The Singing Ringing Tree at Burnley
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 14, 2011
The Singing Ringing Tree is a unique wind powered sound sculpture resembling a tree set in the landscape of the Pennine mountain range overl...
Michigan Residents Celebrate Annual Mud Day
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 13, 2011
About 5,000 people turned up the at the Hines Park Nankin Mills Area in Westland, Michigan, for the state's 24th annual mud day. More th...
Millions of Jellyfish Cause Nuclear Reactors Shutdown Around The World
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 13, 2011
A sudden explosion in jellyfish population in different parts of the world has caused nuclear reactors to be shutdown in Japan, Scotland and...
China Opens World's Longest Sea Bridge
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 12, 2011
The Qingdao Haiwan Bridge, which was featured on Amusing Planet early this year, is open for business. State-run news channel CCTV says the...
Orda Cave: World's Longest Underwater Gypsum Cave in Russia
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 12, 2011
A team of daring cave divers working on Orda Cave Awareness Project have produced an incredible series of photos of the longest underwater g...
Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Championship
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 9, 2011
Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest is held every year on July 4 at Nathan's Famous Corporation's original, and best-known restauran...
World's Steepest Roller-coaster Opens in Japan
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 9, 2011
Japan’s Fuji-Q Highland Amusement Park has unveiled its 14th Guinness world record-breaking ride – the Takabisha roller-coaster. Nestled at ...
Chevrolet Underground Catwalk 2011: Fashion Show on Subway Train
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 7, 2011
The Underground Catwalk , currently in its sixth year, has become an integral and popular part of the Berlin Fashion Week where models showc...
San Fermin Festival Begins in Pamplona, Spain
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 7, 2011
Tens of thousands of people packed Pamplona's main square on Wednesday for the launch of the "chupinazo" rocket that marked th...
Hyper-realistic Paintings by Juan Bautista Nieto
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 7, 2011
Juan Bautista Nieto was born in Lora el Rio, Spain. He studied at the Fine Arts Faculty of Seville. Prior to that he studied medicine, to w...
Photographs of People Texting in the Streets
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 6, 2011
For his project titled “ Texters “, photographer Joe Holmes photographed unsuspecting people lost in their own worlds while texting on their...
The Humorous Art of Bent Objects by Terry Border
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 5, 2011
Terry Border takes objects from everyday life and turns them into humorous art. For years now, this unassuming photographer-sculptor has wo...
Abandoned Houses of Detroit
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 3, 2011
Detroit's population has fallen steadily since the heyday of the auto industry in the 1950s, when it peaked around two million, to just ...
The Transparent Pontiac
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 2, 2011
For its upcoming auction at St. John’s in Plymouth, Michigan in late July, RM Auctions will offer a most unusual Pontiac – a transparent dis...
Spectacular Storm Photography by Chris Allington
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 30, 2011
Photographer Chris Allington, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska, loves chasing and photographing storms across the Great Plains. Each spring...
Massive Tree House in Crossville, Tennessee: The Largest in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 30, 2011
A Crossville, TN (US) minister named Horace Burgess owns the largest tree house in the world. It rises 97 feet into the sky, the support pro...
Animals Dressed As Famous Personalities
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 27, 2011
Based on the line of successful greeting cards, mugs, and other stationary items, gifts website Takkoda , through the publishing house TeNeu...
Floating Village of Kompong Phluk And Reversing Mekong River of Cambodia
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 27, 2011
Kampong Phluk is a cluster of three villages of stilted houses built within the floodplain of the Tonle Sap lake, about 16 km southeast of S...
Pop Culture Ice Creams
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 27, 2011
Russian advertising agency STOYN has brought together 10 of the most iconic figures in world culture and embodied their images into lick-ab...
Rob MacInnis’s Glamorous Portraits of Farm Animals
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 22, 2011
“I take the conventions from the fashion world and apply them to the underclass barnyard animal,” Rob MacInnis said to New York Times . S...
