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Aircraft landing fields on top of buildings. Spiral Escalators going 4 levels underground. Self-reliant building communities with schools and businesses intermixed with housing. Multiple levels of transportation streets. An exceptionally organized view of the future. All part of an architect’s vision of the future city in 25 years – back then! Published in Popular Science magazine monthly issue of August 1925 and entitled”How you may live and travel in the city of 1950″. If only it ended up that way back then, makes you wonder what went wrong in the middle?!
Here’s a new video from an artist who manages to always push the art of time-lapse in new directions, Keith Loutit. Made using tilt-shift technology, he displays Singapore “The Lion City” like never before. The render technique is amazingly fresh, using a blur-focus wave on various depth to give each static scene a dynamic vibe. (music signed “Sepia Productions”).
Egypt-based photographer, director and editor Abd El Rahman Gabr, of Koree Films, has teamed up with photographer Mohamed Chehimi to create this heart-warming time-lapse video of Alexandria, Egypt‘s 2nd largest city. The amount of skill and effort put into the motion picture is astounding, framing and colors are perfectly intact to make you feel the vibe of a seaside city that blends tradition and culture . The gear used is a Canon EOS 7d, lenses: Ef 70-200 mm 2.8, Ef 50 mm 1.4, and Sigma 10-20 mm.
Space shuttle Endeavour has said its goodbyes and have reached its final destination at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, California. The shuttle was mounted atop a customized NASA’s 747 Bowing Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, for a cross-country ferry mission and returning to its place of birth, California. It landed at Los Angeles International Airport at 12:51 p.m. PDT Friday. The scenery of people gathering at natural observatories from all around the US, to say goodbye and get a glimpse of the flying giant is just legendary. Endeavour was NASA’s fifth and final space shuttle to be built. Construction began on September 28, 1987 and…
Yulia Brodskaya is a Russian artist living in England. she possesses an extraordinary talent of painting complex illustrations using only paper, various colors of paper cut, shaped, wrapped, and stuck together to form very detailed portraits. Her work has hit sky high and turned her into a popular go-to artist today by many advertisers around the world.
In a new open space in front of Université du Québec à Montréal’s Science Faculty, Canadian design collective Daily Tous Les Jours has just completed their project 21 Balançoires (21 Swings), an installation of swings turned into enormous musical instruments that also light up from below. The designers, known for their wide variety of interactive public installations and experiences, managed to focus primarily on public engagement and interest. Every set of 3 or 4 swings, when moved, pre-recorded sounds from a xylophone, piano, and other instruments are programmed to play various notes, giving the public a challenge to synchronize their swinging for more complex tunes and musical solos…
To kick-off this post without any misunderstandings, the following cities within the countdown are not hated for being the worst cities in the world – as a mater of fact, a couple of them are ranked as the most livable - it’s because they’re the most bugging and annoying cities to visitors according to a survey underwent by CNNgo. These cities prompt plenty of critical conversation, meant in the most positive light. In other words, this post can be named “10 cities travelers most love to hate”, so here’s the countdown: 10. Belize City, Belize (Belize City, Belize - image source) A diving and…
Japan is known for being the hardest working nation on earth. A fact that appeared clearly in many historical situations, the latest of which was the 2011 tsunami and earthquake that hit the Japanese islands, a catastrophe that was considered the toughest to hit the country. Yet, the Japanese people dedicated two extra unpaid hours of work daily to their nation to help boost the recovery process. All the respect to the people of Japan. The unpleasant side of people working too much is exhaustion, and from the looks of the following photos, these folks are overly exhausted with work to the…
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The secret of mastering a skill or craft is never talent or innate genius alone, it’s always practice and hard work that gets you to the place your ambitions dream about. Here’s an interesting infographic developed by NowSourcing.com and presented by Zintro, it explains that having years (and thousands of hours) of dedicated focus and practice within a specific niche is obviously highly valuable and allows a person to have a unique, proprietary perspective on that niche and a highly valuable experience. But how many hours is “enough” to achieve expertise status? One take on the subject was Malcolm Gladwell’s in the book Outliers…
Corruption is the plague of living being, a disease that every society suffers from to a certain extent and may affect an individual directly or indirectly. It is defined as the impairment of integrity, virtue, or moral principle; in one way or another a person or a corporation either benefits through unfair means from a certain advantage or is hindered due rights, resulting in social and economical oppression, some leading to nations collapsing. Transparency international – a coalition against global corruption – has populated their annual list of corruption index for 182 countries world wide. The index draws on assessments and opinion…
