Cincinnati's Abandoned Subway
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 8, 2011
Unknown to many Cincinnatians, sprawling under their feet is a vast network of abandoned and derelict subway tunnels – in fact, the United S...
Massive Penguin Colony in South Georgia
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 6, 2011
In what looks to be the world's largest day care facility, thousands upon thousands of King Penguins group their offspring together into...
6th Annual Surf Dog Competition, California
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 6, 2011
The 6th annual dog surfing competition, officially known as the Loews Coronado Bay Resort Surf Dog Competition, drew in hundreds of local ci...
Puyehue-Cordon Caulle Volcano Erupts in Chile
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 6, 2011
A volcano in the Caulle Cordon of southern Chile erupted on Saturday, June 4, shooting out pumice stones and pluming a cloud of ash 10 kilom...
London’t First Playboy Club
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 6, 2011
The first Playboy Club opened in Chicago in 1960, and subsequently in New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Kansas City and elsewhere. There w...
‘Running of the Brides' in New York City
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 5, 2011
The Running of the Brides is a local tradition that has taken place since 1947 at Filene's Basement store in downtown Boston. On this da...
Slauerhoffbrug, The Flying Drawbridge
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2011
Slauerhoffbrug also known as the 'Flying Drawbridge', is a fully automatic bascule bridge located in the city of Leeuwarden in Nethe...
Artistic Stockholm Subway System
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2011
The Stockholm subway system is said to be the longest art exhibition in the world - 110 kilometers in length. Traveling by subway is like tr...
The Many Constumes of Manneken Pis
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 3, 2011
At the corner of Rue de l'Étuve/Stoofstraat and Rue du Chêne/Eikstraat in the heart of Brussels, is a famous landmark – the Manneken Pis...
Performing Street Monkeys of Indonesia
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 3, 2011
Street monkey performance is a common form of cheap entertainment in Jakarta, Indonesia and in many Asian countries like India. Macaque monk...
Wunderland Kalkar: Nuclear Power Plant Turned Amusement Park
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 2, 2011
In Kalkar in 1972, construction was started on the SNR-300, the first fast breeder nuclear reactor in Germany. The reactor was designed to u...
Astronaut Paolo Nespoli’s Photos of Earth From Space
Kaushik Patowary
May 28, 2011
ESA’s astronaut Paolo Nespoli, while working and living on the International Space Station, started sharing his experience with the world vi...
Iron Wire Sculptures by Mattia Trotta
Kaushik Patowary
May 28, 2011
Italian sculptor Mattia Trotta creates amazing sculptures from wire meshes, which at first glance, I mistook to be that by Ivan Lovatt who...
Dirk Skreber’s Car Crash Sculptures
Kaushik Patowary
May 27, 2011
German artist Dirk Skreber’s paintings and sculptures have consistently mined the catastrophic- either in the aftermath of a devastating flo...
Magnificent Photos of Grimsvoetn Volcano Eruption in Iceland
Kaushik Patowary
May 26, 2011
The Grimsvotn volcano began erupting on Saturday, sending clouds of ash up to 12 miles into the air. The amount of ash spewing from the volc...
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...
