Photo of the day: Disney silhouette

by Alex Robertson Textor on

Images of Disneyworld fall into two categories: personal snaps and images that look like they could be used as marketing collateral. I love this image of the Magic Kingdom’s iconic Cinderella Castle towers, taken by Flickr user insEyedout, precisely because it falls into neither camp. It’s too pretty to count as a random snap and too sparse to go in a brochure.

That said, it certainly achieves the aim of advertisement. What better way to encapsulate the deep thrill that Disney’s amusements inspire than to reduce those towers to a silhouette on a horizon? How recognizable is this image to hundreds of millions of people?

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Photo of the Day: Falafel, going fast

by Meg Nesterov on


We at Gadling love street food. Whether it’s from an upscale Manhattan cart or from a Chinese cannon, you’ll find that some of the most satisfying and authentic local food doesn’t come from a restaurant. Today’s Photo of the Day by Flickr user micke77023 comes from Cairo, Egypt of a falafel man who seems to enjoy his product. You can almost smell the chickpea goodness emanating from his kitchen and tell that whatever he’s cooking is bound to be tasty.

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Photo of the Day: Monday morning in Ho Chi Minh City

by Jessica Marati on

Each morning in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, mobile street vendors brave the city’s frenetic traffic to hawk breakfast specialties like banana patties, pho, and other popular Vietnamese street foods. A typical Monday morning scene is captured in today’s monochrome Photo of the Day from Flickr user Jeryc Garcia.

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Video of the Day: Flying People in New York City

by Mike Barish on

Imagine if you could fly. Not in an airplane or a helicopter. I mean, you could fly like Superman. How amazing would it be to soar through cities and observe everyone from above. Well, imagine looking up and seeing three people flying around New York City. That’s what must have happened when people saw these human-shaped remote control airplanes circling around New York. It looks like it might just be a promotional video for the new film Chronicle, but that doesn’t make it any less awesome. Time to stare out there window and wish for some superpowers.

Photo of the Day: Snow Covered Coastal Moutains

by Chris Owen on

Flickr member James Wheeler is back with this Photo of the Day from Kitsilano, Vancouver, BC, CA, using a Nikon D5000 and tells us

“Vancouver and the west coast of Canada are known for their rainy winters. So, even though the coastal mountains are snow covered most of the year, us Vancouverites rarely see them because of the clouds and rain. I got this photo one morning when it was actually clear out for a while …”

Check out the location and better quality version of this photography on James Wheeler‘s blog at Snow Covered Coastal Mountains photo blog post

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