Sweet Daft Punk mask!

Sweet Daft Punk mask!

dearscience: by Ivo Vaessen

dearscience:

by Ivo Vaessen

“The King has “instructed” that Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s fast-growing capital city, build its new six-line Metro system in just four years. To compare: it took New York’s MTA four years to renovate one station.” (via Here’s What a Metro Station in Saudi Arabia Looks Like - Henry Grabar - The Atlantic Cities)

“The King has “instructed” that Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s fast-growing capital city, build its new six-line Metro system in just four years. To compare: it took New York’s MTA four years to renovate one station.”

(via Here’s What a Metro Station in Saudi Arabia Looks Like - Henry Grabar - The Atlantic Cities)

theatlanticcities.com

aquaticwonder: Chicago Lights

aquaticwonder:

Chicago Lights

aquaticwonder

flight001: Non-Stop Daily Travel GIF / May 1, 2013 May means Non-stop travel! Our month long event destined to make you stop not traveling ✈   SEE ALL TRAVEL GIFS Enjoying the travel GIF-making going on over at Flight 001.

flight001:

May means Non-stop travel! Our month long event destined to make you stop not traveling ✈
 

Enjoying the travel GIF-making going on over at Flight 001.

atlasobscura:

An anachronism in its own time, the Red Hook Elevator was finished in 1922 and almost immediately dubbed the “Magnificent Mistake.” Most grain warehouses in Brooklyn were built in the late 1800s, averaging four stories high and 200 feet long. In this time before inland rails, when the grain shipping trade was still booming. The Red Hook Grain Elevator, in comparison, is a useless monster of a structure, 12 stories high and 430 feet long. It was built seven years after the last grain terminal in Brooklyn was converted into a storage warehouse, leading the Engineering News-Record magazine to dub it an “expensive luxury.” The terminal had been built to invigorate New York State’s Canal System, but Governor Nathan L. Miller’s opening day remarks already hinted at the improbability of this plan: “Even if the barge canal were never used in normal times, it is a good thing to have it in case of emergencies.”

Venture Inside the Red Hook Grain Elevator, A Failure of Industrial Design

colchrishadfield:

With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here’s Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World.

Huge thanks in the making of the video to the talented trio of Emm Gryner, Joe Corcoran and Andrew Tidby, plus Evan Hadfield and all at the CSA.

Astronaut Chris Hadfield singing Bowie’s Space Oddity (FROM SPACE). Officially the coolest astronaut ever.

derekg:

one world trade center - dropping the spire in place. wow.

Simply awesome.

vintage3d: Hopi tribe members in front of Walpi Village, Arizona. Date unknown. Walpi is one of the oldest continuously inhabited villages in the United States - it has been occupied for over 1100 years. The village sits atop an isolated sandstone mesa that rises 300 feet above the surrounding desert. It’s only entrance is the path seen here. There’s no way to explain Vintage 3D GIF’s, other than to go look at it

vintage3d:

Hopi tribe members in front of Walpi Village, Arizona. Date unknown. Walpi is one of the oldest continuously inhabited villages in the United States - it has been occupied for over 1100 years. The village sits atop an isolated sandstone mesa that rises 300 feet above the surrounding desert. It’s only entrance is the path seen here.

There’s no way to explain Vintage 3D GIF’s, other than to go look at it

explore-blog: Centuries before the ubiquitous Starbucks logo, we had these coffee-house keepers’ tokens of the 17th century, from a history of how coffee changed the world. 

explore-blog:

Centuries before the ubiquitous Starbucks logo, we had these coffee-house keepers’ tokens of the 17th century, from a history of how coffee changed the world.