Have you ever looked down from the top of the Eiffel Tower? Not far away, as usual. Straight down, really.
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And from the Burj Dubai? (not from the top, I presume)
Category Archives: Travel
Moscow-Vladivostok: virtual journey on Google Maps
The great Trans Siberian Railway, the pride of Russia, goes across two continents, 12 regions and 87 cities.
The joint project of Google and the Russian Railways lets you take a trip along the famous route and see Baikal, Khekhtsirsky range, Barguzin mountains, Yenisei river and many other picturesque places of Russia without leaving your house. Videos are available at very high resolution, until 1080 points.
During the trip, you can enjoy Russian classic literature, brilliant images and fascinating stories about the most attractive sites on the route.
Virtual tours
Google Maps now offers virtual tours of Pompei, Stonehenge and Louis XIV’s Versailles.
The biggest storm of the year
Some beautiful and frightening images of the storm that recently hit the Cornwell
A day in S. Francisco Bay Area
A page by Berkeley University collects several timelapse movies showing the S. Francisco Bay Area from the Lawrence Hall of Science, by the hill.
Each day lasts about 2 minutes in the movie and there are many. The original goal of the project is to help children understand the weather by correlating the view from the Lawrence Hall of Science with weather data and satellite imagery (the project is part of the Lawrence Hall of Science Weather Exhibit and the FOSS Weather CD-ROM), but the movies are really charming. The explosion of the light is beautiful, each day.
Look at
- Yesterday, in mp4 or avi format
- Lunar eclipse in the morning
- A day of great clouds
and many others that you can see at The View (click the Timelapse Movie Archive)
Le 7 meraviglie abbandonate (in Europa)
L’estate si avvicina ed è tempo di cominciare a pensare alle vacanze. Senza andare molto lontano, eccovi 7 meraviglie abbandonate in Europa, dalla Germania, al Belgio, alla Danimarca, all’Inghilterra, a Finlandia, Polonia e infine Francia. Questo è l’articolo che ne parla.
CBGB Online
Per molto tempo il CBGB, il famoso club situato al 315 di Bowery Street, è stato la mecca della scena musicale di NY. È il luogo che ha lanciato gente come i Ramones, Patti Smith, Blondie, e i Talking Heads sulla scena internazionale. E nel 2006 ha chiuso.
Per chi non ha fatto in tempo a vederlo, oggi rivive sotto forma di un virtual tour che parte dal bagno.
Aurora boreale
Astronomy North ha delle stupende foto dell’aurora boreale.
Stand by Me around the world
What happens when you take Ben King’s 1961 hit, Stand By Me, and then travel around the world, having different international artists offer their own interpretations, and finally you stitch them all together in one seamless tune? The clip below starts in California, moves to New Orleans, then heads off to Amsterdam, France, Brazil, Moscow, Venezuala, South Africa and beyond. And I’m willing to bet that you’ll like how it turns out. The clip comes from the documentary, ”Playing For Change: Peace Through Music.”
Via Open Culture
Antartide
Non perdete queste 32 immagini dell’Antartide su boston.com. È il momento giusto per andarci. Sta per iniziare l’estate australe.