Photo Of The Day

Bit of 'bed hair' there

Except for the horrible living conditions, crime, corruption, poverty and disease.
Yeah, shame.

Cheer up, look at it from an architectural point of view

I look at that and immediately want to start reading some near future, dystopian, cyber punk sci-fi novels.

I still think it's a bloody shame that that was demolished.

Word.
Move the people out, keep the city for prosperity.

Sure, it's a fascinating architectural phenomenon, one that very well illustrates the effects of poor/non-existent urban planning.
But I find it difficult to see how its demolition can be seen as a "a bloody shame".

Keep the city for prosperity.

It was replaced by a park. Hardly sold off to build big skycrapers for giant corporations, which could very easily have been done by the HK government for massive profit given the ludicrously expensive land value anywhere in HK.

Ruining good photos thread with fruitless debate

Surely the debate generated is one of the things that makes the photo good.

No. I disagree and debate that debate is good and refuse to take part in it.

But I stand by my point. A mini-enclave with minimal municipal involvement, population density 3x higher than HK city, unregulated construction, no official refuse collection, no regulated water, and no police presence probably needs to be addressed. Demolition was the right answer in this case.

Should have used it for a Top Gear special

Ha, of course I'm aware that it was a horrible slum. Of course something needed to be done about it. I just dispute that knocking it down was the answer. There is a richness in organically- (read: historically, gradually, constantly, in small steps and amendments) grown structures like this that no kind of planned architecture can replace. It's obviously an academic point in relation to Kowloon now, but there are many other places around the world where it's still a very pressing question, e.g. even in old Kashgar, where demolition has been proceeding apace.

http://ogleearth.com/2010/09/the-last-days-of-old-kashgar/

"Surely the debate generated is one of the things that makes the photo good."

Do you mean like art, including photography, generating fruit for thought and influencing the way we think, human development and the continuos cultural evolution of modern civilisation?

Ftfy!

Meme thread >>>

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/09/this-insect-has-the-only-mechanical-gears-ever-found-in-nature/

Pea from gifs thread

How they prove how a London double-decker bus won’t tip over by using an apparatus in London to measure how much you can tilt a double-decker bus before it falls over, April 8, 1933.

..haha, nice !

That's radular. Are buses still tested in this way or is this an example of good ol' fashioned common sense that's been lost over the years?

Shirley that won't work if it's full of people on the top deck?

The 'classic' will-a-bus-tip-over test was done with sacks of cement in all the top deck seats and none on the lower deck.

loads more, great stories here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/arnade/with/9314580440/

that guy had a piece in the guardian the other day, used to be a wall street banker.

Not exactly a photo but I didn't know where else to put it. Map showing racial segregation of Detroit (Green dots are Black, Blue dots are White)

More here

Full map of America here

Epic Fail?

that guy (...) used to be a wall street banker.

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Red Bull Cliff Diving, Abereiddy, Wales.

Me and the bros used to swim across and jump from the walls....nothing like this though!

http://image.redbull.com/rbx00398/0001/0/1400/1200/434/gallery/images/dt_130914_rbcduk_rose_6695.jpg

http://www.redbullcliffdiving.com/en_GB/gallery/saturdays-finals-photos

neat..