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...
Astronaut Paolo Nespoli’s Photos of Earth From Space
Kaushik Patowary
May 28, 2011
ESA’s astronaut Paolo Nespoli, while working and living on the International Space Station, started sharing his experience with the world vi...
Iron Wire Sculptures by Mattia Trotta
Kaushik Patowary
May 28, 2011
Italian sculptor Mattia Trotta creates amazing sculptures from wire meshes, which at first glance, I mistook to be that by Ivan Lovatt who...
Dirk Skreber’s Car Crash Sculptures
Kaushik Patowary
May 27, 2011
German artist Dirk Skreber’s paintings and sculptures have consistently mined the catastrophic- either in the aftermath of a devastating flo...
