American sculptor and artist Kim Burke loves to create 1/12th scale miniatures of food from polymer clay. Her food sculptures look amazingly realistic. If you are interested, you can buy some of her creations at Etsy.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Saturday, November 27, 2010
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Photographing A Town That Never Was: Michael Paul Smith’s Incredible Models
Few people put so much time, effort and craftsmanship into a project that results in photos which are totally believable, as Michael Paul Smith. Sixty year old Michael creates realistic 1/24 scale models of an imaginary town from memories of his youth. His photos tell a story that takes you back to that time and place. “What started out as an exercise in model building and photography, ended up as a dream-like reconstruction of the town I grew up in. It's not an exact recreation, but it does capture the mood of my memories”, he says.
The photos that recreate this imaginary town of “Elgin Park” are believable not only because the backgrounds, lighting and subject are expertly integrated, but also because of the extensive and thoroughly researched details in each scene.
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Book Posters from Postertext
The book posters from Postertext lets you hang your favorite book on the wall, literally. The posters are created from the book's text, arranged to depict a memorable scene from the book. They resemble close to ASCII art, but not quite it.
Posters made from text out of popular classics like Moby Dick, Time Machine, Frankenstein, The Count of Monte Cristo, Jane Eyre, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and dozens others are available. Since the entire book could not possibly be accommodated in one sheet of paper, Postertext often uses text from the first few chapters. The font sizes are big enough for someone with normal eyesight to read the text without visual aid. Occasionally, the poster comprises text from the entire book, like ones for War of the Worlds and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Postertext posters make excellent decorative additions to your home or office, as they are both expressive and captivating. They also make great conversation pieces for book lovers. Prices range from $24 to $35.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Friday, November 26, 2010
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Dekotora: The Ridiculously Decorated Trucks of Japan
The Dekotora or Decotora an abbreviation for "Decoration Truck", is a kind of loud and flashy decorated truck most commonly found in Japan. Dekotora commonly have neon or ultraviolet lights, extravagant paints, and shiny stainless or golden exterior parts. These decorations can be found on both the cab and the trailer, and not only on the exterior but also in the interior.
The Dekotora tradition started in 1975 when the first of a series of 10 movies called Truck guys was released. The movie featured a protagonist costumed trucker who drove his insanely decorated truck all over Japan. The movie was a big hit with both old and young, and caused a wave of Dekotora popularity to sweep the country. While Dekotoras were present throughout the 1970s, before the movie they were restricted to the north-eastern fishing transport trucks.
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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2010
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented by Macy's, a chain of department stores across the United States. The tradition started in 1927, tying it for the second-oldest Thanksgiving parade in the United States along with America's Thanksgiving Parade in Detroit, and four years younger than the 6abc IKEA Thanksgiving Day Parade in Philadelphia. The three-hour event is held in New York City starting at 9:00 a.m. EST on Thanksgiving Day.
The parade features large animal-shaped balloons, often famous cartoon characters, floats, live music and other performances. College and high school marching bands from across the country participate in the parade, and the television broadcasts feature performances by famous singers and bands.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
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Tall Tale Postcards of the Twentieth Century
During the early years of the twentieth century, the tall-tale postcard flourished in the American Midwest, especially within the boasting, expansive atmosphere of the American frontier. Around the turn of the last century, when postcards came to function as surrogates for travel, people soon realized that they could be used to create or sustain a certain utopian myth about a town or region. Crafty photographers began to physically manipulate their photographs. Close-up photographs of ordinary-size produce and/or animals were combined, in skewed scale, with photos of people. Painstaking scissor-work resulted in hilarious, proto-surreal shots: children ride harnessed roosters, potatoes are so big that one alone fills a flatcar, giant trout caught in lakes and so on.
This gallery is a collection of some of the most ridiculous photo montages that appeared on postcards.
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The Salt Miners of Lake Katwe in Uganda
Salt extraction has been a major source of economy and prosperity for decades in Uganda, but today's miners work in appalling conditions. In the good times, salt miners at Lake Katwe in western Uganda made a reasonable living. They earn $30 a week for their labors, a decent wage by Ugandan standards. But salt production has rapidly turned from boom to bust with the seasons, leaving the workers struggling to make ends meet, and climate change is starting to load the dice against them.
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Polar Circle Marathon 2010
The Polar Circle Marathon is a classical 42.195 km marathon over the ice covered mountainous terrain of the polar circle. The temperatures are relatively low, around -10 degrees Celsius in the autumn, when the race takes place. The marathon course takes the runners over the permanent, 3 km thick ice cap and through tundras, moraine landscapes, glaciers, among other outstanding nature sceneries. The Polar Circle Marathon is more demanding than usual marathons due to the cold weather and the slippery surface for the parts of the race that goes over the actual ice cap.
Sixty runners started the marathon this year on Oct 23. An account of the journey can be read over at The Guardian.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
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Giant Kite Festival, Guatemala
The first of November in Guatemala is celebrated as the day of the dead. On this day, Guatemalans typically gather around their lost loved ones graves, covering them with bright decorations and feasting on barbeques. The streets around the Sumpango cemetery is crowded with people from all over the country, feasting on an incredibly wide range of street food including ceviche and grilled corn.
The major attraction of the day however is the huge kites. It is a three-thousand-year-old custom developed from a mixture of local religious practices and Christianity. Local residents dress up in traditional bright-colored clothing and go to the graveyards to fly kites in the hope that they can communicate with the departed.
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Astronaut Douglas Wheelock Shares Amazing Photos From Space
NASA astronaut Douglas Wheelock who is currently aboard the International Space Station shares pictures of the Earth he snaps with the world through Twitter. Known to his nearly 68,000 Twitter followers as Astro_Wheels, Wheelock has been posting impressive photos of the Earth and some of his thoughts ever since he moved into the space station in June, five months after it got Internet access. Needless to say, the pictures are stunning.
Here is a small collection of some of his best pictures. If you find these interesting, you should really checkout his Twitter page.
Greek islands on a clear night during our flight over Europe. Athens shine brightly along the Mediterranean Sea. Unreal feeling arises when one sees the beauty of the ancient earth from space.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
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‘Real’ T-Shirts by Masashi Kawamura
The T-shirt is so called due to the shape of the garment's outline which resembles the English alphabet ‘T’. But T shirts designed by Japanese designer Masashi Kawamura are not simple Tees but accurate silhouettes of 5 famous typefaces; Helvetica, Caslon, Baskerville, Courier, and Cooper Black.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
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The Tunnel People of Las Vegas
Deep beneath Vegas’s famous strip of glittering lights lies a sinister labyrinth of underground flood tunnels. These 200 miles of flood tunnels is home to a secret community of nearly 1,000 homeless people who eke out a living in the strip’s dark underbelly.
Despite the risks from disease, highly venomous spiders and flooding washing them away, many of the tunnel people have put together elaborate camps with furniture, ornaments and shelves filled with belongings. Some, like Steven and his girlfriend Kathryn, have furnished their home with considerable care - their 400sq ft ‘house’ boasts a double bed, a wardrobe and even a bookshelf. Tunnel residents have created wardrobes for their clothes and salvaged furniture to make the subterranean world more homely.
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World’s Largest Shipyard Grave at Nouadhibou
The city of Nouadhibou is the second largest city in Mauritania and serves as the country's commercial center. The port of Nouadhibou is the final resting place of over 300 ships which were abandoned by their owners. These ships rusting in the shallow waters has given the port of Nouadhibou the notorious name of being the world’s largest ship graveyard. Unlike the en masse arrival of ships at Mallows Bay, here the number of craft has built up over time, as corrupt officials accepted bribes from boat owners to allow them to dump their vessels in the area.
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Nyotaimori: Serving Sushi on Naked Bodies
Sushi - the popular Japanese dish of vinegared rice and fish is served, like any other dishes, on plates. Occasionally, these sushi dinners are also served on the naked body of a woman – a traditional Japanese practice called Nyotaimori or body sushi. When sushi is served on a male model it is called Nantaimori.
Promoters and eating participants often say that Nyotaimori is a form of art, but die hard feminists are outraged by the practice. Nyotaimori is well accepted in Japan. Tokyo is famous for this type of dinner theatre, but Nyotaimori is hard to find in other places of the world. The phenomenon is however spreading to the U.S., U.K and Germany. More recently it has evolved into a trendy fad in certain major cities in Europe.
Friday, November 19, 2010
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Caganers: Figurines of Pooping World Leaders in Nativity Scenes
In Catalonia - a historic territory in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula, mostly in Spain and adjoining portion in southern France – a bizarre tradition is followed. During Christmas, a large model of the city of Bethlehem is created along with the typical nativity scene with Mary, Joseph, Jesus and the Shepherds. But tucked away in a corner of the model is a little figurine of a defecating Catalan peasant. It’s called the Caganer, which means shitter in Catalan.
It’s widely believed that the Caganer, by pooping, is fertilizing the Earth and thus promising a good harvest during the forthcoming year. Hence, it is a good omen. Another explanation is that the Caganer represents the equality of all people: regardless of status, race, or gender, everyone defecates. The exact origin of the Caganer is lost, but the tradition has existed since the 17th century. Originally, the Caganer was portrayed as a Catalan peasant wearing red stocking hat with a black band, but modern Caganers are often caricatures of famous people.
Surprisingly, the practice is tolerated by the local Catholic church.
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Tiger Stone, The Incredible Road Building Machine
This awesome piece of machinery feeds on cobblestones and lays them out in an interlocking pattern to build roads that would take hours to do manually. The Tiger Stone paving machine, which has been dubbed the “Road Printer”, can lay down 400 yards of road each day.
One to three human operators stand on the platform of the Tiger Stone, and move loose bricks by hand from its hopper to its sloping “pusher” slot – the bricks do have to be fed into the pusher in the desired finished pattern. From there, gravity causes them to slide together, in one road-wide sheet, down onto the sand.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
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The Abstract Works of Federico Uribe
Colombian born artist Federico Uribe is extremely talented and have done some amazing pieces of work. He began his career as a painter and then evolved to using found objects and industrial items in his work, creating assemblages that deserve attention.
In his Shoe Lace series, Federico created extraordinary paintings out of hundreds of colored shoelaces.
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Dresses Made Out of Real Food
In the series titled "Hunger Pains”, a team of 15 designers and led by Ami Goodheart of SOTO Productions, created exquisite outfits entirely of real food and were meant to depict meals that the person was craving. Each garment took hours to cook, create and assemble. The artichoke gown was designed by Daniel Feld and Wesley Nault of Project Runway fame. It took over 6 hours to finish and the model stood the entire time while they attached each, individual leaf.
The models were photographed by Ted Sabarese.
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Pando, the Single Largest Living Organism on Earth
Pando or The Trembling Giant is an enormous grove of Quaking Aspen that is an entire forest out of a single organism. This colony of a single male Quaking Aspen is located in the Fishlake National Forest in Utah, in the US. Each of 47,000 or so trees in the grove are genetically identical and has been determined to be part of a single living organism all sharing a single massive underground root system. Pando is truly massive – it covers an area of 43 hectares, weighs 6,000 tonnes and is more than 80,000 years old.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
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Creative Advertisements on Buildings
Outdoor advertising presents limitless options and approaches for advertisers to reach their audience. But with hundreds of brands and billboards competing with each other to draw consumer’s attention, getting noticed in a busy street isn’t easy. This is where size as well as creativity counts. Here are some huge outdoor advertisements on building facades that caught our attention.
On first look, this looks like an ad for paint, but actually it is one from Nationwide Insurance.
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Destroyed Apple Products Become Work of Art
Running out of creative ideas? This is what you should do:
- Take an Apple product
- Destroy it
- Photograph the wreckage
- Put it up in an exhibition
- Profit
That’s what artist Michael Tompert does. He takes expensive Apple’s products and wrecks them with blowtorches, sledgehammers, handsaws and handguns. Then he snaps pictures of them and lo, these large-scale prints are now a colorful work of art.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
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Images From GeoEye Calendar 2011
World's largest space imaging corporation, GeoEYE, which supplies satellite imagery to organization such as Microsoft, Yahoo and Google, among many others, has released a calendar for the next year. The calendar is a compilation of some of the best pictures from the satellites GeoEYE-1 and ICONOS, which includes both urban and natural landscapes.
Following are the images from the said calendar. To download higher resolution version of these images, visit GeoEYE’s website.
Burj Khalifa Skyscraper
Welcome to Burj Khalifa, the tallest structure ever built, at 828 m (2,717 ft). Get ready to experience the thrill of a lifetime as high-speed elevators whisk you 124 floors above the Earth for an awe-inspiring view of the city, desert and sea from the observation deck, “At the Top.” Enjoy a one-hour guided tour, or linger as long as you’d like. GeoEye-1 .50-meter resolution collected 9 February 2010.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
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Badeschiff, the Floating Swimming Pool in Berlin
The Badeschiff is one of Berlin’s most unusual attraction - a floating public swimming pool in the East Harbour section of the River Spree. The Badeschiff allows citizens to swim in a safe and sanitary environment in their river, at least in a figurative sense. The Spree itself is far too polluted to permit safe bathing.
Since its opening in 2004, it has become a true hot spot in town: deep blue swimming pool, wooden boardwalks, an open-air bar, with a stunning view. Each year between November and March the entire area is covered by a translucent shell and transformed into an enclosed wellness area. The Badeschiff was created by local artist, Susanne Lorenz, as an art project organized by the City Art Project Society of Berlin. The pool was converted from the hull of a vessel measuring eight by thirty-two metres.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
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The Secret of the Blood Falls of Antarctica
From a crack in the Taylor Glacier in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica flows a curious blood-red colored water. When it was first discovered by geologist Griffith Taylor in 1911, the color was thought to have come from an algae. The source of the red color was later discovered to be an iron-rich underground saltwater lake that was trapped by the encroaching glacier at least 1.5 million years ago. The temperature of the water is -5 Celsius, but it's so salty that it doesn't freeze.
But the Blood Falls houses another secret, which scientists from Harvard University have started to uncover - it's home to an entire ecosystem of bacteria, trapped for millennia in conditions that are extremely inhospitable to life.
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Miracles You’ll See In The Next Fifty Years: An Article from 1950
Like most predictions about the future, this article from Popular Mechanics dated Feb, 1950, does a pretty mediocre job. Some predictions are accurate, some are wrong, and many of them are plain weird or impractical. It’s a long article, but it sure makes an entertaining read.
A text version of the entire article can be found after these images.
Friday, November 12, 2010
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Spectacular Opening Ceremony of Asian Games 2010 in China
The largest-ever Asian Games got under way on Friday night with a spectacular opening ceremony. Directed by Chen Weiya, who was the assistant director of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the ceremony was held outside the main stadium for the first time in Asian Games history, in the Pearl River on the Haixinsha Island.
A record number of about 10,000 athletes from 45 countries and regions will participate in 476 gold medal events in 42 sports, compared to 26 sports at the London Olympics in 2012. Cricket, dance sport, roller sports and chess, including weiqi and xiangqi, are newly added sports at the Asian Games, which will also feature those unique to the continent such as dragon boat, kabaddi and sepaktakraw.
Dancers perform during the Opening Ceremony for the 16th Asian Games Guangzhou 2010 at Haixinsha Square on November 12, 2010 in Guangzhou, China. (Jamie McDonald/Getty Images)
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The Fantasy Coffins of Ghana
For the Ga tribe in coastal Ghana, funerals are a time of mourning, but also of celebration. The Ga people believe that when their loved ones die, they move on into another life -- and the Ga make sure they do so in style. They honor their dead with brightly colored coffins that celebrate the way they lived.
The coffins are designed to represent an aspect of the dead person's life -- such as a car if they were a driver, a fish if their livelihood was the sea -- or a sewing machine for a seamstress. They might also symbolize a vice -- such as a bottle of beer or a cigarette. On the hot and crowded streets of Accra, the capital of Ghana, one can find numerous coffin vendors. Coffins crafted as hammers, fish, cars, mobile phones, hens, roosters, leopards, lions, canoes, cocoa beans and elephants. It's a huge industry in Accra — and expensive. A coffin can cost $400 dollars, which is equivalent to one year's salary.
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Cologne Carnival 2010 Begins
Each year, on November 11 at exactly 11 minutes past 11 marks the kick-off of Carnival in Cologne, Germany. On this mid-November day, residents come out of their houses in all sorts of costumes and run along the streets, often heading downtown, loaded up with beer and liquor and ready to meet up with other revelers to get the festival started. Carnival is more than just a tradition in the city; it's part of Cologne's cultural identity.
Carnival has been celebrated in the City of Cologne since time immemorial. Over the years, decades and centuries certain traditions and customs emerged, which are still the hallmark of the traditional Cologne Carnival: the indoor festivities (sessions and balls) and, of course, the street carnival, culminating in the grand parade on Rose Monday. It is the task of the Festival Committee, the umbrella organization representing well over 100 Cologne carnival associations, traditional corps, etc., to coordinate, set common standards, and preserve the tradition of the "fifth season".
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
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London to Brighton Vintage Car Race 2010
The route along the A23 from London to Brighton in south-east England is popular for races, tours, charity rides and rallies. The route was originally popularized by the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run which begun in 1927 for cars built before 1904. The race was an reenactment of the original 1896 Emanicipation Run, held on 14 November 1896 to celebrate the passing into law of the Light Locomotives Act which raised the speed limit to 14 mph and did away with the need for a person to walk in front of a vehicle waving a red flag to warn other road users.
A total of 572 vintage cars took part in the rally from Hyde Park to the East Sussex resort in this year’s annual London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, but only 433 of them made it to the finish line some 60-miles away.
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Sniffer Rats Detect Landmines and Tuberculosis in Mozambique
Mozambique is still littered with land mines from the country's civil war that ended in 1992. According to Handicap International, an estimated 20 people step on landmines every month in Mozambique. In addition to claiming the lives of about 60 percent of those who step on them, those land mines eat up land that could be used for farming, etc.
So Mozambique is turning to trained rats to de-mine the country. The rats have an acute sense of smell and are small enough not to detonate the mines. Every time they detect explosive, they make a clicking sound and receive a bit of banana as a reward. Rats trained under the scheme have already helped clear large swathes of land in mine-infested Mozambique.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
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Ceramics of Horror by Jessica Harrison
While the tradition of decorative ceramic figurines is filled with beautiful and serene subject, UK ceramic artist Jessica Harrison takes a decidedly darker approach. Her eccentric and gothic tastes are revealed in her recent ceramic works that are both bizarre and awesome at the same time.
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Illustrated Guide to Italian Hand Gestures
Hand gestures and body language is as vital a communication medium as spoken language itself. Gestures pre-dates any language in the world, in fact, human communication evolved from gestures. It is not uncommon for people to use gestures even to this date to convey thoughts, punctuate an expression and give it a shading that the word or phrase itself lacks. But I wasn’t aware that they were so popular among Italians until I stumbled upon the Illustrated guide to Italian popular gestures by Alfredo Cassano.
Monday, November 8, 2010
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Miss Pole Dance Argentina 2010
The Miss Pole Dance Argentina 2010 competition was held in Bueno Aires on November 6, 2010, ahead of the the Pole Dance World Championship 2011, to be held in Budapest. Peruvian pole dancer Elizabeth Munoz won the first prize, followed by Brazilian pole dancer Regina Mutai who won the second place, and Argentine pole dancer Viviana Morales, who won the third place.
Felix Cane of Australia
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Port Lockroy Museum and Post Office in Antarctica
Port Lockroy is a natural harbour on the Antarctic Peninsula of the British Antarctic Territory. Originally discovered in 1903 by a French Antarctic expedition, the port was named 'Port LaCroix' after Edouard LaCroix who helped finance the expedition. Over the years Port Lockroy found use as an anchorage by whalers and in 1944 became 'British Base A', the first of the more than 20 eventual British bases established in Antarctica.
After the close of World War II it functioned as a civilian research outpost and was eventually shut down in 1962. It sat abandoned until a British team renovated the historical site and opened it as a monument and museum in 1996. This base is now restored as a historic site which has a gift shop and the only public post office on the Antarctic peninula.
Port Lockroy museum and post office is operated by the United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust and proceeds from the small souvenir shop fund the upkeep of the site and other historic sites and monuments in Antarctica.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
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Memorial Museum of Astronautics, Moscow
The Memorial Museum of Astronautics (also known as the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics or Memorial Museum of Space Exploration) is a museum in Moscow, Russia, dedicated to space exploration. It is located within the base of the soaring Monument to the Conquerors of Space in the northeast of the city. The museum contains a wide variety of space-related exhibits and models which explore the history of flight; astronomy; space exploration; space technology; and space in the arts. According to the Russian tourist board, the museum's collection holds approximately 85,000 different items, and receives approximately 300,000 visitors yearly.
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Artist Sails Down River Thames in Paper Boat
German artist Frank Bolter sailed down the Thames in a giant paper boat, as part of the Drift 10 art exhibition in London. The origami vessel, entitled To The World's End, was folded on the banks of Canary Wharf in east London before being lowered into the water with the help of passing members of the public. To make sure the boat didn’t crumble under the weight of the artists, it was reinforced with metal poles.
The Drift10 biennial art exhibition runs until January.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
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Creative and Funny Toilet Signs from Around the World
Men and women are represented differently all around the world, and this differentiation is often seen in the diverse representation of the two sexes in bathroom signs. The most common type of washroom sign one encounters in public places depict men as “normal” people and women as people in skirts. Depending on the local customs, men and women may be depicted wearing traditional or regional dresses. While most signs try to remain obvious, others goes out of the way and try to be as creative as possible. Below are some of the the most creative, funniest, wackiest and bizarre toilet signs discovered by travellers around the world.
Toilet Signs Based on Technique of the Act
Brazil
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Incredible Junk Portraits by Zac Freeman
Zac Freeman takes every day objects such as buttons, remote controls, film canisters, circuits, gears and telephone parts, puts them together and the result is an amazing portrait. Freeman’s work is technically similar to Jason Mecier who too creates portraits out of junk. Both has pretty unique style though.
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An Igloo Made From 322 Refrigerators
Berlin-based artist Ralf Schmerberg has constructed a gigantic igloo made entirely of old refrigerators in the center of Hamburg, Germany. The 11 meter-wide igloo is made from 322 old refrigerators attached to a metal frame. Inside is an extraordinary collection of gadgets including fans, toys, toasters, a TV set and an inflatable mushroom cloud.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
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Tomato Fight in London
No, Londoners have no plans to bring the Spanish festival of tomato throwing to the city. This is just a publicity stunt to promote this weekend's MTV Europe Music Awards in Madrid.
How does throwing tomatoes in London help promote a music event in Madrid? Who knows? Just enjoy the pics.
For those who would like some statistics: some 25,000 tomatoes were crucified and about 200 people took part in it.
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Stunning Wall Murals by Eric Grohe
New York born Eric Grohe creates spectacular and vividly realistic wall murals and architectural facades, transforming ordinary spaces into panoramic works of beauty, depth and inspiration. Grohe uses a special German paint called keim mineral paint which can last 130 years.
Each mural can take several months with Grohe enjoying every brush stroke. "Every project is a grand adventure, if passion for the work and inspiration are your guides," he said. Some of the murals he has painted reach 3,600ft.
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Beautiful Sculptures at the Staglieno Cemetery, Italy
Staglieno owes its popularity and historic value not only to the fame of the great personalities who rest there but, above all, to its many sculptural and architectural monuments. Covering an area of more than a square kilometer, it is one of the largest cemeteries in Europe.
Although still unfinished, the cemetery was officially inaugurated on January 1, 1851. The cemetery contains the graves of Oscar Wilde's wife Constance Lloyd, Ferruccio Parri, Fabrizio De André, Nino Bixio, and Giuseppe Mazzini. Significant sculptors with work here include Leonardo Bistolfi, Giulio Monteverde, and Edoardo Alfieri.
In this gallery we present you some of the most hauntingly beautiful sculptures that are currently in the Staglieno.
Monday, November 1, 2010
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Beautiful Underwater Paintings by Sarah Harvey
I have a fascination for underwater paintings and photographs. The works of Sarah Harvey are captivating.
Sarah was born in London in 1981. She completed her Education at Chelsea School of Art and Newcastle university, graduating in 2004. She has a studio at the Bow Arts Trust in London, England.
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Animals Perform Tricks for Halloween
Zoos around Europe put carved pumpkins in animal enclosures to see what would happen. Here is what happened.
Siberian tiger Ingrid and her four-month-old cubs, Rosa (left) and Zaria, investigate a pumpkin at Port Lympne wild animal park in Kent
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The Genzano Infiorata Flower Festival
If you ever plan to visit Italy during the month of June, reserve at least a day for the town of Genzano, to see the famous Infiorata Flower Festival. Each year, during the month of June, local artists cover the entire street of Belardo with a floral carpet with patterns inspired by religious art, shapes and famous paintings.
For more than 2 centuries (from 1778) on Sunday and Monday following Corpus Christus feast the Infiorata a most suggestive manifestation of art, pride of the artists of Genzano has taken place. Each year the artists suggestions must conform to a previously agreed upon theme, such as The Colours of Michelangelo, or The Designs of Bernini.
The carpet stays for two full days. On the third day, their work is demolished by local schoolchildren, who are permitted to wreak havoc!
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Kissing Couples Street Art by Claire Streetart
French artist Claire Streetart’s wall collages depicting couples kissing in sexy and often provocative positions are sweeping the streets of France. Claire definitely has a style.
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