Photo of the Day: Cocoa Puff
“Cocoa Puff” sits on the welcome desk at The Cat’s Meow. Bikini Beach Cat Rescue of Surfside Beach, South Carolina, hosted a low cost spay/neuter clinic to bring awareness to World Spay Day, an international campaign of The Humane Society of the United States and The Humane Society International which will be officially observed on February 28. (Steve Jessmore/The Sun News) Click image to zoom.
Rotary Clubs Light Up the World to Eradicate Polio
Rotary clubs will once again illuminate landmarks and iconic structures around the world in view of the group’s pledge to the ‘End Polio Now’ campaign. Worldwide, fewer than 650 polio cases have been confirmed in 2011, less than half the 1,352 infections reported in 2010.
Rotary is a global humanitarian organization with more than 1.2 million members in their 34,000 Rotary clubs spread over 200 countries. Rotary members are men and women who belong to the business, professional and community leaders with a shared commitment to make the world a better place and one of their top priorities is the global eradication of polio.
Hydrabad, India-Rotary Clubs Light up the World to End Polio. Continue reading »
Pandora’s Boxx: Revolution on Two Wheels?
Portland based BOXX Corp creates Boxx, a new kind of fully customizable two-wheels vehicle with a length of 1 meter. Starts from $3995. Continue reading »
Felt Jewelry by Hanan Kedmi for Real Geeks
Recent design graduate of Shenkar College, Tel Aviv, Hanan Kedmi, has created a series of jewelry made from heat sink devices that are attached to computer parts which tend to get overheated. Kedmi was looking for ways in which to link the metal components and caught onto felting. Continue reading »
“Transportation Plates” by Boguslaw Sliwinski
Boguslaw Sliwinski, craftsman from Poland, created amazing series of ceramic plates under the name of “Transportation Plates”. Watch’em. Continue reading »
“Hello Kitty” Air Jet by EVA Airways
EVA Airways, a Taiwan based airlines wanted to pay tribute to Hello Kitty with an entire plane. EVA launched a campaign together with Sanrio to create the “Hello Kitty Jet”. They painted the exterior of an Airbus A330-200 with both the interior and the exterior having the Hello Kitty motif.
Hello Kitty is one of the most popular licensed characters in the world, so the plane from many stuffs such like credit cards, phone cards, stationary, tissue boxes, greeting cards, clothes, accessories, school supplies, dishes, home appliances, refrigerator. Continue reading »
My Sight is an Invitation to Look Somewhere Else: The Work of Fred Eerdekens
Entering the artistic space of Fred Eerdekens places the spectator in a semantic landscape in which what one had thought of as stable meanings are continually twisted and turned. What better way to figurize this than by letting the spectators themselves ‘twist and turn’ in trying to make sense of the objects. In spiralling around the objects, they in fact become direct figures of the play of logic that rules the objects. After the linguistic turn, and in the wake of post-structuralist thought, the topography of our mental landscapes has become increasingly intricate. The work of Fred Eerdekens attests to this fact and it provides a conceptual map of this, in many places still unknown territory. Continue reading »
New Network on the Streets of London Broadcasts News to City Workers via Recycling Bins
New recycling units, by private company Renew, feature news aimed at workers in the City like this one which was unveiled in Gresham Street, St Paul’s. The $48,000 devices broadcast news to the City but can also transmit updates during emergencies. Content will be provided by The Economist and the London Stock Exhchange among other outlets. The idea could be transferred to New York, Tokyo and Singapore.
Surfer Rides Standing Wave in Icy German River
A man surfs on the wave on the small man-made river Eisbach with snow and temperatures around freazing in the English Gardens in Munich, Germany on Thursday. The standing wave in the Eisbach is a favorite spot for daring water sports enthousiast the whole year round. (Peter Kneffel / EPA) Continue reading »
New BMW 3 Series Premiere Backstage
The all-new BMW 3 Series re-launch within the “History of Winners” exhibit took place in Moscow at February 11. Continue reading »
Song Dong’s Waste Not at the Barbican
Waste Not, an installation that gathers over 10,000 everyday objects collected by Song Dong’s mother over a period of five decades, reflects on the Chinese artist’s childhood during the Cultural Revolution. Waste Not is at the Barbican Art Gallery, London EC2, from 15 February to 12 June. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images.
Song Dong’s Waste Not installation in the Curve at the Barbican Art Gallery, London. Continue reading »
Boynton Beach Peacocks: When is Beauty Bad?
Anybody want a peacock? How about 200?
The Fox Hollow community in Boynton Beach is considering paying a trapper $6,000 to round up half the neighborhood population of peafowl and kill them.
“I want every one of them out of here,” said resident Dorothy Laswell. “They bang on my French doors, throw themselves at my windows, and wake me up every morning, jumping on my roof at 6 o’clock. And during mating season, they scream and holler.”
Similar complaints have led Fox Hollow to invite a trapper to spend weeks in the neighborhood assessing the population and figuring out what can be done. There are an estimated 400 peafowl living in Fox Hollow, and they have their defenders. So the homeowner’s association is considering a compromise of sorts: eliminating half the bird population.
Story by Frank Cerabino.
Photography by Allen Eyestone/The Palm Beach Post.
The Fox Hollow community in Boynton Beach is proposing to remove a couple of hundred peacocks that live on the gated community’s property. They apparently escaped years ago from nearby Knollwood Groves, where they were an attraction until the groves were torn down for another housing development. Continue reading »
iOS ’86
Fantastic iOS concept, created by Anton Repponen. Continue reading »
Miniature Gardens of Steve Wheen
It reminds me a street art. Londoner Steve Wheen brings greenery and miniature scenes to the streets of East London in his ‘the pot hole gardener’ project and it looks fantastic! Continue reading »
Britain’s Big Freeze Continues
Visitors to the Fenlands in eastern England take advantage of sub-zero temperatures to enjoy skating on the frozen fens. Some areas of the region have seen temperatures plunge to as low as -18C in recent days.
The sun rises over a frost-covered scene in in Earith, Cambridgeshire. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images) Continue reading »
Animal Carnival in Rio de Janeiro
The animal carnival parade at Copacabana beach in Brazil rivals its human counterpart for colour. Photograph: Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images, Silvia Izquierdo/AP. Continue reading »
Finalists of Miss Helsinki 2012
I love Helsinki so much, but I’m… confused. Continue reading »
The Art of the App: Works made on iPads and iPhones
Kissed by the Sun, by Xi Chen. Continue reading »
The Bedouin Skate Crew in Tunisia
Bringing peace through skateboarding and street art. Photograph: Nathan Gray. Continue reading »
The Nissan Production Line
Nissan’s factory in Washington, near Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear, builds the Qashqai, Juke and Note models. It produced 480,485 cars in 2011, a record for a UK car plant. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian.
Nissan’s production line in Washington, Tyne and Wear. Continue reading »
Spectacular Images of Northern Lights Captured from Space
The aurora borealis steals the show in this nighttime photograph shot from the International Space Station as the orbital outpost flew over the Midwest recently. Cloud cover makes it difficult to identify the cities that are within the captured area. The spacecraft was above south-central Nebraska when the photo was taken. The angle of the look is northward to northeastward. (ISS030-E-061267 http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/) Continue reading »
