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End of the World, Part Deux

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This is the incredible sight of a dust storm and rain clouds forming over Indian ocean, captured by a tug boat worker, Brett Martin on January 9th. The cyclone was approaching  Onslow on the Western Australian coast. “We were steaming along in the boat just before sunset and the storm was casually building in the [...]

The Day After Tomorrow

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Self-taught French photographer Franck Allais‘ mission is to put things in a new perspective– things like an impending apocalypse maybe? I promised myself I wouldn’t jump on the end-of-the-world Maya bandwagon but I couldn’t help myself with these whimsical photographs from a lost world… Happy Fin du Monde everybody! ::: MORE STUFF LIKE THIS: .

The Town that spent 25 Years Underwater

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This is Villa Epecuen, an old tourist town south of Buenos Aires that spent a quarter of a century underwater. Established in the 1920s on the banks of a salt lake, the town was home to over 5,000 residents and a holiday destination to thousands more vacationers from the Argentinian capital. In 1985, a dam [...]

The Apocalypse came early for the Salton Riviera

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There is a place where beaches are made not of sand, but of the skeletons of millions of fish. Luxury yacht clubs are now frequented only by pigeons, vacation homes lay open to the elements and RV camp grounds look more like burial grounds. (c) above Jeremy Engleman & JBennett Fitts below Not 60 miles from the [...]

SUPERCUT: Apocalypse

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What do we really want from our apocalypse movies? A burgeoning love story between the pretty newscaster and the geeky scientist who has no chance in hell of saving the world? Or complete chaos, anarchy, out-of-this-world special effects and zombies literally everywhere? I’m going to go ahead and say the latter. This is where Zach [...]

Versailles: A Portal to another World?

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Don’t remember seeing that other-wordly staircase or a never-ending library when you visited Versailles on your last trip to Paris? Are there secret parts of the palace they’re hiding from us?   Go on, click on the images for a closer look if you’re not sure… Photographer Jean Francois Rauzier says he waited 25 years [...]

Miniature Apocalyptic City

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This just about combines two of the most fascinating things to me; miniature art and the depiction of post-apocalyptic world. Photographer Lori Nix is clearly not your average photographer. Rather than going out and looking for her subjects, Lori builds her own by hand which can take up to 7 months each. Her scenes can [...]



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