I’m watching Sigur Rós’ Heima right now — a documentary film about their free 2006 Iceland tour. It is a great DVD for everybody who likes Sigur Rós or Iceland.
Last year, in the endless magic hour of the Icelandic summer, Sigur Rós played a series of concerts around their homeland. Combining both the biggest and [...]
Finally I’ve found the time to upload about 50 of more than 400 photos of our trip to Iceland this summer.
tags: 2007, Iceland, photos, trip, vacation
That’s what I was wondering when I heard about the exploding steam pipe in NYC today. Transportation of heat, granted — but during summer?
Luckily those pesky interwebs have the answer to this question: Why the heck does New York have steam pipes, anyway?
tags: explosion, New York, NYC, steam pipe
Retrofuturo — or IL FUTURO VISTO DAL PASSATO as Fabio Feminò puts it — is a 35 page series of mostly pictures and magazine covers from the past (up to 80 years old) showing how the people living then thought our world would look like today.
It includes classics like flying cars, enormous cities, moon bases, [...]
Take a look at this wonderful collection of photos from 1929 taken in Germany. The atmosphere is very quiet and peaceful. It looks like a place you wouldn’t deny holidays from the city life at — if there wasn’t the problem of the almost 80 years passed since then.
All pictures are taken from a book [...]
Simon Dale built a truly amazing Low Impact Woodland Home for his family which is dug into the hillside. The building process took nearly 1500 man hours and cost only £3000. The main tools used are a chainsaw, a hammer and a one inch chisel.
The used materials are mainly natural and the house has a [...]
I’ve finally created my own geolocation application I wanted to have for a long time. It is a web application to show the geographical location of your current IP address on a map. An elegant solution is possible using Google Maps and MaxMind’s free GeoLite City database.
You can either visit GeoMapLookup to do a lookup [...]
Read Article »As some kind of a followup to my last post this one is about photos of abandoned forts at sea from the time of the second World War.
The Thames Estuary Army Forts were constructed in 1942 [...]
Their purpose was to provide anti-aircraft fire within the Thames Estuary area. Each fort consisted of a group of [...]
On this Japanese site you’ll find pictures of a hugh sewer. Sadly I can’t read Japanese but I guess it’s in one of the largest cities in Japan.
Those pictures are quite amazing and remind me of an atmosphere created if you combined Blade Runner and THX 1138 with some orwellian pictures.
But it’s not a [...]
Es gibt immer wieder Perlen im Internet zu entdecken: Bilder, wie sie sonst nur in Dokumentationen im Fernsehen zu finde sind. Bei Flickr postet Raul Gutierrez seine Fotos, aber auch direkt in seinem Photo Blog gibt es die Bilder (in groß) aus Mexico, Texas, China, Kambodscha und Orten, von denen ich noch nie zuvor gehört [...]
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