Photo of the Day: Run for Your Life
A crowd of Chinese tourists run away as a tidal bore breaks through the dam by the Qiangtang River in Haining, east China’s Zhejiang province on August 31, 2011. Visitors gather to experience the Qianjiang Tidal Bore from early morning, an annual tradition for the residents living nearby. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) Click image to zoom.
Waiting for the Passengers
A tuk tuk driver awaits passengers outside the art and culture centre, Bangkok.
In the Name of
An Indian Muslim woman shows her hands decorated with mehendi during ‘Chand Raat’ or ‘Night of the Moon’ in Hyderabad, traditionally held on the eve of the festival of Eid al-Fitr. Muslims all over the world began Eid-al-Fitr celebrations at the sighting of the crescent moon, marking the end of Muslim’s holy fasting month of Ramadan. (Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images) Click image to zoom.
Libyan Leader’s Life of Luxury Overrun by Rebels
A Libyan rebel fighter walks inside the house of Saif al-Islam, son of Libyan fugitive leader Moammar Gadhafi in Tripoli. Normal life began returning to the Libyan capital Tripoli, almost a week after rebels swept into the city. (Ciro Fusco / EPA) Continue reading »
Photo of the Day: Comic Book Fans Gathered in NYC to Celebrate New DC Comics Release
Fans at DC Comics Midnight Madness Event Celebrating the release of New No. 1 issue of “Justice League” at Mid Town Comics on August 30, 2011 in New York City. (Michael Loccisano / Getty Images)
World’s First Smart Virtual Store Opens in Korea
Customers purchase items with their smartphones by scanning QR codes using the Homeplus app at the Seolleung subway station, southern Seoul, yesterday, where Homeplus has opened the world’s first “virtual” store. (YONHAP)
Photo of the Day: Emergency Rescue
One of two people rescued from a sailboat, right, uses a line to make his way onto the beach on Willoughby Spit in Norfolk after they were rescued from the boat that foundered in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay. A rescuer, left, waits for the second person to exit the boat. (Bill Tiernan/TheVirginian-Pilot) Click photo to zoom.
Inside Aisha Gaddafi’s Palace
Aisha Gaddafi: Claudia Schiffer of North Africa. Aisha Gaddafi, daughter of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and director of the Libyan Waatassimou Charity association, attends the end of the 6th international women’s Koran reading competition in Tripoli August 30, 2010. Continue reading »
Into Papers
An art installation made out of paper entitled Drift Away II by artist Li Hongjun is displayed during the 2011 Art Taipei exhibition (AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
Sun Rising Over the Bubble
At first glance this may appear to show a sun rising over a distant planet. But on closer inspection it becomes apparent that Richard Heeks’ macro photographs are simply bubbles glistening in the sun. The 38-year-old from Exminster, near Exeter, says: “Sometimes I stand back and just watch a bubble as it hangs in the air. I walk around it, admiring it, and I see how the light plays on it. And sometimes I photograph a bubble and see things I didn’t expect to see. I didn’t realise these bubbles would look like planets until I caught one or two good ones and then looked at them carefully on the camera screen.” Who needs the Hubble Telescope when you’ve got the Bubble Telescope? (Richard Heeks / Barcroft Media)
Innovative Virtual Shop
Ocado.com has hit the high street, with an innovative new ‘virtual shop’. In a UK first, the online grocer’s integrated window display at One New Change shopping centre in London allows shoppers to purchase all their grocery essentials by scanning them with their mobile phones. The retail experience is live between August 25 and September 1.
Lobster Bike
In this photo taken Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011, a man looks at a motorcycle figure made of lobsters’ shells created by Taiwanese food carving artist Huang Mingbo during his lecture in Fuzhou in southeast China’s Fujian province. (AP Photo) Continue reading »
The Ultra-Realistic Sculptures by Marc Sijan
Marc Sijan, a Milwaukee artist, has carefully studied and modeled the human form for more then twenty years. Since his days as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, he has become completely immersed in the human form as a subject. After earning his bachelor’s degree in art, he returned to school to earn his master’s degree and received a heavy dose of scientific courses in anatomy and biology in the process – hence the inspiration for the life like artistic forms.
The opportunities we have in this life to closely examine the intricacies of the human body are rare. Many of us are taught “ not to stare” for the fear the object of our gaze may hit us with a pocket book or yell for the closest police officer. But the latest exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum, The Ultra-Realistic Sculptures by Marc Sijan gives viewers a recrimination-free opportunity to stare with abandon, quenching your own voyeuristic tendencies. Continue reading »
Richard Branson’s $70 Million Caribbean Mansion on Necker Island
Branson first became aware that some of the islands in the British Virgin Islands were for sale in 1979. In 1978 he went to the British Virgin Islands for a holiday in order to investigate the prospective real estate. On first observing the islands, he envisioned using them to put up rock stars for his record label. Upon arrival, they were given a luxury villa and travelled around islands for sale by helicopter. Continue reading »
Poo
A dog sits in front of a giant dog sculpture called Poo donated by Dawn French at an animal rehoming centre in Shoreham. The comedienne and writer commissioned the 9ft tall sculpture, based on a character in her first novel, to appear alongside her in a TV advert. (Dogs Trust / PA)
The Sickness Interactive Installation
A woman searches for gold necklaces amongst a floor full of wool and yarn, created by Thai artist, Surasi Kusolwong. Visitors can keep the jewellery should they find it. The landscape containing the necklaces is called Sickness, on show at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre. It opened on 21 August and to date, one necklace has been found out of ten hidden in the yarn. (EPA/BARBARA WALTON) Continue reading »
Seven Spires
Steve Messam’s installation Seven Spires, part of FLOW – a countywide series of new site specific artworks set in Northamptonshire’s rivers, canals and waterways – has been unveiled. FLOW is part of the Igniting Ambition Festival 2011 and UK Cultural Olympiad. (Andrew Hilton) Continue reading »
Wedding Gown Made out of More than 3000 Peacock Feathers
A peacock farm in Linyi, northern China’s Shandong Province, has created a wedding gown made out of more than 3,000 peacock feathers. According to farm owner Qiu Yun it took 3,150 feathers collected from more than 200 male peacocks to make the dress, which took two months to be put together. (Quirky China News / Rex Features)
Singing Ringing Tree
The Singing Ringing Tree is a wind powered sound sculpture resembling a tree set in the landscape of the Pennine mountain range overlooking Burnley, in Lancashire. Continue reading »
Photo of the Day: Me, Myself & Irene
Hurricane Irene (top center) churns over the Bahamas in this MODIS satellite image. Irene, now a Category 3 storm with winds of 120 miles per hour, is projected to possibly clip the Outer Banks region of North Carolina before moving up the eastern seaboard of the U.S. (NASA via Getty Images)
‘Drool in the Pool’ Day in Kansas
Savannah Pearce plays with her dog Sabali during the Pooch Plunge at the Lawrence Aquatic Center in Lawrence, Kan., Monday, Aug 22, 2011. Dogs are allowed in the pool the day after it closes for the season. (Orlin Wagner / AP) Continue reading »
The Idol-makers of Kumartoli, India
An artisan works on semi-finished clay statues of Hindu deities in Kumartoli, the idol-makers’ village of Kolkata, India, on August 22. (Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP – Getty Images) Continue reading »
Something Fishy Going on at the Polish-Ukrainian Border
An aerial view shows the land art installation by Polish artist Jaroslaw Koziara as a part of the Land Art Festival on the field between Horodyszcze (Poland) and Warez (Ukraine), on Tuesday. The giant fish was created by seeding different kinds of plants on the field between the Polish and Ukrainian border. (Wojciech Pacewicz / EPA) Continue reading »
Photo of the Day: Deepwater Dweller
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released this photo, taken in 2002 about one mile deep near a huge underwater volcano near Monterey Bay, which shows this strange marine animal, thought to be a new species that has yet to be described or named. It is a type of mollusk, called ‘nudibranch’, that sheds its shell early in life. Scientists think there are millions of species, like this one, that have yet to be named or even discovered. (NOAA)
