Sandstone Pillars, Sahara Desert, Chad, 1999
Photograph by George Steinmetz
Spires of eroded sandstone stand like ancient pillars in the red dunes of Chad’s Karnasai Valley in the central Sahara desert. Fierce winds, punishing sandstorms, and occasional douses of rain are slowly turning these rock formations back into the sand from which they were made.
NGEOPOD
Mayhem
A Lappet-faced Vulture chase White-backed Vultures away from an Impala carcass. (Kruger National Park, South Africa). It was very difficult to get good photos at this sighting due to the amount of dust and the tall grass.
The Lappet-faced Vulture has a powerful beak and other vultures often rely on the Lappet Lappet-faced Vulture to tear open the skin of a carcass. This vulture is between 78 and 115 cm tall and has a wingspan of 3 meters. The Lappet-faced Vulture is endangered in South Africa.
Grizzly Bear
Tags:Cute As Hell Animals, Wallpaper
M51 Hubble Remix
Explanation: The 51st entry in Charles Messier’s famous catalog is perhaps the original spiral nebula – a large galaxy with a well defined spiral structure also cataloged as NGC 5194. Over 60,000 light-years across, M51’s spiral arms and dust lanes clearly sweep in front of its companion galaxy (right), NGC 5195. Image data from the Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys has been reprocessed to produce this alternative portrait of the well-known interacting galaxy pair. The processing has further sharpened details and enhanced color and contrast in otherwise faint areas, bringing out dust lanes and extended streams that cross the small companion, along with features in the surroundings and core of M51 itself. The pair are about 31 million light-years distant. Not far on the sky from the handle of the Big Dipper, they officially lie within the boundaries of the small constellation Canes Venatici.
APOD
The Spider-Man movie that wasn’t
A wishful fake Spider-Man poster from back before Raimi got involved.
Soft skin BMW
The GINA, A car covered in cloth instead of metals. There’s a movie of this at the site I found it on, the car winks at you at the end of the video.
www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1075-bmws-fascinating-gina-light-visionary-model-design-study
Fishing at Sunset
Seeing as how others are posting their stuff, I guess it’s okay to post mine too. Photography is my passion. This was taken at Oak Island, NC.
Dada
“Fountain” by Marcel Duchamp, 1917, photographed by Alfred Stieglitz at his 291 gallery after the 1917 Society of Independent Artists exhibit. Stieglitz used a backdrop of The Warriors by Marsden Hartley to photograph the urinal. The exhibition entry tag can be clearly seen.
I love Wiki.
Washington DC
3. World War II Monument with Lincoln memorial in background
2. Seal at front of WWII monument
1. Lincoln memorial
Igloo at night
Light seeping through the cracks in an igloo. I hope that’s just a badly built igloo.
Jack Daniel’s Sightning
Damn was I surprised to see this beauty in Europe.
Too bad it’s 34 US dollars for the bigger bottle. The same sized vodka bottle is 8 US dollars here.
Capitol bldg circa 1846
A daguerreotype of the United States Capitol in 1846, with the original green copper dome as designed by Charles Bulfinch. Over time, extensions to both the north and south wings, made to accommodate the addition of new states to the Union, made the dome aesthetically displeasing, and as a result, it was replaced by a white cast iron dome which was completed in 1866.
Daguerreotype credit: John Plumbe
WIKI POD
The Lumeneo Smera
It runs on an electric motor that gets 100 kilometers for 7 kilowatts. I’m kind of excited. From lumeneo.fr/welcome.html
Reaper of War
The Grim is tasked to reap the souls of those ready to leave.
This one, is tasked to reap those whose lives were taken by mortal war.
400,000 Black Balls
400,000 black balls dropped to Ivanhoe Reservoir to save people from cancer. Planning to add 3,000,000 more.
From Gizmondo.
Every embryos dream
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Stumble’d this
The Last Starfighter
She won’t answer the helm! We’re locked into the moon’s gravitational pull. What do we do?
We die.
Pregnany Tip
Cutting Loose
Good
Bad
from the people that brought you Safe Baby Handling Tips
now there are Safe Baby Pregnancy Tips
dragon fly
just a say hello to all MSC members from Rotterdam, Holland. Been watching your blog daily now for 6 months and look forward to posting more nice city/nature pics. I live downtown Rotterdam so i have an endless source of nice pics i should think, whenever i have my camera ready off course.
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Betsy
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