyricism of jazz music in my building designs.
John Keenan-Mudrick
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I am not surprised that an oil company employee thought this up. Talk about creating demand for your product...
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There was a commercially built unit similar to this concept for sale on Hemmings Motor News this past month. It appear to be a Ford van with a boat carried in the extended rear portion.
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Sticking a boat on the back of an extended van isn't a new idea.
http://boaterhome.org/history.html
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wow, very cool! is there any video footage of it actually in action?
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hahaha..last picture is funny.. that is a wooden home design with wheels...
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The last one is a mobile sauna. There are also mobile saunas on a raft.
Related are the small sled huts ice fishers use to keep warm, and the Victorian bath wagons where the ladies could be driven into the sea to bathe in complete privacy. At least that way they were allowed to take a bath in the sea without making a scandal.
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Strange turtle : seems to be an Alligator Snapping Turtle, rather than a Mata Mata... These two turtles species look like cousins.
That bee thing is and always has been bunk spread by morons.
http://www.paghat.com/beeflight.html
"The "science has proved that bees can't fly" urban myth originated in a 1934 book by entomologist Antoine Magnan, who discussed a mathematical equation by Andre Sainte-Lague, an engineer. The equation proved that the maximum lift for an aircraft's wings could not be achieved at equivalent speeds of a bee. I.e., an airplane the size of a bee, moving as slowly as a bee, could not fly. "
It's a snapping turtle.
Yep, Alligator Snapper
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator_snapper
And I've seen bigger...
the girl on the motorcycle looks like natalie wood from the movie "sex and the single girl" i am only guessing
The ferrari in the picture is actually the slightly better looking P4 330
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_P#330_P_3.2F4_and_P4
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