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The Most Beautiful National Parks As Seen From Space

Wired has a gorgeous piece this morning that combines the best of space porn and national park porn. It has 20 breathtaking images and I highly recommend clicking over and checking it out. Here’s a tiny taste.

18 May 2011

Cameras

This Is Not A Painting

What you’re looking at isn’t a painting. It’s not a Photoshop job or an artist’s rendering. It’s a photograph, taken by National Geographic‘s Frans Lanting, that captures the camel thorn trees of Namib-Naukluft Park at the most perfect moment imaginable.

10 December 2010

A Rooftop Park In The Middle Of New York

Aside from Manhattan’s sprawling Central Park, it’s not always easy to find some pleasant green space – which is what makes Lincoln Center’s new rooftop lawn such a terrific idea. A grassy hill in a busy urban center – the perfect compromise.

23 August 2010

Yellowstone’s Most Dangerous Threat: Idiots Armed With The Latest Gadgets

July was an alarming, record-setting month for injuries at the Yellowstone National Park. it’s not the park that’s getting more dangerous, however—it’s the technology that ignorant, inexperienced visitors are bringing in with them that’s to blame:

21 September 2009

Bay Area Architects Seek To Re-purpose Bay Bridge As Recreational

The Bay Bridge is falling down, falling down, so that a bigger, better bridge—one not prone to falling down during an earthquake—can be erected in its place. If two architects get their way however, it might become this.

11 May 2009

What Lies In The Shadow Of The Statue? Dubai, Of Course!

OK. Sorry for the geeked out LOST reference. Couldn’t help it. But seriously, Dubai is planning to build this huge, talking statue for the Zaabeel Park. And I think there’s a discotheque in the head.

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