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
Corvette
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 »
Glass Beach
Glass Beach is a beach in MacKerricher State Park near Fort Bragg, California that is abundant in sea glass created from years of dumping garbage into an area of coastline near the northern part of the town. Continue reading »
Thailand’s Traditional Khon Mask
A close up of a Khon mask July 8, 2011 in Angthong, Thailand. The paper mache Khon masks, are part of the ornate glittering costumes used in the stylized classical Thai dance form known as Khon. Prateep sells his handmade masks for $50-120 US, it can take around 10 days to make one. The Khon tradition was originally imported from India around the 10th century. The painted Khon masks are essential to conveying the characters and moods of a Khon performance. Often the masks are used as decorative objects displayed in many homes and in many Thai restaurants globally. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) Continue reading »
Photo of the Day: Cats of War
A Somali government soldiers mans a position inside Bakara market on August 8, 2011. Residents of Somalia’s war-torn capital fled fighting Monday after remnants of extremist Shebab rebel forces, who pulled out of Mogadishu at the weekend, battled with government troops overnight. The Al-Qaeda-affiliated rebels – who had controlled around half of Mogadishu – abandoned their positions in a surprise withdrawal on Saturday. Fighting late on Sunday took place in several locations in the south and north of the city, as African Union-backed government troops set up bases in former Shebab strongholds. (MUSTAFA ABDI/AFP/Getty Images) Click image to zoom.
47-foot M&M Piñata Lifted in NY
Workers prepared to move a lift Wednesday as they added finishing touches to a 47-foot M&M piñata in the 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Ave. The piñata, supposedly the world’s largest, is for a celebration for the one-year anniversary of M&M Pretzel. (Philip Montgomery for The Wall Street Journal)
Photo of the Day: Men Fish Near Black Sea Resort of Sochi
A woman sunbathes as men fish on a lake outside the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, on Aug. 7. (Mikhail Mordasov / AFP – Getty Images)
Two Men Try to Recover After Drinking Too Much in India
Two intoxicated men rest as it rains in Kolkata, India, Aug. 6. (Bikas Das / AP)
Solar Storm Threatens to Slam Into Earth, Spectacular Flares Detected by NASA
Solar blasts of energy from the sun began reaching the Earth on Friday and could disrupt some communications, according to scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Storms are brewing some 93 million miles away and three solar flares erupted on the sun starting Tuesday, touching earth’s magnetic field on Friday in the form of fast-moving “solar wind” and is blowing by the Earth. (NASA / NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center / IBITimes) Continue reading »
