Tristan da Cunha - The Most Remote Island in the World
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 22, 2011
Tristan da Cunha is a volcanic island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean lying 2,816 kilometers from the nearest land, South Africa, and 3,...
Weapons Made From Harmless Materials
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 22, 2011
Kyle Bean (previously featured here and here ) recently published a series of photos of weapons made from harmless materials for a feature...
Paintings by Teresa Elliott
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 21, 2011
Teresa Elliott was born in Weatherford, Texas. As a young adult she sketched portraits building a foundation for a career in the fine arts....
World Chocolate Wonderland in Shanghai
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 21, 2011
The World Chocolate Wonderland, a new theme park made entirely of chocolate has just opened in China's Shanghai on Friday, December 16. ...
Tunnel Through a Fallen Giant Sequoia in Sequoia National Park
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 21, 2011
Giant sequoias, also known as giant redwoods, are the largest trees in the world. They grow to an average height of 50–85 meters and have di...
World’s Shortest Woman Jyoti Amge is Only 24.7 Inches Tall
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 20, 2011
Jyoti Amge’s 18th birthday is the best of her life. On this day, the Guinness Book of World Records named her the world’s shortest living wo...
Gorgeous Pictures of Highway Interchanges by Peter Andrew
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2011
High Interchanges is a set of beautiful aerial photos of intricate freeway interchanges in Texas by the award-winning commercial and fine ar...
World's Largest Coffee Bean Mosaic
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2011
An Albanian artist Saimir Strati has entered the Guinness World Records for creating the world's largest coffee bean mosaic measuring 25...
Curious Vehicular Art Installation in Texas
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2011
While most old vehicles end up at scrapyards for recycling, Texas people have a peculiar way of disposing them. If you drive on Interstate 4...
Surrealistic Miniature Scenes by Frank Kunert
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2011
German photographer and artist Frank Kunert builds incredibly detailed, miniature models usually of industrial grey constructs but with a t...
Peculiar Vineyards of Lanzarote, Spain
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 16, 2011
Lanzarote is a Spanish island in the Atlantic Ocean located some 125 km off the coast of Africa and 1,000 km from the Iberian Peninsula. The...
Top Stories of 2011 in Lego
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 16, 2011
The Guardian has rounded up this year’s top news in pictures but instead of using regular photos they used pictures of Legos that reenacted...
Portraits of Gamers And Their Avatars
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 13, 2011
You may remember James Mollison’s project called The Disciples where he documented rock concert fans and compared them to their idols. New ...
The Subway in Zion National Park
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 13, 2011
Zion National Park may not have trains but it’s already got a subway. The canyon’s natural Subway is spectacular tunnel sculpted by two curv...
Brian Dettmer’s Book Dissection
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 13, 2011
Brian Dettmer is an artist hailing from Chicago was has earned the title of ‘book surgeon’. With the precision of a surgeon, using scalpels...
Yarchen Monastery, China
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 13, 2011
Deep in the mountains of northwestern Sichuan in China, on the Tibetan plateau, there exists a town in an isolated, beautiful and clean vall...
Creepy Newspaper People by Nick Georgiou
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 11, 2011
Tucson, Arizona based artist Nick Georgiou creates curious human sculptures using local newspapers and old, discarded books. My art is...
Rainbow Village of Taichung, Taiwan
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 11, 2011
Tucked away in one corner of the large city of Taichung, Taiwan lies a modest ‘military dependents’ village’ – a community built in the late...
Rock Restaurant of Zanzibar
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 11, 2011
Perched on a rock in the middle of the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Zanzibar, Tanzania, is a tiny seafood restaurant simply named The Rock...
Age 10 to 60–Transformed Through Makeup And Photography
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 11, 2011
Haven’t we all imagined how we might look like when we grow old? There are even a few online tools that will simulate how one might age 2...
