Astronaut Paolo Nespoli’s Photos of Earth From Space
Kaushik Patowary
May 28, 2011
ESA’s astronaut Paolo Nespoli, while working and living on the International Space Station, started sharing his experience with the world vi...
Showing posts from May, 2011
Iron Wire Sculptures by Mattia Trotta
Kaushik Patowary
May 28, 2011
Italian sculptor Mattia Trotta creates amazing sculptures from wire meshes, which at first glance, I mistook to be that by Ivan Lovatt who...
Dirk Skreber’s Car Crash Sculptures
Kaushik Patowary
May 27, 2011
German artist Dirk Skreber’s paintings and sculptures have consistently mined the catastrophic- either in the aftermath of a devastating flo...
Magnificent Photos of Grimsvoetn Volcano Eruption in Iceland
Kaushik Patowary
May 26, 2011
The Grimsvotn volcano began erupting on Saturday, sending clouds of ash up to 12 miles into the air. The amount of ash spewing from the volc...
Evolution of Type: Anatomy of Typography
Kaushik Patowary
May 21, 2011
Graphic artist and sculptor Andreas Scheiger came across the book “The Alphabet and Elements of Lettering” (1918) by famous type designer F...
Child Labor in Indian Coal Mines
Kaushik Patowary
May 19, 2011
Times photojournalist Daniel Berehulak, along with Mark Magnier, reported a fantastic photo essay on the mining situation in the Jaintia Hi...
Impressive Paintings by Dan Witz
Kaushik Patowary
May 19, 2011
Dan Witz is one of the most prolific artists working on the streets of New York City today. Witz, consistently active since the late 1970s,...
World Beard and Moustache Championships 2011
Kaushik Patowary
May 18, 2011
The World Beard and Moustache Championships is a biennial competition in which men with elaborate beards and moustaches compete with each o...
Pulp Fiction Meets Simpsons
Kaushik Patowary
May 18, 2011
In this hilarious series, an anonymous animator at Film Roman (the production company behind The Simpsons) sketches famous Pulp Fiction scen...
Real-Life Locations in ‘Fallout: New Vegas’ Video Game
Kaushik Patowary
May 16, 2011
London copywriter Chris Worth, inspired by the futuristic role-playing game Fallout: New Vegas , set out to explore the Mojave Desert and di...
World's Largest Video Game Museum in Berlin
Kaushik Patowary
May 15, 2011
The world's largest video game museum was opened early this year in Berlin. The Computerspielemuseum (Computer Game Museum), located on...
Portraits of Authors in Their Own Words
Kaushik Patowary
May 15, 2011
American artist and author John Sokol creates portraits of literary greats in which the lines of their faces are crafted from the author’s ...
Bureaucrats Around The World: Photo Series by Jan Banning
Kaushik Patowary
May 14, 2011
Bureaucratics by Dutch photographer Jan Banning is a comparative photographic study of the culture, rituals and symbols of state civil admi...
Same Hill, Different Day by Paul Octavious
Kaushik Patowary
May 12, 2011
Chicago based photographer Paul Octavious documents the life of a single hill in Chicago through a series of photographs in a project entitl...
‘Jetman’ Yves Rossy Flies Over The Grand Canyon
Kaushik Patowary
May 12, 2011
Swiss pilot and stuntman Yves Rossy ( previously featured ) who is nicknamed Jet Man for being the first person to fly using a jet-powered e...
‘In Your Fridge’ by Stephanie de Rouge
Kaushik Patowary
May 11, 2011
New York photographer Stéphanie de Rougé allows us to have a peek into the contents of people’s fridges through her photo-series ‘In Your F...
Prison Beauty Contests
Kaushik Patowary
May 11, 2011
Life behind the bars is bleak when you have to share the place with convicted murderers, thieves and drug dealers. Glamour is the last thing...
Long Exposure Shots of Airline Takeoffs and Landings
Kaushik Patowary
May 8, 2011
San Francisco International Airport between 10 PM and 11 PM on July 17th, 2009. Image credit
World's Largest Miniature Airport Opens in Germany
Kaushik Patowary
May 7, 2011
The world's largest model airport has opened at Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany, which is also home to the world’s largest model...
Giant Trees At the Cambodian Temple of Ta Prohm
Kaushik Patowary
May 7, 2011
Ta Prohm is a temple at Angkor, Cambodia, built in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. Located approximately one kilometer east of Angko...
Skydreamers: History of Flight Exhibition in Los Angeles
Kaushik Patowary
May 7, 2011
The fantasies and realities of flight and space exploration, as depicted through art and photography in the West and around the world, went ...
Al Farrow Makes Religious Sculptures From Guns And Ammo
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2011
American sculptor Al Farrow creates models of churches, temples and mosques from bullets and gun parts highlighting the disquieting relatio...
Stunning Cloud Photography by Rüdiger Nehmzow
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2011
Düsseldorf photographer Rüdiger Nehmzow captured these gorgeous photos of clouds four miles above the Earth in a prop plane with the side d...
High Speed Photography by Alan Sailer
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2011
Alan Sailer was an obscure photographer working in his garage in Camarillo, United States, shooting stuff with a pellet rifle and photograph...
Monowi: The Town With Population of One
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2011
Monowi is a village in Nebraska, United States, whose only remaining resident is a 77-year old woman named Elsie Eiler. Eiler lives in a mob...
Captain Robert Scott’s Hut in Antarctica
Kaushik Patowary
May 3, 2011
Robert Falcon Scott’s hut is located on the north shore of Cape Evans on Ross Island in Antarctica. It was erected in 1911 by the ill-fated ...
World Celebrates Death of Osama bin Laden
Kaushik Patowary
May 3, 2011
Late Sunday night, President Barack Obama announced that U.S. forces had killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden during an operation in Abbot...
Roter Sand Lighthouse Turned Hotel in Germany
Kaushik Patowary
May 2, 2011
Described by some as the “loneliest hotel in Germany,” the Roter Sand lighthouse, some 30 miles off the coast of Bremerhaven, Lower Saxony, ...
