Sometimes the world tends to look much better from afar. In fact the world kind of looks like art when you’re thousands of miles away. It’s as if certain bodies of water, fields of grass, or deserts being pounded by wind are the canvas in which God paints on. OK, enough with the religious talk.
Every year satellite pics are selected by DigitalGlobe from this year’s archive images on three different satellites. The public is invited to vote for the best images via Facebook and the winner is announced in January of 2013.
Check out some of the best nominees after the jump…..
Lightning illuminates the area they strike on Earth but their flash can be seen from space too. This timelapse was made from 49 images taken 400 km above Earth in 2012 by an astronaut on…
Unless you’re lucky enough to get abducted by aliens, you won’t visit another planet in your lifetime. That’s probably just as well. If a 24-hour flight to Australia makes people squirm, imagine a trip to Mars….
Normally we’re not that big on music here but we certainly dabble in the celebrity world quite a bit. And perhaps there hasn’t been a celebrity in the last 100 years who has stood the test…
Oh god. I don’t like this. I don’t like this at all. It’s a piece of furniture that hasn’t been photoshopped in any way. Rather, it was specifically carved to give the impression of the a distorted…
Russian artist Ivan Belikov has created this series of cool/disturbing animal, fowl and insect representations of various social networks. Most of the big ones are here from Tumblr to Twitter, but there are also a…
by Remy Carreiro Though it is an old adverb with roots dating back to the 1300’s, there is truth to the adage: all good things must come to an end. It is with a heavy…
