Best of 2012
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 30, 2012
At Amusing Planet we cover anything that is offbeat or interesting, and that includes a wide range of topics. With over 400 articles publish...
Showing posts from December, 2012
Snow Roller: A Strange Meteorological Phenomenon
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 29, 2012
Snow roller is a rare meteorological phenomenon in which large cylinders of snow are naturally formed as chunks of snow are blown along the ...
Maeklong Railway Market: Marketplace With a Railway Track Through it
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 28, 2012
Maeklong Railway Market, located in Samut Songkhram, Thailand, around 37 miles west of Bangkok, looks like any other open-air market in Asia...
Montserrat, a Modern Day Pompeii
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 28, 2012
Montserrat is a Caribbean island located in the Leeward Islands, part of the chain of islands known as the Lesser Antilles, in the West Indi...
The Beautiful Key Monastery, India
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 26, 2012
Key Gompa is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery located on picturesque hilltop at an altitude of 4,166 metres above sea level, close to the Spiti ...
Great Mosque in Djenne, The Largest Mud-Brick Building in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 25, 2012
Founded in 800 AD, the town of Djenne in central Mali, is one of sub-Saharan Africa's oldest cities. Situated on an island in the Niger ...
Meet The Most Gorgeous ‘Peacock Spider’
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 24, 2012
Maratus volans , better known as the Peacock Spider, is the dandiest, the cutest little thing you’ll see today. The male of this species has...
Abandoned Farmhouse Transformed Into Life Size Dollhouse
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 22, 2012
Canadian artist Heather Benning has turned an abandoned farm house she found in 2005 in Manitoba, Canada, into a life-sized dollhouse. Mi...
Long Exposure Photographs of Dancers by Bill Wadman
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 22, 2012
Photographer Bill Wadman has captured 9 dancers in flowing motion with long exposure photography. The images were captured in a dark room w...
Skywalking in Russia
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 22, 2012
Skywalking is the latest photography fad in Russia, where thrill-seeking climbers seek out the highest mad made structures they can find, cl...
Chatillon Car Graveyard in Belgium
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 19, 2012
Right in the middle of a small forest near Chatillon, a little village in Southern Belgium, is a graveyard of abandoned and beautiful rusty ...
Homeless Dogs Learn to Drive in New Zealand
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 19, 2012
An animal adoption charity in New Zealand has successfully taught several dogs how to drive in order to demonstrates to potential rescue dog...
Dirt is Good: Joo Heng Tan's Sand Sculpture Backdrops
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 19, 2012
Three-time award-winning world champion sand sculptor Joo Heng Tan was approached by ad agency Lowe in Singapore to help create these impres...
Villa Epecuen: The Town That Was Submerged For 25 Years
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 18, 2012
Back in the 1920s, a tourist village named Villa Epecuen was established along the shore of Lago Epecuen, a salt lake some 600 kilometers so...
Even More Cinemagraphs From Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2012
Remember Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg? The artistic duo who reinvented animated GIF and whose moving photographs inspired a new genre of photog...
Ernie Button Creates Miniature Landscapes Using Cereals
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2012
Arizona-based photographer Ernie Button creates wonderful miniature landscapes using breakfast cereal. Using a variety of cereals based on t...
Hobbit Bar in New Zealand
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2012
If you are a Lord of the Rings fan, here is another reason to visit New Zealand. A Hobbit-style bar called the Green Dragon Pub has opened ...
The Afronauts by Cristina De Middel
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2012
In 1964, at the height of the international space race, and only months after gaining independence from the UK, a rather eccentric Zambian s...
The Two Sides of Drug Abuse
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2012
London-based photographer Roman Sakovich ’s startling portraits show the devastating effects of drug abuse. Before you freak out on this ima...
Acrobatic Fishermen of New Caledonia
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2012
Photographer Stephane Ducandas captured this incredible moment of a fisherman frozen mid-air as he leaps to catch a fish with a spear. Part ...
Inside Amazon’s Warehouse
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 16, 2012
Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retailer, owns 80 enormous warehouses or fulfillment centers around the globe to serve the 30 million...
Roof Gardens at Namba Parks, Osaka, Japan
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 16, 2012
Namba Parks is an office and shopping complex located in Namba-naka Nichome, Osaka, Japan, at the place where Osaka’s baseball stadium used ...
Portraits of Rockstars The Moment After The Show
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 14, 2012
Since 2005, Swiss photographer Matthias Willi and journalist Olivier Joliat have been developing a photographic project entitled “ The Momen...
CMA CGM Marco Polo: The World’s Largest Container Ship
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 14, 2012
The world’s largest container ship, the CMA CGM Marco Polo, is on a Trans-Pacific visit to Europe. Aboard the ship are 4,000 containers carr...
The Toughest Nail Houses of China
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 13, 2012
Remember the Chinese homeowner Luo Baogen and his wife, who refused to move his house to make way for a redevelopment project? The house st...
Spend The Night Inside the Human Intestine at Hotel CasAnus
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 13, 2012
Hotel CasAnus, or the Colon Hotel, is designed to resemble the human colon. The building follows the contours of the digestive system from t...
Beautiful Feather Cutwork by Chris Maynard
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 12, 2012
American artist Chris Maynard uses delicate eye surgery tools, miniscule scissors, forceps and sharp scalpels to slice intricate bird-shape...
Upside Down Trees at Glacier Gardens in Alaska
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 11, 2012
Walk into the 50-acre Glacier Gardens in Alaska and you’ll behold a strange sight. Dozens of hemlock and spruce trees with their tops drive...
Beautiful Mosaics of Sand and Shells by Svetlana Ivanchenko
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 9, 2012
Ukrainian artist Svetlana Ivanchenko makes beautiful sand and shell mosaics using materials commonly found on beaches. Each portrait were c...
The Tri-Colored Crater Lakes of Kelimutu, Indonesia
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 9, 2012
Kelimutu is a small, but well-known volcano in central Flores Island of Indonesia, close to the small town of Moni about 50 km to the east o...
Chinese Factory Workers And The Toys They Make
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 9, 2012
China is the biggest toy exporter in the world - nearly 75% of all the world's toys are made in the country – but the retail price of on...
Loughareema–The Lake That Randomly Vanishes
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 5, 2012
Loughareema, also known as the Vanishing Lake, is located on the coast road, just a few miles from the seaside town of Ballycastle in Irelan...
Futuristic Looking Spaceport America Near Completion in New Mexico
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 5, 2012
Spaceport America, dubbed as the first spaceport in the world, looks like a gigantic moth, its rounded wings outspread against the arid, red...
Vert-A-Pac: An Unusual Way to Transport Automobiles
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 4, 2012
Until the early 1960s, automobiles that were moved by rail were carried in boxcars. These were 50 feet long with double-wide doors. Inside w...
Most Powerful Artificial Tornado at Mercedes-Benz Museum, Germany
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 3, 2012
The Mercedes-Benz Museum is home to more than just automobiles. In 2007, the Guinness Book of Records gave it recognition for housing the &q...
Circular Pedestrian Bridge in Lujiazui, China
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 1, 2012
Sometime last year, a new pedestrian bridge was unveiled in Lujiazui in the Pudong district of Shanghai. This large scale circular pedestria...
Dar al-Hajar, the Rock Palace
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 1, 2012
Perched atop a rock pinnacle at the famous Wadi Dhahr Valley, some 15 km away from the capita city of Sana, Yemen, is Dar al-Hajar, better k...
