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Optical Illusion of the Day: An aerial photo of an expanding-contracting toll road creates a real-life-Inception-esque illusion.
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Optical Illusion of the Day: An aerial photo of an expanding-contracting toll road creates a real-life-Inception-esque illusion.
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Siriusly twinkling
If you live nearly anywhere on Earth and look to the southeast shortly after sunset, you’ll see the figure of Orion. Follow the three belt stars to the east, and you’ll see a bright star: Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky. If it’s near the horizon, you may see it twinkling madly: flickering, dancing, perhaps even changing color.
This gave astronomer David Lynch an idea: take a time exposure of Sirius with a camera and telephoto, and purposely wiggle the mount. He tried it on January 4, 2012, and the result is the picture shown above.
As the vibrating camera caused the star to trail around, the changing colors got recorded along the track. The changing brightness of Sirius can be seen as well, as parts of the loop-de-loop fade and intensify.
The reason stars twinkle is because of our atmosphere: little blobs of air are constantly in motion. These air parcels act like lenses, and as light passes through them, the path of the ray gets bent a little bit. That’s what causes the dancing motion, the actual twinkling.
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A worker checks in a special room where the Parma hams are hung to dry in Langhirano near Parma. Prosciutto di Parma can only be produced in a very restricted area of 29 sq km (11.2 sq mile) around the town of Parma in the region of Emilia Romagna, just north of Tuscany. Around 10 million hams are sold every year, of which about 2 million are exported, mainly to France, the United States and Germany, which each consume about 400,000 a year. (REUTERS, file photo from 2009)
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Official Lyrics to “Indianapolis Jones”
Dun da-dun dun, dun da-dunnnnnn
Dun da-dun dun! Dun da-DUN DUN DUN!
Dun da-dun dun! Dun da-DUNNNNNN!
Dun da-da dun!
da-da dun!
da-da dun!
da-daaa dun da-dun!
(*Repeat until he’s done whipping people)
Done.
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Model railway bar :D
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Terry Gilliam shows some animation fun
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Three-dimensional works by Daniel Arsham
I like how the presence and use of texture creates a visually surreal quality to the works.
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O.O LOVE!!!
(Source: -ultraviolence, via e-myself-and-pi)
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(Source: thedailyblock, via lazcraft)
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Stuart Williams - Luminous Earth Grid (1993)
1,680 fluorescent lamps over 10 acres
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A drop of sugar syrup falls into a pool of methylated spirits, producing a Worthington jet and several ejected droplets. Although surface tension holds the jet in a smooth shape, the refractive index of the spirits reveals the turbulent mixing within the jet. (Photo credit: Rebecca Ing)
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