Surfing Photography by Stuart Gibson

Underwater Surfer by Stuart Gibson

Surfer in Barrel by Stuart Gibson

Sunset and Surfer by Stuart Gibson

Underwater Surf Board by Stuart Gibson

Wave underwater with surfer by Stuart Gibson

Huge wave, surfer on top by Stuart Gibson

Pho­tos taken in Tas­ma­nia and Aus­tralia by Stu­art Gib­son. See more of his work at Stugibson.net (via The Blog of Yoland).

2010 World Press Photo Winners


by Pietro Masturzo, Italy

2010 World Press Photo Winners

2010 World Press Photo Winners

2010 World Press Photo Winners

Lance Armstrong by Elizabeth Kreutz, USA.

Untitled by Jérôme Bonnet, France, for Libération.

by Nick Cobbing, United Kingdom, for Greenpeace International.

Mexico Drug War by Guillermo Arias, Mexico, The Associated Press.

Mohammed Salem, Palestinian Territories, Reuters.

See more at: Win­ners gallery 2010 — World Press Photo.


Lost: Unanswered Questions


Con­tinue read­ing ‘Lost: Unan­swered Questions’

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics

Hockey Wallpaper

After seven plus years of plan­ning, the Olympics have finally arrived in Van­cou­ver. The open­ing cer­e­mony is tomor­row and excite­ment is in the air. For many Cana­di­ans, even if we take every medal pos­si­ble, the games won’t really sat­isfy unless we win gold in hockey. Go Canada!

Merry Christmas!

Santa Claus holding a coffee.A&P, Cof­fee, Santa Claus” by George East­man House

World’s Tallest Tower to be 5250 Feet High

Mile High Tower

It would cost 5 bil­lion dol­lars and stand twice as tall as its near­est rival.

Sure, the Burj Dubai tower looks amaz­ingly tall, but it’s final height— cur­rently pro­jected to be 2,300 feet— is less than half that of a new build­ing planned for Saudi Ara­bia. It’s going to be 5,250 feet high. Yup, that’s just 30 feet short of a mile tall: taller than any­thing under con­struc­tion any­where, and mak­ing it eas­ily the world’s tallest build­ing. Think they should stick a TV antenna on the top and go for that extra 30 feet? I sure do.

It’s going to be built in a new city near Jed­dah on the Red Sea and is funded by bil­lion­aire Prince al-Walid bin Talal. He bought London’s Savoy hotel for a cool $2.5 bil­lion in 2005. So you can sus­pect that there’ll be a hotel in the build­ing some­where. By my cal­cu­la­tions, the tower will have some­where between 320 and 350 floors, so per­haps that should be “sev­eral hotels”.

Not much is known about the details yet, other than the fact that it’ll have two sup­port­ing flying-buttress tow­ers to help keep it up (both more than 800 feet high). It will also have advanced damp­ing sys­tems to stop the sway­ing at high floors from mak­ing peo­ple sick, and it’s going to need amaz­ing engi­neer­ing to cope with freez­ing wind at the top and desert heat at the bottom.

It’s so tall that much of the fer­ry­ing of mate­r­ial and con­struc­tion work­ers will have to be by heli­copter. And that’s just cool.

Mile High: 5250-Foot Tower Will Make Burj Dubai Look Like Pencil

Color Photography in the Early 1900’s

Isfandiyar, Khan of the Russian

Melon vendor, Samarkand

Cotton textile mill interior with machines producing cotton thread, probably in Tashkent
Con­tinue read­ing ‘Color Pho­tog­ra­phy in the Early 1900’s’

Slow-mo Dread Flip

Con­tinue read­ing ‘Slow-mo Dread Flip’

Papercraft Self Portrait

Face and Bathrobe

Wearing the Face 4

Wearing the Face 5

Wearing the Face 6

Con­tinue read­ing ‘Paper­craft Self Portrait’

Pictures of the Year International 2009

Running from Gas

Thirst

Untouchables of Asia

Kenyan policemen open fire at demonstrators

Mongolian Horse Races

Lost

We Made a Promise - Never Again

See more at: Pic­tures of the Year Inter­na­tional 2009 Win­ners Gallery

via LOOK: Pic­tures of the Year | GOOD