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Background Bin
parking space for background images that strike my fancy
Color-enhanced view taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of the terrain in the vicinity of the Curiosity’s landing site in Gale Crater
“Inverse Vertigo” - lovely use of HDR by Daniel Cheong
Landing strip at Kerala’s Agatti Aerodrome in India
The Atlas of the United States Printed for the Use of the Blind, published in 1837 before Braille was widely used, used embossed printing of lines, words, and symbols to be finger-readable.
(via sunfoundation)
The annular solar eclipse, observed through light clouds above Tokyo, Japan, on May 21, 2012. (Masashi Hara/Getty Images)
Circuit Diagram by XKCD
(ok, this is not a background, but there are so many bits of laugh-out-loud hilariousness in here)
(Source: things2note)
Chalk keyboard on a cobblestone street
by Timo Arnall
courtesy of Szymon Blaszczyk
photo by George Steinmetz for the National Geographic (2005)
If you look closely at this photo, you’ll see that the camels are the little white lines and the black images are actually their shadows.
(Source: things2note)
(via Designboom) “Beyond Infinity,” a multisensory installation by French artist and theorist Serge Salat, interweaves mirrors, light, music, and fractal art in an architecture that conflates visitors’ perceptions of space.
Reflection of neon lights in a puddle, in downtown LA’s Little Tokyo.
photo by Daniel Schaefer via LA Times
