Mexico’s Congress of Clowns
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2010
Every year, clowns from across Latin America gather in Mexico City for a week-long convention aimed at giving their art the respect they fee...
Robot Babe Dance at the Digital Content Expo 2010
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2010
When the HRP-4C a humanoid robot made her debut in March 2009 it made news and grabbed headlines. Now the HRP-4C created at the Japanese Na...
Hipster Paintings by Ryan Shultz
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2010
Ryan Shultz is an artist from Chicago, whose work deals primarily with youth culture and the “cult of excess,” depicting scenes of intoxica...
The Cannonball Tree
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 21, 2010
The Cannonball Tree (scientific name: Couroupita guianensis) is a spectacular South American tree to be planted in subtropical and tropical ...
World’s First UFO Landing Pad, and the First Landing!
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 21, 2010
St. Paul, Alberta , a small town in east-central Alberta, Canada has the world’s first official UFO Landing Pad which was built in 1967 to c...
Furniture Made from Rusted Soviet Naval Mines
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 19, 2010
Estonian sculptor Mati Karmin creates furniture and other housewares from rusting naval "Blok" mines recovered from an ex-Soviet ...
The Amazing Human Printer
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 19, 2010
The Human Printer , founded by Louise Naunton Morgan, is a group of artists who uses markers to emulate the printing process. The group repr...
New York, Portrait of a City
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 18, 2010
New York, Portrait of a City is a photographic journey through the history of the New York. This book presents the epic story of New York o...
Switzerland Drills the Longest Railway Tunnel in the World
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2010
The longest railway tunnel in the world was completed on October 15, 2010 in Switzerland when the last two meters of rock were drilled throu...
Jeremy Mayer Builds Robots From Recycled Typewriters
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2010
American artist Jeremy Mayer was fascinated with typewriters ever since he was a child. His childhood interest has now become an art form c...
Amusing Planet is now on Facebook
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2010
Here is a small announcement for all those who read and love Amusing Planet – we have a Facebook Fan Page ! At the moment, you can use RSS F...
The Delightful Drawings of Maria Zeldis
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 16, 2010
Not much is known about Maria Zeldis, except that she is Russian and currently lives in Mexico. Her portfolio at DeviantArt is filled with ...
Kansas City Library’s Giant Bookshelf
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 15, 2010
One of the most unusual architecture at Kansas City, has to be the facade of the parking garage for the Central Branch of the public library...
Nikon Small World Microphotography Competition 2010
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 14, 2010
The Nikon Small World competition, now in its 36th year, is regarded as the leading forum for showcasing the beauty and complexity of life ...
The Creative Office of Inventionland
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 14, 2010
Inventionland is the creative work environment of Davison, a new product development firm located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Inventionlan...
European Beard and Moustache Championships
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 12, 2010
Germany’s famous East Bavarian Beard Club played host to the European Beard and Moustache Championships high in the Austrian Alps on October...
KOZO Lamps: A Plumber’s Dream Lamp
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 12, 2010
Israeli designer, David Benatan's new collection of KOZO Lamps are put together with rough but robust plumbing pipes and joints. The pip...
Incredible Pumpkin Carvings by Ray Villafane
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 10, 2010
American sculptor Ray Villafane carves incredibly intricate and detailed faces on pumpkins, from the gruesome Predator to the friendly Barac...
The Modern Ghost City of Ordos
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 9, 2010
The city of Ordos, in Inner Mongolia, China, was founded on February 26, 2001. It was designed to be home for one million people, yet, the K...
New York at Night
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 9, 2010
Jason Hawkes likes to photograph the world from above, and he has been doing that since 1991. In college, all he wanted to be was a studio ...
