Tuesday, March 30, 2010
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The White Desert of Egypt
About 45 km north of Farafra, the White Desert begins. It’s truly a white desert in clear contrast with the yellow desert elsewhere, something which you will not believe before seeing with your own eyes. At night, and many of the organized trips out here include overnight stay out in the desert. The white desert is best viewed at sunrise or sunset, in the light of a full moon, which gives the landscape an eerie Arctic appearance.
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Living Paintings by Alexa Meade
Alexa Meade, a 23-year-old artist from the Washington DC area, has developed a painting technique that makes three-dimensional spaces look like flat, two-dimensional paintings. Instead of painting on canvas, she paints portraits directly on the subjects themselves.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
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A Camouflaged Cabin in the Woods
From a distance this might look like a pile logs left behind by some lumberjacks. Upon approaching closer you can make out that it’s actually a small cottage.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
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Wax Figures of Celebrities
The gallery below displays a collection of wax figures of celebrities at the Madam Tussauds museum. Pictures of the celebrities in flesh is provided along side for comparison. Some of them are pretty hard to distinguish.
Kate Moss
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Null Stern Hotel of Switzerland: Bomb Shelter Turned Hotel
Located in one of Switzerland’s historic regions, Appenzellerland, the Null Stern Hotel offers a unique and memorable lodging experience – because it was once a nuclear fallout shelter.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
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Saturday, March 20, 2010
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The Beautiful Wooden Churches of North Russia
These beautiful but depleted, centuries old wooden churches were captured through the lenses by Richard Davies. Richard was inspired by the works of Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin (1876 - 1942) a well known artist, stage designer and illustrator of Russian Folk Tales, who drew attention to the condition of the wooden churches through a series of photographs published in a 1904 article in the World of Art Magazine.
Verkhniaya Uftiuga, Arkhangel region, Church of St Demetrius of Thessalonica (1784)
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Scotch Off the Roll Tape Sculpture Contest
The Scotch Off the Roll Tape Sculpture Contest is an unusual competition of sculptures made out of sticky tapes. The scultures in this gallery are made by by sticking bits of tape together or by wrapping them around objects which are then removed from the piece. The models had to be made using Scotch packaging tape and the winning entry will receive $5000. Other materials, such as wire, cardboard and paint, can make up to ten per cent of the model if used to support or enhance it.
A Roman helmet by artist Nathan M
Friday, March 19, 2010
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Alice in Wonderland Original Manuscript
The original manuscript of Lewis Carroll, the pen-name of Charles Dodgson, is one of the British Library's best - loved treasures. Dodgson was fond of children and became friends with Lorina, Alice and Edith Liddell, the young daughters of the Dean of his college, Christ Church. One summer's day in 1862 he entertained them on a boat trip with a story of Alice's adventures in a magical world entered through a rabbit-hole. The ten-year-old Alice was so entranced that she begged him to write it down for her. It took him some time to write out the tale - in a tiny, neat hand - and complete the 37 illustrations. Alice finally received the 90-page book, dedicated to 'a dear child, in memory of a summer day', in November 1864.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
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Jan Vormann Repairs Crumbling Monuments With… Lego Bricks!
Jan Vormann, 26, is a German artist who has spent the last three years travelling the world fixing crumbling walls and monuments using Lego. Vorman took his project from its humble beginnings at an art fair in Rome and brightened up thousands of people's days with his brightly colored plastic Lego bricks.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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The Arecibo Observatory of the SETI Project
The Arecibo Observatory is a radio telescope located close to the city of Arecibo in Puerto Rico, operated by Cornell University under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. The observatory's 305 m (1,001 ft) radio telescope is the largest single-aperture telescope ever constructed.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Extreme Recycling: Cardboard Restaurant of Taiwan
In the city of Taichung, Taiwan you’ll find an environmental-friendly themed restaurant where everything including dining room furniture, bookcases, sofas, chairs and even dining tables are made out of recycled cardboard. These cardboards are thick and firm enough to apparently withstand the rigors of daily restaurant use. In addition to the restaurant’s furniture, the owner also displays a lot paper-made artworks such as the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Eiffel Tower.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Brian Marshall’s Sculptures out of Scrap Materials
American artist and sculptor Brian Marshall makes cute looking robots out of old greasers, aluminum spoons, pencil and other throw away scraps.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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Miss Russia 2010 Photo Gallery
Miss Russia 2010, was held in Barvikha Luxury Village Concert Hall in Moscow, Russia, on March 6, 2010, which saw Irina Antonenko of Yekaterinburg taking the crown at the end of the event. Antonenko will represent Russia at the “Miss World” contest this year. Irina Antonenko is from the Urals city of Yekaterinburg. Along with the title and the crown, Antonenko received a cash prize of $100,000.
51 contestants from all over the Russia competed for the crown.
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GAP Upside Down Store
“Shopping turned on its head” isn’t just a meaningless tagline for GAP. They literally mean it. To promote their new loyalty program, Sprize, the GAP in Vancouver, BC turned its entire store upside-down. All of the mannequins, displays and even the sign were flipped, as well as some cars and a hotdog stand outside of the store.
Monday, March 8, 2010
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Sculptures by Mark Newman
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Diet Scale: Bathroom Scale Tells You What To Eat
Designer Ji Lee has come up with an interesting new interface for a bathroom scale. Instead of displaying weight traditionally, his Diet Scale suggest an appropriate meal to eat based on how much you weigh.
Friday, March 5, 2010
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Booth Babes: Geneva Motor Show 2010
After looking at the cars, it’s now our turn to focus on the Geneva Motor Show 2010 booth babes. Unlike the cars, the babes pictures are available in a higher resolution. Click on the pictures to enlarge. More photo galleries are available at the Geneva Motor Show official website.
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80th Geneva Motor Show 2010
The 80th jubilee of the Geneva Motor Show kicked off yesterday. The 10 day auto show will showcase more than 80 automobiles from across 50 world and European premieres. Here are some interesting photos from the event.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
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Cakes and Sweets that look like Fast Food
Cake designer Debbie Goard bakes cakes and sweet treats that look like fast foods and other savoury snacks. Her company, Debbie does Cakes, is based in San Francisco with prices starting at $200 per cake. Debbie's latest range includes
hot dogs, popcorn and toffee apples..
Monday, March 1, 2010
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Incredibly Photorealistic Paintings By Alyssa Monks
I love photorealism in paintings. We have seen some great woks by Eric Zener, Rob Hefferan, Linda Huber, Steve McGhee, Craig Tracy, and some amazing vector arts by various artists. Alyssa Monks works fall under the same category. Here are some brilliant oil-on-canvas paintings by this New York based artist.
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World’s Tallest Filing Cabinet
The world’s tallest filing cabinet is not located in some office, but in a field of weeds on the southwest edge of Burlington, in the state of Vermont in USA. It’s actually a stack of 38 filing cabinets welded together, one atop another. Most of the drawers are empty, but some of them contains auto parts made from shredding an MG Midget sports car, steamrolling the fragments, then cataloguing and storing each fragment with a label like an auto parts shop. Just plain crazy.
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