The Lost Gardens of Heligan
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 9, 2011
The Lost Gardens of Heligan, near Mevagissey in Cornwall, is one of the most popular botanical gardens in the UK. The gardens were created b...
Rude Hand Gestures of the World
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 9, 2011
Rude Hand Gestures of the World by Romana Lefevre is a photographic guide to the many ways of using hand gestures to offend people in diffe...
Carpet of Leaves Baffles Motorists and Pedestrians in London
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 9, 2011
At first glance, it looks like any ordinary road on an October day, covered with thousands of fallen leaves. Except the carpet of leaves has...
Janet Echelman’s Floating Sculptures
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 6, 2011
Janet Echelman is an American artist who creates fluid moving sculptures out of nets. Echelman was first inspired to use nets while on a Fu...
Broken Down Victorian Era Homes Made Out of Lego
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 6, 2011
Inspired by a childhood trip to LEGOland, Mike Doyle now makes intricate broken down Victorian-style homes out of LEGO. These dilapidated h...
Rainbow Eucalyptus–The Most Colorful Tree on Earth
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 4, 2011
These trees may look like they've been painted on, but these colors are all natural. This peculiar tree is called Eucalyptus deglupta, ...
Lombard Street–World’s Most Crooked Street?
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 4, 2011
Lombard Street in San Francisco is best known for the one-way section on Russian Hill between Hyde and Leavenworth Streets, in which the roa...
Massive Wooden Rollercoaster in Abandoned Japanese Amusement Park
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 4, 2011
In Japan, there are many amusement parks that are lying in the state of neglect; their owners abandoned them because they became too expensi...
Embroidered Portraits by Cayce Zavaglia
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 4, 2011
American artist Cayce Zavaglia creates amazingly layered embroidered portraits that look more like paintings than thread work. From her web...
Volker Steger's Photos of Squashed Bugs
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 29, 2011
German science photographer Volker Steger , in his book BUZZ: The Intimate Bond Between Humans and Insects , published microscopic photograp...
