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...
