Showing posts from November, 2010

Miniature Food Sculptures by Kim Burke

Nov 28, 2010

American sculptor and artist Kim Burke loves to create 1/12th scale miniatures of food from polymer clay. Her food sculptures look amazing...

Photographing A Town That Never Was: Michael Paul Smith’s Incredible Models

Nov 28, 2010

Few people put so much time, effort and craftsmanship into a project that results in photos which are totally believable, as Michael Paul Sm...

Book Posters from Postertext

Nov 27, 2010

The book posters from Postertext lets you hang your favorite book on the wall, literally. The posters are created from the book's text,...

Dekotora: The Ridiculously Decorated Trucks of Japan

Nov 26, 2010

The Dekotora or Decotora an abbreviation for "Decoration Truck", is a kind of loud and flashy decorated truck most commonly found ...

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2010

Nov 26, 2010

The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented by Macy's, a chain of department stores across the United States. T...

Tall Tale Postcards of the Twentieth Century

Nov 26, 2010

During the early years of the twentieth century, the tall-tale postcard flourished in the American Midwest, especially within the boasting, ...

The Salt Miners of Lake Katwe in Uganda

Nov 25, 2010

Salt extraction has been a major source of economy and prosperity for decades in Uganda, but today's miners work in appalling conditions...

Polar Circle Marathon 2010

Nov 25, 2010

The Polar Circle Marathon is a classical 42.195 km marathon over the ice covered mountainous terrain of the polar circle. The temperatures a...

Giant Kite Festival, Guatemala

Nov 24, 2010

The first of November in Guatemala is celebrated as the day of the dead. On this day, Guatemalans typically gather around their lost loved o...

Astronaut Douglas Wheelock Shares Amazing Photos From Space

Nov 24, 2010

NASA astronaut Douglas Wheelock who is currently aboard the International Space Station shares pictures of the Earth he snaps with the world...

‘Real’ T-Shirts by Masashi Kawamura

Nov 22, 2010

The T-shirt is so called due to the shape of the garment's outline which resembles the English alphabet ‘T’. But T shirts designed by Ja...

Hövding Bicycle Helmet is Invisible and Fashionable

Nov 21, 2010

Each of these models in the image gallery below is wearing a helmet. Can you see it?

The Tunnel People of Las Vegas

Nov 21, 2010

Deep beneath Vegas’s famous strip of glittering lights lies a sinister labyrinth of underground flood tunnels. These 200 miles of flood tunn...

World’s Largest Shipyard Grave at Nouadhibou

Nov 21, 2010

The city of Nouadhibou is the second largest city in Mauritania and serves as the country's commercial center. The port of Nouadhibou is...

Caganers: Figurines of Pooping World Leaders in Nativity Scenes

Nov 19, 2010

In Catalonia - a historic territory in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula, mostly in Spain and adjoining portion in southern France – a biza...

Tiger Stone, The Incredible Road Building Machine

Nov 19, 2010

This awesome piece of machinery feeds on cobblestones and lays them out in an interlocking pattern to build roads that would take hours to d...

The Abstract Works of Federico Uribe

Nov 18, 2010

Colombian born artist Federico Uribe is extremely talented and have done some amazing pieces of work. He began his career as a painter and t...

Dresses Made Out of Real Food

Nov 18, 2010

In the series titled "Hunger Pains”, a team of 15 designers and led by Ami Goodheart of SOTO Productions, created exquisite outfits ent...

Pando, the Single Largest Living Organism on Earth

Nov 18, 2010

Pando or The Trembling Giant is an enormous grove of Quaking Aspen that is an entire forest out of a single organism. This colony of a singl...

Creative Advertisements on Buildings

Nov 17, 2010

Outdoor advertising presents limitless options and approaches for advertisers to reach their audience. But with hundreds of brands and billb...

Destroyed Apple Products Become Work of Art

Nov 17, 2010

Running out of creative ideas? This is what you should do: Take an Apple product Destroy it Photograph the wreckage Put it ...

Images From GeoEye Calendar 2011

Nov 16, 2010

World's largest space imaging corporation, GeoEYE, which supplies satellite imagery to organization such as Microsoft, Yahoo and Google,...

Badeschiff, the Floating Swimming Pool in Berlin

Nov 14, 2010

The Badeschiff is one of Berlin’s most unusual attraction - a floating public swimming pool in the East Harbour section of the River Spree....

The Secret of the Blood Falls of Antarctica

Nov 14, 2010

From a crack in the Taylor Glacier in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica flows a curious blood-red colored water. When it was first disco...

Miracles You’ll See In The Next Fifty Years: An Article from 1950

Nov 13, 2010

Like most predictions about the future, this article from Popular Mechanics dated Feb, 1950 , does a pretty mediocre job. Some predictions a...

Spectacular Opening Ceremony of Asian Games 2010 in China

Nov 13, 2010

The largest-ever Asian Games got under way on Friday night with a spectacular opening ceremony. Directed by Chen Weiya, who was the assistan...

The Fantasy Coffins of Ghana

Nov 13, 2010

For the Ga tribe in coastal Ghana, funerals are a time of mourning, but also of celebration. The Ga people believe that when their loved one...

Cologne Carnival 2010 Begins

Nov 12, 2010

Each year, on November 11 at exactly 11 minutes past 11 marks the kick-off of Carnival in Cologne, Germany. On this mid-November day, reside...

London to Brighton Vintage Car Race 2010

Nov 11, 2010

The route along the A23 from London to Brighton in south-east England is popular for races, tours, charity rides and rallies. The route was ...

Sniffer Rats Detect Landmines and Tuberculosis in Mozambique

Nov 11, 2010

Mozambique is still littered with land mines from the country's civil war that ended in 1992. According to Handicap International, an es...

Ceramics of Horror by Jessica Harrison

Nov 9, 2010

While the tradition of decorative ceramic figurines is filled with beautiful and serene subject, UK ceramic artist Jessica Harrison takes a...

Illustrated Guide to Italian Hand Gestures

Nov 9, 2010

Hand gestures and body language is as vital a communication medium as spoken language itself. Gestures pre-dates any language in the world, ...

Port Lockroy Museum and Post Office in Antarctica

Nov 8, 2010

Port Lockroy is a natural harbour on the Antarctic Peninsula of the British Antarctic Territory. Originally discovered in 1903 by a French A...

Memorial Museum of Astronautics, Moscow

Nov 7, 2010

The Memorial Museum of Astronautics (also known as the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics or Memorial Museum of Space Exploration) is a museum ...

Artist Sails Down River Thames in Paper Boat

Nov 7, 2010

German artist Frank Bolter sailed down the Thames in a giant paper boat, as part of the Drift 10 art exhibition in London. The origami vess...

Creative and Funny Toilet Signs from Around the World

Nov 3, 2010

Men and women are represented differently all around the world, and this differentiation is often seen in the diverse representation of the ...

Incredible Junk Portraits by Zac Freeman

Nov 3, 2010

Zac Freeman takes every day objects such as buttons, remote controls, film canisters, circuits, gears and telephone parts, puts them togeth...

An Igloo Made From 322 Refrigerators

Nov 3, 2010

Berlin-based artist Ralf Schmerberg has constructed a gigantic igloo made entirely of old refrigerators in the center of Hamburg, Germany. T...

Tomato Fight in London

Nov 2, 2010

No, Londoners have no plans to bring the Spanish festival of tomato throwing to the city. This is just a publicity stunt to promote this wee...

Stunning Wall Murals by Eric Grohe

Nov 2, 2010

New York born Eric Grohe creates spectacular and vividly realistic wall murals and architectural facades, transforming ordinary spaces into...

Beautiful Underwater Paintings by Sarah Harvey

Nov 1, 2010

I have a fascination for underwater paintings and photographs . The works of Sarah Harvey are captivating. Sarah was born in London in 19...

Animals Perform Tricks for Halloween

Nov 1, 2010

Zoos around Europe put carved pumpkins in animal enclosures to see what would happen. Here is what happened. Siberian tiger Ingrid and h...

The Genzano Infiorata Flower Festival

Nov 1, 2010

If you ever plan to visit Italy during the month of June, reserve at least a day for the town of Genzano, to see the famous Infiorata Flower...

Kissing Couples Street Art by Claire Streetart

Nov 1, 2010

French artist Claire Streetart ’s wall collages depicting couples kissing in sexy and often provocative positions are sweeping the streets o...