I've always found Reverse maps extremely interesting. It's amazing how foreign the earth seems when you simply change perspective. Also, it gives you a glimpse of just how biased/inaccurate our sense of geography is when you take into account how maps warp landsizes near the poles.
I also find these interesting but to be fair I'm pretty sure this not only is reversed I think it's using a different type of map, I think it's called the Peter's or Peterson model or something... basically I know there are two major models for world maps one that preserves shape another that preserves size (you can't have both on a rectangular map of the world because, well, the world isn't rectangular) and we usually use the one that preserves shape (which effectively makes everything near the poles bigger as you mentioned) and I think that this is the model that preserves size, so this does look weird and change perspective but I don't think the orientation is the only thing that makes this different.
The world as it really is Area accurate. This is the Peters Projection
Steve Buscemi who returned to his previous job as a Firefighter after hearing of the terrorist attacks on 9/11 to help search for bodies, worked 12 hour shifts and refused to be interviewed.
Homeless man in London. Saw him there again recently, he's got a house and got his life back on track. He bought me a drink, since after snapping this photo I took him to a greasy spoon, and me and a friend listened to his story for the best part of an hour and a half.
Saw him in London on the second trip I was down there; disabled man busking outside of the National Portrait Gallery.
And the reason we should all be surprised that the East Germans didn't rebuild it :p
And althought I couldn't find the gif itself, this youtube vid of it will work. It's just something tat makes me appreciate how insignificant we really are.
Oh great so if we're going to use computer game images now then why not post these as well:
I hope that wasn't sarcasm, who cares whether it's games or not? That picture is powerful in its own right.
Don't define my own definitions, jerk.
Since you're one of the many people who seem to be missing completely what this thread is supposed to be about, let me quote the OP (once again):
But what about those pictures that make [your] heart skip or [make] you take a step back? Those truly amazing photographs that make you wonder about the world around us
I bolded the important part. This isn't supposed to be about CGI, fantasy or science fiction. We're talking about real life, real world photography that has managed to capture amazing, moving, touching and otherwise incredible moments.
So don't start debating definitions because there's nothing to debate here in the first place.
And to not only backseat moderate here yet again, an example for bravery in spite of terrible odds:
Allied troops landing at Omaha Beach.
Quote from a Ranger Captain:
I was the first one out. The seventh man was the next one to get across the beach without being hit. All the ones in-between were hit. Two were killed; three were injured. That's how lucky you had to be.
On September 04 2011 23:21 Shockk wrote:I bolded the important part. This isn't supposed to be about CGI, fantasy or science fiction. We're talking about real life, real world photography that has managed to capture amazing, moving, touching and otherwise incredible moments.
As long as it's an image that makes you think, rather than just a motivational, or a comic or something, then does it really matter whether it's a photo, or a digital drawing, or a scene from a videogame? As long as there is genuine emotional impact in the image, then I'd say it certainly fits within the ethos of this tread.
Bang bang! Greek police riot control unit members during the 2008 riots, right after a 16 year old boy got shot down by a policeman on a street over a "who's the man" dispute.
On August 30 2011 00:44 TheKwas wrote: A Memorial that average Canadians made to Politician Jack Layton. He never won an election or became Prime Minister, but he was widely considered the most respectable of Canada Party leaders.
Any human death is a tragedy, however, I read this from another site (feel free to correct the following information if it is wrong, I am not a Canadian nor have I followed Canadian politics closely):
He was only elected Leader of the Opposition three months ago, and already knew he had cancer. Presumably the doctors had told him it was terminal. I’m surprised that someone with only a few months to live would stand for Prime Minister. Or that people would vote for a candidate PM whose whole term of office (if elected) would consist of being bed ridden and then dieing.
He had had prostate cancer since Feb 2010 (or rather it was diagnosed then). More men die with prostate cancer than of it, unless it spreads. An elderly relative of mine’s had it for years and it won’t be that that kills him.
“On 25 July, the former Toronto city councillor said he was quitting temporarily as NDP leader to fight a newly diagnosed “non-prostate cancer”.”
So it was just a month ago he learned it had spread. ‘Temporarily’ suggests either he thought he had a chance of beating whatever it was, or didn’t want to let on how serious it was, or was in denial (which is a common reaction).
I really feel I have to speak to this. Regardless of rhetoric, the NDP and Jack Layton did not think they'd win a government, whether minority or majority. They did not expect to be the official opposition, nor for the liberals to get the fewest seats they've gotten in the history of the country. I think it's rather obtuse to say he was doing Canada a disservice by running.
You really have to understand the context. The NDP were never, on the National level, a major player except when a minority government made them swing votes. If you don't know how multi-party system governments work, I urge you to look it up.
A nuclear test in which the men in the picture were ordered to walk into the fallout zone to determine the effects of tactical nuclear weapons in combat
The Ferris Wheel in Pripyat, Ukraine, the city that housed the Chernobyl workers. The city received this evacuation notice on April 27, 1986: + Show Spoiler +
"For the attention of the residents of Pripyat! The City Council informs you that due to the accident at Chernobyl Power Station in the city of Pripyat the radioactive conditions in the vicinity are deteriorating. The Communist Party, its officials and the armed forces are taking necessary steps to combat this. Nevertheless, with the view to keep people as safe and healthy as possible, the children being top priority, we need to temporarily evacuate the citizens in the nearest towns of Kiev Oblast. For these reasons, starting from April 27, 1986 2 p.m. each apartment block will be able to have a bus at its disposal, supervised by the police and the city officials. It is highly advisable to take your documents, some vital personal belongings and a certain amount of food, just in case, with you. The senior executives of public and industrial facilities of the city has decided on the list of employees needed to stay in Pripyat to maintain these facilities in a good working order. All the houses will be guarded by the police during the evacuation period. Tovarishchs, ("Comrades") leaving your residences temporarily please make sure you have turned off the lights, electrical equipment and water off and shut the windows. Please keep calm and orderly in the process of this short-term evacuation."
"2010 September 23 day, this foundling without a name has been taken to a distant place to be buried, the child’s eyes still slightly open, as if with a sliver of attachment to this world it never knew."
By 'foundling' they refer to abandoned babies born with deformities that some volunteering people take care of.
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