The New Sava River Bridge in Belgrad
Serbian state officials attend a ceremony as workers building the new Sava River Bridge in Belgrade near the Ada Ciganlija river island connect the river banks of Belgrade and New Belgrade. The first vehicles will cross over the bridge on December 15. (Andrej Isakovic—AFP/Getty Images)
The Scarecrow Festival in Kettlewell, England
A scarecrow dressed as the former News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brooks, and another made from corks and dressed as a bartender stand as part of the annual scarecrow festival in Kettlewell, England. (Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images) Continue reading »
The Cat Scan
Famous and absolutely amazing ‘The Cat Scan’ Tumblr reborn! Got a cat? Got a scanner? Scan your cat and send a scan to ‘The Cat Scan’. Continue reading »
Foodmania: An Extraordinary Visual Record of Food Art in New York
The yakitori at Isakaya on Smith in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn (Mimi Ritzen Crawford for The Wall Street Journal) Continue reading »
Keith Meets Arch of Hysteria
Artist Agata Oleksiak, also known as Olek, with her large crocheted piece, ‘Keith Meets Arch of Hysteria’ at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery. Her show opened on August 10th. (Philip Montgomery for The Wall Street Journal) Continue reading »
Photo of the Day: Wooded Walk in Nepal
A Nepalese devotee walks to a temple to offer prayers on the occasion of the Janai Purnima festival, or Sacred Thread festival, in Kavre district, 28 miles east of Katmandu, Nepal, Aug. 13. On Janai Purnima, Hindus take holy baths and perform their annual change of the Janai, a sacred cotton string worn around their chest or tied on the wrist, in the belief that it will protect and purify them. (Laxmi Prasad Ngakhusi / AP) Click image to zoom.
The Biggest Structure Made of MERKUR
Toy production in Police nad Metují, in the Czech Republic, dates back to the year 1920 when Jaroslav Vancl founded the Inventor company, which produced toy construction sets of the same name. Back then, the metal parts of the Inventor construction sets were connected by metal hooks similar to those of scaffolding. In 1925, a new system was launched whereby the metal parts are connected by screws and M 3,5 nuts. This toy construction set, registered under the MERKUR trademark became very popular and keeps its original form till this day. Would you like to know more about the MERKUR toy construction sets and toy trains? Do you want to see the biggest structure made of MERKUR? Then come and visit the MERKUR Toy Construction Set Museum in Police nad Metují. Continue reading »
Small Wonders in the Water
The Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition puts a spotlight on the world’s best pictures of small wonders in fields ranging from biology to materials science. To whet your appetite for the next crop of winners, Nikon has put together a summertime selection of eight photomicrographs of aquatic subjects.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water … here’s a picture of the pectoral fin of a whitespotted bamboo shark embryo (Chiloscyllium plagiosum). The image was captured by the University of Cambridge’s Andrew Gillis using stereomicroscopy with fiber-optic lighting. (Dr. Andrew Gillis / University of Cambridge) Continue reading »
Maternity Worldwide Action to Save Children
AUGUST 12: Pregnant Susanne Friis Hasche shows her stomach, painted by Danish artist Lotte Ipsen, in the Round Tower of Copenhagen. Twenty artists each painted a pregnant woman’s stomach; art photographers Marie Wengler, Marte Holten and Karoline Tira Liberkind will later exhibit and sell pictures of the painted stomachs at Gallery Copenhagen Art. to benefit Maternity Worldwide, an organization working to save the lives of women and children during pregnancy and childbirth in Ethiopia. (Jens Noergaard/AFP/Getty Images) Continue reading »
Photo of the Day: Don’t Bear with Me
Siku, one of the twin polar bear cubs of the Ouwehand zoo, plays with frozen food at Ouwehand Zoo in Rhenen on August 12, 2011. (Koen van Weel/AFP/Getty Images)
Pimp Your Monitor with Cusom Made Ambilight
Lightpack is DIY USB ambilight system for your home PC or Mac.
Computerspielemuseum in Berlin
The Computerspielemuseum in Berlin, Germany feels obliged to collect and preserve digital interactive culture. In the centre of this task there is the documentation of the digital interactive entertainment media that one commonly calls computer and video games. Museum, which was opened in Berlin in 1997, was the world’s first permanent exhibition devoted to digital interactive entertainment culture. Continue reading »
Botanicalls Kit
Botanicalls Kits let plants reach out for human help! They offer a connection to your leafy pal via online Twitter status updates to your mobile phone. When your plant needs water, it will post to let you know, and send its thanks when you show it love. It comes as a kit so that you can hone your soldering skills (or teach someone else) while you build a line of communication between you and your houseplant! Continue reading »
Teddy Bears that have been Turned Inside Out and Restuffed
Bears by Kent Rogowski, is a series of portraits of the most unusual sort: ordinary teddy bears that have been turned inside out and restuffed. Each animal’s appearance is determined by the necessities of the manufacturing process. Simple patterns and devices never meant to be seen are now prominent physical characteristics, giving each one a distinctly quirky personality: their fasteners become eyes, their seams become scars, and their stuffing creeps out in the most unexpected places. Together these images form a topology of strange yet oddly familiar creatures. They are at once hideous yet cuddly, disturbing yet endearing, absurd yet adorable, while offering a metaphor for us all to consider. These bears, which have lived and loved and lost as much as their owners, have suffered and endured through it all. It is by virtue of revealing their inner core might we better understand our own. Continue reading »
Rare Animal Skulls Seized in Sydney
Hundreds of illegal rare and endangered wildlife items – including the full skin and head of an Alaskan wolf, ivory products and the skulls from a lion, bear, orangutan – were seized by the Federal Department of Environment on August 3, 2011. (Federal Department of Environment)
Spy Games: Images from the Secret Stasi Archives
Spies from former communist East Germany demonstrate the art of disguise by donning fur wigs, fake mustaches and dark glasses in a Berlin exhibition of recently uncovered and once highly classified photographs. German artist Simon Menner, who put together the exhibition “Pictures from the Secret Stasi Archives,” said it should show how something that seems harmless, such as these images that could be shots from a spy film spoof, can harbor danger. Continue reading »
Frosty the Telescope
A telescope was covered with snow on Wednesday at the peak of the Zugspitze, the highest mountain in Germany. (Andreas Gebert/Zuma Press)
Kyle Hilton’s Paper Dolls
A series of paper dolls, based on tv shows/characters, created by illustrator Kyle Hilton.
American Beauty Car Show 2011
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American Beauty Car Show is the biggest american car exhibition in Baltics, which consists of car show, reunion and drag race. For ten years all american vehicle owners and major car fans have gathered to Haapsalu for one summer weekend. And so it will carry on this year and for the eleventh time allready american vehicle owners can start up their corgeous cars and drive to beautiful and silent Haapsalu to have a wonderful time together.
Inside the castle yard people have the opportunity to see different showcars. Outside the castle yard is the reunion-area, where all american two and four wheeled vehicles gather, important is not the looks of the car nor the amount of the motor. Estonias biggest procession through the city takes place on the last day of the show. As traditionally speed racing also takes place on the last day of the show, which grand price is 2000$. Continue reading »
Photo of the Day: Hunting Dog… No, It’s a Hunting Fox!
As the fox hunting debate continues to rage across the globe, we’d like to think that some comic relief comes in the shape of this image, taken in Canada. Naturalist and photographer Mircea Costina captured the chortlesome scene in a forest north of Montreal. Click image to zoom.
Young Guns
Following the August’s London massacre events… Award-winning UK photographer Josh Cole made awesome photos of active street gang members from around the UK. These pictures were published in The Independent on Sunday Magazine, The Creative Review’s photo annual in 2008 and were nominated for the 2009 AOP Awards. Continue reading »
On This Day Calendar
Bring a touch of historic trivia to each and every morning with this cool and colourful wall calendar. Each day is represented by a square – we know that’s nothing new but wait for this…each square is heat sensitive so when you touch it, the black cover completely disappears to reveal a fun fact about something historical that happened on that very day. Continue reading »
