I found an interesting collection of vertigo-inducing photographs over at My Modern Metropolis today. Here are a few examples. (Click each picture for a larger view.)
View from the 77th floor inside the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Shanghai, China
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There are many more at the link. Some make me giddy just looking at them!
Peter
I've been in that hotel, a few floors above that. The picture doesn't hold a candle to the vertigo of actually being there. Particularly when you're a bit acrophobic.
ReplyDeleteThe second photo almost looks as if it were from the top of the radio mast on the Empire State Building.
ReplyDeleteLittleRed1
I loathe such pictures. I've been far more comfortable upside-down at 35,000 feet with four nylon straps and 1/4" of plexiglas between me and eternity than I am standing on a precipice as pictured. I cannot watch Peter's videos of BASE jumpers or windsuit gliders without a retraction of my privates.
ReplyDeleteLeatherneck
I can't even look at those without wanting to hork. Vertigo, indeed.
ReplyDeleteAnd airplanes don't really bother me. Go figure.
Peter, have you seen/shared this super-high-tower-climbing video?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgO4Gd4RhvM