World's First Virtual Store Opens in Korea
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 2, 2011
A major South Korean retailer has opened what it appears to be the world's first virtual store geared to smartphone users, with shoppers...
World's First Elephant Hospital in Thailand
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 2, 2011
Soraida Salwala opened the World’s First Asian Elephant Hospital in Lampang, Thailand in 1993 to treat elephants that are ill or injured as ...
Burning Man Festival 2011
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 1, 2011
Burning Man is a liberal arts festival that takes place in the last week of August week before Labor Day in the Black Rock Desert, in Northe...
Annual Tomatina Festival in Spain, 2011
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 1, 2011
La Tomatina is the craziest and the largest food fight festival organized every year in the town of Bunol in the Valencia region of Spain. A...
Beautiful Underwater Photography by Elena Kalis
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 1, 2011
Russian-born photographer Elena Kalis has been residing on a small island in the Bahamas, surrounded by clear ocean, for the past decade. S...
Das Park Hotel Built from Giant Sewage Pipes
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 31, 2011
If your idea of a holiday is to live inside a sewage pipe, then congratulations - you qualify for a night’s stay at the Das Park Hotel in Au...
Street Scene Paintings by Max Ginsburg
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 30, 2011
Max Ginsburg , born in 1931 in Paris, is a social realist painter who draws his inspiration from the energy of New York City and its people....
Amy Bennett’s Diorama-like Paintings
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 30, 2011
Brooklyn based artist Amy Bennett uses an interesting technique for her paintings. First she builds miniature sets and then uses them as re...
Levitating Self-Portraits by Natsumi Hayashi
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 29, 2011
Teenage photography sensation Natsumi Hayashi takes pictures of herself seemingly floating in midair. Equipped with only a tripod or with h...
Dissembled Flowers
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 29, 2011
Inspired by Todd McLellan's Disassembled Objects , Singapore-based photographer Qi Wei created this beautiful series of images called “e...
