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[dragonlife]

This is from a set of photos taken with an infrared filter.

Wow, it looks beautiful.

Thanks.

D:

 

[Kinyou]

Was that taken with a telescope or something? Venus always looks like a very bright "star" on the night sky, but actually seeing the planet like that??

You can actually see it like some star on the blue sky without a telescope. Weather needs to be perfectly clear though and I think the closer you are to the equator the better.

Also the cool thing is that you actually can only see it when you know where to look on the sky. There's some special spot in our eyes that's particularly sensitive to light, so only when you get the Venus into that specific spot you'll see it. It's quite funny because you could perfectly swear that there's absolutely nothing in the sky and then *bam* all of the sudden there it is, and you'll be wondering how it can be that you didn't see it.

You can see Venus transit across the Sun on June 6th. With something to block the light, like with any other time you would look at the Sun of course. It'll probably be the last time you can see in your lifetime.

Oh nice, maybe I still have some of those solar eclipse glasses lying around.

 

[DJ88]

holy shit. i gotta see that. but that pic above us confusing to me. looks all melancholia and shit. a giant planet ready to slam into us. how was that taken and what is really going on in the pic.

I don't think the large object is Venus. I think it's a telescope image so the moon is huge and you can just make out the curve of Venus behind it.

 

[RoyalFool]

Thanks.

Had to do a double-take, as this is my current wallpaper...

 

[GunslingerVit]

Do you have a higher resolution of these pictures?

So the "girl above hole" picture is shopped, huh?

 

[Kinyou]

Sometimes Bing has some really cool wallpapers.

 

[MrBig]

Do you have a higher resolution of these pictures?

So the "girl above hole" picture is shopped, huh?

Yeah, the water plane with the hole is probably from a dam, and the girl on the bridge is from the posted picture.

 

[Harry Potter]

 

[bengraven]

I want to buy all the contributors on the last two pages some NeoGAF Gold memberships.

 

[PhoenixSFT]

 

[Papercuts]

 

[Avixph]

 

[wolfmat]

Brazzers

 

[_Isaac]

The first thing I thought of was La Roux.

 

[Kinyou]

that is such a weird pic

source

 

[Tha Robbertster]

Heh, I've been when I was about 10 years old. The tour guide got mad at me and my brother because we were trowing rocks in the water from a higher point at that location.

 

[Spawnling]

Needs more Instagram.

 

[MrBig]

 

[starchild excalibur]

that is such a weird pic

source

Basically an extreme version of the "zolly" effect that you sometimes see in films. Zoom out as you dolly the camera in (or the opposite). I'd like to see it in slower-mo.

 

[BaronLundi]

Yup, first thing that .gif made me think of was this shot from the Goodfellas.

 

[UncleBiz]

pixel gifs

Wow, these are absolutely stunning. Do you know who made these?

 

[Kinyou]

Basically an extreme version of the "zolly" effect that you sometimes see in films. Zoom out as you dolly the camera in (or the opposite). I'd like to see it in slower-mo.

Here, I used gimp to increase the pauses between every frame

 

[Window]

Yup, first thing that .gif made me think of was this shot from the Goodfellas.

Man how I wish there were some more Michael Ballhaus interviews in english on youtube.

 

[PalaceBrother]

These are all great. They remind me of an old point and click game....something Kyrandia maybe?

 

[Xun]

I distinctly remember how fucking hot that boat was to walk on.

Basically an extreme version of the "zolly" effect that you sometimes see in films. Zoom out as you dolly the camera in (or the opposite). I'd like to see it in slower-mo.

Yeah.

I do find it quite overdone in films, but that particular .gif is impressive.

 

[:Motorbass]

These are all great. They remind me of an old point and click game....something Kyrandia maybe?

Here are many many more.

http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/

"Canvas Cycle: True 8-bit Color Cycling with HTML5"

 

[dreamcastmaster]

Seems to be Chongqing in China.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcf_pics/page2227/

Good find.

 

[tubster68]

 

[Lirlond]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3huxwZPzc1qg51mgo1_500.gif[IMG][/QUOTE]

Thats not how momentum works...

 

[starchild excalibur]

wut.

 

[HomerSimpson-Man]

WTF?

No. Just, no.

 

[magawolaz]

lol, no way

 

[Majine]

That's from a Freddie Wong video. So it's edited.

 

[lunchtoast]

That's awesome, but I wouldn't ride if it was real.

 

[DarkKyo]

Pretty sure if it were real you'd need 100% perfect conditions, weight, etc for it to actually snap onto the other track in the perfect position.

 

[JetBlackPanda]

what is this? is that a ship that has been beached?

 

[Majine]

Pretty sure if it were real you'd need 100% perfect conditions, weight, etc for it to actually snap onto the other track in the perfect position.

No way that would be approved anyways.

 

[B_Rik_Schitthaus]

Reminds me of Porco Rosso.

 

[DarkKyo]

No way that would be approved anyways.

Well yeah, I kinda meant that it's just impossible.

 

[reakt]

Hey, I recognize that. It's in downtown Vancouver, a stairway leading from street level down to a university campus (and small skating rink). They had it painted with a mural for the Olympics, it was pretty nice. Then they removed that, and it's back to plain 'ol concrete. Speaking as someone who doesn't use a wheelchair, it feels a lot safer than it looks in that picture.

I wish I lived where some of these other pictures are from, though! Good gravy!

That should be a level on Tony Hawk's.

 

[Kinyou]

.

 

[cacophony]

did some of you seriously think that roller coaster was real? lol

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

Link, please. =)

Sorry, didn't see until now, but better late than never

720x480

 

[ThaneKrios]

 

[FillerB]

This isn't exactly on-topic (given that's it's a video) and REALLY deserves it's own topic but alas I can't make one yet.

Japanese dude builds working Transformer (source: Hack-A-Day).

 

[PalaceBrother]

This isn't exactly on-topic (given that's it's a video) and REALLY deserves it's own topic but alas I can't make one yet.

Japanese dude builds working Transformer (source: Hack-A-Day).

This is much cooler than I was expecting. Thanks for posting it.

 

[Insane Metal]

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BBC, "Planet Earth", for those wondering.

 

[Melchiah]

Sorry, didn't see until now, but better late than never

720x480

Thanks.

 

[Violet_0]

http://twistedsifter.com/2011/01/astonishing-underwater-sculptures-by-jason-decaires-taylor-30-pics/

 

[PalaceBrother]

Beautiful.

Spoiler

don't blink etc. etc.