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Namibian ghost-town turning back into sand-dunes


Sunday, January 27, 2008

Seen today on Boing Boing, strange and beautiful photos:

Namibian ghost-town turning back into sand-dunes: “Check out these haunting and beautiful photos and video of the abandoned Namibian town of Kolmanskop, a ghost-town that is turning back into sand-dunes.


Kolmanskop is a ghost town in southern Namibia, a few kilometres inland from the port of Lüderitz. In 1908, Luederitz was plunged into diamond fever and people rushed into the Namib desert hoping to make an easy fortune. Within two years, a town, complete with a casino, school, hospital and exclusive residential buildings, was established in the barren sandy desert.

But shortly after the drop in diamond sales after the First World War, the beginning of the end started. During the 1950’s the town was deserted and the dunes began to reclaim what was always theirs.

Link

(via Neatorama)

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(Via Boing Boing.)

By Rija Posted in Environment, Photography No Comments

Photo walking in London


Saturday, January 26, 2008

On the 12th of January, I attended a photo walking in central London.
I discover the event on Upcoming but most people were Flickr users.

The organizer Phill Price has written a wrap-up post on photowalking.org.

If you’ve got Google Earth and want to navigate the photos on the route we’ve walked, here’s the Flickr link to the KML file for that event.

Below are some of the photos I took on that day (it was an exceptionally sunny day for this time in the year in London):

A Canon And A Beer
One Of Us
A place in the Sun
Numbers And Letters
Facade
Twisted
So Close
By Rija Posted in London, Photography, Social No Comments

Futurama Meets The Simpsons (PIC)


Thursday, January 24, 2008

As someone who like Futurama and The Simpsons, I found this picture merging both quite funny.

Futurama Meets The Simpsons (PIC): “The best of both worlds in one intergalactic catastrophe! Awesome.”

(Via digg.)

By Rija Posted in Comics, TV No Comments