Tag: photography

Guédelon

A medieval castle is being built in France. There’s also a Youtube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy9Kti8oDm_wmbU7-yLRfog

2016-09-15: If you’re ever in this part of France, I highly recommend a visit to the slowest castle construction site in the history of the world.

Guédelon Castle is a project started in 1997 by Michel Guyot and Maryline Martin in the Burgundy region of France. The castle is styled on typical French medieval chateau-fort, modeled on designs from the 13th century, and is being built using techniques and materials available to masons and builders 800 years ago. The Guédelon project has now become a tourist destination, and employs dozens of workers. The castle is due to be completed in 2023.

Photopic Sky Survey

The Photopic Sky Survey is a 5000 megapixel photograph of the entire night sky stitched together from 37440 exposures. Large in size and scope, it portrays a world far beyond the one beneath our feet and reveals our familiar Milky Way with unfamiliar clarity. When we look upon this image, we are in fact peering back in time, as much of the light—having traveled such vast distances—predates civilization itself.

one guy spends a year photographing the milky way.

Paris Metro Demolition

The Paris Metro and the service it provides are deeply intertwined into the fabric of the city. As the 4.5M Parisians who ride it every day will probably attest it’s the quickest way around whether it’s for work, for play or both. The metro’s distinctive art-nouveau style is unmistakable and the plant like green wrought iron entrances topped with the orange orbs and Metropolitan signage designed by Hector Guimard which sprout up all over the city lead one down to the gleaming white tiled platforms to be whisked away all over the city. On my first trip to Paris I arrived into Gare du Nord and entered the dense maze that is the metro. Despite the crowds, the noise and the distinct odor of piss, I was in love. The kind of love which inspires one to risk life, limb and deportation to get up close and personal.