The Postman Who Built a Palace With Stones Collected Over 33 Years
Kaushik Patowary
May 22, 2011
The story begins in 1879. Joseph-Ferdinand Cheval (1836 - 1924) , then 43 years old, had been working as a rural mail carrier in the southea...
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...
