The Big Picture is Boston.com's new site showing news events using large images.
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note: There are links to more photos below each picture on the main page. I would expect this site to be update one or more times per month.
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Amazing, Awesome and Inspiring Things!
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maizeydaze
MemberPosted 16 years ago # -
Not exactly a juggler, nor acrobat, contortionist or illusionist, this young man redefines agility .. take a look at Holding A Ball
Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
MemberLarry Carlson is a visionary multi media artist. Working with computers he creates artwork that is completely mind blowing. G4Tech TV called him 'The Salvador Dali of the Next Century.' Working in the mediums of web art, digital art,animation, video art, collage and sound he presents us with the mystical dimensions of consciousness,coaxing us into sweet spiritualized epiphanies one moment then plunging us into completely bizarre surreal frenzies the next.
Posted 16 years ago # -
copmom
MemberFirst picture from NASA of water on Mars! Outstanding!
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0504/WaterOnMars2_gcc.jpgPosted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
MemberLichtfaktor Lichtfaktor creates amazing pictures and animations with light. Also known as Light Graffiti or Lightwriting.
Lightmark, like Lichtfaktor, creates stunning pictures with light!
Posted 16 years ago # -
funkymom
Memberthe Churaumi Aquarium, in Okinawa is the world's s second largesst aquarium. it is home to 4 whale sharks, the world's largest living fish species.
check the video
Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
MemberFireStorm; uncovers the fascinating world of altered time to the viewer, allowing a unique look at nature's fury. Shot with 3 cameras over a period of 28 hours during September 28-29th 2005. Firestorm shows a a unique look at the Simi Valley fire which consumed 25,000 acres. Look for Mars, Orion & the Moon rising in the distance...
Posted 16 years ago # -
copmom
MemberWasn't sure where to post this... I could be the last person online who has not heard about this. But, on the off chance there are some others who have not heard about it, here it is.
There is no single place to list EVERYTHING on the net. However, someone sent me this website that has SOMETHING for just about everything. On one website, you can click on over 400+ different sites... all arranged by categories for easy perusal. Mark this one in your favorites if nothing else.
Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
MemberPhotographer Carl Warner captures all forms of food in a series of still life's with edible ingredients he raided from his kitchen cupboards to design a series of dreamy landscapes and homey domestic scenes.
Carl Warner’s Food Landscapes or Foodscapes
(select, the orange square, "Fotografics")Carl Warner's 79 images or you can browse the images here.
Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
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maizeydaze
MemberA young lady, filmed in Germany, doing amazing stunts on a bicycle. Fascinating!
Posted 16 years ago # -
copmom
MemberThought the following was inspiring:
HEROISM COMES FROM THE HEART
Bob Butler lost his legs in a 1965 land mine explosion in Vietnam. He
returned home a war hero. Twenty years later, he proved once again that
heroism comes from the heart.Butler was working in his garage in a small town in Arizona on a hot
summer day when he heard a woman's screams coming from a nearby house.
He began rolling his wheelchair toward the house but the dense shrubbery
wouldn't allow him access to the back door. So he got out of his chair
and started to crawl through the dirt and bushes."I had to get there," he said. "It didn't matter how much it hurt."
When Butler arrived at the pool there was a three-year-old girl named
Stephanie Hanes lying at the bottom. She had been born without arms and
had fallen in the water and couldn't swim. Her mother stood over her
baby screaming frantically. Butler dove to the bottom of the pool and
brought little Stephanie up to the deck. Her face was blue, she had no
pulse and was not breathing.Butler immediately went to work performing CPR to revive her while
Stephanie's mother telephoned the fire department. She was told the
paramedics were already out on a call.Helplessly, she sobbed and hugged Butler's shoulder.
As Butler continued with his CPR, he calmly reassured her. Don't
worry, he said. "I was her arms to get out of the pool. It'll be okay. I
am now her lungs. Together we can make it."Seconds later the little girl coughed, regained consciousness, and
began to cry.As they hugged and rejoiced together the mother asked Butler how he
knew it would be okay. "The truth is I didn't know," he told her. "But
when my legs were blown off in the war, I was all alone in a field. No
one was there to help except a little Vietnamese girl. As she struggled
to drag me into her village, she whispered in broken English, 'It okay.
You can live. I be your legs. Together we make it.'" Her kind words
brought hope to my soul and I wanted to do the same for Stephanie.There are simply those times when we cannot stand alone. There are
those times when we need someone to be our legs, our arms, our friend.
Author UnknownPosted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
MemberBiologist rescues drowning, tranquilized bear
A Florida Fish and Wildlife biologist pulled off a daring rescue on Saturday in the Panhandle: He rescued a bear with his bare hands."I wasn't sure what I was going to do when I jumped in"...(read the whole story.)
Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
MemberOur Wonderful Nature - The mating habits of the shrew, like you've never seen before. (Not what you may think.)
A truly amazing animation by Tomer Eshed, an animation student in Germany. You will be very impressed with this one. I was! :)
OR you can watch it from here to see a full screen view. Just click the magnifying glass icon on the player.
http://de.sevenload.com/videos/uq8nm36-Our-Wonderful-NaturePosted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
Member"Indeed, beautiful black and white photography doesn’t attract with its play of colors. Here close attention to composition, lighting, perspective and the context it is shot in are important. Hence, before considering the photos presented below please prepare some patience and time. This post presents some truly excellent examples of beautiful black-and-white photography."
Posted 16 years ago # -
A short and contemplative introduction to ZEN
let your mouse find the clicks in each picture; and don't forget to ring the bell
have fun:
http://www.do-not-zzz.com/
http://www.do-not-zzz.com/zero/swf/top.htmlPosted 16 years ago # -
An ongoing animated photo-story in up to date 4 episodes:
Take a lot of time and relax.http://www.inanimatealice.com/
graylox
Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
MemberThe Last Supper In 16 Billion Pixels is the highest definition photograph ever in the world. You can enlarge and observe any portion of the painting, giving you a clear view of sections down to as little as one millimeter square.
Posted 16 years ago # -
maizeydaze
MemberI've already posted The Big Pictures link above, but now I'm posting some links to some amazing new content. The pages are updated frequently.;)
Posted 16 years ago # -
RunesageMagik
MemberReviving Maizey's thread with a real time suck. Granted, it won't qualify as awesome or inspiring, but it's an online thumb twiddler that doesn't seem to fit under the other forum categories - animal, vegetable or mineral.
Johnny Appleseed just stumbled across a site called WORDLE that turns any text you enter, or the word content from any blog, blog feed, or any other web page that has an Atom or RSS feed into "art"... or at least a colorful word cloud.
If that's not enough wordplay, your next stop should probably be WORDIE, where you create your own word cloud(s) and see if your vocabulary is truly unique or surprisingly common amongst logophiles.
Posted 15 years ago # -
An Amazing Talent: Susan Boyle
Did you see this performance and did you hear this voice?Susan Boyle Singer Britains Got Talent 2009 With Lyrics
I never watch these programs on TV, but if there is a chance, to see such a talent every 10th show - I will persevere in future.I dreamed a dream in time gone by When hope was high And life worth living I dreamed that love would never die I dreamed that God would be forgiving. Then I was young and unafraid And dreams were made and used And wasted There was no ransom to be paid No song unsung No wine untasted. But the tigers come at night With their voices soft as thunder As they tear your hope apart As they turn your dream to shame. And still I dream he'll come to me That we will live the years together But there are dreams that cannot be And there are storms We cannot weather...
I hope that Susan Boyle's dream will come true.
grayloxPosted 15 years ago #
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