Yep, someone strapped a few GoPro Hero 4’s to a Rocket and blasted it into space. Not only are these little cameras really are hard to break, they also capture really great imagery along the way. The 20 foot tall SL-10 rocket way launched by UP Aerospace Inc. last November from their base, Spaceport America …
Remember Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper who bested Jo Kittinger’s 1960 world record parachute jump of 19.5 miles by falling from a height of 24 miles, reaching a maximum velocity of Mach 1.25 [or 843.6 mph to you and me ]? Well Red Bull have just released new footage of the …
Donny MacAskill is about my all-time favourite street trials rider, his ability to move his bike along a fine line is outstanding. In his latest promo video for GoPro, “Cascade” he rides the rooftops of Grand Canaria in his usual style of insane jumps and vertigo-inducing balancing acts, all culminating in a grand finale splash down. GoPro really …
I know this blog is, roughly, photography related buy as I post a lot about space for some reason I thought I’d just throw this out there. NASA is looking for people to join up to it’s program & be the next generation of Space Explorers. So if you ever dreamt [ or maybe, secretly, …
A time lapse video where Andy Davidhazy recorded one photo/selphy every one mile of his journey along the 2600 milePacific Coast Trial from Mexico to Canada. Every Spring, ambitious hikers set out to hike the 2600 mile long Pacific Crest Trail for a variety of reasons, be it to lose themselves in the wilderness experience and …
Sheldon Nadelman worked as a barman from from 1972 to 1981 at the Terminal Bar on Eighth and West 41st, opposite the Port Authority Bus Terminal near Times Square. In this time he would ask his many customers to sit for a portrait producing a body of work amassing to 2,600 photographs. All these photos have been catalogued by his …
Take one quadcopter and a few early mornings in downtown LA to capture some of the greatest historic buildings of the area. Some have been restored, some repurposed and some turned into art. That’s watch Ian Wood, a photographer/film maker from Los Angeles did. His video really shows off these buildings well through his choice …
Listen & watch as Paul Nicklen, National Geographic photographer, describes the few days he spent with a large leopard seal with a great mothering instinct.
Following on from Tatia Pilieva’s ‘First Kiss’ project that we talked about there have been plenty of similar videos popping up on the internet. This is one that caught our attention as its really close to the original idea of getting complete strangers to touch, only this time it’s not lips that get smacked…
Sometimes it’s the simple things that are the most captivating. This video of the Full Moon rising over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Shot from about 1.5 miles away by Gary Yost using a Panasonic GX7 and a boosted lens.