Photo Of The Day

Harrowing image. Poor people must be absolutely desperate!

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/sep/10/mike-king-sports-photographer-in-pictures

^The power of image that speaks volumes.

Really sad he passed away. loved his photos from 1990 world cup esp the diving klinsmann.

Not sure if drone or what, but..
nice images..

Thibault Deresse

Massimo Vitali

..while we're at it -

Zé Pedro Alvarez

Kenny 'Fucking' Powers!!

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Stop, drop and rock 'n' roll

The annual Burning Man counterculture festival, named after a blazing wooden effigy that marks its climax, attracts scantily clad revellers, bike lovers, artists and musicians to the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada.

counterculture festival

Which costs £200 a ticket.

I would love to go however, one day.

the life of m

new awesome pluto pics are here!

The Foldscope – a microscope for a dollar

Diagnosis is the frontier of helping to solve diseases threatening the world. But often equipment to do this is bulky, fragile and expensive. 34-year-old Biophysicist Manu Prakash, an assistant at Stanford, decided this was no longer a good and effect way of working and came up with a lightweight, low cost alternative to the larger equipment. The pocket-sized microscope, created from a single sheet of paper with a pair of lenses and an LED. Amazingly this costs around $1.

"Glimpses of Russia's doomed aristocracy - walking tall, before revolution brought them low. This World War I news item features both Tsar Nicholas himself and wartime general Grand Duke Nicholas, his first cousin once removed. Neither, in truth, was the idol of all Russia. The former would later be killed by Bolsheviks, while the latter escaped into exile - fates unknown and unknowable in 1915.

The final shots, assembling Russian military general staff for the camera, are rich with detail: their faces and body language could be watched and analysed over and over again. At the centre of the group, and the cameraman's frame, sits an eerily still, darkly garbed Orthodox priest: somehow a strangely disconcerting presence."

http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-russias-idol-1915/

(Hitler, possibly on Eukodal)

Norman Ohler's latest book, Der Totale Rausch (Total Intoxication), tells the story behind the Nazis' "performance enhancing" drug habits. It turns out that many of those involved in Hitler's party, from the Wehrmacht all the way up to top-tier leadership, were massively into their chemicals.

Read the entire interview

Pluto, up close.

Honestly, I never thought I'd ever see something like this.

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Woman workers inspect a partly inflated barrage balloon. Each part of the balloon must be stamped by the worker who does the particular job, also by the work inspector of the division, and finally by the "G" inspector, who gives final approval.

Honestly, I never thought I'd ever see something like this.

I'm not too impressed by this domestic kitchen sink photography, I've seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.

Looks stunning.

A Belfast bridge won the world record for the largest ever built with ' Meccano ' . Students at Queen's University to achieve this result are committed together with local school children . The bridge, made with ​​the game for building the models and originally established by perforated metal rods , screws , nuts and bolts , is stretching for about 30 meters and was built along the Clarendon Dock. And you can walk on it.

^ A water reflection, not as a good as one of my picture but that now would be a different story.

Anyway:

Unattainable Paradise: Man Has Never Been There Before

Honokohau Falls, Maui. Honokohau Falls plunges in two tiers at 335 meters, making it the tallest waterfall on the island of Maui. A helicopter tour is the only way to enjoy the mesmerising views of the falls.

Sputnik News

^ McD's at the top within 5 years.