Bottle recycling

Island get away

Mean streets of Gatlinburg, Tennessee

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My suggestion on the best time to visit Gatlinburg?  3:00AM on a June morning.  Cooler temperatures and no maddening crush of people actually make it rather pleasant.

After a sally of equipment and work in the darkness the morning light revealed that LifeFormations had added an attention grabbing dinosaur to the facade of Ripley's Moving Theater located on the Parkway in beautiful downtown Gatlinburg.

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This train is bound for glory

Iowa State Fair 1938

Early Apple

An Apple 1 prototype from 1976 including a schematic, an operating manual as well as a photo of Wozniak and Jobs will be auctioned at Christie's later this month.

Land speed record attempt

RAF pilot Andy Green and Prime Minister David Cameron look over the British built Bloodhound jet car.  Green will be attempting to better the current world land speed record of 763mph.

Mark Nugent

Mark Nugent is an artist who works in wood and metal.  He achieves astonishing levels of craftsmanship in restoring and creating automobile coachwork.  Read more about him here and see more examples of his work in his gallery..

A cabin in the woods

Cool and cozy.  See more.

Nepal crossing

In 1950 the only way to get your car across this particular stream was to have it carried.

DEREK PAUL BOYLE

High flyer

The first flying car is being offered for sale at $930,000.  It is from the 1940's and was invented by Moulton Taylor.

Creative dog grooming

An entry in a creative dog grooming competition based on Sesame Street.

The mail must go through

These vehicles were used to deliver the mail in the rural west in the thirties and forties.  The last one includes a high exhaust that would have indicated it was used to cross streams.

Color samples

Adding a basement

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The Provo tabernacle is 130 years old.  They are currently adding a dual level basement to it.

VW Beetle

Actually a 1953 VW Beetle formed into a sphere by Ichwan Noor

Save your ass

Self portrait by Nikos Gyftakis

Riding high

Anthony Howe

See additional videos of Anthony Howe's wind powered kinetic sculptures.

Arches National Park

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John Jagger, sculptor

Additional information on John Jagger

Launched

It is looking like a well executed, crowd pleasing, belly smacker

Fixtures

A pain in the back

Filip Dujardin

Filip Dujardin is a Flemish artist who constructs buildings with a camera and a computer.

Beech trees

Northern Ireland

Formula 1

This is a different twist on the filming of Formula 1 racing.  Video artist Marco Brambilla was commissioned by Ferrari to make this video.  Brambilla claimed it to be representation a driver's state of mind during a race.

Village of Gasadalur

The secluded village of Gasadalur located in the Faroe Islands

Anhumas Abyss

Anhumas Abyss is located in Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.  The cave is accessed by a gap in surface rocks.  The floor is reached via a 72 meter vertical rappel which puts a person at the surface of the lake that is contained in the cave.  The lake reaches depths of 80 meters.  When sunlight spills through the gap it illuminates the interior of the cave (as well as the clear lake) and reflects green and blue from the magnesium and limestone in the rocks.

Star Wars set

Ra di Martino visited and photographed a Star Wars set in South-Tunisia.  See additional images.

Temporary residents

The circled area in the upper photo is of a nest that is visible from our lawn.  The telephoto zoom enabled me to get the image of the chicks.  This is the second year that we have had a pair of hawks nesting there.  This is the first time that we have been able to view the chicks.  We have not positively identified the species of hawk, but think it is probably a Red Tail (buteo jamaicensis).

Park Royal Singapore

The Park Royal is a twelve story hotel in Singapore.  It was awarded the BCA Green Mark Platinum which is the highest rating for green buildings in Singapore.  It also won the Solar Pioneer Award for its harnessing of solar power as a renewable energy source for the hotel.  Additional images of the Park Royal are here.

Nest of straw

The goal of Studio 1984 was to design a small building made of almost completely renewable materials.  They called it Nest.  Perhaps they achieved their goal, but questions of fire, insects, and rodents come to mind.  More images.

Gentoo Penguins

A pair of Gentoo penguin chicks; newly hatched in the Antarctic wilderness.

Red eye tree frogs

Red eyed tree frogs are native to Central America

Transportation ideas from the 1920's

While a few propeller driven cars were made they never really got off of the ground.  Additional images.

In living color

Near Buenos Aires, Argentina

Spotted Pals II

View the previous spotted pals here.

D Day June 6, 1944

Counting Puffins

It is time to count puffins.  Every five years the National Trust (UK) rangers conduct a puffin census on the Farne Islands.  The birds return to these islands off the northeast coast of England to breed.  The Farne Islands offer food sources, few ground predators, and good nesting protection.  Despite those good conditions the puffin population is declining.  See more images here.

Keeping a promise

A Missouri Democrat named Valentine Tapley was from Pike County, Missouri.  During Abraham Lincoln's campaign for president he swore that he would never shave again if Abe was elected.

Tapley kept his beard growing from November until the day he died in 1910.  His beard measured twelve feet, six inches.

Copenhagen couple

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Without Warning

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You can't see me .....

Hong Kong housing

Hong Kong has a population density of 16,876 people per square mile.  Obviously personal space is at a minimum.