Matt Lehrer

minusmanhattan: Burj Khalifa looking down at Dubai by Samar Jodha

via zsultan

I could stare at this for hours.

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felixsalmon:

(via Incredible Views From The New World Trade Center)

Wow.

What else can you say?

“If you thought slow-mo videos of watermelons being exploded by bullets and chubby, jowled faces recoiling from slaps was as good as it gets, think again: MIT Media Lab has created a camera-and-laser rig that’s capable of capturing one trillion exposures per second; fast enough to visualize the speed of light and to see the effect of photons as they collide with surfaces.”

MIT slows down light with trillion-frames-per-second video camera

newsflick:

Don’t Shoot: A Mediterranean mantis is captured in astonishing detail by photographer Hasan Baglar. (CNA)

Unbelievable.

(by Noah Kalina)

Scale. Maybe not exhibit A but up there.

A pyrotechnic crew installs fireworks atop Seattle’s Space Needle on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010, in preparation for the New Year’s firework show. (AP Photo/Seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo)

A pyrotechnic crew installs fireworks atop Seattle’s Space Needle on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010, in preparation for the New Year’s firework show. (AP Photo/Seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo)