October 29, 2009 @ 12:16 am
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Wow, I believe this is the first time I’ve ever seen a cake fashioned to look like a New York City MTA Subway car (an F train, too!). It’s not perfect, but it is kind of neat I think, so kudos to Dahlia’s Cakes for putting this together.
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October 16, 2009 @ 8:48 pm
This is the craziest thing I’ve seen all day. On Thursday morning in Melbourne, Australia, a woman’s stroller carrying her 6-month-old baby slipped directly into the path of an oncoming train. The stroller and the baby were both pushed about 40 meters down the track and miraculously the baby only suffered a small bump to the head. Watch the surveillance footage from the train stop above.
August 22, 2009 @ 7:10 pm
I think this is my new favorite music video. It’s directed by Michel Gondry and it was made for the song “Star Guitar” by The Chemical Brothers. The video is made to look like it was continuously shot from the window of a speeding train but Gondry somehow made the objects outside the window sync up with the beats in the song which no doubt makes for an awesome visual trick.
I wish everything that passed before my eyes went along to a dance beat.
Thanks Clarence for showing me this weeks ago!
August 20, 2009 @ 3:48 am
I want to go where MISHKA shot their Fall 2009 lookbook. Looks nice and desolate. Plus, there are train tracks which always mean good stuff nearby.
July 20, 2009 @ 6:49 pm
In June 2006, Truman Duncan, a railroad switch operator at the Gunderson Southwest yard in Cleburne, TX, fell onto the tracks and was run over by a moving train. The incident caused Truman’s body to be taken under the wheels of the train car which weighed about 20,000 pounds. As you can guess, Truman’s body was literally sliced in two, but amazingly, he did not die and was in the right mind to call 911 himself for assistance.
Today, Truman is alive and well and speaking out about the accident and how his life is still rich and full despite the loss of his left leg, pelvis, and kidney. He hopes that his inspiring words will convince war veterans that it is still worth living even if you are seriously injured in war.
In 2008, Truman Duncan and one of the doctors that is credited with saving his life (after 23 surgeries!) sat down with Matt Lauer on the Today Show to talk about the accident and how Duncan is keeping his spirits up and well with family and friends supporting him.
Video embedded below.
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July 16, 2009 @ 7:20 am
This is pretty neat. The magnetic field caused by the acceleration and braking of some commuter trains in Japan are apparently strong enough to go through the car and cause paperclips on the floor to stand on their ends. [via]
