Maybe we’re reading too much into this, but perhaps it’s a comment on the passing of industrial society and our progress into a digital age: the last stand of the filing cabinet in an increasingly paperless world – but by golly, what a stand it is. Framed against the sky in a field in Napa, California, a filing cabinet – curiously filled with the dismantled auto parts of a 1974 sports car – towers some 65 feet into the air, a monolith of our own making.
Continue reading...Thursday, July 30, 2009
Yet since bungee jumping became commercial at the hands of elastic-thinking New Zealand entrepreneur A J Hackett, the heights from which the man on the street can now leap with nothing but a giant rubber band attached to his ankles have just got bigger. And bigger. And bigger. Here are the highest jumps from fixed objects to date. Steel yourself for some vertiginous views.
Continue reading...Monday, June 16, 2008
Image by jrsxxx33 If you’re like me, as a kid, you probably enjoyed throwing heavy objects off super-high buildings, just to see how long it took and what they looked like when they smashed. As a responsible adult, I now get my pleasure in gazing at water falling [...]
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
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