The Manhattanhenge is when the setting sun allignes itself with the cross streets of New York City. It happens twice a year spaced regurally around the Summer Solstice, on May 28, and either July 12, or 13.
Being the photogrophy person that I am, i think this is so cool! I wish I knew about this last week, I would have planned a trip to NYC to watch it. Oh well. there’s next year.
Hot off the heals of Best Stumbles 2’s stumble from earlier this week comes another group of pictures I’ve collected over the course of the month. This time there is remarkably less Nazi related humor, (but there’s some, don’t worry, I haven’t gone soft on you). Still, to keep the home page from taking forever to load on slow connections, and from being super long what with the Bon Jovi post from this weekend, the full list is after the click:
You may or may not have heard that Bon Jovi did a free concert at Central Park yesterday. Well, I was there, and it was pretty damn awesome! Two of us from Deadly Computer were there, and one of my friends came too. We got there at 1:30pm, and then waited till 8pm for the show to start. We didn’t even get into the park till a little after 3pm. When we got there, we kinda pissed off the two girls sitting behind us, but after a few minutes we made up, and became friends. Which was good because for 5 hours you need some people to talk to.
One of their names was Laura, and I don’t think I ever got the name of the other one. Oh well. I told her to come visit the site, hopefully she will. Laura if you do, please post a comment I’d love to hear from you.
Now, as for the concert the only bad thing about it was the 10pm curfew, which was part of the agreement with NYC. Because of that, they didn’t play nearly as many songs as I was hoping for. But from what I remember, they did these songs in some order which i forgot: Runaway, It’s My Life, Who Says You Can’t Go Home, Have A Nice Day, I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, Whole Lot of Leavin’, We Got it Going On, Bad Medicine, Born To Be My Baby, Wanted Dead or Alive and probably some others i forgot.
Whoever was in charge of the video was doing a very, very awesome job at it. The directing was amazing, beautiful, and just a work of art. The screen was super high res (from where we were anyway), and beautiful. The lights behind the stage were choreographed great too. I wish I remember what song had the Hearts behind it, because that was good, but i don’t sorry.
They opened with Livin’ on a Prayer, and closed with I Love This Town. I managed to take many, many photos, but lots came out blurry, and the rest were mostly the same. I’ve collected the 40 or so of my favorites in this album.
Here are some of my favorite pictures from that group below:
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| Me, yea that’s a hard
to see thing |
Bon Jovi himself after
one of the first songs |
Bon Jovi again |
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| Look at the awesome
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Hearts on the lights | |
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| There was a cool filter on the
video for We Got it Going On |
Background lights and screen |
Again, there’s like 40 or so photos over in the album, and in total I took alot, but again some didn’t come out well, and others all looked the same.
I actually saw a show about alternate houses, and this was one of them. Apparently there are quite a few like this around the US. Apparently it is also a bitch to furnish a curved room! There are quite a few other interesting houses over here.
I really like this bridge house, though, i’d probably hate it cause i hate giant drownable bodies of water like that.
this house is at the bottom of a cliff with an elevator to the top. The one downfall (pun intended) is that it’s probably on the shore, and as i said above, i hate water, most espically the ocean.
This LEGO version of New York City is indeed one of the most detailed LEGO model’s I’ve ever seen. It’s massive, and covers alot of NYC from what I can see in the photos at wackyarchives.
The Citigroup building is one of my favorites. Most people like The Empire State Building, or The Chrysler Building, but me, I like Citigroup, I’m weird I know.
It can’t be done you say?! Well, if you freeze it, then yes, you can indeed climb it. Anyway, that’s kinda crazy, I agree with the guys at Odidty Central, you gotta be really crazy to want to climb a frozen waterfall. They make for some really damn pretty pictures though.
I mean, look at that, it’s beautiful, I could probably spend all day moving around taking pictures there!
I’m sure there’s some underwire structure to these plant sculptures, but regardless they are pretty neat. I really like the fountain hand one above, but the crying person, that’s my favorite i think:
I like the purple flowers, and the way it’s vertical on the wall, it’s pretty cool, and nice looking. I wish i knew what type of plants they used, and more importantly, where this is, cause I want to visit.
Ever wanted to see what the solar system does to earth? Well, geology.com has a nice Google Maps set up with locations of many meteor impact craters on earth. Most are not very vissable due to errosion and ovegrowth, but a few stand out.
Well, If you ever wanted to see the title screen any of over a thousand different movies, Steven Hill’s Movie Title Screen Page is for you.
There are literally over 1000 differnet movies, and more being added often. Many have different forms, like Laserdisc, and DVD, and Blu-Ray. I didn’t see and HD-DVD, but there were a few betas.
Here are a few screens I picked out from movies I like.
Sky Captain is in 1080p
There are many, many more over at his site, all organized by title. There are quite a few classics, and ones from before the 1950s. Also, if there’s one you love that’s not there, you can submit it yourself.
