A good policy on all wingsuit jumps is to never crash into anything. A secondary policy to follow would be if you do crash into something, make sure it’s soft and not Rio de Janeiro’s 125-foot tall Christ the Redeemer statue. Jesus Christ may be forgiving but his statue made of 635 metric tons of reinforced concrete and soapstone is not.
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Like the remains of a long lost human civilization, this formidable structure in the remote plains of El Gouna, Egypt extends over one million square feet in the Sahara Desert. It’s so big that you can see it from space—like some sort of stargate ready for an alien invasion.
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Reddit user Shystone has put together some really impressive mashups of classical paintings and Google Street View snapshots of London. They show how much and how little the city has changed in the last few hundred of years.
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Oh wow. This awesome image by Matthew Short for Lockheed Martin’s Code One Magazine—spotted by David Cenciotti—is now my new phone background. Here’s the full photo, for your downloading pleasure:
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This is something you don’t see every day: Two fighter jets landing simultaneously in perfect synchronization on the same runway.
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I’d like to have whatever these ice crystals are having because damn it’s quite the trip. The video of these ice crystals melting was taken by Shawn Knol using cross-polarized light which I’m going to assume is some code word for really powerful drugs and not actually some super slick microscope.
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Time doesn’t stop for anybody. Seasons keep rolling one after the other. Weather could care less if you’re cold or hot or just right. And life eventually ends. This new stop motion music video directed by Toby and Pete for Chet Faker’s Talk Is Cheap examines all that in 3 minutes. It’s mesmerizing to see a year’s life wither down in such little time. Enjoy it.
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DefenseTech has a good summary of a recent 60 Minutes segment on the F-35, America’s most expensive combat airplane yet. The Pentagon talks about how it uses "Star Wars-level technology." The pilots, however, aren’t so enthusiastic.
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Adobe asked artist Alex Trochut to recreate the company’s logo "using the technique of his choice." This is the impressive result, which I love because of its use of color and the fact that he didn’t use digital software to create these perfect bubbles.
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Josh Cooley has a good sense of humor which is probably what led him to start drawing R-rated scenes from famous movies in the style of a children’s book. Alien, Fight Club, The Godfather, Jaws—they’re all there. And they’re for sale.
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