Archive for the ‘Humans’

14 December, 2014

Amsterdam by night

A great timelapse of Amsterdam by night, with amazing shots of the Amsterdam Light Festival.

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29 October, 2013

Adventure Is Calling

Photographer Shane Black and two of his friends quit their jobs this past summer to spend two months traveling around the country (and teach photography workshops). It was a trip filled with endless hours cooped up in a van, exploring breathtaking landscapes, sharing stories and laughs, meeting some of the nicest people, making new friends, […]

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17 September, 2013

Costa Concordia resurrected

It took nineteen hours, about seven hours longer than intended, but since early this morning, the Costa Concordia is resurrected to it’s original position. This was accomplished by using a complex system of steel cables, pulleys and counterweights. A short three-minute timelapse shows the progress of the operation:

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13 September, 2013

Flipping the Costa Condordia

Begin January 2012, the Costa Concordia cruise ship capsizes and sinks off the Tuscan island of Giglio. At least 30 people are killed. Next week the ship could be upright again, nearly two years after the liner. The giant vessel, which has lain partly submerged in shallow waters, will be rolled off the seabed and […]

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12 February, 2013

Curious about Curiosity

Curious about Curiosity

NASA’s Curiosity is currently investigating the Gale Crater on Mars. Last weekend the Mars rover pierced for the first time a hole in a rock called John Klein. Now it is possible to look over the shoulders of Curiosity on to his workplace. Mars Panorama – Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 177 in New Mexico The […]

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