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This week we explore The Grand Egyptian Museum, the world’s largest, as well as a stunning skydiving photo taken against the sun.
Check out some of the best Moss and Fog articles from the last week!
Inside the Largest Museum Ever Built
Under construction for decades, the museum is complete.
Imagine a museum so vast it feels like a small city. The Grand Egyptian Museum is one of the largest cultural projects in the world, covering nearly 50 hectares with more than 167,000 square meters of built space.
It sits beside the Pyramids of Giza and stands as the largest museum dedicated to a single civilization.
The museum officially opened to the public in the last month, and plans to welcome 19,000 visitors a day.
Read more about this massive new museum on our website.
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Unbelievable Photo Captures Skydiver Falling In Front of the Sun
Famed astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has a new showstopper.
The photo shows a skydiver seemingly tumbling across the blazing face of the Sun.
Titled “The Fall of Icarus,” the image pairs a razor-sharp solar mosaic with the upside-down silhouette of friend and collaborator Gabriel C. Brown, captured over the Arizona desert.
The result is a classic myth made modern. It also seems impossible to capture in lens, but is absolutely real.
Via Andrew McCarthy
McCarthy shot the Sun in hydrogen-alpha light to reveal its hot, roiling chromosphere, then aligned Brown’s free-fall at just the right instant, after multiple precise passes by the aircraft, to etch the human figure against erupting prominences and swirls of plasma.
Incredibly Creative Miniatures by Tatsuya Tanaka
We love the art of making miniatures, and the way regular objects can become huge, scenery objects, when artfully arranged.
Artist Tatsuya Tanaka is a master, able to turn household objects into mini masterpieces.
Some of his recent pieces include divers jumping off clothespins into terry towel pools, hard boiled eggs that become soaking pools, ice fishermen dropping a lure into a broken phone screen, and even a surfer catching some awesome waves made of fried rice.
Some truly wonderful creativity at work, we love this collection. You can buy compilations of his work as gifts here.
See more of his work on Instagram with over 4 million followers, where he posts daily.
Moss and Fog’s Holiday Gift Guide, Coming Soon!
So much good stuff, coming soon!
We’ve long found that the perfect gift can be a game changer. We’ll be sharing our 2025 Holiday Gift Guide this week, with dozens of amazing products, from unique technology to artistic crafts from around the world. Check back on Mossandfog.com to see more!
Wild West Outlaw Billy the Kid Like You’ve Never Seen
Billy the Kid has been photographed exactly once. One solitary tintype from the early 1880s is the only image historians agree is truly him. For more than a century, that tiny metal portrait has existed as a grainy, ghostly reminder of the Wild West.
The multi-story cross being craned into place.
Now a modern photo restorer has brought the outlaw back into focus, revealing details long lost to time. Using tools like Photoshop, and an AI upscaler tool called Magnific, we see the photo for the first time in high resolution.
The upscaled image of Billy the Kid.
The cleaned and carefully revived image sharpens the Kid’s features, brightens his expression, and gives us a version of him that feels startlingly present.
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