Vincent LaForet’s beautiful collection of photos on the nighttime sprawl that is America’s second largest city.
More at AIR: Los Angeles 10K.
(via broadsheet)
Vincent LaForet’s beautiful collection of photos on the nighttime sprawl that is America’s second largest city.
More at AIR: Los Angeles 10K.
(via broadsheet)
The folks over at the UK’s main air traffic service NATS have provided a superb example of the daily complexity and volumes of air traffic across the UK and Europe.
The visualization provides for
a unique view of the holding stacks over London and how they are a fundamental part of the Heathrow operation, providing the constant flow of traffic that makes it the world’s busiest dual runway airport with 1,350 movements a day.
More at NATS blog.
Amazing footage from Joe Capra and his PhaseOne IQ180 camera documenting the colour and beauty of Brazil’s second largest city. Each shot is comprised of hundreds individual 80MB still images.
(h/t boingboing)
The relative scale of the Planets in our Solar System – as shown through fruits!
Graphic by Avi Solomon.
(h/t boingboing)
Earlier this week the Philae probe bounced down to the comet 67P and began sampling its makeup. Unfortunately, it now looks like the probe has gone to sleep after its batteries ran out. While the Philae mission is amazing on its own, the journey of its mothership Rosetta is even more astonishing (as shown by the animation below).
This animation tracks Rosetta’s journey through the Solar System, using gravity slingshots from Earth and Mars to reach its final destination: Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Rosetta made three flybys of Earth, on 4 March 2005, 13 November 2007 and 13 November 2009, and one of Mars, on 25 February 2007. Rosetta has also visited two asteroids, taking extensive close-up images of 2867 Steins on 5 September 2008 and 21 Lutetia on 10 July 2010. Once the spacecraft is woken up from deep space hibernation on 20 January 2014, it will head for rendezvous with the comet in May.
(h/t boingboing)
Created for OpenSkies, by Matel, this unique timelapse explores the comparison and differences between Paris an New York through the lense of transport, infrastructure and national monuments.
Paris / New York from MATEL on Vimeo.
(h/t broadsheet)
A beautiful collection of clips shot by UK photographer Hal Bergman in Paris during January 2014.
Music: “Wreck Beach by Sean Bayntun“.
(h/t broadsheet)
Rob Whitworth’s short film provides a fascinating insight into the sights and sounds of the North Korean Capital, Pyongyang.
(h/t mashable)
Paul Richardson’s majestic time-lapse of Paris – created from over 4000 images – showcases it’s vibrancy and energy, like nothing I’ve seen before. Truly beautiful.
Ian Wood‘s beautiful video of Los Angeles highlighting a variety of buildings and public art works.
(h/t boingboing)