[Stinky12]

By Scott Wade, who takes a car and drives on a dirt road to get it as dirty as possble (usually take a week or so), then "paints" on the
rear windscreen as if it was a canvas.

[oysterbarron]

Thats a very nice planet you have there!

[JOSEPH X]

[gta3kuruma]

[Fnorg]

This is the reason I have white tennis shoes. Steve McQueen is so f*cking cool.

[goin-god]

[Adler]

Featured image on Wiki today (Click for full size):

Signal Hill

QUOTE (Wikipedia)

A panoramic view of Signal Hill in 1923, a small city in Southern California. On June 21, 1921, oil was discovered in Signal Hill, part of the Long Beach Oil Field, and the city was soon covered with over 100 oil derricks (seen here). Because of its prickly appearance at a distance, it gained the nickname "Porcupine Hill". Today, many of the oil wells and nodding donkey oil pumps are gone, although some remain. Signal Hill is now a mix of residential and commercial areas.

[goin-god]

"The Hubble Space Telescope shows a rare view of a pair of overlapping galaxies, called NGC 3314. The two galaxies look as if they are colliding, but they are actually separated by tens of millions of light-years, or about ten times the distance between our Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. The chance alignment of the two galaxies, as seen from Earth, gives a unique look at the silhouetted spiral arms in the closer face-on spiral, NGC 3314A."

[sonnyBlack]

I always loved this kind of art.




Whoa.

[Sup3rman]

Heres something surreal. This Titanic model, which is 60ft long, was used in Jim Camerons "Titanic". It was only half the ship, used to simulate the break up of the ship. Thats why you can see the third funnel tilted in the background.


E: Heres one pic more.


This post has been edited by Sup3rman on Monday, Jun 25 2012, 21:19

[Adler]

Astronomy Picture of the Day
A Sundial that Shows Solstice

[ddyoung]

[blitz]

[OnePiece]

QUOTE (Adler @ Thursday, Jun 21 2012, 10:34)

Featured image on Wiki today (Click for full size): Signal Hill QUOTE (Wikipedia) A panoramic view of Signal Hill in 1923, a small city in Southern California. On June 21, 1921, oil was discovered in Signal Hill, part of the Long Beach Oil Field, and the city was soon covered with over 100 oil derricks (seen here). Because of its prickly appearance at a distance, it gained the nickname "Porcupine Hill". Today, many of the oil wells and nodding donkey oil pumps are gone, although some remain. Signal Hill is now a mix of residential and commercial areas.

I got bored and found that exact spot in google earth, crazy how much has changed but some of those houses are still there

[Stinky12]

Wild Fire at Colorado Springs, Air Force's Falcon Stadium at center bottom
Credit: Patrick Sandusky

[AlexGTAGamer]

Matchstick Hogwarts by Patrick "The Matchmaker" Acton.

602,000 matchsticks in total in that model, and I was even lucky enough to see this amazing piece of work in The House of Katmandu in Mallorca.

This guy has done many amazing pieces:
http://www.matchstickmarvels.com/models.html

He's even planning on making a matchstick model of the New World Trade Center.

And another matchstick creation:


A North Sea oil rig platform model entitled "Catherdrals of the Sea" by David Reynolds. With a total of 4.075 million matchsticks in total, it is a current Guinness World Record holder.

[Adler]

QUOTE (OnePiece @ Wednesday, Jun 27 2012, 02:51)

QUOTE (Adler @ Thursday, Jun 21 2012, 10:34) Featured image on Wiki today (Click for full size): Signal Hill QUOTE (Wikipedia) A panoramic view of Signal Hill in 1923, a small city in Southern California. On June 21, 1921, oil was discovered in Signal Hill, part of the Long Beach Oil Field, and the city was soon covered with over 100 oil derricks (seen here). Because of its prickly appearance at a distance, it gained the nickname "Porcupine Hill". Today, many of the oil wells and nodding donkey oil pumps are gone, although some remain. Signal Hill is now a mix of residential and commercial areas. I got bored and found that exact spot in google earth, crazy how much has changed but some of those houses are still there

Heh I hadn't thought of that before. I looked a little more into the history of Signal Hill (by which I mean I followed some links on Wikipedia) and found some more pictures on it. This is the extent of the oil field shown on a map of Long Beach:



And here's the oil field today:



The only thing I can recognize that's the same in the 1923 photo and the 2011 one is the actual hill (which is on the left in the recent photo).

[RARusk]

QUOTE (Stinky12 @ Wednesday, Jun 27 2012, 22:35)

Wild Fire at Colorado Springs, Air Force's Falcon Stadium at center bottom Credit: Patrick Sandusky

I spent many years in Colorado Springs (although I haven't been back there since I left in '96) and used to attend football games at Falcon Stadium. Seeing that picture is absolutely stunning and sad.

[OnePiece]

QUOTE (Adler @ Thursday, Jun 28 2012, 10:03)

The only thing I can recognize that's the same in the 1923 photo and the 2011 one is the actual hill (which is on the left in the recent photo).

The picture is taken looking east from the corner or e burnett st and california ave. The big railway trench is still there but its not for trains anymore.

[Adler]

QUOTE (OnePiece @ Wednesday, Jun 27 2012, 21:38)

QUOTE (Adler @ Thursday, Jun 28 2012, 10:03) The only thing I can recognize that's the same in the 1923 photo and the 2011 one is the actual hill (which is on the left in the recent photo). The picture is taken looking east from the corner or e burnett st and california ave. The big railway trench is still there but its not for trains anymore.

You certainly know your way around the place. Have you been there before or did you somehow manage to learn this from just Google Earth? I'm not familiar with the place so all I can recognize with my untrained eye is the topography.