Tropical Extravaganza Festival at Kew Gardens
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 7, 2011
Kew Gardens is hosting a month-long festival to showcase thousands of exotic orchids and tropical plants. The Tropical Extravaganza is an o...
Haw Par Villa–Singapore’s Most Bizarre Theme Park
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 7, 2011
Haw Par Villa, originally known as the Tiger Balm Gardens, is a Chinese mythological theme park in Singapore that is home to some of the fre...
Funny Headgear at Egypt Protest
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 5, 2011
Photos of the unrest in Egypt that has been splashing across news tabloids and Internet blogs the last few days are mostly violent and depre...
Largest Game of Dodge-ball Held in Edmonton, Canada
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 5, 2011
A team of exactly 2,012 members consisting of staff and students of University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, took to an indoor field at the ...
Nuremberg International Toy Fair 2011
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 4, 2011
The Nuremberg Toy Fair, open to industry professionals only, is one of the biggest events of its kind. At the 62nd edition of the fair, abou...
Thomas C. Chung’s Knitted Sculptures
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 4, 2011
Artist Thomas C. Chung was born in Hong Kong and lives and work in Norway. Like previously featured artist Ed Bing Lee , Chung uses wool to...
Spectacular Caves and Rocks at Staffa Island
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 4, 2011
The island of Staffa in Scotland is probably best known for its unique geological features, such as the many caves and the unique shape of t...
The House in the Island of Elliðaey
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 4, 2011
If there ever is an ultimate holiday getaway location, it has to be the island of Elliðaey near Vestmannaeyjar, a small archipelago off the ...
Walton Creel Creates Artwork By Shooting Bullets
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 1, 2011
Walton Creel is an American artist who uses a .22 caliber rifle given to him by his father as a present to create artwork by shooting compl...
Tough Guy Challenge 2011
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 1, 2011
The annual Tough Guy competition, an event which bills itself as 'the safest most dangerous taste of mental and physical pain, fear and ...
Cabin Built From Fossilized Dinosaur Bones
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 1, 2011
Located near Medicine Bow, Wyoming, along US Route 30 lies one of USA’s oddest roadside attraction. It’s a cabin constructed out of fossiliz...
Wave Rock at Hyden, Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 30, 2011
Wave Rock is an interesting natural rock formation located east of the small town of Hyden in Western Australia. It derives its name from th...
Photorealistic Ball Point Pen Drawings by Juan Francisco Casas
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 30, 2011
Spanish artist Juan Francisco Casas creates photorealistic monochrome sketches using only a humble BIC ballpoint pen. Some of these stunnin...
Africa’s First Elephant Underpass
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 30, 2011
How did the elephants cross the road? They went underneath it. Elephants this month began crossing through Africa's first dedicated ele...
Eruption of Shinmoedake Volcano
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 29, 2011
Mount Shinmoedake, part of the Kirishima range, has dramatically erupted on the island of Kyūshū in southern Japan, after a gap of 52 years....
Atmosphere Plays Light Tricks As Rocket Launches Over Russia
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 27, 2011
Sometimes when the weather, the time and the light is just about right, rocket launches can leave spectacular trails over the sky. It’s call...
Insects Made From Matchsticks
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 27, 2011
Brighton UK based sculptor and model maker Kyle Bean created these impressive insects by carefully gluing together pieces of matchsticks ....
UK Cold Water Swimming Championships 2011
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 25, 2011
The water temperature was 3 degree Celsius, but that didn’t stop swimmers from stepping into the pool at the 5th Cold Water Swimming Champio...
Abandoned World War II Bunkers by Jonathan Andrew
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 25, 2011
Dutch photographer Jonathan Andrew , who lives in Amsterdam, produced a remarkable series of night shots of abandoned Word War 2 bunkers aro...
Spectacular Pictures of Laser Guide Star System
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 23, 2011
Imaging stars and other heavenly bodies from earth based telescope is difficult because of the atmosphere that envelops the earth. The atmos...
