Tag Archives: time
Histography – Timeline Of History
Histography is a fascinating project. It’s an interactive timeline that spans across 14 billion years of history, from the Big Bang all the way up to 2015. The site draws data and events from Wikipedia, and allows you to search … Continue reading
Will Varley – Seize The Night
Will Varley – Seize The Night. Great song by Will Varley, with backing vocals courtesy of Frank Turner. Bit of an odd video, but amusing. Seize the night, do you best to lose track of time. Onwards!
xkcd – Hoverboard
You can’t help but love xkcd. Most of the time, the author Randall Munroe draws single, one-off images. Occasionally, he goes all out and creates truly wonderful comics. A few previous examples include Time, Pixels, and Click and Drag. This … Continue reading
Throwback Thursday #6 – Darwin Day
Happy Darwin Day! February 12th makes the birth of one of the most famous scientists known today: Charles Darwin. Darwin Day is a celebration of his birth and his achievements, and so today’s Throwback Thursday is to do with that. … Continue reading
Time Trap (Short Film)
Time Trap is a clever and funny little film by Michael Shanks, about a spaceman who becomes stranded in space, but not in time. After his ship develops a fault and he’s forced to land on a desolate planet, the spaceman … Continue reading
Pixels
I’m a huge fan of xkcd. The most recent comic, entitled “Pixels“, is one of those that you can spend a long time getting lost in. Similar in scope to “Click and Drag” and “Time“, “Pixels” invites you to scroll … Continue reading
Leon Vanstone – Science Is Not Magic
“Winner of FameLab, PhD Hypersonics Leon is a rocket scientist; he researches how air flows over things at several kilometres a second. This really only applies to rockets, re-entry vehicles, a few missiles and a plane or two. Missiles aren’t … Continue reading
Now
“Now” is a very useful comic image from xkcd. It shows different time zones around the world, based on a 24 hour clock. The time difference between each city and zone is given, as well as a basic idea of … Continue reading
Perfectly Timed Photos
As a photographer, you can sometimes get incredibly lucky, and capture that perfectly timed photograph. The sort of photograph that requires you to be in just the right place, at just the right angle, and at just the right time. … Continue reading
1190: Time
I’m a big fan of the xkcd webcomics, and the creator behind them, Randall Munroe, outdid himself with an ambitious project simple entitled “Time“. It started out as a simple image, of a stick man and woman sitting together on the … Continue reading
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