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2016-11-14

I guess Inishturk can be expecting some new arrivals any day now. Endearing (not to mention prescient) short from MEL Films.

2016-10-29

Images from the Koers is Religie ('Racing is Religion') exhibit in the (deconsecrated) Paterskerk in Roeselare, Flanders. El T can personally testify...

2016-01-28

Pippo Pozzato Andreas Klöden's gammy Devil wtf, Sylvain? And our own Tom Boonen Cyclists & tattoos: not even once. As seen on VeloBeats.

2015-09-23

Originally found somewhere on Pinterest; this image from devilduck.tumblr.com Text of the original pamphlet available to read online, for those who are...

2015-07-22

Never ones to do anything by half when it comes to urban planning, officials in China aim to link Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei into a megalopolis of 1...

2014-11-02

Via ✍ Bibliophilia

2014-06-05

Ayolt Kloosterboer's film of the 2013 Paris-Roubaix, from the perspective of the dreaded broom wagon. Watch 'The back of hell - from the broom wagon...

2014-01-08

  Guy Laramée carved is mountaineous landscape 'Adieu' from an Encyclopedia Britannica set. Pictures from Colossal, via Saatchi Gallery Twitter...

2013-11-18

The MAVEN spacecraft before its launch today. Image from NASA HQ, via @pourmecoffee

2013-11-18

Piet van Kempen, Dutch track cyclist and general all-round bad-ass, taking a break during a six-day event in Wembley, 1936. via @History_Pics