Two climbers dedicating their lives to scaling some of the world’s tallest and most iconic buildings without safety harnesses have revealed their latest exploits to MailOnline. Vitaliy Raskalov, 22, and Vadim Makhorov, 25, climbed to dizzying heights to take these vertigo-inducing pictures from the tips of skyscrapers looking down on Hong Kong and Shenzhen last… Continue reading Daredevil Climbers Scale Hong Kong’s 650 Metre-high Skyscrapers
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World’s Largest Vertical Maze in Dubai
Completed in January 2012, Maze Tower is a skyscraper located along Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. According to Guinness World Records, the 57-story Maze Tower has the largest vertical maze in the world. Maze Tower was designed by German architecture firm Planquadrat, which owned by Al Rostamani Group. The intricate balconies found on the front and rear… Continue reading World’s Largest Vertical Maze in Dubai
Man Changes A Lightbulb On A 1500-Foot TV Tower
How many daredevils does it take to change a lightbulb at 1,500 feet? Climber Kevin Schmidt from South Dakota, shows how it’s done and even pauses for a selfie when he finished the job. Watch Schmidt in the stunning video below, posted by Prairie Aerial, climbing to the very top of the KDLT-TV antenna in Salem, South Dakota.
Incredible Photos of Dubai Skyscrapers Above The Fog
Dubai-based photographer Daniel Cheong takes wonderfully ethereal photos of Dubai’s skyscrapers emerging from thick layers of fog. His amazing collection of photo shots made the futuristic city look like a kingdom in the sky. Dubai is known for its desert-like conditions, but every spring residents find themselves surrounded by thick fog. You can find more of Cheong’s work on his… Continue reading Incredible Photos of Dubai Skyscrapers Above The Fog
Biggest Ever Crowd-Sourced Time-Lapse Filmed In London
Professional time-lapse photographer Chad Gordon Higgins and award-winning urban photographer Nicholas Goodden joined forces with forty photographers in London to create the biggest ever crowd-sourced time-lapse in just one day. The diversity, atmosphere, pace and buzz of the city makes London the perfect place for any timelapse, and its unique flavour is captured over 80 clips… Continue reading Biggest Ever Crowd-Sourced Time-Lapse Filmed In London
Beautiful Time-Lapse Compares Paris And New York City
Filmmaker Franck Matellini has created a clever time-lapse video that shows the beautiful similarities between Paris and New York City. The video shows the two popular cities in a split screen, side-by-side comparison between cultures, architecture, transportation and more.
GoPro: Building Demolition In Germany
GoPro has posted a video of a building in Germany being demolished with nearly a ton of explosives. More than 2,000 pounds of explosives brought down the gigantic 32-story AfE Tower in Frankfurt. The building was located on the campus of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, and was imploded on February 2nd, 2014.
Stunning Time-Lapse Video of Boston
An incredible new layered time-lapse video of Boston created by photographer Julian Tryba which was shot as a single scene at different times and different speeds. Boston Layer-Lapse is a project that took 100 hours to shoot with 150,000 photos (6 terabytes each) and was created for Kessler University which hosts the video content.