Showing posts from June, 2010

Oxford Cardboard Boat Race 2010

Jun 29, 2010

The 22nd annual cardboard boat race was held on the Tred Avon River in Oxford. Teams compete in various categories for prizes, including the...

Sandrine Estrade Boulet’s Clever Illustrations

Jun 29, 2010

Sandrine Estrade Boulet sees different things in the streets than everyone and visualizes them with her beautiful illustrations.

101 Creative Uses for ‘My Ex-Wife’s Wedding Dress’

Jun 27, 2010

When Kevin Cotter's wife of 12 years packed up and moved out last year, she left behind one thing in her closet – her wedding dress. ...

Infinity Pool at Marina Bay Sands Hotel

Jun 27, 2010

The Sands SkyPark in Singapore is an awe-inspiring engineering wonder. This unique structural masterpiece, designed by visionary architect M...

What if Today’s Gadgets Been Made in the 70s?

Jun 26, 2010

What would have happened if you could have had an iPod, a laptop, or a cell hone back in the 70s? Designer Alex Varanese envisions this in t...

Zhangjiajie National Forest Park – Pandora on Earth

Jun 26, 2010

The floating ‘Hallelujah Mountains’ you saw on the movie Avatar has been inspired by a real place on Earth – China.

Legoland Deutschland Theme Park in Germany

Jun 25, 2010

The Legoland Deutschland is a Legoland theme park located in the Bavarian town of Günzburg, Germany. It occupies an area of 43.5 hectares i...

Unexpected Turn of Events at The Guinea Pig Festival

Jun 24, 2010

Huacho is a small and picturesque city in the costal regions of the South American country of Peru. For the last few years the locals of Hua...

Pixeleted Sculptures by Shawn Smith

Jun 23, 2010

Austin based artist Shawn Smith is behind these stunning animal sculptures that bring digital 3D pixels into the real world. The sculptures...

Alcohol Under The Microscope

Jun 23, 2010

A company called Bevshots has produced a series of shots of booze under the microscope at the Florida State University's chemistry labs...

The Most Identical British Twins Competition

Jun 23, 2010

On Monday, June 21, an Identical Twins competition was held at Pineapple Studios in London. The competition was won by 18 year old twin sist...

Wave Gothic Treffen Festival in Leipzig

Jun 20, 2010

The Wave Gotik Treffen is an annual festival for "dark" music and arts in Leipzig, Germany and considered to be the world’s larges...

The Spanish Baby Jumping Festival of El Colacho

Jun 20, 2010

Every year during the month of June, the Spanish village of Castrillo de Murcia near Burgos holds its traditional Baby-Jumping Festival as p...

Tilt Shift Photography by Brian Solarski

Jun 20, 2010

Bryan Solarski utilizes an in-camera technical manipulation known as Tilt Shift in order to create these colorful, miniaturized versions o...

The Curious Story of ‘Bobby's Bus Shelter’ at Unst, Scotland

Jun 19, 2010

Bobby's Bus Shelter at Unst, one of the northernmost isle of Shetland Islands in Scotland, might be the only bust stop in the world tha...

EIZO Pin-up Calendar 2010 is Not What You Expect

Jun 18, 2010

The Eizo: Pin-up Calendar 2010 offers you more than the usual nude –  it shows everything. EIZO is a manufacturer of medical imaging high p...

Wacky and Colorful Fans at the World Cup

Jun 18, 2010

World cup football always has the best fans – wild, wacky, colorful, full of fun and always enjoying.

Giant Sand Art by Jim Denevan

Jun 16, 2010

Santa Cruz, CA-based artist Jim Denevan makes freehand drawings in sand, laboring up to seven hours and walking for as many as 30 miles to ...

International Fire Festival in Kiev, Ukraine

Jun 16, 2010

The International Fire Festival was held on June 12, 2010 in Kiev, Ukraine. The festival, which is in its fourth year, showcases amazing fir...

Underwater Photographs of Swimming Babies

Jun 15, 2010

Phil Shaw and his partner Ana Torres set up London Baby Swim in 2008, offering classes for parents and babies as young as six weeks old to t...

Rome Builds a Hotel From Beach Trash

Jun 14, 2010

Last week a hotel constructed from rubbish collected from beaches opened its doors in Rome, to highlight the growing problem of litter in Eu...

Mysterious Venezuela's Catatumbo Lightning

Jun 14, 2010

You must have heard that lightening doesn’t strike the same place twice. Say that to the natives of Venezuela and they will ride you down to...

66th Anniversary of Operation Overlord: Normandy Landings

Jun 13, 2010

Operation Overlord was the code name for the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by A...

Unbelievable Pencil Drawings by Paul Lung

Jun 12, 2010

Previously we were blown away by the Linda Huber and another faceless artist . This weekend I discovered Paul Lung . Paul hails from Hong...

ESPN’s FIFA World Cup 2010 Team Posters

Jun 11, 2010

A few hours from now the 19th FIFA World Cup 2010 will kick off. To set the mood ESPN had recently released their brilliant advertising camp...

Mysterious Morning Glory Cloud Formation

Jun 11, 2010

The Morning Glory cloud is a rare meteorological phenomenon observed in Northern Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria. A Morning Glory cloud ...

Rooftops of Rich People of New York

Jun 11, 2010

A photo album by New York based photographer known only by his Flickr handle jwilly.

Alex Andreyev’s Surrealistic Paintings

Jun 8, 2010

Alex Andreyev is a Russian artist who lives in Saint Petersburg. He has been drawing, painting and doing graphic design over the last 20 ye...

Mud Olympics Germany 2010

Jun 7, 2010

Mud Olympics, called Wattolympiade in the local tongue, is an annual event held in mud flats along the banks of the Elbe River in Brunsbütte...

What's In Your Refrigerator?

Jun 7, 2010

For three years, photographer Mark Menjivar of San Antonio, Texas, USA, traveled across the country exploring food issues. The more time he...

Giant 200 Feet Hole Opens Up in Guatemala

Jun 6, 2010

Last Monday, May 31, 2010, a ravaging tropical storm named Agatha swept across Central America bringing torrential rain that killed more tha...

Sinking of Decommissioned Ships

Jun 6, 2010

After a ship is decommissioned from service it is often used as a target to test new weapons or training personnel in the operating of the s...

World Custard Pie Throwing Championship

Jun 5, 2010

Almost 50 competitors slugged it out on May 23 to be crowned the World Custard Pie Throwing Champions , an event held annually in Maidstone,...

The Largest Superheroes Congregation at Melbourne

Jun 5, 2010

The Guinness World Record for the most number of people wearing superhero costumes in one location has been broken in Melbourne on May 29, 2...

The Two Year-Old Smoker

Jun 5, 2010

Ardi Rizal, a two year-old toddler from Indonesia has become something of a celebrity after a video appeared on the Internet of him smoking ...

Berlin After The World War 2

Jun 5, 2010

I love vintage black and white photos, particularly of the world war era. Here is one such collection that shows the scale of destruction in...

Star Trek Beads Sculpture At Microsoft

Jun 4, 2010

Microsoft’s Studio D offices in Redmond, Washington have something that every Star Trek fan would love to have in their own home. However, i...

Massive Graffiti Art by Os Gemeos and Blu

Jun 4, 2010

Os Gemeos and Blu of Lisbo recently did a massive graffiti work covering an entire facade of a building. Looks amazing.

Willy Verginer’s Incredible Wooden Sculptures

Jun 3, 2010

Willy Verginer was born in 1957 in Brixen . He works and lives in Ortisei, Italy

Blonde Parade in Riga

Jun 2, 2010

For the second year, an army of 500 young blondes wearing pink dresses walked through the streets of the Latvian capital Riga during a blond...