Things I Think Are Kinda Cool

This year was sort of crazy, right?  Try not to think too much about it…Happy NYE!

It’s not always about romantic bridges and pommes frites…on my last trip to Paris, it seemed like every time I turned a corner I discovered another kick-ass piece of street art.  Voila:

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The Yurikamome Rail Transit connects the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Odaiba.  Photographer AppuruPai created these stunning images of the railway by using loooooooong exposure shots.  Wow.

-via Today and Tomorrow

Check out more of AppuruPai’s beautiful photos here.

Preview to the Zombie-pocalypse:

Ah…summer in Chicago – the annual tradition of repressing and temporarily forgetting the nightmarish pain and harsh brutality of the winter (ok, maybe that’s a little overdramatic, but seriously, it’s freaking COLD!). My hometown never looked so good:

-via @TechZader

Click here to see more Tilt-Shift mini-goodness here on TITAKC.

It’s true, it’s World Water Day, and Shinchi Maruyama’s already partying!  He creates stunning art by throwing water in the air and taking photos of the shapes it makes mid-flight:

-Click here for an interview with Shinchi Maruyama (via Kottke)

Take a mini-ski trip from the comfort of your couch.  (Lazy ski bum.)

-via Presurfer

Click here to get your Tilt-shift Photography fix on.

What’s the only proven way to amp up the cute factor of the Disney World Christmas parade even higher?  Tilt-shift that sucker!

-via The Daily What

Click here for more tilt-shifted goodness.

Photographer Edward Horsford times his camera shutter to the exact millisecond that a water balloon pops – these stunning images are some of the fruits of his painstaking labor.

-via Neatorama

Not afraid of getting a little wet?  Learn the ins-and-outs of how Edward creates these pics at DIY Photographs.