Geologists have discovered a vast new landscape that rose above the north Atlantic waves 56 million years ago.
Friday 15 July 2011
Lost Landscape Discovered off Scottish Coast
Geologists have discovered a vast new landscape that rose above the north Atlantic waves 56 million years ago.
Tuesday 12 July 2011
Crack The Surface
A series of documentaries following Urban Explorers.
Crack The Surface - Episode I from SilentUK on Vimeo.
Monday 11 July 2011
Krakatoa - The Day The World Exploded
Current reading:
"The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa."
Book summary and author's note via
Covering a volcanic event in extraordinary detail, this book touches on all things geographic; from plate tectonics and volcanic eruptions to the then location of undersea communication cables and the social geography of the world at the time.
"The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa."
Book summary and author's note via
Covering a volcanic event in extraordinary detail, this book touches on all things geographic; from plate tectonics and volcanic eruptions to the then location of undersea communication cables and the social geography of the world at the time.
Sunday 10 July 2011
Friday 8 July 2011
Good Maps, Bad Maps
The conflict in Sudan has resulted in many maps of the region attempting to clarify the complexities of the problems being faced there.
Here's one of oil consortiums：
Firstly, after going through all the trouble of assigning colours to the different areas the mapmaker has neglected to use them in the key, forcing the user to rely on on numbers to differentiate data in the legend.
Also, the inset map showing Sudan's location on the African continent could have been placed in an area a bit further from the part of the map in the bottom-right that is already laden with so much information.
The scale could have, in my opinion, been placed horizonally along the bottom of the map to free up some space.
And how bout a North arrow?
This one looks like it was thrown together in 2 minutes to meet a deadline using the Paint program.
Again, no North arrow.
Here's one showing the country's major tourist attractions and the route for the walking tour. Where's the zoo?
Apparently only four colours existed in the world when this map was made:
Why do the oil pipelines have to be the same colour as the Petronas section of the pie chart? Does Petronas control the pipeline?
Here's one of oil consortiums：
Firstly, after going through all the trouble of assigning colours to the different areas the mapmaker has neglected to use them in the key, forcing the user to rely on on numbers to differentiate data in the legend.
Also, the inset map showing Sudan's location on the African continent could have been placed in an area a bit further from the part of the map in the bottom-right that is already laden with so much information.
The scale could have, in my opinion, been placed horizonally along the bottom of the map to free up some space.
And how bout a North arrow?
This one looks like it was thrown together in 2 minutes to meet a deadline using the Paint program.
Again, no North arrow.
Here's one showing the country's major tourist attractions and the route for the walking tour. Where's the zoo?
Apparently only four colours existed in the world when this map was made:
Why do the oil pipelines have to be the same colour as the Petronas section of the pie chart? Does Petronas control the pipeline?
Friday 1 July 2011
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
The third trailer features a heavy dubstep soundtrack, featuring "Machine Gun Remix" by Noisia.
Here's Noisia's original video for "Machine Gun Remix".
The Transformers 3 sound production team went to great lengths to find original sounds for the movie..
Michael Bay has even sent a letter to projectionists with advice on how to avoid a repeat of the dark picture associated with the previous transformers movies as a result of the 3D technology.
The basejumping scene was filmed in downtown Chicago, with actual basejumpers leaping from the Sears Tower in Downtown Chicago.
During production Michael Bay mentioned that he was going to try to tone down the explosions and stuff in Transformers 3..
Right..
Here's Noisia's original video for "Machine Gun Remix".
The Transformers 3 sound production team went to great lengths to find original sounds for the movie..
Soundworks Collection: The Sound of Transformers:http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif Dark of the Moon from Michael Coleman on Vimeo.
Michael Bay has even sent a letter to projectionists with advice on how to avoid a repeat of the dark picture associated with the previous transformers movies as a result of the 3D technology.
The basejumping scene was filmed in downtown Chicago, with actual basejumpers leaping from the Sears Tower in Downtown Chicago.
During production Michael Bay mentioned that he was going to try to tone down the explosions and stuff in Transformers 3..
Right..
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