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Elle Fanning – Rodarte: The Curve of Forgotten Things (2011)

December 25, 2011 @ 11:56 am

I don’t care so much for the fashion here, but I love the place where this was filmed. It was filmed on location in the empty Baldwin House located on top of an oil field in the Baldwin Hills. [via]

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Oil wells on California beaches (circa 1895-1940)

December 17, 2011 @ 3:48 pm

As recently as the early 1940′s Huntington beach and some other nearby beaches along California’s coast were home to some towering oil wells like the ones seen here. [via] This is so crazy. And no, these are not Photoshop’d. These … Continue reading →

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Close-up video of the oil tanker explosion on I-95 tonight

November 8, 2011 @ 12:37 am

A multi-car accident on the New Jersey Turnpike turned into an explosion as an oil tanker involved in the accident caught fire and exploded. The tanker was reportedly holding 8500 gallons of fuel before it sent flames and smoke billowing … Continue reading →

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Team Elastec’s 4600-gallon-per-minute oil skimmer

October 30, 2011 @ 8:46 pm

Gizmodo reports that Team Elastec recently won the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE by building an oil skimming rig that can pump 4600 gallons of oil a minute out of water to aid oil cleanup efforts. The team used … Continue reading →

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Video of a pizza box collector

July 30, 2011 @ 10:48 pm

I don’t order pizzas by the pie enough to know enough about different pizza box designs but I have something of a soft spot for this guy and his collection of pizza boxes. Everybody’s got to have a hobby, and … Continue reading →

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Team Ghost – High Hopes

July 4, 2011 @ 3:01 am

Beautiful slow-motion music video of…water/oil? Not sure actually, but it looks nice.

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