A Barrel of Laughs, a Valley of Tears.

odditiesoflife: Camping in snow between France and Italy.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:13:43 +1200

odditiesoflife:

Camping in snow between France and Italy.

pleoros: Southern Alps

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:13:04 +1200

pleoros:

Southern Alps

wired: Not much happens in Geraldine, a small farming community...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:12:40 +1200

wired:

Not much happens in Geraldine, a small farming community in the interior of the South Island of New Zealand, about 85 miles from Christchurch. So when Hayden MacKenzie, a fourth-generation farmer there, picked up the phone last Tuesday and got a request to participate in a secret project—one that he wouldn’t even learn about until he signed a vow of silence—he and his wife Anna figured that they’d take a shot. That evening, two men showed up at his cozy farmhouse. They bore a peculiar red device, a sphere slightly bigger than a volleyball perched on a short collar, and attached it to his roof. Then they left.

Only when the men returned the next day did they reveal what they were up to. Inside the red ball was an antenna that would give the MacKenzies Internet access. It was custom-designed to communicate with a similar antenna that would be floating by in the stratosphere, over 60,000 feet above sea level. On a solar-powered balloon.

Oh, and the men work for Google.

[MORE - EXCLUSIVE: How Google Will Use High-Flying Balloons to Deliver Internet to the Hinterlands]

odditiesoflife: The Hanging Coffins of Sagada The people of...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:12:33 +1200

odditiesoflife:

The Hanging Coffins of Sagada

The people of Sagada in the Philippines follow a unique burial ritual. The elderly carve their own coffins out of hollowed logs. If they are too weak or ill, their families prepare their coffins instead. The dead are placed inside their coffins (sometimes breaking their bones in the process of fitting them in), and the coffins are brought to a cave for burial.

Instead of being placed into the ground, the coffins are hung either inside the caves or on the face of the cliffs, near the hanging coffins of their ancestors. The Sagada people have been practicing such burials for over 2,000 years and some of the coffins are well over a century old.

allasianflavours: Fruit boat by daniel.frauchiger

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:12:25 +1200

allasianflavours:

Fruit boat by daniel.frauchiger

seafarers: Morning in Prague by Markus Grunau

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:12:18 +1200

seafarers:

Morning in Prague by Markus Grunau

travelthisworld: Purple Rain - Amsterdam, The Netherlands | by...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:12:09 +1200

travelthisworld:

Purple Rain - Amsterdam, The Netherlands | by Bernd

Kuala Lumpur - Petronas Towers in Clouds by rpmaxwell on Flickr.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:04:22 +1200

Kuala Lumpur - Petronas Towers in Clouds by rpmaxwell on Flickr.

10 de junho - Imagem mostra contraste entre área inundada e...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 05:55:05 +1200

10 de junho - Imagem mostra contraste entre área inundada e piscina com as águas límpidas em Magdeburg, na Alemanha

Foto: Reuters

noahkalina: New Home(20130531)

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 02:57:50 +1200

noahkalina:

New Home
(20130531)

cabinporn: Alpenhut near Obersaxen, Switzerland.

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:00:13 +1200

cabinporn:

Alpenhut near Obersaxen, Switzerland.

travelthisworld: Lake Retba, Senegal | via...

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:59:51 +1200

travelthisworld:

Lake Retba, Senegal | via worldfortravel

thanks to rafa333, for the link!

My other tumblr is a Ferrari (wait, wat?).

Wed, 22 May 2013 06:23:00 +1200

My other tumblr is a Ferrari (wait, wat?).:

http://whereithurts.tumblr.com/

NSFW, by the way.

Hi.

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:17:18 +1200

Hi.

zebandrews: Camera: Innova 6x9 pinholeFilm: Kodak Ektar 100 The...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:59:57 +1200

zebandrews:

Camera: Innova 6x9 pinhole
Film: Kodak Ektar 100

The mildly reclusive Abiqua Falls in Oregon. It was a muddy trip down, but oh-so-worth it.

Find more of me at: www.zebandrews.com
www.flickr.com/photos/zebandrews