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Kuala Lumpur DAY-NIGHT

5 months. 400 hours of solid work. 4 cameras. 40 shoots. 640 gigabytes of file space. 19,997 photographs.

That’s how much work architectural photographer Rob Whitworth put in to create his dazzling 2 minute 36 second time lapse video of Kuala Lumpur.

When asked why he chose to create a time lapse video of Malaysia’s largest metropolis, Whitworth’s response is that Kuala Lumpur fascinates him.

“It’s hard not to be blown away by the Petronas Twin Towers. At night they are just beautiful. The towers, together with the monorail, give the city an almost science fiction feel. “I was fascinated by the city’s mixture of super-modern buildings existing alongside its varied cultural enclaves and with a little of Asia’s chaos thrown in,”he tells Yahoo! Malaysia.

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Owl City “Vanilla Twilight”

Sometime it feel so good good to listen back Owl City “Vanilla Twilight”.

FIN - Help End The Horror (by TeamBiteBack)

Bite-Back is an innovative shark and marine conservation charity that works to inspire restaurants and retailers to put conservation before commerce and stop selling vulnerable and threatened fish species. Please help Bite-Back make Britain’s restaurants shark fin-free. Sadly more than 80 restaurants in the UK sell shark fin soup. With the help of its supporters, the charity now plans to expose these establishments and encourage them to remove shark fin soup from menus, for good. Commenting on the film, chef and television presenter, Gordon Ramsay, said: “Demand for shark fin soup plays a significant part in this beautiful species’ threatened extinction and Bite-Back, who work tirelessly to campaign and promote the conservation of sharks and other marine life, needs all of our support.” This film has been created by the award-winning London advertising agency, Ogilvy & Mather, with the help of Afrioceans Conservation Alliance, Greenpeace, Lesley Rochat, Pretoma.org, Scubazoo, Shark Project International and WildAid. Our genuine and sincere thanks go to them all. Please share this film and visit http://www.bite-back.com to find out how you can help.

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Lembeh Strait 2012

Here is some Lembeh Strait Critters shoot with Canon PowerShot S100

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Pygmy Seahorse

Hairy Frogfish *Yawning*

Flamboyant Cutterfish

Apple to launch completely redesigned iPhone in Fall 2012 BGR has learned a number of details surrounding Apple’s next-generation iPhone from a close source. For starters, we can now confidently say that Apple’s next iPhone will launch in the fall next year, around the same time that this year’s iPhone 4S launched. We have also learned that Apple is planning to use a rubber or plastic material — similar to the material used in the company’s bumper cases — that will be built into the new iPhone case. In all likelihood, this material will be used as a bezel surrounding the front edge of the phone (like the iPhone 3GS bezel) and it will serve two purposes. First, it will join the glass iPhone face with a new aluminum back plate. It will also cover a redesigned antenna system that surrounds the device, allowing Apple to build the rear case out of aluminum without having to use a large plastic insert above the antennas as the company does on its iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G. Earlier reports suggested that Apple’s next-generation iPhone will feature an aluminum case similar to the one found on the iPad 2, as well as a larger display around 4 inches. Reported by BGR

Apple to launch completely redesigned iPhone in Fall 2012

BGR has learned a number of details surrounding Apple’s next-generation iPhone from a close source. For starters, we can now confidently say that Apple’s next iPhone will launch in the fall next year, around the same time that this year’s iPhone 4S launched. We have also learned that Apple is planning to use a rubber or plastic material — similar to the material used in the company’s bumper cases — that will be built into the new iPhone case. In all likelihood, this material will be used as a bezel surrounding the front edge of the phone (like the iPhone 3GS bezel) and it will serve two purposes. First, it will join the glass iPhone face with a new aluminum back plate. It will also cover a redesigned antenna system that surrounds the device, allowing Apple to build the rear case out of aluminum without having to use a large plastic insert above the antennas as the company does on its iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G. Earlier reports suggested that Apple’s next-generation iPhone will feature an aluminum case similar to the one found on the iPad 2, as well as a larger display around 4 inches. Reported by BGR

China launches high-speed test train capable of 310 mph, shaped like an ancient sword.

According to an old “Simpsons” quote, there’s nary a thing that can outrun a greased Scotsman. That’s no longer the case, as Chinese train manufacturer CSR Corp Ltd. unveiled a 500 km/h (310 mph) high-speed test train over the weekend. The train, which consists of six cars, is shaped to look like an ancient sword, reinforced with carbon fiber, and has a maximum tractive power of 22,800 kilowatts. Similar (if not identical in terms of proposed speeds) projects currently under construction include the 310 mph maglev train planned by Southwest Jiaotong University, the Tokyo to Osaka bullet train planned for 2045 and the proposed 269 mph maglev train from Anaheim to Las Vegas. The test unit is part of China’s trillion dollar effort effort to build 13,000 km (8,078 miles) of high-speed rail network by 2012, and about 20,000 km (12,427 miles) by 2020. This new launch comes after a series of high-speed train-related troubles throughout 2011 in which the former Railways Ministry chief, Liu Zhijun, was accused of pocketing $122 million and subsequently terminated from his position; this was followed by a July collision between two high-speed trains in Wenzhou, which killed at least 40 people and injured another 210. Still, the new test train tops out at 310 miles per hour and is shaped like an ancient sword, so past snafus can probably be forgiven.