Showing posts from February, 2012

Martin Klimas’s Photographs Paint Disturbed by Sound

Feb 27, 2012

German photographer Martin Klimas photographs sound using paint. He starts by putting different colored paint on top of some translucent ma...

The Living Wall: Nikita Nomerz Adds Faces to Street Walls

Feb 27, 2012

Russian street artist Nikita Nomerz makes derelict structures come alive by adding eyes and facial features. Nikita Nomerz's work range...

World’s Longest Tree Top Walk in Bavaria

Feb 27, 2012

Opened two years ago in Neuschonau, Bavaria, in Germany, the tree-top walk is the longest of it’s kind at 1300 meters that takes you to an i...

Simon Beck's Snow Art

Feb 27, 2012

Artist Simon Beck creates amazing pieces of snow art by walking in the snow wearing raquettes (snowshoes). Each artwork is typically the si...

Navagio Beach, the Most Beautiful Beach of Greece

Feb 27, 2012

Navagio Beach or the Shipwreck, is an isolated sandy cove on Zakynthos island and one of the most famous and most photographed beaches in Gr...

Beautiful Fortified City of Naarden, The Netherlands

Feb 23, 2012

Naarden is a municipality and a town in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands, shaped in the form of a star. This small town is a...

Coffee Cup Stain Portrait by Hong Yi

Feb 23, 2012

Malaysian artist Hong Yi uses all sorts of unconventional objects to create portraits. Recently, she created a huge portrait of Taiwanese m...

Large Scale Snow Drawings by Sonja Hinrichsen

Feb 22, 2012

Using snowshoes artist Sonja Hinrichsen , with the help of 5 volunteers, created these snow drawings at Rabbit’s Ear Pass, a lofty mountain ...

The Flying Baby: Photography by Rachel Hulin

Feb 22, 2012

Exhausted and bored on an assignment, photographer Rachel Hulin, Henry’s mother, thought it would be fun to make her baby fly. So Henry flew...

Germany Goes Crazy at Rose Monday

Feb 21, 2012

Hundreds of thousands of carnival revellers took to the streets of Cologne, Düsseldorf and Mainz on Monday for the traditional Rose Monday p...

The Great Dune of Pyla: A Moving Desert in France

Feb 21, 2012

The Great Dune of Pyla, located 60 km from Bordeaux in the Arcachon Bay area, France, happens to be the tallest sand dune in Europe. Also kn...

Devil's Pool: Swimming on the Edge of the Victoria Falls

Feb 21, 2012

Devil's Pool is a rocky depression on the edge of the Victoria Falls, located along the Zambezi River on the border of Zambia and Zimbab...

The Dark Hedges in Ireland

Feb 19, 2012

The Dark Hedges is a unique stretch of the Bregagh Road near Armoy, in Ireland, that looks like something from a Tim Burton movie. Over the ...

Drawing With Fire: Pyrography by Julie Bender

Feb 19, 2012

Pyrography is the art of drawing with fire; using a heated tip or wire to burn or scorch designs onto natural surfaces such as wood and leat...

Detroit Riprap: Abandoned Cars as Erosion Control

Feb 19, 2012

Throughout Montana, the U.S and beyond, there are rusted cars scattered along the banks and bottoms of rivers that are remnants of a time wh...

Punch Hole Clouds

Feb 17, 2012

Punch hole clouds, also known as fallstreak hole are large circular clearings that can appear in cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds. Such ho...

4 Incredible Hanging Hotel Pools

Feb 17, 2012

Some hotel pools are more than a place to take a dip. They are designed to make a dramatic impression and heighten the sensations you experi...

World's Tiniest Chameleon Found In Madagascar

Feb 16, 2012

Researchers have recently discovered four new species of tiny chameleons in the remote rainforests in northern Madagascar. The chameleons ar...

De Kas: Restaurant Inside a Greenhouse

Feb 12, 2012

De Kas is a large restaurant and nursery located in a former greenhouse on the outskirts of Amsterdam. Back in 1926 the greenhouse was built...

Floating Villages Near Cat Ba Island, Vietnam

Feb 12, 2012

Cat Ba Island is the largest of the 366 islands that comprises the Halong Bay archipelago in Northern Vietnam and the only one that hosts a ...

Slindon Pumpkin Festival

Feb 11, 2012

Every year in the month of October, the sleepy West Sussex village of Slindon, England, stirs up to the Pumpkin Festival – a seasonal displa...

Gun Totem by Boris Bally

Feb 11, 2012

Standing in front of Providence's Federal Courthouse in Rhode Island is an unusual monument constructed out of steel, concrete and 1000 ...

Goatee The Surfing Goat

Feb 11, 2012

Goatee the surfing goat isn’t the first animal to hop on a surfboard, but it is the latest to receive media attention. Two-year-old Goatee,...

Smoke Art in Bottles by Jim Dingilian

Feb 11, 2012

Over the course of the past decade, American artist Jim Dingilian has developed a body of work in which he painstakingly renders ephemeral ...

Fantastic Condo Wave Cloud Hits Florida Coast

Feb 10, 2012

Helicopter pilot J.R. Hott captured these breathtaking images showing low-lying clouds swooping over the high-rise buildings lining the beac...

Gorgeous Photographs of Rain By Christophe Jacrot

Feb 10, 2012

Christophe Jacrot lives and works in Paris. He started his photographic career with Paris sous la pluie (Paris in the rain)€, for which a ...

Cauliflower Explosions by Brock Davis

Feb 8, 2012

Brock Davis is a Minneapolis-based artist and musician who works on primarily self-initiated projects in a variety of mediums. Humor is a c...

Stunning Glasswork by Shayna Leib

Feb 7, 2012

Shayna Leib was only seven years old when she saw glassblowing for the first time at a local university, an experience that changed her lif...

Kizhi Pogost: 300 Years Old Multi-Dome Church Built Without Nails

Feb 6, 2012

Kizhi is a narrow strip of island on Lake Onega in the Republic of Karelia, Russia. The island is popular for dozens of historical wooden bu...

Fortune Telling Robots in India

Feb 6, 2012

Fortune Telling is a cultural phenomenon at all levels in the Indian society. Various types of fortune telling are popular with the urban an...

Olympics for Rabbit: The Grand National in Harrogate

Feb 2, 2012

An unusual sporting spectacle took place in Harrogate, Yorkshire, last weekend. More than 3000 rabbits as well as guinea pigs, hamsters, mic...

Intricate Paper Cut Drawings by Bovey Lee

Feb 2, 2012

Pittsburgh-based artist Bovey Lee utilizes her background in Chinese paper cutting to produce these beautiful and amazingly detailed two-di...

Waterfall Restaurant at Villa Escudero in Philippines

Feb 2, 2012

Villa Escudero , located at San Pablo City in the Philippines, is a fine hacienda-style resort with cozy rooms and a museum that boasts a la...

Stunning Anatomical Cross-Sections Made From Paper by Lisa Nilsson

Feb 2, 2012

Artist Lisa Nilsson creates beautiful anatomical cross sections of the human body using rolled pieces of Japanese mulberry paper, a techniq...

Fritz's Railroad Restaurant: Food Delivery by Toy Trains

Feb 1, 2012

Fritz's Railroad Restaurant is a family-friendly restaurant in Kansas City dedicated to trains, the city’s original form of transportati...