The Astronaut Photo Show

February 25th, 2010 § 0

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station 220 miles from earth were given hand-held cameras and decided to use them.

Fire across Simpson DesertThe remnants of a fire that moved across the Simpson Desert in Australia

Solar eclipse from spaceA total solar eclipse from space with the moons shadow across Turkey, northern Cyprus and the Mediterranean Sea.

Nukuoro Atoll in the Caroline Islands northeast of Papua New Guinea- Home to 42 patches of vegetation and about 900 humans.

London, UK

On the left, a 1995 photo showing the progressive clearing of tropical rainforest in eastern Boliva. On the right, a photo taken in 2008 of the same region.

The early stages of the Sarychev Volcano eruption in the Kuril Islands northeast of Japan.

What do you get when oxygen and nitrogen atoms are bombarded by charges solar particles? some crazy beautiful shit.

-thanks to the photo masters working at NASA Johonson Space Center

The Kumaritashvili’s

February 18th, 2010 § 0


Shakh Aivazov / AP

David Kumaritashvili, father of Nodar Kumaritashvili, the Georgian luger killed in a practice run at the Olympics, mourns at his home in Bakuriani, Georgia. He is sitting below a giant photo of his son. The coach and uncle of Kumaritashvili said Thursday that his death has saved the lives of other athletes. -msnbc.com


Perspective

February 7th, 2010 § 0

A good visualization on how different people can have different points of view on the same subject. This is a creation by done by Andrew Bouve on what it would look like if the master directors Quentin Taratino, David Lynch, Wes Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard & Werner Herzog got to direct the Super Bowl.

The Triple Eclipse

January 22nd, 2010 § 0

Jupiter EclipsesThe planet Jupiter has at least 63 moons so a triple eclipse was inevitable. Moons shadows shown: Ganymede-left, Io-center left and Callisto-top right. -nasa photo

Welcome to the Tea Room

January 10th, 2010 § 0

virtual yogi tea room