Courchevel Altiport

 The History Channel program Most Extreme Airports ranks it as the seventh most extreme airport in the world.

One of the shortest and possibly thoughest runways in the world (537 meters, 18.6% gradient): Courchevel Altiport in French Alps. [📹 it4aero] Original post

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Death Scene

 When I die I hope it will be much less dramatic.

 

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Haute Horlage

Louis Vuitton Monogram created a one-of-a-kind soccer ball clock in celebration of the 10-year anniversary partnership between the French fashion house and UNICEF. Inspired by the Monogram soccer ball first introduced by Louis Vuitton during the 1998 FIFA World Cup, the sphere-shaped clock has transparent panels that reveal its intricate inner workings.

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Beautiful Drone Footage Of Central Park

Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1858, Central Park is widely regarded as a masterpiece of landscape architecture. It was created to offer urban dwellers a place to escape from the stresses of urban life and to commune with nature and fellow New Yorkers. This video is gorgeous.

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Sunday Links

Far out, man! A nice collection of counterculture art from the hippie era. (image above) Via Memo Of The Air

Taiwan’s Danjiang Bridge is built to survive a magnitude 7 earthquake. It runs across a 920-meter-long span, held by a single concrete mast which rises 200 meters above the estuary.

You don’t breathe, you bubble. Letters written during heatwaves by Jane Austin, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf and others.  

The White House has launched a new interactive map intended to showcase ICE operations across the United States. It looks exactly like a late-night conspiracy documentary. 

 Can concrete molds revive coral reefs ruined by bombs and climate change? A conservation group is trying to bring life back to Malaysia’s Coral Triangle. (NYT gift link)

Liminal Assembly shuttles people through decaying suburban shopping malls around the Greater Toronto Area, places that seem stuck in purgatory between eras, at once eerie and beseeching.

Smell-O-Vision A perfumed treatment for depression c1930.

Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting ‘thank-you gifts’ from other birds. (read more)

The Sunny Coffee Map:  finding sunny Paris terraces in real time.

Poop Cruises Are No Laughing Matter

Current Rothko shows you a Rothko painting selected based on the current weather outside your location. Via TMN

Dognosis: Specially trained dogs detect multiple types of cancer from a single breath, at early stages, for two dollars a test.

How many distinct knots have exactly 10 crossings? 

Why Costco is so successful: People want someone with the reputation and buying power to bin the obvious garbage before they walk in. They want the kind of constraint that protects them.

Detailed moth photos by Lithuanian photographer Eugenijus Kavaliauskas 

(Moss and Fog)

What’s the buzz? A New York cemetery was hiding 5.5 million bees underground.

Sometimes, the best way to explore a landscape is to sit down. Poet, painter and plantsman Bob Dash designed his lovely garden to call visitors to attention and to engage with a view they’d miss if on foot. NYT gift link 

People seeking cosmetic surgery based on chatbots’ recommendations find out that you can’t control everything.

Music For Sunday Morning

 Mei Semones - Koneko ft. Liana Flores

Happy Caturday!

“Shared Silence," 2026 

Francien Krieg (Dutch, b.1973) 

Rebels

In this sci fi short a group of mining robots discovers a crystal that gives them incredible power and they use it to fight back against their oppressive creators. 

(The Awesomer)

The Myth Of Ninjas

This video tells the truth behind Japan’s shinobi, who weren’t stealthy assassins sneaking around in black. 

(The Awesomer)

In The Hand Of Dante - Trailer

Julian Schnabel’s film, In The Hand Of Dante, debuted at last year’s Venice Film Festival. It tells the story of author Nick Tosches who is recruited by a mafia boss  to confirm the origins of a manuscript believed to be Dante’s The Divine Comedy written in the poet’s own hand. The film moves between the 21st and 14th centuries, weaving together the lives of Nick and Dante.