Tagged Napkins
Having a meal with friends is always fun, and with ‘Tagged Napkins‘ it will be even more fun. Surprise your guests in your BBQ parties and dinners by writing their names in their napkins. A creative and original way to organize and decorate your table!
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Star Sands: Okinawa’s Incredibly Shaped Living Fossils
Photo: Renee Janssen
Star sands, the minute wonders of nature found on beaches and in the sands of Indo-Pacific waters are protozoa that belong to the Foraminifera family. What made these earthly stars and how did they appear, though? Herelin lies a wonderful story that spars with modern biology.
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Dante’s Beach Inferno
As the two-time winner of the Food Network’s Challenge: Outrageous Pumpkins, Ray Villafane is best known for his expert artistry in food carving. However, he’s now recognized for more after accepting to take on a sand sculpting project in Jesolo, Italy. Despite not having any experience in creating sand sculptures, Villafane challenged himself and took part in the annual holiday project. He did such an exceptional job in November 2008, that he was invited the next summer to masterfully sculpt a giant “Dante’s Inferno” on the beach. Incredible!
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A New Kind Of Magician: The Photoshop Illusionist
Martín De Pasquale, an artist and photoshop genius from Buenos Aires, creates visual conundrums like no other. By using a sequence of photographs and layering them together with added photoshop elements, this clever artist uses the photo-editing tool to its extreme. Continue reading »
Couple Celebrate Pending Nuptials by Recreating Famous Scenes from ‘The Notebook’
Cindy Gauthier, 31, and Jean-Nicola Barile, 33, a couple from Quebec, left, recreate the famous ‘kissing in the rain after 7 years apart’ scene from the film The Notebook, right, starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. In photos by Blushing Bride Studio. Enjoy!
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Beautiful Scenery of Hulun Buir Grassland
The livestock graze on the grassland of Hulun Buir, North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region, June 16, 2014. Grass has been flourishing in Hunlun Buir due to sufficient rainfall and warm weather since June. (Photo: Xinhua)
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Shocking Lightning Photos in Fujian
A man kicks football as if he is performing under a blitz of lightning at Heshang county, Changle, East China’s Fujian province. The villagers have recently been using “lightning experiment” developed by some locals. Some may mistake the pictures for computer synthesizing, but actually they are not. The players, wearing specially made clothes, perform the stunt by standing on high voltage wires. Their clothes and boots can help absorb the electricity. Continue reading »
Alpacas Attract Beijingers to World Cup
Two alpacas, a kind of animal little known and mysterious to many Chinese, appeared in Sanlitun, Beijing, on Tuesday for a World Cup-related business promotion. Their cute look attracted large crowds. Brazil, where the 2014 Cup is hosted, is also an important habitat for alpacas. The alpacas will stay in the city while the World Cup games are being played. They are said to cost the organizers 7,000 yuan ($1,120) per day in upkeep. (Photos: CFP)
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Prison Inmate Dances to Freedom
Le Xin dances at Chongqing Women’s Prison in this undated photo.
With a well-proportioned figure and soft movements, 34 year-old Le Xin (not her real name) was holding the last classic pose in a Dai ethnic dance, seemingly ignoring the lasting applause and cries of “encore”.
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Homeless Fonts: Typefaces Based on Handwriting of People Living on the Streets of Barcelona
A Spanish NGO and an advertising agency have teamed up to create typefaces based on the handwriting of homeless people. The handwritten carboard signs that help desperate people to beg on the street may be the very thing that helps them leave it.
Samples of handwriting are photographed and cleaned up in a studio and then transformed into commercially available fonts. Individuals and companies can buy the different fonts through Homelessfonts.org. The proceeds will be used to finance the work of the Arrels foundation for homeless people in Barcelona.
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Cute “Little Monk” in SE China Goes Viral Online
A photo posted on May 25, 2014 shows a little boy dressed as a monk standing in a temple in Fuzhou, capital of southeast China’s Fujian province. A group of photos depicting the cute “little monk” got nearly 10,000 reposts over one night.
It is known that the “little monk”, whose English name is “Monday”, is only one year and two months old. According to Monday’s father, the monk outfit was bought on Taobao, China’s leading e-commerce platform. Continue reading »
Couple Holds Harry Potter-themed Wedding in Los Angeles
The perfect white wedding is a dream for millions of women but for Meredith Fahey having her vows read by Severus Snape from Harry Potter was a must.
Meredith, 30 and husband Josh, 29, wanted their magical day to be based on her literary hero Harry Potter at a spellbinding ceremony in their native Los Angeles. The couple and around 100 guests descended on Lawrys Prime Rib in Beverley Hills to find the interior had been transformed into Hogwarts, the young wizards’ school.
In an undated photo, 30-year-old Meredith Fahey (L) and her 29-year-old husband Joshua Votaw hold magic wands in their Harry Potter-themed wedding in Los Angeles. The bride and groom are big fans of Harry Potter series films, so they held a magical wedding to show their love for the films.
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Those Crazy World Cup Soccer Fans
A Chile soccer fan poses for a photograph in his Chile flag glasses before the start of his team’s World Cup match with Australia at the Arena Pantanal in Cuiaba, Brazil, Friday, June 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) Continue reading »
Paper Pandas Displayed in Hong Kong’s Tsim Sha Tsui
Paper pandas are placed during an exhibition in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, June 14, 2014. A total of 1,600 paper pandas were displayed in the area on Saturday. The project is the work of French artist Paulo Grangeon and represents the amount of pandas alive on earth today. (Photo: Xinhua) Continue reading »
Hello Kitty Blood Donation Vehicle Appears in Shanghai
The world’s first Hello-Kitty-themed mobile blood donation vehicle arrives in Shanghai on June 14, 2014. Bedecked in Hello Kitty’s likeness, the vehicle is meant to encourage more people to donate blood and take part in public service activities. (Photo: CFP) Continue reading »
Girl Travels Europe with Cardboard Cutout of Late Father
Jinna Yang, a 25-year-old Chinese girl born in Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.A., went on a trek through Europe carrying a cardboard cutout of her father, who died from cancer two years ago.
She quit her fashion job in New York City, gave up her apartment, sold most of her clothes and brought her “father” with her as she traveled across Europe, in order to take him to all the countries he wanted to visit, while he was alilve. She put the pictures online in hopes of spurring others to follow their dreams and aspirations.
“I want the world to know who my dad was,” Yang explains. And, thanks to her creative homage, people approached her as she traveled, asking about the cutout and wanting to know more about her and her project. It led to strangers sharing their own stories of grief and loss. “That’s the great thing about traveling,” she says. “It really was healing for me.”
Now, Yang is planning her next trip, this time to Spain and Croatia. And, of course, dad will be right there with her.
Le Louvre, in Paris, France; according to Yang, her father ran a dry-cleaning business in Norfolk, Virginia, where he worked for 12 hours a day for six days per week. (Photo: CFP)
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Winners of the Royal Navy Peregrine Trophy Photography Awards
The Royal Navy Peregrine Trophy’s main aspiration is to encourage and inspire wider production of powerful imagery that would represent the Royal Navy and Royal Marine’s operations in media. The role of photography, portraying the work of the Royal Navy has never been more important. The Royal Navy photographers who have captured images of life in the Royal Navy as well as the service’s technical prowess have been honoured at an annual awards ceremony in London. They were “recognised for their talent, dedication and creativity”.
HMS Defender alongside Glasgow, her affiliated city by L(Phot) Will Haigh which won the Navy News Award in the annual Peregrine Trophy awards. (Photo by Will Haigh/PA Wire)
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Famous Fathers and their Famous Sons
In honor of Father’s Day, we present photos of fathers and sons who are, or have been, in the public eye. The list is, of course, not complete.
Lloyd Bridges, center, poses with his sons Beau, left, and Jeff in Malibu, Calif., in this 1980 file photo. Lloyd Bridges, whose half-century in acting ranged from the drama of “High Noon” to the daft “Airplane!” to the adventure of TV’s “Sea Hunt,” has died, his agent said Tuesday, March 10, 1998. (AP Photo/files) Continue reading »
World’s Largest, Longest 3D Street Painting Debuts in Nanjing
Photo: CFP
The 365-meter long street painting titled “Rhythms of Youth” was presented to the public for the first time on a lane on the campus of the Nanjing branch of the Communication University of China(CUCN) on Wednesday. The gigantic 3D street painting, or anamorphic painting, covering an area of more than 2,600 square meters, has set two new Guinness World Records as the world’s largest and longest street painting. Its creators led by famous Chinese artist Yang Yongchun were awarded the certificate by the Guinness World Records, the global authority on record-breaking, on Tuesday at a ceremony held in the university.
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Rangoli – Amazing Folk Art from India
Rangoli, also known as kolam or Muggu, is a folk art from India in which patterns are created on the floor in living rooms or courtyards using materials such as colored rice, dry flour, colored sand or flower petals. It is usually made during Diwali, Onam, Pongal and other Indian festivals. They are meant to be sacred welcoming areas for the Hindu deities. Continue reading »
Miniature Architecture by Takanori Aiba
The Japanese art of raising bonsai trees is a beautiful way to infuse greenery into indoor spaces. But artist Takanori Aiba takes the art to a new level with his incredibly intricate series of bonsai castles. The Japanese artist carves miniature masterpieces that weave in and out of the miniature trees, creating cohesive architectural marvels that burst forth with life! Continue reading »
House After The Attack Of Woodpeckers
It looked like some gang members spewed buckshot at his doorstep during a drive-by. These holes were made by acorn woodpeckers. The little birds created their own granaries or “acorn trees” to store their food. They do so by drilling holes into whatever they can, sometimes resulting in this kind of damage.
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Fantastic Sunsets on the Masai Mara
A photographer has shared his stunning gallery of African sunrises and sunsets. Paul Goldstein says he has spent years trying to photograph the perfect beginning and ending of the Masai Mara day. Thanks to his role as guide for Exodus Travels, there have been countless opportunities to document the beautiful natural spectacle.
Wimbledon-based Paul explains: “Of all the thousands of images I have taken during sunrise and sunset around the world, 90% of them have been in two Mara Conservancies in Kenya – Olare and Mara North. The Masai Mara is well-known for having the best photographic light in the world, but these well-managed conservancies also have the best spots for sunrise and sunset and without crowds of people”.
Goldstein guides photographic safaris and expeditions for Exodus and is co-owner of the number one rated Kicheche Camps in Kenya.
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Weston Homes Create “Lego Children’s Room” to Assist with Marketing Houses to Families
Developer Weston Homes have used standard and bespoke Lego bricks, mini-figures and themed accessories to create a magnificent children’s bedroom that is dressed in Lego products. Continue reading »
Museum Uses Brilliant Ads To Get You Excited About Science
Science people have all the brains, even when it comes to a spot of advertising. Wanting to engage the public with science —in a way that was both thought-provoking and fun—Vancouver’s Science World teamed up with creative agency Rethink Canada to produce these very clever ads. No need to double check these quirky facts, they’re all scientifically verified, promise. Continue reading »
