We have all heard about the crop circles and seen them on television, in movies, or maybe in real life, but in Japan you can see rice art on the fields. Every year Japanese farmers are planting rice in different patterns and using different sorts of rice for color. The result is spectacular pictures.Sabtu, 31 Juli 2010
Japanese farmers use rice fields to express their art
We have all heard about the crop circles and seen them on television, in movies, or maybe in real life, but in Japan you can see rice art on the fields. Every year Japanese farmers are planting rice in different patterns and using different sorts of rice for color. The result is spectacular pictures.Kamis, 29 Juli 2010
Awesome Creative Photography by Vlad Artazov
Violence In Rio De Janeiro Brazil by Joao Pina (21 Pics)
João Pina, opens up a fearless view into the parallel universe of Rio de Janeiro: Favela and Asfalto. It is quite rare that one gets such an up-close and personal look inside the slums of Rio de Janeiro. One can see hand-to-hand drug dealings, young gangsters posing with their weapons, as well as a priest who has made exorcism his mission, because he feels there is no other hope left for these young men. It is a captivating journey through the somber reality of this antithetic megacity, Rio de Janeiro.Rabu, 28 Juli 2010
Brazil's Dog favela - Town for Dogs
The NGO Sociedade Amiga dos Animais (Friend of Animals Society) run a unique animal shelter to protect them in the city of Caxias do Sul. In 1998, the NGO started the program. The multifaceted is to prepare home for 1,600 dogs and 200 cats. This program is called as “dog favela,” or dog slum by local residents. Thus, by building houses for them the society has helped the animals that were found neglected.Designers Spin Spidey-Worthy Webs From Packing Tape
Astounding cocoons made only of tape float in mid-air, capable supporting more than your average tree house. Packing tape has gotten MacGyver out of many a jam, but he never managed to make an entire home out of the stuff. So he could probably learn something from Viennese/Croatian design collective For Use/Numen. The team uses nothing but packing tape to create huge, self-supporting cocoons that visitors could climb inside and explore.
Installed three times in the past year, the next deployment will be next week from June 9–13 at DMY Berlin's International Design Fair, which is now in its 8th year.
Senin, 26 Juli 2010
The Jell-O World of Liz Hickok
Liz Hickok is a San Francisco based artist who best expresses her talent through unique Jell-o artworks.
Liz is well versed in photography, video and sculpture, but she discovered her favorite art medium is Jell-o. We all crave a few spoons of wobbly goodness, from time to time, but Liz Hickok would rather use Jell-O in her work, rather than eat it. Her “San Francisco in Jell-O” installation received media coverage from the likes of the New York Times, San Francisco Magazine and other reputed members of the media.
The Mysterious Scissors Dancers of Peru
Performed in the central and southern highlands of Peru, the Scissors Dance is a traditional event that tests the physical and spiritual strength of the participants.
Westerners usually regard “La Danza de las Tijeras” as a physical test where two men have to prove their dexterity and resistance to pain, but to the people of the Andes, this dance is a sacred ritual. The dancers, called danzaq, perform difficult stunts and leaps, called atipanakuy, accompanied by the music of a violin, a harp and the sound of the scissors they each hold in their hands. So much about not playing with scissors, right?
Westerners usually regard “La Danza de las Tijeras” as a physical test where two men have to prove their dexterity and resistance to pain, but to the people of the Andes, this dance is a sacred ritual. The dancers, called danzaq, perform difficult stunts and leaps, called atipanakuy, accompanied by the music of a violin, a harp and the sound of the scissors they each hold in their hands. So much about not playing with scissors, right?
Minggu, 25 Juli 2010
World record ball-juggling made in China
Record breaking students juggle soccer balls with their feet in a soccer stadium at Yanbian University, Yanji city, Northeast China's Jilin province, July 10, 2010. More than one thousand soccer fans joined in an activity called "Joy of soccer, top of the world", which was held in Yanbian University on the morning of July 10, resulting in making a new Guinness World Record by 1,062 people simultaneously juggling the soccer balls with their feet for more than 10 seconds, which overtook the previous record made by 792 Mungarians on July 13, 2009. [Photo/CFP]
Treehotel, Unique Hotel in Sweden, Feel Free In A Tree!!
A tree hotel in the far north of Sweden, near the small village of Harads.
The starting point is to create a shelter up in the trees; a lightweight aluminium structure hung around a tree trunk, 4x4x4 meters boxes clad in mirrored glass. The exterior reflects the surroundings and the sky, creating a camouflaged refuge. The interior is all made of plywood and the windows give a 360 degree view of the surroundings.
The tree hotel concept meets the increasing interest in wild life-/eco tourism where one encounter and experience the pristine nature of Sweden.
The tree hotel concept meets the increasing interest in wild life-/eco tourism where one encounter and experience the pristine nature of Sweden.
MIT’s Digital Food Printer Creates Nutritious Meals
Here’s an interesting thought: What if eating greener and more sustainably meant printing your meals? Marcelo Coelho and Amit Zoran, a couple ingenious minds at MIT, have come up with a way to do just that. Hailed as ‘The Cornucopia’, this 3-D printer concept is a personal food factory that fuses the digital world with the realm of cooking by storing, precisely mixing, depositing, and cooking layers of ingredients with no waste.World's Smallest Postal Service
Let Lea Redmond send your next birthday card or love letter by transcribing your sentiments onto tiny stationary using her tiny pen and enclosing it in a tiny envelope and sealing it with a tiny wax stamp.
Formerly only available in cafés and stores where Lea would set up shop and perform the service, she now offers her epistolary skills online—for $8 she'll write up a mini-letter and either mail it off to the recipient of your choice or to you for hand delivery. Maddeningly precious, yes, but the attention to detail (note Lea's custom uniform) is hard to resist.
Unique Bell Factory in Russia
If we were living in Middle Age we would probably had chance to see a bell factory in ever bigger town. Bells are not so popular today as they were once and it is hard to imagine that there is actually a factory which specialized its production only for bells.
It seems that there is enough demand for bells so there is an factory which makes them. The photos you are just looking at are showing the bell factory which is located in Yaroslav region in Russia. It is proudly owned by Nikolai Shuvalov who seems to enjoy doing his small business.Bells which are produced in this factory can be found almost in any part of Russia or Ukraine. They are very popular and it seems that Nikolai doesn’t have much competitors in bell-production business.
Believe It Or Not This Is Trully Money Tree!
In an attempt to “wake up people’s lazy money”, RaboDirect, an Australian online bank sponsored a special experiment that fulfilled the financial fantasies of hundreds of passers-by – a real-life money tree. The event took place in one of Sydney’s park, where a tree was covered in $5 bills, from its lower branches to the top. People were secretly filmed, to see how they would react to such an unbelievable sight.
Believe it or not, the first 100 or so people who walked by the money tree flat out ignored it. Some of them didn’t even notice there was anything odd about the tree, a group of joggers was to busy running to stop and check it out, and passers-by who did stop to analyze it, just took some photos and left empty handed.
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