Showing posts with label Heights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Heights. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Why so crazy, Russian teenagers?

Wearing a head-mounted camera and carrying at least one more, a Russian teen and three friends scale the 377-foot high Moscow Bridge in Kiev. In-sane.


...These folks are a lot of things, but they're certainly not chicken Kiev (*chuckle*)

Workers adjust antenna at top of Empire State Building

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Sky Cowboys

I've always really loved this picture of workers having a wee lunch break in the skeleton of a skyscraper being built in the 1930's.

Today, the New York Times has a very cool, very beautiful short video that incorporates photos and interviews with steelworkers at the new World Trade Centre site. There is also a beautiful slideshow. Here's a sampler, but it's worth going to read the commentary on each photo...