Author Archives: Niall Murphy

The impressive work of ‘water-balloon artist’, Edward Horsford from London, who spends most nights out in his back garden with a 1:40,000 high speed camera, popping water balloons with a pin. Hey. It’s a gig.

And yes, the first one does look as though it might have been filled with piss.

Pop art: High-speed photography captures the incredible moments when water balloons explode (Mail Online)

It cost 6d in 1886, and is worth £1000 today.

Families all over the country follow the same annual tradition of getting the artificial Christmas tree out of its box when the time comes to put up the decorations. But the Parker family has been doing it longer than any other because they are still using a tree they first bought in 1886.

Complete with the original baubles and tinsel, their 14 inch tree is in its 124th year and has been authenticated as the world’s oldest imitation Christmas tree.

World’s oldest Christmas tree makes a welcome return… for the 124th year (Mail Online)

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Astrophotographer, Stéphane Guisard captures stunning, deep views of the sky. This time-lapse footage was taken on Sunday (05.12.10) at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.

The yellow beam emanating from the observatory on the right is a laser guide used to factor out atmospheric turbulence. It appears curved because the footage has been recomposed from a flattened out fish-eye view of the entire night sky.

For best results, hit play, then crank the resolution up to 1080 and go full screen.

More details at Discover Magazine