Showing posts from July, 2011

World Record Attempt For Most Hot Air Balloons in Air

Jul 31, 2011

343 hot air balloons took off at the 12th Lorraine World Air Balloon Festival, in Chambley-Bussieres, France on July 27, 2011, to set a new ...

Beautiful Paper Collages by Derek Gores

Jul 31, 2011

New York born Derek Gores is best known for his ripped paper collage portraits, made using recycled magazine pages and other found parts. I...

Snake Massage Spa in Israel

Jul 29, 2011

An Israeli health and beauty spa is offering a creepy new service for its customers - Snake Massage. For just $80 you can have large slither...

Ernest Hemingway Lookalike Contest

Jul 29, 2011

Where do you find one hundred and twenty-one white bearded men, all carrying an eerie resemblance to American author Ernest Hemingway? At th...

Before and After Photos of Joggers

Jul 28, 2011

French photographer Sacha Goldberger set up an outdoor photo studio at Bois de Boulogne, a park near Paris, and asked joggers if they would...

Industrial Scars: Landscapes Destructed by Industrialization

Jul 26, 2011

Industrial Scars is an environmental photography project by American photographer J Henry Fair, which explores the detritus of our consumer...

Censorship Tells The Wrong Story

Jul 26, 2011

“Censorship tells the wrong story” is an amusing anti-censorship ad campaign by Reporters Without Borders, where images featuring political ...

The Unnatural History Museum by Hine Mizushima

Jul 25, 2011

“The Unnatural History Museum” is a collection of cute needle felted woolen sculptures by Japanese artist/illustrator Hine [pronounced hee-n...

First Gay Marriages in New York Begins

Jul 25, 2011

July 24 was the first day that same sex couples were allowed to legally marry in the state of New York, the US. Hundreds of gay and lesbian ...

Stunning Miniature Dioramas by Lori Nix

Jul 25, 2011

Brooklyn photographer Lori Nix spends weeks, even months, hand-fashioning tiny painstakingly detailed dioramas and then captures them with ...

Mysterious And Cinematic Photography by Stewart Isbell

Jul 24, 2011

Stewart Isbell found his interest in photography at the young age of 15 while growing up in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was always seen spend...

Pictures From San Diego Comic Con 2011

Jul 22, 2011

The San Diego Comic-Con International began on July 20 at the San Diego Convention Center. Passes for the Preview Night of this year’s editi...

Hand Paintings by Guido Daniele

Jul 22, 2011

Guido Daniele was born in Soverato (Italy) and now lives and works in Milan. He graduated from Brera School of Arts and he has been paintin...

Chinese Sports School: Training or Torture?

Jul 21, 2011

“Sport is a serious business at the Shichahai School, which is one of more than 300 elite, and controversial, government-funded academies de...

Incredible Life Sized Paper Sculptures by Vally Nomidou

Jul 21, 2011

Greek artist Vally Nomidou creates life sized sculptures of human figures using nothing but paper and card board. The internal frame is bui...

World’s Highest Tennis Court at Burj Al Arab

Jul 20, 2011

The world’s highest tennis court stands atop the fourth highest hotel in the world - Burj al-Arab at Dubai. The tennis court is circular in ...

Paintings by Nigel Cox

Jul 19, 2011

Nigel was born in Newry Co. Down Ireland and grew up on the edge of Dundalk, a small market town in County Louth, just below the border and ...

‘Bee-Attracting’ Competition in Shaoyang, China

Jul 19, 2011

A curious ‘Bee attracting’ competition was held in Shaoyang, China, on July 16, 2011. The competitors stood on weighing scales, wearing only...

Chinese Beachgoers Disregard Algae. Goes Swimming

Jul 18, 2011

A huge swath of algae in the Yellow Sea, 410-square-km in size, is drifting towards the Chinese city of Qingdao and expected to blanket Qing...

14th Boryeong Mud Festival, South Korea

Jul 17, 2011

As the hot weather approaches, both local residents and foreigners visited the city of Boryeong, a town around 200 km south of Seoul, South ...

Stunning Map of Twitter And Flickr Users Around The World

Jul 17, 2011

At first glance, the image below looks like a satellite image of Europe at night. Actually, it is a map that reveals how active Europeans ar...

Portraits of Squashed Commuters in Japan by Michael Wolf

Jul 16, 2011

Photographer Michael Wolf spent 30 days in a Tokyo metro station, capturing the traumatized faces of commuters on their way to work. Their w...

Amazingly Colorful Retro Gadgets Made of Paper

Jul 16, 2011

Lucie Thomas and Thibault Zimmermann are the duo behind the contemporary design studio Zim and Zou based in Nancy, France. Thomas and Zimmer...

Delicate Graphite Busts on Pencil Head

Jul 16, 2011

The latest political magazine of Germany, Cicero’s promotional campaign titled PencilHead is about miniature busts of world leaders on the g...

The Beautiful White Village of Olvera, Spain

Jul 16, 2011

Olvera is a small village located in the heart of the Cadiz mountains, Spain. The village’s main monument is the city itself, with its white...

26-Foot-Tall Sculpture of Marilyn Monroe Unveiled in Chicago

Jul 15, 2011

”Forever Marilyn” is a sculpture by Seward Johnson that is to be unveiled today in Chicago, Illinois. The stainless steel and aluminum sculp...

Chopper Dash–Twenty First Century’s Bike Race in 1970’s Attire

Jul 14, 2011

More than 1,500 people lined the streets yesterday at Colne in Lancashire to inaugurate the eight annual Colne Grand Prix. As an inaugural e...

The Singing Ringing Tree at Burnley

Jul 14, 2011

The Singing Ringing Tree is a unique wind powered sound sculpture resembling a tree set in the landscape of the Pennine mountain range overl...

Michigan Residents Celebrate Annual Mud Day

Jul 13, 2011

About 5,000 people turned up the at the Hines Park Nankin Mills Area in Westland, Michigan, for the state's 24th annual mud day. More th...

Millions of Jellyfish Cause Nuclear Reactors Shutdown Around The World

Jul 13, 2011

A sudden explosion in jellyfish population in different parts of the world has caused nuclear reactors to be shutdown in Japan, Scotland and...

China Opens World's Longest Sea Bridge

Jul 12, 2011

The Qingdao Haiwan Bridge, which was featured on Amusing Planet early this year, is open for business. State-run news channel CCTV says the...

Orda Cave: World's Longest Underwater Gypsum Cave in Russia

Jul 12, 2011

A team of daring cave divers working on Orda Cave Awareness Project have produced an incredible series of photos of the longest underwater g...

Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Championship

Jul 9, 2011

Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest is held every year on July 4 at Nathan's Famous Corporation's original, and best-known restauran...

World's Steepest Roller-coaster Opens in Japan

Jul 9, 2011

Japan’s Fuji-Q Highland Amusement Park has unveiled its 14th Guinness world record-breaking ride – the Takabisha roller-coaster. Nestled at ...

Chevrolet Underground Catwalk 2011: Fashion Show on Subway Train

Jul 7, 2011

The Underground Catwalk , currently in its sixth year, has become an integral and popular part of the Berlin Fashion Week where models showc...

San Fermin Festival Begins in Pamplona, Spain

Jul 7, 2011

Tens of thousands of people packed Pamplona's main square on Wednesday for the launch of the "chupinazo" rocket that marked th...

Hyper-realistic Paintings by Juan Bautista Nieto

Jul 7, 2011

Juan Bautista Nieto was born in Lora el Rio, Spain. He studied at the Fine Arts Faculty of Seville. Prior to that he studied medicine, to w...

Photographs of People Texting in the Streets

Jul 6, 2011

For his project titled “ Texters “, photographer Joe Holmes photographed unsuspecting people lost in their own worlds while texting on their...

The Humorous Art of Bent Objects by Terry Border

Jul 5, 2011

Terry Border takes objects from everyday life and turns them into humorous art. For years now, this unassuming photographer-sculptor has wo...

Abandoned Houses of Detroit

Jul 3, 2011

Detroit's population has fallen steadily since the heyday of the auto industry in the 1950s, when it peaked around two million, to just ...

The Transparent Pontiac

Jul 2, 2011

For its upcoming auction at St. John’s in Plymouth, Michigan in late July, RM Auctions will offer a most unusual Pontiac – a transparent dis...