Perito Moreno Glacier in Southern Argentina

This clip is of the spectacular South American glacier, Perito Moreno Glacier. It is one of 48 glaciers fed by the Southern Patagonian Ice Field located in the Andes system Argerntina shares with Chile. It is the world's third largest reserve of fresh water.

There are photographers from the four corners of the earth that come to southern Argentina and literally camp out at the glacier site in order to get the actual breakup on film.

After watching this clip, check out some of the other videos posted on YouTube and you will see the arch has completely disappeared.

The music by Enya is a nice background sound.

To learn a little more about the glacier, check out the          Wikipedia entry.

Jetman

This person has a lot of bravery and trust. 

Watch as Jetman cruises through the Grand Canyon 

with his jet pack.

Tree of Life

Many of us have counted the rings of a tree to determine the length of its life.  This poster brings a new meaning to the Tree of Life.

Click on the link to see what makes up the rings of this tree.

Understanding Terrorism

360 Degree View of Mt. Everest

This is a very cool site to visit.  

Make sure to put the 360 Degree View of Mt. Everest on full screen.  Then after watching it, exit the full screen and click on the "Archives" link at the top to see other great 360 Degree features..

Interactive Kaleidoscope

Check this site out for an interactive Kaleidoscope.


You can just sit back and let it change by itself or move 
your cursor around the screen slowly. 


If you put your cursor right in the middle, it is quite amazing.

The Porcelain Unicorn

This summer, Philips and the renowned director/producer, Ridley Scott, launched a global filmmaker competition dubbed the: “Tell It Your Way” Film Making Contest.

The entrants were given total freedom of expression and could take up any theme they wanted. But there were two rules in the contest to qualify for the prize that were strictly enforced:

1) Only six lines of dialogue was allowed in the film. Thus challenging the film maker to show, rather than to tell the story. This insured that the film submissions would portray a story graphically, keeping the elements in the story visual.

2) The other rule concerned brevity and challenged the film maker with a time constraint for conveying the story. Any film submitted in the contest had to be no longer than a total of three minutes.

Finally after the judging ended, this was the prize-winning entry in the, "Tell It Your Way" contest. It is entitled, "The Porcelain Unicorn"  

Sunshine Makes Everything Look Better

I had seen this tree while driving down the highway outside of Goldbar, WA.  It was in the sun at the time and really stuck out against the dark sky.  When I went back, the sun had gone behind the clouds.  I decided it was still a beautiful tree and took a picture.

As I turned to get in my truck, I noticed an opening in the clouds and thought with a little luck, the opening might pass in front

of the sun and I could get the picture for which I had

originally did the u-turn.  I was not dissapointed.

Kinetic Sculptor - Theo Jansen

Kinetic sculptor, Theo Jansen, has produced

giant insect-like sculptures he calls Strandbeests.