Another aerial extravaganza by photographer Vincent LaForet – the results of a helicopter flight 2.2km above the city over two nights (Jan 22 and Feb 19, 2015).
He’s coming to Europe this Summer, apparently.
Full resolution set here.
Previously: Sin City (LaForet’s night flight over Las Vegas)
The pageantry this afternoon at Cork Hill and Dame Street, Dublin 2.
(PIx: Oisín Kane)
Celebrated historical photographs painstakingly recreated as miniature dioramas by Swiss photographers Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger. What started as a joke in 2012 has since evolved into an ongoing project.
MORE: History’s most iconic Photos recreated in Miniature (Wired)
An aerial drone tour of Hang Son Doong in Vietnam – the world’s largest cave, discovered in 1991 – created by caver and travel photographer Ryan Deboodt.
The largest chamber is 5 km long, 200m high and 150m wide but you get a much better grasp of the scale of the place when the drone occasionally flies over some teeny, tiny humans.
An extraordinary picture of a shooting star reflected in the waters of Loch Ness in the Scottish highlands last night by The Hebridean Explorer.
(H/T: Pixie Boots)
Meanwhile, in other defiant news…
Knitzer writes:
Defiant Tricolour, Neukölln, Berlin
An old anatomy model at TCD, photographed – on the verge of being dumped, having provided years of service to med students – by Anthony Edwards (Senior Clinical Photographer at St. James’s Hospital Dublin) – one of the finalists in this year’s Wellcome Image Awards.
The winner will be chosen on Wednesday.
G’wan the Tony.
MORE: The art of science – Wellcome Images 2015 (BBC News)
(Thanks John Gallen)
Customers line up at the first McDonald’s hamburger stand at San Bernardino, California in 1948.
Eh, how far they’ve come.
Frasier v Ali, Madison Square Garden, March 8, 1971
Oh, my. Ali-Frazier, which even then was more a cultural touchstone than a boxing match, would probably paralyze us if it were held today, leveraging its various themes of race and politics on our social networking fulcrums. America would have to close for business to properly attend to this frenzy. Ashton Kutcher has 6.3 million Twitter followers? Ali would crash the Internet with his feeds (@smokinJoe is so ugly he should donate his face to @BureauofWildlife. #gonnawhupya).
Richard Hoffer, SI
Digital disruptions from a series called Distortion (2010 -2014) by German artist Ralf Brueck.
