estimfalos:

Baikal Lake, Daniel Korzhonov

asaucerfulofwheels:

1937 Vanderbilt Cup

Bernd Rosemeyer & Auto Union Type C/Winners

likeafieldmouse:

Calvin Seibert - Sand Castles (2006-2011)

farewell-kingdom:

Sandra Cinto created this massive wave mural entirely with silver paint pens and a blue painted backdrop (via).

cat:

Oh yeah btw that’s balcony view #3. The final and most beautiful. having a coffee and letting it sink in.

septagonstudios:

Martin Wittfooth

In recent years, iPods have been largely overshadowed as smartphones and tablets emerged as the mobile tech of choice. But they’ve been massive for Apple, selling more than 350 million units since being introduced in 2001, when they were credited with helping a flailing Apple launch an epic turnaround.

They quietly remain relevant, developers say.

“The iPod Touch is an underappreciated part of the Apple ecosystem — particularly for the youth and education markets,” said Brendan Cahill, CEO of outdoor-lifestyle app NatureShare.

Dave Castelnuovo, the co-creator of popular iOS game “Pocket God,” said Wednesday that more than 50% of the game’s player base uses an iPod Touch.

“A large group of users still use the second-generation iPod Touch, which was holding back our implementation of new features,” he said. “I believe that these users were not upgrading the new hardware because there hasn’t been a substantial iPod Touch iteration until now. With the larger screen, new design and assortment of colors, I think we’re going to see a very large adoption of the new hardware.”

(CNN) — In the shadow of the iPhone 5 reveal, Apple rolled out updates to its most enduring mobile product, the iPod, on Wednesday.

They include a bigger, yet lighter and thinner, iPod Touch that mirrors the stretched-out new iPhone and a bigger screen on the tiny iPod Nano.

The new Touch is 6.1 millimeters thick, making it the thinnest Touch yet, and weighs in at a dainty 3.1 ounces.

Siri, Apple’s voice-activated “digital assistant,” is also making her way to the iPod Touch, and that’s not the only way Apple’s premier iPod, which some already called an iPhone without the phone, is getting closer to its smartphone cousin.

In addition to the same screen update, it will run Apple’s latest operating system, iOS 6. It will have the same processor as the iPhone 4S and it adds a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera, featuring auto-focus and a flash.

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Name Every Hall of Famer
Location Austin, TX

Summer Anne Burton is drawing a picture of every member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. That’s 295 drawings, each studded with annotations, stats, and quotes, in the order they were inducted. Starting last year with Ty Cobb, who was inducted in 1936, today she’s up to 1978 with Eddie Mathews. Summer got the idea after posting drawings of baseball players on her blog. As she told ESPN.com, “I had some old Astros programs that my grandmother found in her garage and gave to me, so I started drawing all these old Astros players I’d never heard of before, and I got really into it. And then it hit me as a fully formed idea: I’m just gonna draw every Hall of Famer.” Summer also enjoys bad TV, good books, and tacos.

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Roads & Kingdoms
Journalism, travel, food, murder, music. First stop: Burma.

Phone Arts
Collaborative project using only mobile phones as the medium to create unique compositions.

Creative Something
If you’re looking for creative inspiration, motivation, ideas, or insight, you’ve come to the right place.

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Do you like fast cars? Do you like turning left? Then you’re in luck. This weekend, we’re going to see how just how bananas the Tumblr community gets when confronted with a real live sporting event, in real live time, in reality. We’re talking of course about the Indianapolis 500, a.k.a. the…

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It’s time to officially welcome Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese to Tumblr’s roster of supported languages!

This now makes Tumblr accessible in a total of 11 different languages. To celebrate in Brazil, we’ll be holding official Tumblr meetups/events in Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo. And in Portugal, we’re teaming up with Vice in Lisbon to celebrate the Portuguese launches. Join us!

To turn on these new localized interfaces on Tumblr, head over to your Preferences page to switch your language settings. And be sure to follow Tumblr’s official Portuguese and Brazilian Staff Blogs, too.

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Name The Dark Side of the Force
Location Valencia, Venezuela
First Post March 2009

Jonathan is a 23-year-old systems engineer from Venezuela, with interests in physics, astronomy, and aerospace engineering. Jonathan’s obsession, he readily admits, is with the cosmos. His thousands of posts about space, astronomy, astrophysics, and space exploration (and particle physics, quantum mechanics, and cosmology) seem to prove his point. To help aid in the navigation of all this material, he built a special page on his blog which breaks down posts by galaxies, nebulas, black holes, exoplanets, telescopes, every planet in our solar system, the Kuiper belt, and even more. (He might also post something Star Wars related from time to time, too.)

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Archie McPhee’s Endless Geyser of AWESOME!
The good people at Archie McPhee have devoted their lives to finding, creating, and sharing awesome.

Microlawns
A showcase of some of the smallest grass lawns anywhere.

B&H Photo Video Pro Audio
The world’s largest photography retailer blogs about fun photography projects, tips, and reblogs of other awesome photography content around the Tumblrsphere.

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Name Carsten Höller: Experience
Location New Museum, New York
Info Exhibition runs through January 15, 2012

Over the past twenty years, Carsten Höller has created a world that is equal parts laboratory and test site, exploring such themes as childhood, love, the future, and doubt. Höller left his early career as a scientist in 1993 to devote himself exclusively to art making, and his work is often reminiscent of research experiments. His pieces are designed to explore the limits of human sensorial perception and logic through carefully controlled participatory experiences.

(Photo by Jeff Ferzoco from this post.)

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Performa Magazine
Performa Magazine presents articles, interviews, and behind the scenes information about Performa 11 artists and projects.

MASS MoCA
Behind-the-scenes at the largest center for contemporary visual and performing arts in the USA.

The D.C. Docent
A docent blogs about arts in the District of Columbia.

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Tumblr in 3D! (with Firefox’s new HTML Inspector)

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What do those numbers add up to? Mobile updates. We have a bunch coming over the next few weeks.

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