Pictures Of Carnival 2013 at The Sambadrome In Rio
(Source: modernizing)
LED mushroom lights from Yukio Takano, of The Great Mushrooming
John Wayne Cookie Jar, Kim Dingle, 1995
A mountain gorilla (Africa - BBC)
Aakash Nihalani is back again, this time with some simple and clever math equations.
QR Codes Embedded into Sidewalk to provide tourist information.
Rio De Janeiro has embedded QR codes into their sidewalks to help tourists learn more about the city and more easily get to where they are going. The codes have been embedded into the city’s traditional mosaic sidewalks in the form of black and white tiles. When the tiles are scanned with a smartphone, a local map and information is provided to the user in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. Brazil plans to embed roughly 30 QR codes at beaches, vistas and various historic sites around the city, helping Rio’s two million foreign visitors each year get around.
Photographer Klaus Pichler gives us a behind the scenes look into the Museum of Natural History in Vienna. His series is appropriately entitled ‘Skeletons in the Closet’
From the Department of Awesome Natural Wonders comes this impressive geological formation - an enormous rock perfectly balanced atop a smooth mound. Located deep inside the forests of Finland, the balancing rock is called Kummakivi:
“There is still no scientific explanation for how the rock, whose given name translates as ‘strange rock’ in Finnish, has wound up in such a perplexing position.”
However it happened, it’s a pretty awesome sight. But we don’t recommend standing under it for too long.
[via My Modern Metropolis]
(via maique)
David Clifford, 4See/Redux (via Chinguetti Mosque, Mauritania - Travel 365 — National Geographic)