Former long wave transmitter station Radio Kootwijk was used during the early 20th century as the main communication relay between the Netherlands and Dutch East Indies. The art-deco building designed by architect Julius Luthmann is also called ‘the cathedral’.

Now abandoned the building still stands in the middle of Dutch moorland, and is somewhat tricky to find. The main building is now used as an exhibition hall. The building was also used in the Hollywood movie ‘Mindhunters’.

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Rietveld Landscape, Atelier de Lyon sliced up a former defense bunker, opening up it’s interior which normally can’t be seen. A footpath was build, starting on top of the dyke, through the bunker (literally) and ending as a pier on piles in the flooded adjacent reserve.

Bunker 599 is part of the former defense line called the Nederlandse Waterlinie (Dutch Waterline). The line protected the western part of the Netherlands by means of intentional flooding. The line was active from 1815 until 1940.

Bunker 599 is located on the Diefdijk, next to highway A2, near Culemborg. More info on the build check this link.

In an earlier post I reported about the invisible man Liu Bolin. He’s the master in camouflage photography.

Not everyone believes it, but the photographs are real, so no Photoshop filter! Liu is HANDPAINTED in al photo’s.

And what a treed, here is a new serie.
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Li Wei, a contemporary artist from Beijing China, has been taking self portraits to new heights… literally!

Li Wei states that these images are not computer montages and that he works with the help of props such as mirrors, metal wires, scaffolding and acrobatics. He then removes the wires and scaffolding with Photoshop to create these seemingly impossible photos.

I made a small collection of some of Wei’s most outstanding photos, in a unique combination of artistry and acrobatics that are sure to make you take a second look.
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The invisible man, for real! This is Liu Bolin in action

This guy paints himself, no kidding, no trick photography he just paints
himself. I'll bet he was kick ass at hide and seek when he was a kid .

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The Pioneer CDJ-1000 CD Turntable was revolutionary when it launched because it was among the first devices to mimic vinyl turntables without the vinyl. Now, upgraded and equipped with a huge, 6.1-inch screen, the CDJ-2000 wants to up the ante.

By Adrian Covert, as written on Gizmodo.com

The screen is able to display song info, album art, wave data and other advanced song info. In addition to the WQVGA screen (480x234), the CDJ-2000 brings a number of enhancements over its predecessor. For starters, it has a touch-sensitive area called the "Needle Pad," which lets users jump to a specific song point with the flick of a finger. Secondly, the turntables can now act as a MIDI controller for other devices, with all of its 35 buttons at the ready for musical manipulation. Lastly, it comes equipped with Pioneer's "Pro DJ Link," which lets you plug and external data source into one turntable, and access that data on any other CDJ-2000 turntable linked up to the system.
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What to do when you have a really lame boring job or you’re at home with the swine flu. Just to name a few examples off course. Well I saw the solution on a blog the other day.

Go to your office supply store and buy all the staples you can get and build yourself a skyline!

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With temperatures well over 25 degrees centigrade for the last few days, where you goanna go living in a city? Right straight to the park. Lacking a good park in my hometown, I compiled a list of the best parks in the world according to my humble opinion.

1. Central Park, New York.
Need I say more. This is it, you can’t find a better park anywhere in the world. This park has it all, from large grass fields to playgrounds, a open air theater, lakes and a skating ring. There is even a wildpark and a castle.

2. Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris
an amazing park, not known by many tourists (thank got), which is in fact the garden of the Palais du Luxembourg. Parisians visit the park on their lunch break (for two hours!) during the week and in the weekend children play with sailboats in the pond.

3. Hyde Park, London / Sydney
The same name with the same fame. Well almost.

You beg to differ? Please share your tips or personal top3.

Nazis or aliens or Nazi aliens are back and they have invaded Northrop Grumman's top secret grounds in California, where engineers have been testing the surprising anti-radar capabilities of the Horten 2-29 fighter. The results: It could have changed everything.

Germany lost the Battle of Britain partly thanks to the British radar. The fat baton-bearing lunatic and chief of the Luftwaffe Hermann Göring turned to the Horten brothers to develop something that would give the German air force superiority. They came up with the most advanced plane of the war, one that surpassed everything else out there by three decades but fortunately never had the time to be produced in any kind of significant numbers: The Horten 2-29, an airplane unlike anything else out there, which—as this reconstruction shows—looks alien in its design.

Northrop Grumman's black-op engineers—who usually work in top secret USAF projects like the B-2 Stealth Bomber, Ho 2-29's design heir—analyzed (again?) the remains of the only surviving plane, reconstructed it, and tested its stealth capabilities. It's probably not the first time they have done that, but this time they did it for a National Geographic TV documentary.

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