Made in 1902, Fun in a bakery shop, that was, by the way, produced by Thomas Edison, is one of the earliest examples of a stop motion animation. See more of the oldest known stop motion animation clips here.

The familiar as seen from an unfamiliar perspective, that’s Exploded Flowers, a photo series by Singapore based photographer Fong Qi Wei.

Via designboom.

I can just about pack all that I need to get by for weeks at a time into one daypack size backpack type bag, including my laptop. Some miniaturisation, and obtaining certain requirements at destination, is still necessary though, but I’m sure I’m better at travelling light than I used to be.

If you’re looking for a few pointers for taking to the road with as little as possible I Am Packed may be able to help, even if it seems that some of these travellers have under-packed.

(Photo by Monhand Mathurin)

A bank of valves used to submerge or surface the German built UB-110 submarine that saw active duty, briefly, during the first world war. Now, we all know what does what, don’t we?

You could look out the same window for years and still see the world differently each time… during 2003 Malibu based photographer Robert Weingarten took a photo each day at 6:30 am of the view out the front of his house. Same old same old? Hardly.

Via my modern met.

Nate Bolt took a photo every two miles or so during a flight from San Francisco to Paris last year to produce this time-lapse footage of the journey.

Look out for a glimpse of what appears to be the aurora borealis at around the one minute and ten second mark.

Arizona born photographer, turned train-hopper, Mike Brodie has spent much of the last ten years travelling across the US aboard freight trains, and has, needless to say, amassed a fair few photos in the process.

Train-hopping might look relatively carefree, but it would be far from an easy life as this selection of photos shows (one or two images NSFW).

Russian photographer Vadim Mahorov, and his friends, clearly enjoy scaling whatever towering structures they can climb, and even though the Great Pyramids at Giza were probably one of their easier conquests (at least in terms of the actual climb), I’d say quite a few people were happy they made the effort, since you don’t see photos like these everyday.

An eye catching collection of images by French photographer Alain Delorme that seems to depict workers in Shanghai hauling overloaded bikes and carts about the city. Eye catching, as I say, even if the size of the cargos being transported is somewhat exaggerated.

Russian street artist Nikita Nomerz travels from town to town giving the derelict buildings he encounters a facelift, quite literally.

Via Environmental Graffiti.