nobody laughing, everyone on drugs, but nice architecture.

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found #6

Laxey Wheel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laxey_Wheel
http://www.geschichte.uni-osnabrueck.de/fach/wiso/main.htm 

it looks early eastern roman empire. 

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castel_del_Monte 

The time is here. The place is now. The journey, every episode of the twilight zone ever.

http://www.yourtvlinks.com/the-twilight-zone.html 

hmm.. think I've missed that one until now and yet it was sitting next to Hagia Sophia all the time! With both of those next to each other it seems like a really fantastic place to visit. 

http://www.deadmalls.com/malls/landover_mall/Former%20Hechts.jpg

http://www.deadmalls.com/malls/dixie_square_mall/pics/Dcp_0987.jpg

You might have to dig through a lot of text to find them, but this site http://www.deadmalls.com/ has a ton of pictures of dead/dying/demolished shopping malls along with their backstories. 

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmc83_twilight-zone-its-a-good-life

You may notice it was redone for the Twilight Zone feature film (by Joe Dante, no less), but not nearly as good. 

Turkey looks cold.

http://www.nuribilgeceylan.com/turkeycinemascope1.php?sid=1

And human. 

I've spent a lot of time in Istanbul and travelled throughout Turkey but I never captured it quite like this: wonderful photography and outstanding presentation. 

http://archibase.net/archinews/14101.html
Gukanjima is an island near the westernmost shore of Japan.

It 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. 

Someone posted about Gunkanjima a while back, this site has more photos I think:
http://www14.big.or.jp/~kawamura/m-city/english_photo_gallery.html
Great place, wish I could visit it. 

http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2006/12/yearinphotos_portfolio200612?slide=13
http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2006/12/yearinphotos_portfolio200612?slide=12 

GODDAMNIT 3000euros per print

sigh. So much for being able to appreciate something nice in my own home. 

This is what the doom3 engine would do to a nice house:

http://dusky.sk/halbot/?id=2996 

At least it's shiny. 

Dunno if this has been linked before, but I found it in the latest Rue Morgue mag -- wicked stuff:

http://www.uer.ca/locations/show.asp?locid=21151 

that reminds me of my first day with worldcraft.

http://halbot.haluze.sk/images/2007-01/2996_galeria_ludvik.JPG 

well almost. 

http://www.richardrogers.co.uk/render.aspx?siteID=1&navIDs=1,4
Some great stuff, some boring. 

Here's a nice gallery:
http://www.pesc04.org/bilder/images/25_06_2004_Friday_Technical_Tours/Technical_Tour5_Opencast_Mining/Opencast_Hambach/

And here's a giant panorama one:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Bagger-garzweiler.jpg 

A really cool looking power plant:
http://www.pesc04.org/bilder/images/25_06_2004_Friday_Technical_Tours/Technical_Tour5_Opencast_Mining/PowerPlant_Niederaussem

Some train thing:
http://www.pesc04.org/bilder/images/25_06_2004_Friday_Technical_Tours/Technical_Tour3_Future_Railway_Technology/ 

http://www.yongfook.com/2006/09/01/hong-kong-gotham/ 

This appears to be one giant crane being dismantled by other giant cranes: http://www.varvshistoria.se/kranens-webbsida/bilder.htm

And then at the end, they put it on a big boat, like these:
http://static.iftk.com.br/mt/2007/02/giant_cargo_ships.html 

I like how pieces of the Kockums crane are delivered by the Fagioli trucks. 

the big boat in that first series IS pictured a few times in the second one - you can see the name Mighty Servant 3 on both.