Archive: March 13, 2011

It’s always hard to tell how good these Sundance films are going to be — sometimes they turn out very bad — but this one called Win Win looks like it could be a winner. Let’s hope it doesn’t put me to sleep.

welcome-to-rochester

Rochester Subway has posted a nice gallery of vintage Rochester postcards on Flickr. Some of the illustrations still look very much like the real city today, so much so that I can actually recall some of these from my last visit to Rochester when I went into the abandoned Subway there.

Cars, houses, boats…EVERYTHING get swept away in the video above showing tsunami flood waters fully engulfing a town as people are trapped with nothing to do but watch in horror (and film the events as they unfold). If you want to get a clear view of how destructive and dangerous tsunamis are, this video is [...]

Several hours after the earthquake in Japan on Friday afternoon (Japan local time) the resulting tsunami reached the shores of the United States’ West Coast. In this video above, you can see just how strong the currents and the waves were even after traveling thousands of miles in the Pacific Ocean. The Santa Cruz Yacht [...]

buffalo-central-terminal

Taken back on July 14th of last year when I drove up to Buffalo and train-watched in abandoned places.