artificial cavern for a future 2nd street subway stop | January 2013, NYC

photos by Patrick Cashin

(Source: Flickr / mtaphotos)

The Secret Door is essentially the digital equivalent of a linking book- one that only only takes you to places on Earth, anyway.

The site curates a series of particularly interesting locations via Google Earth, drops you down into them with no explanation, and invites you to explore.  Pretty rad.

artificial cavern for a future 2nd street subway stop | April 2013, NYC

photos by Patrick Cashin

(Source: Flickr / mtaphotos)

Cocoon Tree treehouses | Berni du Payrat

(Source: cocoontree.com)

So-called “treerooms” at Sweden’s Treehotel- uniquely designed and environmentally friendly tree houses.

(Source: treehotel.se)

Dallol Volcanic Crater

In the North East of Ethiopia lies the Danokil Desert.  At its heart is a volcanic crater, Dallol, little known and seldom visited but quite extraordinary.  

Surrounding the volcano are acidic hot springs, mountains of sulphur, pillars of salt, small gas geysers and pools of acid isolated by salt ridges. It makes for one of the most bizarre landscapes on planet Earth.

(Source: kuriositas.com)

riumplus:

“A real Myst book” by Mike Ando aka RIUM+

This is my “working” replica Myst book. It’s made out of a copy of the same book Cyan originally used as a texture reference.

Inside the book is a full desktop computer, completely self-contained without any external wires or wireless computer. The embedded screen isn’t just showing a still photo or a video: it’s running a full copy of realMyst PC edition. On-board is a copy of all the Myst games. It’s fast enough it plays all of them smoothly (even End of Ages at ~30fps). You play the games just by touching the touch-screen.

Also included are a blank white page & a blank blue page. These are from other copies of the same book Cyan used, so they’re as official as you can get. With the book’s red internal lining, this makes a full set of the three colours used in Myst.

For more details & a video of it in action, check out www.riumplus.com/mystbook

Mike Ando’s fantastically legit Myst book replica- having played with it up close, I can vouch for the beauty of the thing.

…Even if it is filled with potentially explosive materials.

Museum of Nature photomanipulations | Ilkka Halso

(Source: ilkka.halso.net)

Approaching the lava lake on Ambryn, Vanuatu archipelago | Geoff Mackley and Bradley Abrose

(When my sister sent this to me I was just screaming “D’NI D’NI D’NI D’NI D’NI D’NI”)

(Source: geoffmackley.com)