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 10 incredible stunts of comedy legend Buster Keaton - you probably haven’t seen before

Buster Keaton that he is “arguably the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies.” Keaton, a comedy legend whose dead pan expression in all his sketches earned him the name ‘The Great Stone Face’, performed his stunts himself. Some of the stunts are actually quite dangerous and unlike today, there are no high-tech harnesses or machinery to fall back on. The train stunts are particularly spectacular. Keaton, who had his best run in the 1920s, is seen jumping and rolling down hillsides and crossing the railway track in front of an approaching train in these 10 gifs uploaded by an Imgur user.

Via:imgur

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This is just amazing!

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How the Geneva Drive (the mechanical step that makes the second hand on a clock work by turning constant rotation into intermittent motion) works.

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“I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public. They forget that invisibility is a superpower.”

Banksy (via xmng)

Sure, but so’s telepathy.

(via joncrowley)

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Haha!

Skycats

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Really cool and interesting...

map of Pangaea with current international borders.

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My life, every single day.

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laurenonizzle:

A newfound appreciation for radishes. Thanks 4chan.

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hlooman:

Colorful microstructures

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smack416:

Now this sounds compelling.

Hans de Zwart, Innovation Manager for Global Learning Technologies at Shell, has posted a review of Christopher Alexander’s “A Pattern Language” on his blog.

Hans notes:

The scope of the book is incredible. It sets out, in plain terms, to empower people to design, build and shape their own surroundings.

Most interesting to me is this excerpt, which slantback chose to reblog:

There is abundant evidence to show that high building make people crazy.

High buildings have no genuine advantages, except in speculative gains for banks and land owners. They are not cheaper, they do not help create open space, they destroy the townscape, they destroy social life, they promote crime, they make life difficult for children, they are expensive to maintain, they wreck the open spaces near them, and they damage light and air and view. But quite apart from all this, which shows that they aren’t very sensible, empirical evidence shows that they can actually damage people’s minds and feelings.

There are some additional great anecdotes in Hans’s original post. Funny enough, this book’s been on my wish list for about 4 years. Wish I remembered who originally turned me on to it.

High buildings make people crazy.

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joncrowley:

a simple truth.

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karim2k:

La Marsa (Taken with instagram)

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Crystalised (The xx Cover) by Gorillaz

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skibinskipedia:

The Space Shuttle Endeavour’s Final Launch seen from a commercial plane window, captured by Stefanie Gordon.

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cherrysberries:

Timelapse - The City Limits

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allthingseurope:

Kaposvar, Hungary (by butsi77)