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Web's Best Photo and Art LinksFrom Magic Mike
My collection of recommended links
to photos of the best Hubble Space Telescope photos and other NASA photos,
incredible landscape photos, scenic wonders, wildlife animal
photos, AND the Renaissance Art Masters, art work of the 10th through 20th
Centuries from World Museums.
These photos are links, to sites owned by other people, for private viewing,
not for commercial use.
Refresh and reload on your
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Flowering
Crabapple Tree - This flowering crabapple
tree jumped right out of the fog. It was an absolute pleasure to see such
a burst of color in an otherwise drab landscape. Trees: Nature's Art -
Chris and Connie Jacobson, PhotoTripUSA.
360° Tour
Dam Square Amsterdam, Netherlands - A river ran through it: You're
standing in Dam Square, historic heart of Amsterdam. About 800 years ago,
the Amstel River was dammed here, giving the town its name. Where medieval
fishing boats once docked, you can tour 17th-century buildings from Holland's
Golden Age, mingle with street performers, and shop luxury stores. Then
hop a bike or boat to further explore this canal-laced city, sometimes
called the Venice of the North. Expedia.
Ambush
(2001) From the "The Hire" Digital Film Series - On a dark freeway,
a van swerves close and the door slides open. From inside, masked gunmen
threaten to fire unless The Driver stops and surrenders his passenger,
a seemingly harmless man they accuse of smuggling diamonds. It's a simple
choice: do or die. Legendary director John Frankenheimer and star Clive
Owen combine talents to create a dramatic chase with some unexpected twists.Shuttle
Moon Credit & Copyright: Anthony DeVito - Explanation: As a
gorgeous full Moon rose above the eastern horizon on February 7, the Space
Shuttle Atlantis streaked skyward towards an orbital rendezvous with the
International Space Station. Watching from Orlando, Florida, about 60 miles
west of the Kennedy Space Center launch site, photographer Tony DeVito
captured this digital image, one of a series of pictures of the shuttle's
fiery climb. While foreground street lights flickered on and a clear evening
sky grew dark, the shuttle's path just grazed the bright lunar disk. On
this mission, STS-98, Atlantis carried the U.S. Destiny laboratory module
to be added to the expanding orbital outpost. Atlantis is currently scheduled
to return to the space station next month. Authors & editors: Robert
Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris.
Specific rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan
Tech. U.
X-Ray
Rainbows Credit: J. McClintock et al. (CfA), CXC, NASA Explanation:
A drop of water or prism of glass can spread out visible sunlight into
a rainbow of colors. In order of increasing energy, the well known spectrum
of colors in a rainbow runs red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.
X-ray light too can be spread out into a spectrum ordered by energy ...
but not by drops of water or glass. Instead, the orbiting Chandra X-ray
Observatory uses a set of 540 finely ruled, gold gratings to spread out
the x-rays, recording the results with digital detectors. The resulting
x-ray spectrum reveals much about the compositions, temperatures, and motions
within cosmic x-ray sources. This false color Chandra image shows the x-ray
spectrum of a star system in Ursa Major cataloged as XTE J1118+480 and
thought to consist of a sun-like star orbiting a black hole. Unlike the
familiar appearance of a prism's visible light rainbow, the energies here
are ordered along radial lines with the highest energy x-rays near the
center and lowest energies near the upper left and lower right edges of
the image. The central spiky region itself is created by x-rays from the
source which are not spread out by the array of gratings. Authors &
editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical
Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
360°
Tour Venice Beach's boardwalk Los Angeles, California. L.A.'s playground:
You've left the freeways and are taking in the scene on historic Venice
Beach. With its wide beach and laid-back artsy atmosphere, Venice has been
a playground for Los Angeles residents since its inception in 1905. After
years of decay, it's rebounded into a place where the hip and hunky strut
their stuff and wealthy residents live in modernist cubes on the picturesque
canals that give this community its name. Expedia.
"Chosen"
directed by Ang Lee - What could be so mysterious about an eight-year-old
Tibetan boy? When The Driver picks him up at a deserted shipyard, it soon
becomes apparent. BMWFilms.
Spirals
On Edge Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler Explanation: Spiral
galaxies viewed face-on display a grand design, with graceful spiral arms
traced by bright star clusters and glowing stellar nurseries. When seen
edge-on, their appearance is very different but no less striking as their
central regions bulge and dark cosmic dust lanes appear silhouetted against
starlight from flattened galactic disks. This masterful mosaic of digital
images shows nine prominent edge-on spirals arranged as follows: top; NGC2683,
M104, NGC4565, middle; NGC891, NGC4631, NGC3628, and bottom; NGC5746, NGC5907,
and NGC4217. Perhaps the best known of these is M104 (NGC4594) whose more
descriptive moniker is the Sombrero Galaxy. Notably, the edge-on perspective
of these galaxies allows a measurement of their galactic rotation speed
using the Doppler effect. Plotting rotation speed versus distance from
the center determines a galaxy's gravitational mass and historically led
to premier evidence for mysterious Dark Matter. Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay
Norris. Specific rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan
Tech. U.
360° Tour Along
Portland's riverfront Portland, Oregon. Portland's waterfront:
You're enjoying a stroll along the Willamette River in Portland's Tom McCall
Waterfront Park. A quiet haven on cloudy days, the park explodes with hacky-sackers
and fountain-splashers when the sun comes out. Take a boat tour from here
under the city's many bridges, or set off on foot. On this bank of the
river you'll discover Portland's walkable downtown and hilly parks; on
the other, its charming older neighborhoods. PhotoTripUSA.
god@heavenUSA | 20:00 Comedy Drama Family International Director: Joseph Neulight
Producer: David Straus, Joseph Neulight Principal Cast: Spencer Weissman
- Synopsis In cyberspace, nobody knows if you're divine. That's the problem
faced by one little boy in California when he sends an e-mail to "god@heaven,"
asking, "But how do I know you're there?" The message reaches
the holy city of Jerusalem, Israel . . . but does it go even farther?
One
Hundred-Kilometer Terrain on Venus Credit: Magellan Spacecraft,
USGS, NASA Explanation: Even the hot and cracked surface of Venus has rolling
hills. Although never actually photographed from up-close, images of the
Venusian surface like that shown above have been constructed in recent
years by digitally merging distant photographs from height-sensitive radar.
Isolated above is a 100-kilometer wide swath inside a volcanic region known
as Yavine Corona. Visible in the frame are numerous fractures in the surface.
Data is missing from the dark lane on the upper right. The surface of Venus
is so hot and oppressive that robot spacecraft landed there have lasted
for only a few hours. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.
360° Tour
Paseo del Rio (River Walk) San Antonio, Texas. River Walk: You
are strolling one of the country's most scenic urban thoroughfares, the
Paseo del Rio (River Walk) in downtown San Antonio. A 2.5-mile stretch
of flagstone paths and footbridges, cafés and cultural riches, the
Paseo is the heart of this Tex-Mex town. Here you find the whole enchilada
of San Antonio's charms: old-Spanish architecture, lush vegetation, Texas-size
hospitality, and a festive ambience.
The Revenge
of the Red Balloon USA | 8:00 Collection Comedy Family International
No Dialogue Synopsis In this farcical homage to the French classic short
film The Red Balloon, The Balloon returns to hunt down those nasty little
garcons who popped him 40 years ago. ABOUT THE BALLOON: Classically trained
at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Latex Arts, The Balloon went on to win
critical acclaim in the National Theatre's 1977 production of Hamlet for
his stunning portrayal of Laertes. His real breakthrough, however, came
while singing the part of Bill in the Old Vic's award-winning Oliver, playing
opposite John Gielgud's Fagan. The Balloon feels he can play any color,
though as he himself admits, he is best known for red.
Garden
of the Gods - I must admit that my expectations from photography
in what is in essence a city park weren't terribly high, but this early
morning generated two nice red-rock images before the sun got high enough
to make the scenes too contrasty. At least we didn't have to drive far
for breakfast. COLORADO HIGH COUNTRY - by David Henderson, PhotoTripUSA.
360° Tour Red
Square Red Square, Moscow. Square one: You're standing on the cobblestone
expanse of Red Square in Moscow. Lenin's venerated tomb, St. Basil's colorful
onion domes, and the red walls of the Kremlin rise around you. Once crowded
with market stalls, and later with tanks and troops on parade, this plaza
has been the center of Moscow life for centuries. Any tour of the 850-year-old
city naturally begins here.
Go Sick:
Freakboys USA | 2:49 Collection Comedy Extreme - Synopsis: A couple
of nutbag ne'er-do-wells from the Go Sick Army cut loose in public with
a phone-humping, spasmodic frenzy. You will never use a payphone or offer
to assist anyone in public ever again.
Red
Mountain -We'd spotted the position earlier in the day and arrived
in good time for sunset, but whilst this image was pleasing because of
the clouds, the sun sank below a bank of cloud to the west and we never
did get to photograph these mountains as they turn fire-red in the last
of the sun. COLORADO HIGH COUNTRY - by David Henderson, PhotoTripUSA.
360° Tour
Inside the White House Washington, D.C. Diplomacy in the round:
You're standing in the elliptical Diplomatic Reception Room in the White
House-an honor usually reserved for visiting ambassadors. The First Family
often uses this room as an entrance to the White House from the South Grounds
(midway between the Rose Garden and the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden).
Go SICK:
Bad Ass Meter Maid (Parking Violations) USA | 4:21 Collection Comedy
Extreme - Synopsis: An actor playing the part of a lunatic meter maid (man?)
is set loose on an unsuspecting populace, and puts some drivers through
some big-time bewilderment.
Approaching
the International Space Station Credit: STS-100 Crew, NASA Explanation:
Earlier this month the crew of the US Space Shuttle Endeavor took in this
view as they approached the developing International Space Station (ISS).
The Endeavor and ISS crew installed Italy's Raffaello, a Multi-Purpose
Logistics Module and successfully deployed Canada's Canadarm2, a robot
remote-controlled arm that can move about the outside of the station. The
shuttle undocked from the ISS yesterday and is scheduled to return to Earth
today. A manned Russian Soyuz spacecraft is scheduled to dock with Earth's
busiest orbiting outpost early today. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific
rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.
360° Tour Waikiki
Beach Honolulu, Hawaii. Sands of legend: Hawaiian kings and queens
favored beautiful Waikiki Beach for their ceremonies. You too can feel
like royalty when staying in one of the luxury hotels on Hawaii's most
famous strip of sand. Surf or sail during the day, and dine by the glow
of torches at night. With swaying palms and Diamond Head as a backdrop,
it's easy to tune out the bustling city behind you. Expedia.
Go SICK:
Bad Ass Meter Maid (Pedestrian Violations) USA | 4:49 Collection Comedy Extreme Synopsis: Our bad-ass meter man has turned his spiteful
and bilious eye toward the unsuspecting pedestrians of Beverly Hills. Prepare
for some serious smacking down.
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Photo links 66
Web's Best Photo and Art LinksFrom Magic Mike
My collection of recommended links
to photos of the best Hubble Space Telescope photos and other NASA photos,
incredible landscape photos, scenic wonders, wildlife animal
photos, AND the Renaissance Art Masters, art work of the 10th through 20th
Centuries from World Museums.
These photos are links, to sites owned by other people, for private viewing,
not for commercial use.
| Refresh and reload on your
browser to see the newest links and not a cached page.
Flowering
Crabapple Tree - This flowering crabapple
tree jumped right out of the fog. It was an absolute pleasure to see such
a burst of color in an otherwise drab landscape. Trees: Nature's Art -
Chris and Connie Jacobson, PhotoTripUSA. 360° Tour Dam Square Amsterdam, Netherlands - A river ran through it: You're standing in Dam Square, historic heart of Amsterdam. About 800 years ago, the Amstel River was dammed here, giving the town its name. Where medieval fishing boats once docked, you can tour 17th-century buildings from Holland's Golden Age, mingle with street performers, and shop luxury stores. Then hop a bike or boat to further explore this canal-laced city, sometimes called the Venice of the North. Expedia. Ambush (2001) From the "The Hire" Digital Film Series - On a dark freeway, a van swerves close and the door slides open. From inside, masked gunmen threaten to fire unless The Driver stops and surrenders his passenger, a seemingly harmless man they accuse of smuggling diamonds. It's a simple choice: do or die. Legendary director John Frankenheimer and star Clive Owen combine talents to create a dramatic chase with some unexpected twists.Shuttle Moon Credit & Copyright: Anthony DeVito - Explanation: As a gorgeous full Moon rose above the eastern horizon on February 7, the Space Shuttle Atlantis streaked skyward towards an orbital rendezvous with the International Space Station. Watching from Orlando, Florida, about 60 miles west of the Kennedy Space Center launch site, photographer Tony DeVito captured this digital image, one of a series of pictures of the shuttle's fiery climb. While foreground street lights flickered on and a clear evening sky grew dark, the shuttle's path just grazed the bright lunar disk. On this mission, STS-98, Atlantis carried the U.S. Destiny laboratory module to be added to the expanding orbital outpost. Atlantis is currently scheduled to return to the space station next month. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan Tech. U. X-Ray Rainbows Credit: J. McClintock et al. (CfA), CXC, NASA Explanation: A drop of water or prism of glass can spread out visible sunlight into a rainbow of colors. In order of increasing energy, the well known spectrum of colors in a rainbow runs red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. X-ray light too can be spread out into a spectrum ordered by energy ... but not by drops of water or glass. Instead, the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory uses a set of 540 finely ruled, gold gratings to spread out the x-rays, recording the results with digital detectors. The resulting x-ray spectrum reveals much about the compositions, temperatures, and motions within cosmic x-ray sources. This false color Chandra image shows the x-ray spectrum of a star system in Ursa Major cataloged as XTE J1118+480 and thought to consist of a sun-like star orbiting a black hole. Unlike the familiar appearance of a prism's visible light rainbow, the energies here are ordered along radial lines with the highest energy x-rays near the center and lowest energies near the upper left and lower right edges of the image. The central spiky region itself is created by x-rays from the source which are not spread out by the array of gratings. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan Tech. U. |
360°
Tour Venice Beach's boardwalk Los Angeles, California. L.A.'s playground:
You've left the freeways and are taking in the scene on historic Venice
Beach. With its wide beach and laid-back artsy atmosphere, Venice has been
a playground for Los Angeles residents since its inception in 1905. After
years of decay, it's rebounded into a place where the hip and hunky strut
their stuff and wealthy residents live in modernist cubes on the picturesque
canals that give this community its name. Expedia.
"Chosen"
directed by Ang Lee - What could be so mysterious about an eight-year-old
Tibetan boy? When The Driver picks him up at a deserted shipyard, it soon
becomes apparent. BMWFilms.
Spirals
On Edge Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler Explanation: Spiral
galaxies viewed face-on display a grand design, with graceful spiral arms
traced by bright star clusters and glowing stellar nurseries. When seen
edge-on, their appearance is very different but no less striking as their
central regions bulge and dark cosmic dust lanes appear silhouetted against
starlight from flattened galactic disks. This masterful mosaic of digital
images shows nine prominent edge-on spirals arranged as follows: top; NGC2683,
M104, NGC4565, middle; NGC891, NGC4631, NGC3628, and bottom; NGC5746, NGC5907,
and NGC4217. Perhaps the best known of these is M104 (NGC4594) whose more
descriptive moniker is the Sombrero Galaxy. Notably, the edge-on perspective
of these galaxies allows a measurement of their galactic rotation speed
using the Doppler effect. Plotting rotation speed versus distance from
the center determines a galaxy's gravitational mass and historically led
to premier evidence for mysterious Dark Matter. Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay
Norris. Specific rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan
Tech. U.
360° Tour Along
Portland's riverfront Portland, Oregon. Portland's waterfront:
You're enjoying a stroll along the Willamette River in Portland's Tom McCall
Waterfront Park. A quiet haven on cloudy days, the park explodes with hacky-sackers
and fountain-splashers when the sun comes out. Take a boat tour from here
under the city's many bridges, or set off on foot. On this bank of the
river you'll discover Portland's walkable downtown and hilly parks; on
the other, its charming older neighborhoods. PhotoTripUSA.
god@heavenUSA | 20:00 Comedy Drama Family International Director: Joseph Neulight
Producer: David Straus, Joseph Neulight Principal Cast: Spencer Weissman
- Synopsis In cyberspace, nobody knows if you're divine. That's the problem
faced by one little boy in California when he sends an e-mail to "god@heaven,"
asking, "But how do I know you're there?" The message reaches
the holy city of Jerusalem, Israel . . . but does it go even farther?
One
Hundred-Kilometer Terrain on Venus Credit: Magellan Spacecraft,
USGS, NASA Explanation: Even the hot and cracked surface of Venus has rolling
hills. Although never actually photographed from up-close, images of the
Venusian surface like that shown above have been constructed in recent
years by digitally merging distant photographs from height-sensitive radar.
Isolated above is a 100-kilometer wide swath inside a volcanic region known
as Yavine Corona. Visible in the frame are numerous fractures in the surface.
Data is missing from the dark lane on the upper right. The surface of Venus
is so hot and oppressive that robot spacecraft landed there have lasted
for only a few hours. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.
360° Tour
Paseo del Rio (River Walk) San Antonio, Texas. River Walk: You
are strolling one of the country's most scenic urban thoroughfares, the
Paseo del Rio (River Walk) in downtown San Antonio. A 2.5-mile stretch
of flagstone paths and footbridges, cafés and cultural riches, the
Paseo is the heart of this Tex-Mex town. Here you find the whole enchilada
of San Antonio's charms: old-Spanish architecture, lush vegetation, Texas-size
hospitality, and a festive ambience.
The Revenge
of the Red Balloon USA | 8:00 Collection Comedy Family International
No Dialogue Synopsis In this farcical homage to the French classic short
film The Red Balloon, The Balloon returns to hunt down those nasty little
garcons who popped him 40 years ago. ABOUT THE BALLOON: Classically trained
at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Latex Arts, The Balloon went on to win
critical acclaim in the National Theatre's 1977 production of Hamlet for
his stunning portrayal of Laertes. His real breakthrough, however, came
while singing the part of Bill in the Old Vic's award-winning Oliver, playing
opposite John Gielgud's Fagan. The Balloon feels he can play any color,
though as he himself admits, he is best known for red.
Garden
of the Gods - I must admit that my expectations from photography
in what is in essence a city park weren't terribly high, but this early
morning generated two nice red-rock images before the sun got high enough
to make the scenes too contrasty. At least we didn't have to drive far
for breakfast. COLORADO HIGH COUNTRY - by David Henderson, PhotoTripUSA.
360° Tour Red
Square Red Square, Moscow. Square one: You're standing on the cobblestone
expanse of Red Square in Moscow. Lenin's venerated tomb, St. Basil's colorful
onion domes, and the red walls of the Kremlin rise around you. Once crowded
with market stalls, and later with tanks and troops on parade, this plaza
has been the center of Moscow life for centuries. Any tour of the 850-year-old
city naturally begins here.
Go Sick:
Freakboys USA | 2:49 Collection Comedy Extreme - Synopsis: A couple
of nutbag ne'er-do-wells from the Go Sick Army cut loose in public with
a phone-humping, spasmodic frenzy. You will never use a payphone or offer
to assist anyone in public ever again.
Red
Mountain -We'd spotted the position earlier in the day and arrived
in good time for sunset, but whilst this image was pleasing because of
the clouds, the sun sank below a bank of cloud to the west and we never
did get to photograph these mountains as they turn fire-red in the last
of the sun. COLORADO HIGH COUNTRY - by David Henderson, PhotoTripUSA.
360° Tour
Inside the White House Washington, D.C. Diplomacy in the round:
You're standing in the elliptical Diplomatic Reception Room in the White
House-an honor usually reserved for visiting ambassadors. The First Family
often uses this room as an entrance to the White House from the South Grounds
(midway between the Rose Garden and the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden).
Go SICK:
Bad Ass Meter Maid (Parking Violations) USA | 4:21 Collection Comedy
Extreme - Synopsis: An actor playing the part of a lunatic meter maid (man?)
is set loose on an unsuspecting populace, and puts some drivers through
some big-time bewilderment.
Approaching
the International Space Station Credit: STS-100 Crew, NASA Explanation:
Earlier this month the crew of the US Space Shuttle Endeavor took in this
view as they approached the developing International Space Station (ISS).
The Endeavor and ISS crew installed Italy's Raffaello, a Multi-Purpose
Logistics Module and successfully deployed Canada's Canadarm2, a robot
remote-controlled arm that can move about the outside of the station. The
shuttle undocked from the ISS yesterday and is scheduled to return to Earth
today. A manned Russian Soyuz spacecraft is scheduled to dock with Earth's
busiest orbiting outpost early today. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific
rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.
360° Tour Waikiki
Beach Honolulu, Hawaii. Sands of legend: Hawaiian kings and queens
favored beautiful Waikiki Beach for their ceremonies. You too can feel
like royalty when staying in one of the luxury hotels on Hawaii's most
famous strip of sand. Surf or sail during the day, and dine by the glow
of torches at night. With swaying palms and Diamond Head as a backdrop,
it's easy to tune out the bustling city behind you. Expedia.
Go SICK:
Bad Ass Meter Maid (Pedestrian Violations) USA | 4:49 Collection Comedy Extreme Synopsis: Our bad-ass meter man has turned his spiteful
and bilious eye toward the unsuspecting pedestrians of Beverly Hills. Prepare
for some serious smacking down.
Learn My Tie Trick
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