Jamiroquai, Cosmic Girl

Jamiroquai, Cosmic Girl, from the 1996 album, Travelling Without Moving. LINK: Youtube

It's even bigger than a blimp

The world's largest flying machine has touched down ever so gently in Eden Prairie.

The Farmers Airship, one of only two zeppelins in existence, arrived Tuesday at Flying Cloud Airport just before 7 p.m. The California-based airship, with its Farmers Insurance sponsorship clearly visible, is touring the country and offering opportunities for the public to buy rides starting Friday and through the weekend.

Though it looks like a blimp, a zeppelin differs in that it has an internal framework. It is filled with nonflammable helium and maneuvers similarly to a helicopter. Two lateral engines and one in the rear provide flight control and propulsion. It measures 246 feet long -- that's 15 feet longer than a Boeing 747and 50 feet longer than the world's largest blimp.

The airship left Milwaukee late Tuesday morning, crossed into Minnesota at Wabasha and then coasted to the Twin Cities from there. In a nod to its sponsor, the airship passed over the Farmers Insurance regional headquarters in Bloomington.

To track the zeppelin's travels online, visit www.airshipventures.com/tracking.php. According to the site, rides can range from $375 or more a person. LINK

Slow Motion Pellets vs Spray Paint Cans

Pellets travelling 800 fps hitting paint cans. Filmed at 600 frames/second with a Casio EXF1 Pro Camera. -Air Rifle: Winchester 800x. LINK: Youtube

TOP 5 STRANGELY COLORED BEACHES

“Unless you’re lucky enough to have visited some of the unique shorelines below you’ll probably be used to seeing – at best – golden beaches on your travels. In fact a lot of people believe golden sands to be the only option when it comes to beaches. To prove otherwise, and to show off a few of the world’s most uniquely colored stretches of sand, we present the following selection.” w/ photos. LINK

First ever sighting of a White Lady Spider - Animal Camera - BBC

Fascinating short video charting the extraordinary journey of a male White Lady Spider as it travels across the featureless desert in the dead of night. Brilliant footage from the BBC Animal Camera team. Narrated by Steve Leonard. LINK: Youtube

Black Penguin

Photo: Andrew Evans

National Geographic Traveler contributing editor Andrew Evans (@Bus2Antarctica) snapped this photo of a rare black penguin during his travels around the world to Antarctica.

He wrote that it’s a "rare melanistic trait that’s practically undocumented" on king penguins. LINK

Boing Boing travels to Antarctica

On his trip to Antarctica, Alek O. Komarnitsky took these wide-angle shots of Adelie Penguins walking by a Boing Boing logo he set down in the snow. LINK: Boingboing

Wide-angle shots of Adelie Penguins walking by BoingBoing sign in Antarctica.

Strange World Delight: a Treatise on Parallel Universes

The idea of parallel universes has been one of the most celebrated stuffs of mythology, science fiction and fantasy for long eons of time. And it continues to fascinate both readers and writers across cultures and generations.

read more, Via: Webphemera

Overview Of The Universe

A time traveler in many novels is made to arrive at strange places – parallel universes. And more so often, a travel into the future or past entails the existence of extra dimensions apart from the three-dimensional space that we move through everyday. This other dimension that allows time travel is often equated by many writers as other universes existing independently with our own, albeit govern by different laws of physics. LINK

Louis Vuitton Journeys Awards - Aurore

“A man travels through his senses, and through the other’s body, discovers his own.”

Full story at the Vimeo link.

Orba Squara - The Trouble With Flying

The footage for this time lapse video is taken from the cross country journey Orba Squara traveled to prepare for the release of their new album, "The Trouble With Flying."

Billy Squier provides guest vocals and guitar on the song "The Trouble With Flying." LINK: Youtube

Camper Bike by Kevin Cyr

Boston-based artist Kevin Cyr has created another type of eco product: the Camper Bike. Secured on a steady three-wheeler the camper is a human-driven sustainable RV that can be taken for a ride by a single pedaler. The inside is still under construction but once finished the Camper Bike will be equipped with the most necessary amenities for a few days on the road, making it a neat alternative holiday house — that is, if you don’t mind traveling solo. On his website Cyr describes the camper as a sculptural art piece, even if it is fully functioning. As such there might be little luck in wishing for one of your own anytime soon. But who knows, if Cyr gets a good response maybe he’ll put the camper into production. LINK