World Record Attempt For Most Hot Air Balloons in Air
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 ...
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 ...
New York born Derek Gores is best known for his ripped paper collage portraits, made using recycled magazine pages and other found parts. I...
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...
Where do you find one hundred and twenty-one white bearded men, all carrying an eerie resemblance to American author Ernest Hemingway? At th...
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 is an environmental photography project by American photographer J Henry Fair, which explores the detritus of our consumer...
“Censorship tells the wrong story” is an amusing anti-censorship ad campaign by Reporters Without Borders, where images featuring political ...
“The Unnatural History Museum” is a collection of cute needle felted woolen sculptures by Japanese artist/illustrator Hine [pronounced hee-n...
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 ...
Brooklyn photographer Lori Nix spends weeks, even months, hand-fashioning tiny painstakingly detailed dioramas and then captures them with ...
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...
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...
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...
“Sport is a serious business at the Shichahai School, which is one of more than 300 elite, and controversial, government-funded academies de...
Greek artist Vally Nomidou creates life sized sculptures of human figures using nothing but paper and card board. The internal frame is bui...
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 ...
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 ...
A curious ‘Bee attracting’ competition was held in Shaoyang, China, on July 16, 2011. The competitors stood on weighing scales, wearing only...
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...
As the hot weather approaches, both local residents and foreigners visited the city of Boryeong, a town around 200 km south of Seoul, South ...
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...
Photographer Michael Wolf spent 30 days in a Tokyo metro station, capturing the traumatized faces of commuters on their way to work. Their w...
Lucie Thomas and Thibault Zimmermann are the duo behind the contemporary design studio Zim and Zou based in Nancy, France. Thomas and Zimmer...
The latest political magazine of Germany, Cicero’s promotional campaign titled PencilHead is about miniature busts of world leaders on the g...
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...
”Forever Marilyn” is a sculpture by Seward Johnson that is to be unveiled today in Chicago, Illinois. The stainless steel and aluminum sculp...
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 is a unique wind powered sound sculpture resembling a tree set in the landscape of the Pennine mountain range overl...
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...
A sudden explosion in jellyfish population in different parts of the world has caused nuclear reactors to be shutdown in Japan, Scotland and...
The Qingdao Haiwan Bridge, which was featured on Amusing Planet early this year, is open for business. State-run news channel CCTV says the...
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 Contest is held every year on July 4 at Nathan's Famous Corporation's original, and best-known restauran...
Japan’s Fuji-Q Highland Amusement Park has unveiled its 14th Guinness world record-breaking ride – the Takabisha roller-coaster. Nestled at ...
The Underground Catwalk , currently in its sixth year, has become an integral and popular part of the Berlin Fashion Week where models showc...
Tens of thousands of people packed Pamplona's main square on Wednesday for the launch of the "chupinazo" rocket that marked th...
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...
For his project titled “ Texters “, photographer Joe Holmes photographed unsuspecting people lost in their own worlds while texting on their...
Terry Border takes objects from everyday life and turns them into humorous art. For years now, this unassuming photographer-sculptor has wo...
Detroit's population has fallen steadily since the heyday of the auto industry in the 1950s, when it peaked around two million, to just ...
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...