College students stumble on to set of Lost, make themselves at home


Lost fans stumble-upon un-guarded set

What do you do if you’re a huge fan of television’s Lost and happen to stumble-upon an un-guarded film set while on holiday in Hawaii? You make yourself at home naturally! A few college students did just that while enjoying some sun in the vicinity where Lost shoots in Hawaii. While exploring some pristine beaches, they stumbled upon a completely empty Lost set, which appears to give some spoiling insight into some upcoming episodes. The students found tents, a cage (?), racks of Dharma branded food, cans and toilet paper (which I hope they ‘borrowed’), among many other things. Thankfully (?), they documented their trespassing and are sharing the complete photo set on Flickr for us land-locked Lost fans to enjoy.

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August 27th in Flickr, Lost, Photos, Television, Travel | | 32 comments
Beautiful storm chasing photo gallery and documentation


Storm chasing photos

Mike is a professional tornado and storm chased from Nebraska, home to some of the most breathtaking weather disturbances in the country. Originally starting out as an amateur chaser, Mike documented a stunning tornado on his first trip, which undoubtedly caused quite a bit distress. But the seed was planted and after 8 years, many storms and several movies, he’s posted hundreds of stunning weather images from his many chases and quite a few amazing photos of his pets playing in the rain (always good to see an animal lover who chases tornados).

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August 25th in Interesting, Photos, Weather | | 11 comments
Photo tour of Will Self’s writing room


Will Self's workspace in 71 photos

Through his personal site, Author Will Self has providing a stunning 360 degree photo tour of his working space or ‘writing room’, featuring 71 photos taken by photographer Phil Grey. It’s a pretty interesting insight into the professional life of a successful writer and sometimes actor, giving fans an inside look into where all of Self’s work is conceived and produced. I’ve never seen so many Post-It Notes in my whole life, I couldn’t imagine what would happen if a gust of wind or a crazed cat blew through that room.

Read more: Photo tour of Will Self’s writing room | Will Self entry @ Wikipedia

August 24th in Celebrity, Interesting, Photos | | 4 comments
Take a virtual tour of Europe’s megalithic and prehistoric sites


Stonehenge at night

Journalists Diego and Paola have been documenting Europe’s megalithic and prehistoric sites since 1996, during their many holiday travels. During this time they’ve taken thousands of photographs and written many stories on the history behind Europe’s many prehistoric sites, which they’ve combined into a large online travel guide, taking readers on a virtual tour of prehistoric locations throughout Europe. Thousands of images and panoramic 3d images are available on the ‘tours’, as well as travel diaries, maps and local resource links in case you decide to take the plunge and visit one of these beautiful locations in real-life. Today’s a good day to be bored at the office.

Read more: Virtual tours of Europe’s megalithic and prehistoric sites | Cartabianca Books

August 22nd in History, Internet, Photos, Travel | | 4 comments
Bed jumpers of the world share your photos


Bed Jumpers photography

Everyone loves a little bed jumping, especially on those springy uncomfortable hotel beds. Meet the Bed Jumpers, a small, but rapidly growing group of normal folk, who can’t resist getting a little massive air during their travels around the world. The Bed Jumpers have setup a great Flickr photo pool, where their jumps and tumbles are being displayed and shared for all to see and enjoy. Have your own Bed Jumps you’d like to share? Then by all means, join the community and start uploading photos of yourself in nighties destroying hotel property. If you haven’t experienced a massive bed jump, run into your bedroom and go for it, you’ll thank us later.

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August 21st in Internet, Photos, Social | | 3 comments
High-speed photos of small items being destroyed


High-speed photography

You normally wouldn’t expect a golf club to be a normal photographer’s tool lying around the gallery. Unless you happen to be setup for taking high-speed photographs of eggs, fortune cookies, jello, christmas decoration and many other things being destroyed by that wood driver of yours at a few thousand frames per second. Knuttz’s Stuff, another in the long-list of college humor sites, has a 3 page photo collection of strange objects being hit, dropped and shot during various high-speed photo sessions thoughout the past few years. Bah, egg yolks are gross to begin with, but seeing one destroyed at a few thousand FPS looks even worse.

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August 15th in Art, Interesting, Photos | | 7 comments
Gallery of vintage magazine advertisements


Vintage ads

The college humorists over at Eat Liver have started a small, but growing gallery of vintage magazine and street advertisements from the golden-era of advertising. Ahhhh the days of showing kids shaving and people getting healthier from smoking a few packs a day…

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August 12th in Advertising, Art, Photos | | 8 comments
Gallery of odd music instruments with sound samples


Odd musical instruments

Oddmusic.com, a pretty self-explanatory name for a domain, has collected a huge gallery of strange musical instruments, complete with pictures, description and sample sounds of the instrument in-use. The gallery covers just about everything from ancient Greek instruments, such as the Aeolian Wind Harp (from 6 B.C.) to modern-day folk-festival favorites, such as the Dijbass which is an electronic hybrid, combining a stringed bass guitar with a Didgeridoo. There are about a 100 (if not more) instruments covered, so browse the gallery and let the inner-hippie inside of you feast it’s little heart out.

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August 10th in Audio, Music, Photos | | 8 comments
Ekosystem – Graffiti photo sharing network


Japanese graffiti

Graffiti social networking site Ekosystem is a brilliant example of technology furthering an art community. Users from around participate in the photo sharing community by submitting photos of graffiti, stencils and pieces complete with tags, which are then sharable and searchable quickly and easily. Pretty much every major city in the world is covered and as it’s an open community, so you graffiti photographers out there take note and get involved.

Read more: Street graffiti in Japan | Ekosystem

August 8th in Art, Graffiti, Internet, Photos, Social | | 13 comments