Stone Sculptures by Hirotoshi Itoh
Kaushik Patowary
May 24, 2012
Hirotoshi Itoh graduated from Tokyo National Fine Arts University in 1982 and later went into his family business as a stonemason. He spent...
World’s Largest Swimming Pool
Kaushik Patowary
May 22, 2012
The swimming pool at the San Alfonso del Mar resort in Algarrobo, Chile holds the record of being the largest in the world. At 1,012 meters ...
Famous Black and White Photos Restored in Color
Kaushik Patowary
May 22, 2012
Swedish artist Sanna Dullaway has taken a number of historic black and white images and brought them to life by adding color. Dullaway is d...
Socotra: The Island of Strange Plants
Kaushik Patowary
May 22, 2012
Socotra is a small archipelago of four islands in the Indian Ocean, near the Gulf of Aden. Situated some 250 miles off the coast of Yemen, t...
RP FLIP, the Strangest Ship in the World
Kaushik Patowary
May 19, 2012
The U.S. Office of Naval Research owns a very strange piece of oceanographic equipment. It’s called the FLoating Instrument Platform (FLIP),...
Colorful Indian Street Art
Kaushik Patowary
May 18, 2012
Modern graffiti art is rare in India, but traditional hand painted street art is ubiquitous. From tea stall signs to election messages on wa...
Huge Swarms of Mosquitoes Invade Russian Village of Mikoltsy
Kaushik Patowary
May 17, 2012
No, these are not Starling Murmuration . They are mosquitoes, millions of them that descended upon the Russian village of Mikoltsy near Myad...
Grass Portraits by Ackroyd & Harvey
Kaushik Patowary
May 16, 2012
Grass is like photographic paper which becomes pigmented upon exposure to light. The more intense the light exposure, the more intensely pig...
Fighting Protesters With Colored Water
Kaushik Patowary
May 16, 2012
You must have seen photos of protesters being doused with colored-water cannons by the police. Using water canon is understood as it’s an ea...
10 Most Incredible Flower Festivals Around the World
Kaushik Patowary
May 16, 2012
Flower festivals are celebrated all over the world and almost around the year. Even as I write this one such festival is taking place in Ind...
