Mark Evans, from Conwy, Snowdonia, creates famous portraits by etching on leather with a hand knife.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
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12 Alternative Uses for a Broken Laptop
If your laptop is broken beyond repair, don’t through it away yet. You can use it for various purposes such as…
crack nuts
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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Japanese Snow Monkeys relaxing in a hot spring
In northern Japan, in the province of Nagano, snow stays up to four months at a stretch. The average winter temperature here is -5 ° C, sometimes dropping to -15 ° C. Living at such extreme temperatures are the Japanese macaques, also known as snow monkeys. Thankfully for them, hot water springs are close at hand where the monkeys spend most of day to fight the biting cold.
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Camouflaged Cell Phone Towers
Even though people increasingly depend upon cellular communications, they are opposed to the bare cell phone towers spoiling otherwise scenic views. Many people view bare towers as an ugly mark on a beautiful landscape. So many companies disguise their cell phone towers as trees, church towers, flag poles, water tanks and other features. These are generally called "stealth towers" or "stealth installations".
Sunday, January 17, 2010
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Motorcycle Based on Famous Logos
Massow Concept Cycles is the brainchild of design guru Barend Massow Hemmes.
The concept of designing motorcycles based on iconic corporate logos was for many years a concept which lived on paper. Barend set about transforming his paper vision into a working reality. 3 years later, with expert help from Polar Cycles, the Jaguar motorbike was finally completed and Massow Concept Cycles was founded.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
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Incredibly Photorealistic Vector Art
These are NOT photographs, but drawings - vector art to be precise, created entirely using Adobe Illustrator. Vector graphics uses meshes consisting of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and polygon, which are all based on mathematical equations, to represent images in computer graphics. Vector illustrations are extraordinarily slow, painstaking work and to achieve such photorealism through vectors is just mind blowing!
Wayne Forrest
Monday, January 4, 2010
Friday, January 1, 2010
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Edible Advertisement
Advertising agency Karmarama recreated the famous 1914 “Lord Kitchener Wants You” poster in meat for Colman's Mustard. The 1914 poster featured British Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener calling upon Britons to the join the country’s effort in the First World War. With this beautiful imitation, Karmarama hopes to motivate customers to eat Colman’s mustard along with meat.
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