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...
Showing posts from June, 2011
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...
Kiev Fire Festival 2011
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 22, 2011
The fifth Kiev Fire Festival, which takes place over two days in the Ukraine, sees the world's best flame throwers and pyrotechnic exper...
Modern Renaissance: Celebrities in Old Art
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 21, 2011
In a contest entitled “Modern Renaissance” by Worth1000, a community of photo manipulation artist, participants put faces of celebrities suc...
Stunning Paintings by Duffy Sheridan
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 19, 2011
Duffy Sheridan has been painting since he was a child. His father, also an artist, encouraged him to learn to paint anything and everything...
Junk Mail Portraits by Sandhi Schimmel Gold
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 18, 2011
Unlike the rest of who throw away junk mails into trash can, American artist Sandhi Schimmel Gold has found a use for them. Yes, of course –...
More Cinemagraphs From Jamie Beck
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 18, 2011
When I saw Jamie Beck’s Cinemgraphs the first time two months ago, I totally fell in love with it. The feeling was universal. Here are some...
Famous Paintings Recreated in Balloons
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 17, 2011
Artist Larry Moss uses airigami - which translates literally into the fine art of folding air - to create original works of art, installati...
Falkirk Wheel: Rotating Boat Lift in Scotland
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 17, 2011
There are two ways to transport a boat between water at two different elevations. One method is to employ locks, often found on river and ca...
Arrive Half Naked – Leave Fully Dressed
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 16, 2011
Roughly three hundred people in their undies endured the rain when they queued up outside a London fashion store in the hope of winning free...
Spectators Show Off Elaborate Hats At Royal Ascot, 2011
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 16, 2011
The Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711 when it was founded by Queen Anne. Every year Royal...
Eyelid Art by Katie Alves
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 15, 2011
Twenty-one year old make-up artist Katie Alves creates detailed drawings using just every day cosmetics to draw stunning scenes on eyelids....
Living Statues At La Rambla Street, Barcelona
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 15, 2011
Las Rambla is one of the landmark streets of Barcelona. The approximately 1.3 km long road, in the middle a pedestrian zone, connecting Plaç...
Intricately Detailed Sculptures by Adam Beane
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 15, 2011
Born in Massachusetts, Adam Beane is quite a unique sculptor, known for his dynamic compositions, action poses, nuanced drapery work and hi...
Miniature Yet Functional Guns by Alexander Perfiliev
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 14, 2011
Russian miniature gun artist Alexander Perfiliev has been making model firearms for the last forty years. But they are not just pretty, scal...
Inredible Charcoal Drawings by Robert Longo
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 14, 2011
Robert Longo is an American painter and sculptor whose primary medium of expression is charcoal on paper. Longo became famous in the 1980s ...
Before And After Pictures of Japan’s Tsunami Cleanup Progress
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 13, 2011
Nearly three months after the devastating earthquake and tsunami , Japan is still struggling to clear the debris. In a series of photos take...
Bamboo Trains of Cambodia
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 12, 2011
For years, travellers in Cambodia had to deal with one of the world's worst train networks. Trains run infrequently in between the villa...
Miniature Cement Sculptures by Isaac Cordal
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 12, 2011
Street artist Isaac Cordal’s installations are littered all over London, in the form of miniature cement figurines. If you are not careful w...
Recycled Plastic Sculptures by Sayaka Ganz
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 11, 2011
Japanese artist Sayaka Ganz uses discarded plastic utensils, toys and tidbits to create beautiful animal sculptures. Her plastic sculptures...
The Door to Hell - Burning Gas Crater in Darvaza, Turkmenistan
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 9, 2011
The Darvaza gas crater or “The Door to Hell” is a 60 meters wide and 20 meters deep hole in the heart of the hot, expansive Karakum desert i...
Homemade Flying Machines Airshow at Red Bull Flugtag, Tel Aviv, 2011
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 8, 2011
Red Bull Flugtag (German for ‘airshow’) is a fun event organized by Red Bull in which competitors attempt to fly homemade human-powered flyi...
Cincinnati's Abandoned Subway
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 8, 2011
Unknown to many Cincinnatians, sprawling under their feet is a vast network of abandoned and derelict subway tunnels – in fact, the United S...
Massive Penguin Colony in South Georgia
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 6, 2011
In what looks to be the world's largest day care facility, thousands upon thousands of King Penguins group their offspring together into...
6th Annual Surf Dog Competition, California
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 6, 2011
The 6th annual dog surfing competition, officially known as the Loews Coronado Bay Resort Surf Dog Competition, drew in hundreds of local ci...
Puyehue-Cordon Caulle Volcano Erupts in Chile
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 6, 2011
A volcano in the Caulle Cordon of southern Chile erupted on Saturday, June 4, shooting out pumice stones and pluming a cloud of ash 10 kilom...
London’t First Playboy Club
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 6, 2011
The first Playboy Club opened in Chicago in 1960, and subsequently in New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Kansas City and elsewhere. There w...
‘Running of the Brides' in New York City
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 5, 2011
The Running of the Brides is a local tradition that has taken place since 1947 at Filene's Basement store in downtown Boston. On this da...
Slauerhoffbrug, The Flying Drawbridge
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2011
Slauerhoffbrug also known as the 'Flying Drawbridge', is a fully automatic bascule bridge located in the city of Leeuwarden in Nethe...
Artistic Stockholm Subway System
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2011
The Stockholm subway system is said to be the longest art exhibition in the world - 110 kilometers in length. Traveling by subway is like tr...
The Many Constumes of Manneken Pis
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 3, 2011
At the corner of Rue de l'Étuve/Stoofstraat and Rue du Chêne/Eikstraat in the heart of Brussels, is a famous landmark – the Manneken Pis...
Performing Street Monkeys of Indonesia
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 3, 2011
Street monkey performance is a common form of cheap entertainment in Jakarta, Indonesia and in many Asian countries like India. Macaque monk...
Wunderland Kalkar: Nuclear Power Plant Turned Amusement Park
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 2, 2011
In Kalkar in 1972, construction was started on the SNR-300, the first fast breeder nuclear reactor in Germany. The reactor was designed to u...
