Gorgeous Models of Rusted Antique Cars by Martin Heukeshoven
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 31, 2011
German artist Martin Heukeshoven makes miniatures of antique cars, but with a special touch. Instead of making shiny, new and all-chrome ca...
Showing posts from 2011
Spanish Festival of Els Enfarinats Celebrated With Flour Fight
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 31, 2011
No festival in Spain is complete without a bizarre tradition like throwing tomatoes or running in front of bulls or jumping over babies . ...
Light pillars, An Incredible Optical Phenomenon
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 31, 2011
Sometimes during very cold weather, vertical columns of light beaming directly upwards are visible. These are called light pillars and are c...
Barbie Trashes Her Dreamhouse
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 29, 2011
Barbie Trashes Her Dreamhouse is a series of photos of a miniature house built to the scale of 1:6 in which Barbie is a hoarder and the pla...
Honda Begins Scrapping 1,000 Flood Damaged Cars in Thailand
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 29, 2011
Sigh! Japanese automaker Honda Automobile on Tuesday began destroying 1,000 cars that were damaged in this year’s floods to reassure custome...
A Night of Traffic Jam in Moscow
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 28, 2011
Every winter in Moscow sees terrible traffic jams. Heavy snow, ice, and unsafe driving conditions cause accidents and road closures that fre...
Photo Remake of Famous Paintings
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 28, 2011
In a contest last month, popular art blog Booooooom.com called for submission from readers asking them to recreate classical work of art usi...
Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 27, 2011
Twins Days is an annual festival of twins held on each August in the Cleveland suburb of Twinsburg, Ohio, United States. It is one of the la...
Best of 2011
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 26, 2011
As the year draws to an end, we look back at some of the best and most read stories of 2011. 10 Most Read Stories of 2011 Long Expo...
Landscapes Carved Out of Books by Guy Laramee
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 23, 2011
“So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes”, says interdisciplinary artist Guy Laramee who, in the course of his 3...
Paintings Made With Human Blood by Vinicius Quesada
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 22, 2011
Vinicius Quesada is a talented street artist from Brazil who likes to add a shock value to his artwork. His series entitled Blood Piss Blue...
Tristan da Cunha - The Most Remote Island in the World
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 22, 2011
Tristan da Cunha is a volcanic island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean lying 2,816 kilometers from the nearest land, South Africa, and 3,...
Weapons Made From Harmless Materials
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 22, 2011
Kyle Bean (previously featured here and here ) recently published a series of photos of weapons made from harmless materials for a feature...
Paintings by Teresa Elliott
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 21, 2011
Teresa Elliott was born in Weatherford, Texas. As a young adult she sketched portraits building a foundation for a career in the fine arts....
World Chocolate Wonderland in Shanghai
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 21, 2011
The World Chocolate Wonderland, a new theme park made entirely of chocolate has just opened in China's Shanghai on Friday, December 16. ...
Tunnel Through a Fallen Giant Sequoia in Sequoia National Park
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 21, 2011
Giant sequoias, also known as giant redwoods, are the largest trees in the world. They grow to an average height of 50–85 meters and have di...
World’s Shortest Woman Jyoti Amge is Only 24.7 Inches Tall
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 20, 2011
Jyoti Amge’s 18th birthday is the best of her life. On this day, the Guinness Book of World Records named her the world’s shortest living wo...
Gorgeous Pictures of Highway Interchanges by Peter Andrew
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2011
High Interchanges is a set of beautiful aerial photos of intricate freeway interchanges in Texas by the award-winning commercial and fine ar...
World's Largest Coffee Bean Mosaic
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2011
An Albanian artist Saimir Strati has entered the Guinness World Records for creating the world's largest coffee bean mosaic measuring 25...
Curious Vehicular Art Installation in Texas
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2011
While most old vehicles end up at scrapyards for recycling, Texas people have a peculiar way of disposing them. If you drive on Interstate 4...
Surrealistic Miniature Scenes by Frank Kunert
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2011
German photographer and artist Frank Kunert builds incredibly detailed, miniature models usually of industrial grey constructs but with a t...
Peculiar Vineyards of Lanzarote, Spain
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 16, 2011
Lanzarote is a Spanish island in the Atlantic Ocean located some 125 km off the coast of Africa and 1,000 km from the Iberian Peninsula. The...
Top Stories of 2011 in Lego
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 16, 2011
The Guardian has rounded up this year’s top news in pictures but instead of using regular photos they used pictures of Legos that reenacted...
Portraits of Gamers And Their Avatars
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 13, 2011
You may remember James Mollison’s project called The Disciples where he documented rock concert fans and compared them to their idols. New ...
The Subway in Zion National Park
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 13, 2011
Zion National Park may not have trains but it’s already got a subway. The canyon’s natural Subway is spectacular tunnel sculpted by two curv...
Brian Dettmer’s Book Dissection
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 13, 2011
Brian Dettmer is an artist hailing from Chicago was has earned the title of ‘book surgeon’. With the precision of a surgeon, using scalpels...
Yarchen Monastery, China
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 13, 2011
Deep in the mountains of northwestern Sichuan in China, on the Tibetan plateau, there exists a town in an isolated, beautiful and clean vall...
Creepy Newspaper People by Nick Georgiou
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 11, 2011
Tucson, Arizona based artist Nick Georgiou creates curious human sculptures using local newspapers and old, discarded books. My art is...
Rainbow Village of Taichung, Taiwan
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 11, 2011
Tucked away in one corner of the large city of Taichung, Taiwan lies a modest ‘military dependents’ village’ – a community built in the late...
Rock Restaurant of Zanzibar
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 11, 2011
Perched on a rock in the middle of the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Zanzibar, Tanzania, is a tiny seafood restaurant simply named The Rock...
Age 10 to 60–Transformed Through Makeup And Photography
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 11, 2011
Haven’t we all imagined how we might look like when we grow old? There are even a few online tools that will simulate how one might age 2...
Environmental Installations by Rune Guneriussen
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 9, 2011
Rune Guneriussen is a young Norwegian photographer who photographs various mad made objects in nature, as if they belong there. The various...
Chewing Gum Wall in California
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 8, 2011
If you are squeamish and easily disgusted, never walk along Bubblegum Alley and don’t touch the walls because lining the walls on this alley...
Bioluminescence in Gippsland Lakes, Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 7, 2011
The Gippsland Lakes are a network of lakes, marshes and lagoons in east Gippsland, Victoria, Australia covering an area of about 600 square ...
Walter Potter's Museum of Curiosities
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 7, 2011
Walter Potter was a nineteenth century English taxidermist noted for his anthropomorphic dioramas featuring stuffed animals mimicking human ...
Kim Keever’s Miniature Landscapes Inside Fish Tanks
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 6, 2011
Artist Kim Keever creates beautiful landscape photographs by building elaborate dioramas in a 200 gallon tank, flooding the tank, and photo...
Winners of UPrinting Business Card Giveaway
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 3, 2011
On November 11, we published a competition for three sets of business cards courtesy of UPrinting.com. The competition has ended and it is ...
‘Social Lights’ by Seymour Templar
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 2, 2011
Social Lights is a project by Brooklyn–based photographer Seymour Templar where he documents New York social life and individuals interacti...
Ted Sabarese’s Photos of People And The Fish They Look Like
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 2, 2011
Ted Sabarese shoots people. All kinds of people, but especially relishes working with non-professional models and actors who don’t fit the ...
Paintings and Sketches by Ivan Alifan
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 2, 2011
Ivan Alifan is a talented artist currently residing in Canada and son of the Russian painter Anna Razumovskaya. Here’s what Ivan has to say...
Princess Juliana Airport and Maho Beach
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 1, 2011
Maho Beach is located on the Dutch side of the Caribbean island of Saint Martin. If you love watching airplanes takeoff and land, this shoul...
Oradour-sur-Glane: The Village Massacred in WW2 and Preserved Since Then
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 29, 2011
On 10 June 1944, at around 2 PM, four days after the Allied invasion of Normandy, approximately 150 Waffen-SS soldiers entered the tranquil ...
Edward Burtynsky’s Photos of Industrial Landscapes
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 29, 2011
Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian photographer and artist who has achieved international recognition for his large-format photographs of indus...
Frieke Janssens’s Controversial Photos of Smoking Kids
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 28, 2011
A few months ago smoking was banned in all public places in Belgium. Photographer Frieke Janssens responded with “surrealistic, melancholic...
Chimborazo: The Farthest Point From the Earth’s Center
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 26, 2011
Chimborazo is an inactive volcano located in the Andes mountain range in Ecuador with a peak elevation of 6,268.2 meters. What makes Chimbor...
Gorgeous Photos Taken by Google Street View Cameras
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 26, 2011
Google's Street View camera cars can sometimes capture unbelievable landscapes and moments, as Pittsburgh-born photographer Aaron Hobson...
Bruce Munro’s Light Installation at Holburne Museum
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 25, 2011
Bruce Munro is a British lighting designer and installation artist best known for large scale lighting installations such as Field of Light,...
Mass Whale Hunting in Faroe Islands Leave Sea Blood Red
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 24, 2011
The sea of Faroe Islands in north of Europe turned red with the blood of hundreds of whales killed by the inhabitants on November 22, as a p...
Thomas Doyle’s Apocalyptic Dioramas
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 24, 2011
Using ordinary materials found around the house, New York based artist Thomas Doyle creates dioramas that feature tiny hand-painted figures...
The Twist Bridge Over the Vlaardingse Vaart, Netherlands
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 24, 2011
Spanning roughly 42 meters, this bicycle and pedestrian bridge called ‘The Twist’ bridge for its contorted and sculptural lines, connects th...
Pedestrian Roller Coaster in Germany
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 24, 2011
If you are scared of the loops and dizzy heights of a roller coaster, you can try out the new roller-coaster walkway at Duisburg that lets y...
