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when geeks and stained glass collide
these days it’s not often you’re treated to stained glass artwork that hasn’t been used to illustrate passages from the fact-filled bible, so when i came across the stained glass version of mega man last week i quickly decided to find out whether any other geeky stained glass windows exist. sure enough, after a frustrating search, i found the ones you see here.
iran’s stunning wooden village
i’ve spent the past couple of days attempting to read farsi and to be honest, i’m at a loss. the need to read a persian language stemmed from a photo i found of an incredible wooden mosque that turned out to reside in iran itself. through the power of google i’ve managed to work out that the mosque is actually part of the ‘wooden village’, an area of neyshabur city that, unsurprisingly, consists of purely wooden buildings - houses, shops, library, mosque and so on.
if you go down to the beach today…
this spooky crowd, previously installed on other beaches around europe but on a temporary basis, is called ‘another place’ and was created by antony gormley, the english sculptor also responsible for the angel of the north. following some controversy a couple of years ago the iron men are now set to stay on crosby beach for good, continuing to make nearby sunbathers feel uneasy.
check out the size of this compass rose
the plane in the picture above, seen here at nasa’s dryden flight research centre in california, is called the shuttle carrier aircraft and as you may have guessed is used to carry space shuttles (piggy-back style) should they land at this base. i mention this purely to give some sense of scale as the number 270 next to it is part of the largest compass rose on earth.
ever seen a creepier tower?
i saw this tower for the first time a few years back and still remember how initially confused i was. maybe i blocked it from my mind to prevent nightmares. then this morning i, for some reason, had a flashback to that very day of discovery and actually got annoyed with myself for not writing about it sooner. anyway, better late than never. we’ll start the photos from afar and then get closer with each picture as i want to make the experience as creepy as possible for you.
6 of the most illuminated buildings on earth
i remember the first time i walked into times square during the evening, blankets of flashing bulbs and electronic billboards burning brands into my retinas, finding myself literally having to look up at the skyscrapers to rest my screaming eyeballs after the onslaught. it’s an incredible experience. for a while.
hmm…something’s missing
just came across the left-hand photo on flickr by chance and was immediately confused and intrigued. to be found in berlin, it’s actually a faithful recreation of one corner of karl schinkel’s bauakademie (building academy), the building which used to stand in the same spot before being damaged during the war and subsequently demolished in 1962 to make way for the ministry of foreign affairs. needless to say, that building has also since been demolished.
7 damn fine wineries
from the looks of it there’s some kind of race on between wineries across the globe to seek out super-architects willing to design their ultra-funky wine production facility. here are some of the best i’ve come across.
living on the edge: 2 stunningly scary clifftop communities
this is bonifacio in corsica. this fragile looking citadel sits precariously above limestone cliffs which over the years have been battered by the mediterranean sea, a process which is apparent by both the piles of eroded stone at the base and the overhang of the cliff walls. how long before the next building gets swallowed? no idea, but from the look of the first photo it can’t be long….
“yeah, nice one for ripping material from other sites”
it doesn’t please me to have to post shit like this rather than stuff that’s actually interesting, and normally i wouldn’t, but for some reason over the past week i’ve started receiving emails from disgruntled passers-by who seem convinced that deputydog is some kind of scraper blog. the one i’ve had most complaints about is the tuned mass damper effort, a post i’ve been meaning to do for a few months now. here’s an example of the crap i’ve been reading far too often over the past 7 days, un-edited…
