Lichtwriting with Lichtfaktor

People call it lightwriting, it’s a technique where light tricks are performed while a picture is taken using a camera with long exposure. Althought this has been done so many times in ad campaigns and TV commercials, you can’t deny that these type of effects look great.

The guys from Lichtfaktor do nothing but. Check their video after the jump, showing off their creations in sync with an Aphex Twin song.

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1906 San Francisco earthquake

I just spent half an hour looking at this very fascinating picture that got picked up by the ‘blogosphere’ on the wikimedia server.
It’s a hundred year old high resolution picture of San Fransisco taken right after the great 1906 earthquake(flickr). Apparently the gigantic camera was elevated 2000 ft.(610m) up by a number of kites.

I’ve always wondered, I live in Belgium where the streets are crooked and the traffic’s a mess, but don’t people get lost in this grid like city where every block looks almost identical to the one next to it… And not to mention the numbered streets.

The bus stop

Digg user ninjab3ar commented

That bus stop is one bad mutha… *shut yo mouth!!!* ….but im just talkin’ bout’ bus stops……

Dance of death drawings from 1900

These are a century old drawings by Louis Crucius, a pharmacist and part time artist, which some were later aquired by The Antikamnia Chemical Company for a marketing campaign.

After beginning his working life as a printer’s apprentice, Louis Crucius (or Crusius) completed the necessary requirements to graduate as a pharmacist in 1882 and a doctor in 1890 in St Louis, Missouri. While he was studying he worked in a pharmacy and made humorous sketches that were placed in the window of the store. A collection of these drawings was published in 1893 (‘Funny Bones’). He lectured in histology and anatomy and eventually came to be a Professor of Anatomy but died in 1898 from kidney tumours.

Aint that a scary Hillary Clinton pic

The guys at Somthing Awful made lil’ photoshop contest out of it:
What the hell is Hillary looking at!?

My favorites: Osama, Scream.

Beavis mugshot

I guess Beavis never recovered after Butthead got shot and Mtv took their show off the air.

Hiroshima, the pictures they didnt want us to see

Here are a series of pictures with description of the suffering after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I must warn you for our sensitive readers, these are some very disturbing pictures.

I’m not approving the bombings or anything, but I want you to see why the Americans decided to kill so many in advance. I mean NOTHING justifies killing thousands of innocent people.

These are pictures of the Nanking Massacre in 1937, where the Japanese killed and raped thousands in a very cruel manner.

Aren’t we blessed to live in this western society where we feed the hungry and help the lesser fortunate?

Gunkanjima

“Gunkanjima is an island built upon a reef in the early 19th century because of a coal mine in the reefs and quickly became a densely populated island 1 km in diameter and 5300 people living packed together, working the mines.”

Wouldn’t wanna be there when night falls, looks pretty scary, nice pictures though.

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Manhattan in the near future?

This is what will happen if we don’t listen to Al Gore and his presentation of the global warming issue, An Inconvenient Truth.
Also check out the whole slideshow, there are some great pictures in there like The rising Dubai skyline.
Now don’t mind me while I go burn some more fossil fuels..