Stanford University PhD student Cassandra Brooks recently spent two months sailing through Antarctica’s Ross Sea aboard an ice-breaker. Rarely a dull moment by the looks of it, including even the occasions the vessel was temporarily trapped by the sea ice.

Via Lost At E Minor.

There are train spotters, and plane spotters, now it looks as if there are also escalator spotters.

Via Kottke.

Little Wellington, a glimpse of the capital of New Zealand, also home to Webstock, and the iconic Beehive, one of the country’s parliament buildings.

91 year old New York City based shoemaker Frank Catalfumo has been plying his trade since 1945. There can’t be too many like him around anymore.

Catalfumo says “we gotta keep moving in life”. True. I also think that if there’s something you love doing, you should never stop either.

The building of one of the world’s largest ships, a Triple-E class container vessel, has been crunched down into just over one minute. It almost looks likes a LEGO model is being assembled at times, given the number of prefabricated components that are, almost quite casually, just slotted into its structure.

Here’s hoping they do something like this for the construction of Titanic II.

Professional British BMX rider Harry Main shows us some of his moves… I was left wondering how he manages to keep himself, and his bike, in one piece.

A trailer, if you like, for the 100 Year Starship screensaver, which emulates the experience of travelling to some of the stars closest to the Sun.

What’s a cinematographer to do while flying across the US, in this case between San Francisco and Philadelphia? Film the flight, of course.

Via Devour.

Seven million years of the development of the human face condensed into just over one minute.

Via My Modern Met.

Living vicariously thanks to YouTube. Just the thing I used to dream of trying… super heating a metallic object of some sort, in this case a lump of nickel, and then dropping it on top of a large block of ice.