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Chain sculptures by Seo Young Deok

February 25, 2012

Chain sculptures by Seo Young Deok

Seo Young Deok artist from South Korean with one of his sculptures, made from bicycle chains. He used more than a mile of old bicycle chains to create this human head. He spent a whole year welding together the sculpture.

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Galactic Storm

February 24, 2012

Milky Way across the desert sky and a distant monsoon thunderstorm

The photo above showing the Milky Way stretching across the desert sky and a distant monsoon thunderstorm on the horizon was captured just outside of Dead Horse Point State Park in Utah. Photographer:  Bret Webstersite of Bret

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Crossbow all weather motorbike

February 24, 2012

Crossbow all weather motorbike

The Crossbow is an extreme all weather electric motorbike by Phil Pauley, that doesn’t require the rider to wear a helmet.

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Black Hole’s high-speed wind

February 24, 2012

Black Hole IGR J17091 high-speed wind

This artist’s impression shows a binary system containing a stellar-mass black hole called IGR J17091-3624, or IGR J17091 for short. The strong gravity of the black hole, on the left, is pulling gas away from a companion star on the right. This gas forms a disk of hot gas around the black hole, and the wind is driven off this disk.

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Colorful container residence in Brazil

February 24, 2012

Colorful container residence by Marcio Kogan in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Shipping containers have become integrated into design, over the past few years, with different projects. Now we have this container residence by Marcio Kogan in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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Snow Circles

February 24, 2012

Snow Circles by artist Sonja Hinrichsen

This massive snow drawing was created step by step, trampled into freshly fallen snow, by artist Sonja Hinrichsen with the help of five volunteers, last month at Rabbit Ears Pass in Colorado.

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Fantastic Fractal Art

February 24, 2012

Fantastic Fractal Art by Drazen Jerkovic

Fantastic fractal art series by Croatian artist Drazen Jerkovic.

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Ferrari hydroplane Arno XI racing boat for sale (updated)

February 24, 2012

Ferrari hydroplane Arno XI racing boat for sale

The 1953 ARNO XI Hydroplane that was once the holder of the water speed record, will be offered for sale at an auction in May. The racing boat powered by a V12 Ferrari engine, is expected to fetch up to £1.26million.

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Everest seen from Tingri

February 23, 2012

Everest seen from Tingri village on the Tibetan plateau

Mt. Everest, the mother of the earth, seen from Tingri a small village on the Tibetan plateau at around 4050m above sea level. Driving from Kathmandu to Lhasa, Day 2.  Photographer Joe Hastings

Keck Telescopes in motion

February 23, 2012

Keck Observatory operates two ten-meter telescopes atop the summit of Mauna Kea Hawai’i. Keeping those telescopes on-sky every night is the summit crew of the Operations Department. This video is dedicated to the guys of the Keck daycrew who make it possible.

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