Das Park Hotel Built from Giant Sewage Pipes
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 31, 2011
If your idea of a holiday is to live inside a sewage pipe, then congratulations - you qualify for a night’s stay at the Das Park Hotel in Au...
Showing posts from August, 2011
Street Scene Paintings by Max Ginsburg
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 30, 2011
Max Ginsburg , born in 1931 in Paris, is a social realist painter who draws his inspiration from the energy of New York City and its people....
Amy Bennett’s Diorama-like Paintings
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 30, 2011
Brooklyn based artist Amy Bennett uses an interesting technique for her paintings. First she builds miniature sets and then uses them as re...
Levitating Self-Portraits by Natsumi Hayashi
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 29, 2011
Teenage photography sensation Natsumi Hayashi takes pictures of herself seemingly floating in midair. Equipped with only a tripod or with h...
Dissembled Flowers
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 29, 2011
Inspired by Todd McLellan's Disassembled Objects , Singapore-based photographer Qi Wei created this beautiful series of images called “e...
Genetic Portraits: Comparing Faces of Family Members
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 28, 2011
“Genetic Portraits” is an ongoing photo series by Canadian photographer Ulric Collette where he explores the facial similarities between fa...
Capsule Hotels in Japan
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 28, 2011
Capsule hotels are a unique form of accommodations developed for working Japanese men who are too busy to go home. The hotels comprise of in...
Deserted Gas Stations
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 25, 2011
Have you ever stopped at a gas stations to appreciate its beauty? Matt Barnes did. In his series titled ‘Cold Stations’, the London-based p...
Beautiful Paintings of Summer by Kasia Domanska
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 24, 2011
Polish artist Kasia Domanska’s paintings of sunny beaches, bright blue sky, beach umbrellas, gentle waves, beautiful women in warm-hued bik...
Photographing Large Objects as Miniatures Using a Giant Coin
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 24, 2011
To achieve a miniature, tilt-shift effect on subjects, one typically relies on specialized lenses or post processing in Adobe Photoshop. A N...
Photorealistic Paintings by Steve Mills
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 23, 2011
Boston artist Steve Mills has been drawing and painting since he was a child. He sold his first drawing at the age of 11 and has been selli...
26th Amphibious Car Meet in Switzerland
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 20, 2011
This week, owners of more than 50 amphibious vehicles brought their World War 2-era military transporters, jeeps and vintage-style cars to S...
New York City Day to Night in One Picture
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 19, 2011
In his series “Day to Night” photographer Stephen Wilkes spent a minimum of ten hours taking hundreds of shots from the same perspective. W...
Russia to Open Space Hotel by 2016
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 19, 2011
A Russian company by the name of Orbital Technologies plans to build the world's first space hotel as a commercial alternative to the I...
Anti-Gravity Yoga
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 18, 2011
Antigravity Yoga is the latest fad incarnation of yoga for New York's fashion-conscious. A contraption consisting of a hammock suspende...
Salar de Uyuni in Boliva: World’s Largest Salt Flat
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 18, 2011
Salar de Uyuni (or Salar de Tunupa), located in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes, is one of the most visually captivating plac...
Models of Broken Houses by Ofra Lapid
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2011
Inspired by photos of decaying houses which Israeli artist Ofra Lapid found on the Internet, Lapid created a series of incredible detailed ...
Imprint Left Behind by Birds Crashing Into Glass Windows
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 16, 2011
When an owl crashed into the window of a Kendal home owner in the district of Cumbria, England, and left behind an almost perfect impression...
Kettlewell Scarecrow Festival 2011
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 16, 2011
Scarecrows of all shapes and sizes, including some rather familiar faces, come to life at the annual two-week Kettlewell Scarecrow Festival ...
Long Exposure Photos of Night-time Air Attacks
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 16, 2011
The ever increasing power and precision of modern artillery in recent years have attracted a great deal of attention to night attacks. It’s ...
Heart Attack Grill: Taste Worth Dying For?
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 16, 2011
The Heart Attack Grill is an outrageously unhealthy, hospital-themed, American fast food hamburger restaurant in Dallas, Texas, that serves ...
‘Astronaut Suicides’ by Neil DaCosta
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 15, 2011
Astronaut Suicides is a humorous photo series by Neil Dacosta where he staged actors, donning spacesuits, attempting suicides following the...
The Monastery of Ten Thousand Buddhas
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 14, 2011
High above a lush hillside in the New Territories town of Sha Tin, Hong Kong is the Monastery of Ten Thousand Buddhas. It is not an actual m...
Glass Beach at Fort Bragg in California
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 13, 2011
Glass Beach is an unusual beach in MacKerricher State Park near Fort Bragg, California that is abundant in sea glass created from years of d...
Spectacular Photos of The Himalaya by Anton Jankovoy
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 11, 2011
The Himalaya (which literally means "abode of snow") or the Himalayan mountain range in Asia, is home to the world's highest p...
Eye-Popping Sculpture-Paintings by Shintaro Ohata
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 11, 2011
Japanese artist Shintaro Ohata has a unique characteristic style – he places sculptures in front of paintings and shows them as one work, a ...
Melting Wax Sculptures by Urs Fischer
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 11, 2011
At this year’s Venice Art Biennale, Swiss contemporary artist Urs Fischer had visitors in rapt attention at a full-size, extremely convincin...
Creative Double Exposure Photos by Dan Mountford
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 11, 2011
Dan Mountford did an amazing job with these double exposure photographs. I love the way how both photos blend into each other almost seamle...
Underwater Photo Exhibition at Artificial Reef in Florida Keys
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 9, 2011
Austrian artist Andreas Franke, an avid diver and professional photographer, has put up a photo exhibition at a depth of 93 feet on the Vand...
Intricate Paper Architectures by Christina Lihan
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 8, 2011
US-based artist Christina Lihan combines her skills as a trained architect with her sheer talent of paper modeling to build intricately det...
Hyper-realistic Fashion Paintings by Marilyn Minter
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 8, 2011
Marilyn Minter is an American born photographer and painter currently based out of New York. Over the years, Minter has received varying rea...
Spectacular Opera on Lake Stage at Bregenz
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 8, 2011
Since 1946, the Bregenz Festival ‘Opera on the Lake’ in Austria has been home to some of the most incredible outdoor stages ever built. Lak...
The Horse Who Refuses To Have His Moustache Trimmed
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 7, 2011
First, I never knew horses could have moustaches. I don’t know what gave me that impression, maybe because I have never seen one grow, but t...
Explosive Paintings by Ben Grasso
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 7, 2011
Brooklyn-based Ben Grasso creates graphic works featuring suspended architectural structures decomposing into wooden planks as if suddenly ...
Paintings by Rebecca Campbell
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 5, 2011
Rebecca Campbell was born and raised in Salt Lake City in 1970, the youngest of seven children in a strict Mormon family. By age twelve, Ca...
'Giant Mermaid' Sculpture in Hamburg's Alster Lake
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 5, 2011
A giant sculpture of a woman bathing in the picturesque Alster Lake in Hamburg, Germany, has caught the attention of both tourist and locals...
Photo-realistic Paintings by Yigal Ozeri
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2011
Yigal Ozeri was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, but lives and works in New York. Ozeri is acclaimed for his hyper-realistic large-scale cinematic ...
Sculpture Exhibition at Salisbury Cathedral
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2011
More than 20 figures have been placed around Salisbury Cathedral in Salisbury, England, in an exhibition by figurative sculptor Sean Henry. ...
Guillermo Srodek-Hart’s ‘Interiors’
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 2, 2011
Guillermo Srodek-Hart was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1977. In the late 90s he studied lithography but it was in 2001 when he discov...
Closing Ceremony of 14th FINA World Championships
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 1, 2011
The 14th FINA World Championships or World Aquatics Championships came to a close in Shanghai, China, on July 31, 2011. FINA World Aquatics ...
