Singapore Harbour from Above

A winner of the National Geographic amateur photography competition this year. The caption is: "Well this photo is a perk of being an airline pilot.I got lucky to have captured this while descending into singapore.So many ships parked in a symmetrical way to get into the harbour along the coast."

Source

PEI man has sent nearly 4,000 messages-in a-bottle out to sea over the years; has received 1,000's of letters from around the world

Video at the link. Incredibly touching story.

Aurora Borealis

The Aurora from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.

Terje Sorgjerd took footage of the Aurora Borealis around Kirkenes, Norway, near the Russian border. A week of footage is condensed in this beautiful time-lapse video.

Ant Hill.....nay, Kingdom

"Everything looks like it has been designed by an architect - a single mind. But of course, that isn't true; this colossal and complex city was created by the collective will of the ant colony."

Caracas, Venezula: Squatters living in abandoned sky-scraper

Remember this picture?...

Strolling with Kitties

What bored, fucking absolutely crazy Russian kids do for fun

Paris

Frêrot et Soeurette

Artsy muthafucka!

My room-service dinner courtesy of AXA

I was deeply pleased with my meal

Monet's paintings were so much more beautiful than I could hope to convey on a blog

kthxbai!

D'OUGH!

"This is an Indian dish named 'Parotta'. The man makes it flat and throws it to the cook who will cook it in a hot and flat iron top."

The "stacking room" in an opium factory

These two lithographs by W. S. Sherwill show an opium factory in Patna, India, in about 1850.
This series of prints shows the different stages in the processing of opium at the factory in Patna, the centre of the British East India Company's opium plantations in Bengal. The raw opium was formed into a ball about 3½ lb in weight and wrapped in poppy petals to protect it from damage.
The balls were then dried on shelves and boxed into chests each containing 25-40 balls before shipping to China and Europe.
The top image is the "stacking room" and the bottom image is the "drying room."
One can't help but be in awe of the scale of production depicted.
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Both images come from the "High Society" exhibit in the Wellcome Collection, via Uncertain Times.

When Catching Butterflies is not Child's Play