Bobby Causey’s Hyper Realistic Sculptures of Movie Characters
Kaushik Patowary
May 30, 2012
Did anybody say wax museum? Forget it. These latex sculptures of Hollywood stars are so real that it will put Madam Tussauds to shame. The s...
Showing posts from May, 2012
Qiandao Lake: The Thousand Island Lake and Ancient Submerged Cities
Kaushik Patowary
May 29, 2012
Qiandao Lake or the Thousand Island Lake is located in Zhejiang, China, about 150 kilometers from the city of Hangzhou. It is an artificial ...
Jack Long’s High Speed Photographs of Paint Splashes that Looks Like Flowers
Kaushik Patowary
May 29, 2012
At first glance, these incredible images look like still-life portraits of some exotic flowers. But no; these are actually high speed photog...
Richat Structure: Eye Of The Sahara
Kaushik Patowary
May 29, 2012
The Richat Structure, also known as the Eye of the Sahara, is a prominent circular feature in the Sahara desert of west–central Mauritania n...
Skellig Michael and the Ancient Monastery in the Middle of the Ocean
Kaushik Patowary
May 26, 2012
Skellig Michael, which means Michael's rock in Irish language, also known as Great Skellig, is a steep rocky island in the Atlantic Ocea...
Colour Striped Icebergs
Kaushik Patowary
May 26, 2012
Icebergs are formed when large blocks of ice breaks off from glaciers ice shelf and is floating in open water. Because glaciers are built up...
Penitentes: Peculiar Spikey Snow Formation in the Andes
Kaushik Patowary
May 25, 2012
On very high-altitude glaciers, such as those in the Andes mountains, where the air is dry, snow can grow into spectacular narrow blades of ...
World's Largest Chocolate Sculpture
Kaushik Patowary
May 24, 2012
Qzina Specialty Foods has broken the world record for the world’s largest chocolate sculpture by building a replica of the ancient Mayan te...
10 Most Crowded Islands of the World
Kaushik Patowary
May 24, 2012
Human beings are an amazing species. Given enough time, they will multiply, relocate and establish even on the most remote corners of the wo...
Grocery Stores at Night by Richard Vantielcke
Kaushik Patowary
May 24, 2012
French photographer Richard Vantielcke prowls the night on the streets of Paris looking for late night grocery stores for his photographic s...
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...
Celebrity Pin Art Portraits by Philip Karlberg
Kaushik Patowary
May 14, 2012
Photographer Philip Karlberg has just created a unique shoot for Plaza Magazine, sculpting famous faces by simply using clever lighting and...
Poo Machine by Wim Delvoye
Kaushik Patowary
May 14, 2012
Wim Delvoye is a Belgian artist known for his inventive and often shocking and repulsive projects. Cloaca, also known as the "poo-ma...
Amazingly Realistic Cakes by Debbie Goard
Kaushik Patowary
May 14, 2012
Debbie Goard is a cake designer who runs “Debbie Does Cakes”, a single-woman cake company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Debbie has b...
Bryce Canyon National Park
Kaushik Patowary
May 11, 2012
Bryce Canyon National Park is located in southwestern Utah in the United States. Bryce Canyon which, despite its name, is not a canyon but a...
Amazing Sculpture of Burning Tires by Gal Weinstein
Kaushik Patowary
May 11, 2012
Tel Aviv based artist Gal Weinstein (born in Ramat Gan in 1970) is one of the internationally renowned artists of his generation. Gal Weinst...
Hyper-Realistic Sculptures by Jamie Salmon
Kaushik Patowary
May 11, 2012
Jamie Salmon is a British born, self taught contemporary sculptor, living and working in Vancouver, Canada. He started his career working a...
Manhattan of the Desert: Shibam, Yemen
Kaushik Patowary
May 10, 2012
The city of Shibam, located in the central-western area of Hadhramaut Governorate, in the Ramlat al-Sab`atayn desert, is best known for its ...
Oymyakon, the Coldest Inhabited Place on Earth
Kaushik Patowary
May 9, 2012
Oymyakon is a small village located in the north-eastern Russian Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). It is commonly considered the coldest populate...
Lord of Rings Movie Set Now Houses Sheep
Kaushik Patowary
May 7, 2012
When Peter Jackson spotted the Alexander Farm during an aerial search of the North Island in Matamata in New Zealand for the best possible l...
Liu Bolin Disappears Again
Kaushik Patowary
May 6, 2012
Liu Bolin ( previously on Amusing Planet ), also known as “The Invisible Man” is currently exhibiting his camouflaging prowess at the Eli Kl...
Wendy Tsao Turns Children’s Doodles Into Real Toys
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2012
Wendy Tsao made her first toy based on a drawing by her 4-year-old son Dani. The school had asked the children to bring a toy from home. The...
Heavy Lift Ships and their Impossibly Massive Cargoes
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2012
When you need to transport large cargo, goods, and materials from one place to another, ship is the ideal choice even though they are extrem...
The Pied Piper Duck Show
Kaushik Patowary
May 2, 2012
Easter parades occur all over the world, but in Sydney, Australia, a very special parade takes place. Behatted ducks in pink, green and yell...
Rebuilt World Trade Center Becomes New York's Tallest Skyscraper
Kaushik Patowary
May 2, 2012
Eleven years after the shocking terrorist attack on the World Trade Center (WTC) building in New York, the U.S., reconstruction at the World...
Solvay Hut: A Precarious Mountain Hut at Matterhorn, Switzerland
Kaushik Patowary
May 2, 2012
The Solvay Hut is located on the north-eastern ridge of the Matterhorn, near Zermatt in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. At 4,003 meters...
Conflict Kitchen: Restaurant That Serves Cuisine From Countries the US Has Conflict With
Kaushik Patowary
May 2, 2012
Located in Pittsburgh, the Conflict Kitchen is a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States i...
The Adams River Salmon Run
Kaushik Patowary
May 2, 2012
The Adams River is a tributary of the Fraser River in British Columbia, Canada. During mid-October millions of sockeye salmon run through th...
