Before And After Pictures of Japan’s Tsunami Cleanup Progress
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 13, 2011
Nearly three months after the devastating earthquake and tsunami , Japan is still struggling to clear the debris. In a series of photos take...
Bamboo Trains of Cambodia
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 12, 2011
For years, travellers in Cambodia had to deal with one of the world's worst train networks. Trains run infrequently in between the villa...
Miniature Cement Sculptures by Isaac Cordal
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 12, 2011
Street artist Isaac Cordal’s installations are littered all over London, in the form of miniature cement figurines. If you are not careful w...
Recycled Plastic Sculptures by Sayaka Ganz
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 11, 2011
Japanese artist Sayaka Ganz uses discarded plastic utensils, toys and tidbits to create beautiful animal sculptures. Her plastic sculptures...
The Door to Hell - Burning Gas Crater in Darvaza, Turkmenistan
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 9, 2011
The Darvaza gas crater or “The Door to Hell” is a 60 meters wide and 20 meters deep hole in the heart of the hot, expansive Karakum desert i...
Homemade Flying Machines Airshow at Red Bull Flugtag, Tel Aviv, 2011
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 8, 2011
Red Bull Flugtag (German for ‘airshow’) is a fun event organized by Red Bull in which competitors attempt to fly homemade human-powered flyi...
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...
