India’s Death Defying ‘Maut ka Kuaa’ or ‘Well of Death’
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 2, 2012
‘Maut ka Kuaa’, which translates to the ‘Well of Death’ in English, also sometimes called the ‘Wall of Death’, is a death defying and gravit...
Polish Architect Builds World’s Thinnest House
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 31, 2012
Polish architect Jakub Szczesny claims to have built the world’s narrowest house, just 122 centimetres across. The house is squeezed into an...
Javier Arizabalo’s Photorealistic Paintings
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 31, 2012
Javier Arizabalo was born in Saint Jean de Luz, France in 1965. His passion for art lead him to Bilbao, Spain where he studied and earned a...
Kowloon Walled City, a Population Density Nightmare
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 30, 2012
Kowloon Walled City was a largely ungoverned Chinese settlement in Kowloon, Hong Kong, comprising of 350 interconnected high-rise buildings ...
Verdon Gorge: The Grand Canyon of Europe
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 29, 2012
The Verdon Gorge, called Gorges du Verdon in French, in south-eastern France between the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and the Var is a spectacula...
Chris Jordan’s Portraits of American Mass Consumption
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 27, 2012
American photographer Chris Jordan using large-scale works depict the magnitude of our consumerism and its impact on our environment. Like ...
The Tree Houses of the Korowai Tribe of New Guinea
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 27, 2012
Deep within the inaccessible jungle of the southeast Indonesian province of Papua, about 150 kilometres inland from the Arafura Sea, lives t...
Construction of an Amazing Underground Hotel in Songjiang Begins
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 26, 2012
Some years ago, a British engineering firm Atkins proposed an extravagant design for a five-star hotel located deep within a 100-meter, aba...
V8 Car Themed Hotel in Stuttgart, Germany
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 25, 2012
Located in Stuttgart, Germany - a German international hub for car dealers - the V8 Hotel is a paradise for car enthusiasts. The hotel featu...
Volkswagen’s Car Towers at Autostadt in Wolfsburg, Germany
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2012
The Autostadt is a visitor attraction adjacent to the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, with a prime focus on automobiles. It featu...
Human Tower Building at Castells Competition in Tarragona
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 23, 2012
The Tarragona Human Tower Competition is an annual sporting event carried out by the best teams in the country and it is held every two year...
The Dubai Fountain - World’s Largest Dancing Fountain
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 20, 2012
Set on the 30-acre Burj Khalifa Lake, at the center of the Downtown Dubai development in Dubai, the Dubai fountain can shoot 83,000 liters o...
Inside Google’s Data Centers
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 19, 2012
Google has just launched a new site that offers visitors a glimpse into the massive data centers that power Google. The site features photo...
Andy Rudak’s Cardboard Cities
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 19, 2012
London-based still life advertising photographer Andy Rudak has recently embarked on a more personal project, creating a series of cityscap...
The Lumberjacks Who Felled California’s Giant Redwoods
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 19, 2012
This series of photos from the 1915-era capture lumberjacks working among the redwoods in Humboldt County, California, when tree logging was...
Portraits of Famous People on Fingers
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 19, 2012
An Italian artist going by the name of Dito Von Tease has created “ Ditology ”, a project where portraits of famous people, real or fictiona...
Damien Hirst’s Controversial Pregnant Woman Sculpture in Ilfracombe
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 18, 2012
The skyline of the seaside town of Ilfracombe in north Devon, England, is about to change, and not many residents are happy about it. A 20 m...
Portraits of Rural Chinese Families with Everything They Own
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2012
Photographer Huang Qingjun has spent the past ten years travelling to remote parts of China persuading people to have their photographs tak...
Ernest Zacharevic’s Playful Street Art
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2012
Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic has been transforming the streets of Penang, Malaysia with a brilliant series of interactive murals. Th...
Trou de Fer Gorge in The Island of Reunion
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 14, 2012
Trou de Fer is one of the most spectacular sights of La Reunion, a French island lying some 650 km off Madagascar's east coast, close to...
