Dafen Oil Painting Village: Where Fake Art is Business
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 30, 2011
China is well known for fakery of all kinds, be it consumer electronics, clothing, pharmaceuticals, DVDs, food and everything in between. An...
Showing posts from April, 2011
Songkran Festival: Thai New Year Celebration
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 28, 2011
The Hungarians aren’t the only ones dousing each other with water this April. The Thais are traditionally known to celebrate the Songkran f...
Island Of The Dolls: Mexico’s Creepiest Place
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 28, 2011
The Island Of The Dolls (Isla de las Muñecas), located in the vast network of canals that lies to the south of Mexico City, near Xochimilco ...
Hair Museum of Avanos, Turkey
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 27, 2011
The Avanos hair museum situated in Cappadocia in Turkey is notably one of the strangest museums that you will come across. The museum is lo...
National Pigeon Association’s “Grand National” Pigeon Show
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 27, 2011
National Pigeon Association is an all-breeds pigeon club with an international membership founded in 1920 by humans. Encompassing all varie...
The Incredible Magdeburg Water Bridge in Germany
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 23, 2011
The Magdeburg Water Bridge is a navigable aqueduct in Germany that connects the Elbe-Havel Canal to the Mittelland Canal, and allows ships t...
Gil Elvgren’s Pin-Up Girls And Their Photo Reference
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 22, 2011
The Pin-up girl culture became very popular during the early 20th century and continued well into the 80s and even late 90s. Many pin-ups we...
Style in the Aisle: Flight-Attendant Fashion Over The Years
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 22, 2011
The Museum of Flight, located a little south of Seattle, owns one of the most extensive collections of historic flight attendant uniforms of...
Watering Of The Girls: Oldest Wet T-shirt Contest?
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 22, 2011
In Hungary, there is an ancient Easter tradition called Húsvéti Locsolás . Literally, this translates to "Easter Watering". Specif...
Cake Shaped Soaps From Yorkshire Soap Co.
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 20, 2011
Yorkshire Soap Co . builds bathing soaps that look like delicious mouth watering cakes. They even decorates their soaps with pieces of real ...
I’m Not What You Think: Product Designs by Mehmet Gozetlik
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 20, 2011
The pair of batteries you see below are not batteries. They are salt and pepper shakers designed by Turkish designer Mehmet Gozetlik . These...
The Monster Engine: Children’s Drawings Painted Realistically
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 20, 2011
Dave Devries takes sketches of monsters drawn by children purely from their imagination and renders them realistically giving them a truly d...
Soft Focus Oil Paintings by Philip Barlow
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 17, 2011
Philip Barlow was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, 1968. He started travelling Europe starting from the 90s while developing his tal...
Sherlock Holmes Museum at 221b Baker Street, London
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 17, 2011
The Sherlock Holmes Museum is a popular privately-run museum in London, dedicated to the celebrated 19th century detective created by Sir Co...
Jamie Beck’s Animated GIF Photography
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 17, 2011
New York City-based fashion photographer Jamie Beck , in collaboration with Kevin Burg, a web designer with a background in video and motion...
Soviet Russia’s Secret Failed Moon Program
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 16, 2011
After the United States beat the Russian’s in the race to the moon in the late 70s of the last century, the Soviet lunar program was covered...
Gunther von Hagens’s Plastinated Animal Exhibition
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 15, 2011
Plastination is a technique of preserving bodies or body parts by replacing the water and fat components by certain plastics, thereby yieldi...
Cancer Survivor Makes Jewelry Out of Pills to Pay Off Medical Debt
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 13, 2011
61-year-old Susan Braig from Altadena is a cancer survivor who takes old pharmaceutical pills and tablets and mounts them on costume jewelry...
Tropical Butterflies Exhibition at London
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 13, 2011
A new exhibition, Sensational Butterflies, is being held at the Natural History Museum bringing some of the world's most astonishing spe...
150 Years Old 3D Photos of the Civil War
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 13, 2011
Although 3D appears to be a new technology, it is not quite. 3D or stereo photography first became popular around the time of the Civil War ...
Live Fish and Reptiles Sold as Keychains in China
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 12, 2011
According to a news report on Chinese media, the hottest new fad in China involves selling a live fish, or a Brazilian turtle or a young gia...
Rania Matar: A Girl And Her Room
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 11, 2011
Lebanese photographer Rania Matar photographs young women from around the world in their most private space - their bedroom, giving us view...
Inflatable Plastic Crowd in Movies
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 10, 2011
Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) is expensive and extras are difficult to handle, besides costing money. The Inflatable Crowd Company offer...
What’s Cooking? - Cutaway Food Photography by Ryan Matthew Smith
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2011
Ryan Matthew Smith ’s photo series “Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking” is a lovely collection of photographs of different fo...
Ultra Realistic Still Life Paintings by Luciano Ventrone
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2011
Luciano Ventrone was born in Rome in 1942 and moved to Denmark at the age of four, where he hosted by Lady Metha Petersen – a wealthy and m...
Fly Geyser: A Man Made Geyser in Nevada
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2011
Fly Geyser is a very little known tourist attraction, even to Nevada residents. It is located right near the edge of Fly Reservoir and is on...
Marathon des Sables 2011–Race Across The Sahara Desert
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2011
The Marathon des Sables has been described as the toughest race on earth. The race consist of one long walk – 254 km - across one of the hot...
Protestors Take to Streets in Toronto 'Slut Walk'
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2011
Would you walk down the street with a sign saying “I’m a slut”? Well, these women did. More than 1000 women hit the streets Sunday afternoo...
Joe Simpson’s Cinematic Oil Paintings
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2011
London based artist Joe Simpson , by utilizing his incredible talent to paint realistically, stages fictitious scenes with a strong hint at ...
Eye Deceiving Wall Murals by John Pugh
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 5, 2011
California based artist John Pugh specializes in the art of in ‘trompe l’oeil’, which means 'to deceive the eye’ in French. Pugh uses h...
International Pillow Fight Day
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 5, 2011
People across the globe in more than 130 cities participated in the fourth annual International Pillow Fight Day on Saturday April 2, 2011. ...
Photographs of Television Screens the Moment They’re Turned Off
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 5, 2011
German photographer Stephan Tillmans took photos of old Cathode Ray Tube television screens the moment they are switched off and produced a ...
Trees Cocooned in Spider Webs After Pakistan Flood
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 2, 2011
An unexpected side-effect of the flooding in parts of Pakistan last year has been that millions of spiders were driven up into the trees to ...
Garden of the Fugitives: Fossilized Victims of the Vesuvius Eruption
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 2, 2011
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD is one of the most catastrophic and famous eruptions of all time. The explosion of the eruption thre...
