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Model vehicles carved out of wood

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Amazing work!

Capacitor bikes
Model warships made from matchboxes

The one in a million shot

2009-01-03T17:54:00.001+05:30

Swimming with Jellyfish

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The Jellyfish Lake, or Ongeim’l Tketau as it is called in Palauan, is one of over 70 similar saltwater lakes scattered throughout the limestone “rock islands” of the southern portion of the main Palau archipelago. The Jellyfish Lake is a popular place for divers despite being the home to some ten million jellyfish.

The jellyfish of Jellyfish Lake do sting, however, because their stinging cells are so tiny, their sting is not detectable on most human tissue. So this is perhaps the only place on earth where humans can enjoy swimming with them much closer than would be possible anywhere else.

The incredible 3D street drawings of Julian Beever

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Julian Beever, often called the 'Pavement Picasso', is one of the greatest sidewalk chalk artists. Using a method called anamorphosis, Julian Beever creates pavement drawings that gives the illusion of three dimensions when viewed from the correct angle. Here is a collection of some of his amazing art.

I can’t believe this bottle of coke is not real!

When viewed from a different angle these drawings look abnormally elongated and distorted.

You can find more pictures at his personal site.

Photographs of Photographers

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We look in wonder and awe at the breath taking shots captured by photographers, but rarely for a moment think about the person who took the picture and under what conditions. So here is a collection of photographs dedicated to photographers. One thing that I can say for sure – it’s hard to be one.

Sometimes it’s hard to determine which is better – the photograph or the photographer

Some jobs have to envied

Pets and Owners

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It is said that eventually they start to look alike

How to make Christmas trees out of anything

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Homes at Night – Stunning photography by Todd Hido

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A stunning series of eerie, low-light photos by photographer Todd Hido called Homes at Night from his book House Hunting. Some of these photos were taken with exposure time as long as 10 minutes because of the extremely low light.

Sources: Stephen Writz Gallery, NPR, Todd Hido

Celebrities in PETA advertising campaign

2008-12-23T20:37:00.001+05:30

Here is a collection of animal-rights organization PETA’s raunchy advertising campaign featuring celebrities.

The Cabestan Winch Tourbillon Vertical Watch

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The Cabestan Winch Tourbillon Vertical Watch is a beautiful yet odd looking wrist watch with a unique vertical design. The watch is built around a system of wheels, pinions and drums, clearly visible, and having a winch-driven chain fusee movement. It has tiny 450 link chain and nickel silver drums; altogether there are 1,352 separate components.

Two rotating drums indicate the time, while further drums show power reserves. You can wind the watch using little capstans and it lasts for 72 hours. Price ranges from $275,000–$400,000, depending on style.

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The erotic sculptures of Dominique Regnier

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Dominique Regnier

The diamond mines of Sierra Leone

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A grim reminder of the war

Coffee cups to scare your guests

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If you don’t mind your visitors spilling coffee over your carpet, then you will surely have fun watching them scream as you serve them coffee in the Ant-covered Cup and Saucer. This cool table set has been created by Jin Lee, a New York based artist, who has hand painted each ant on the cups and saucer. The set is currently out of stock, though.

Cardboard Box Origami

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Related: Creative cardboard art

Fishing Festival in Nigeria

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The Arugungu fishing festival is an annual Nigerian cultural event, in which thousands of fishermen take part to fish in the Matan Fada river in Nigeria. The Mata Fada river might not be very impressive but it’s full of fish, because people come here to fish only once a year. After the time limit is over, the team who caught the largest fish is escorted by the sultans’s guards to present their prize to him. This year the winners receive a brand new bus as a prize as well as one million Naira (around $7500).

This is one hell of a festival!

Preparing the nets.

Selling hollowed-out pumpkins

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The deadly trail to Mt. Huashan

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Mt. Huashan is located in the south of Huayin city, China, 120 kilometers east of Xi'an, with an elevation of 2200 meters above sea level. The Huashan Mountain is surrounded by five peaks that looks live five petals of a flower. The Huashan Mountain, hence, takes its name after its shape - a lotus flower with five petals.

Mt. Huashan is famous for its breath-taking cliffs and the dangerous 12-kilometer-long winding path up to the top. Mt Huashan has only one path leading to the top, and it doesn’t help when the path looks like this.

The path doesn't become precipitous until Qing Ke Ping, where there is a huge rock engraved with Chinese characters meaning “the point where the horses turn back”. It warns that the challenges ahead and those who are not well prepared both mentally and physically should retreat.

One wrong step here is instant death. But the view is awe-inspiring.

Brave grandma!

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Kitty in boobs

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Strange shaped hot air balloons

2008-12-14T21:54:00.001+05:30

Hot air balloon festivals are held annually all over the world and throughout the year, and give a chance for participants to display their creations and participate in races. Thousands of people throng these festivals to watch hundreds of balloons of all shapes and colors. Here are some of the spectacular balloons seen in these festivals.

Bear Encounters

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Another bear fright

Invisible Body Art

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History’s classic photographs recreated in lego

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"Raising the flag on Iwo Jima" - one of the most published photographs in history.

The lego recreation

"Behind the Gare Saint Lazare" - Henri Cartier-Bresson's best known image.

Lunch atop a skyscrapper

Robert Capa's 1936 picture "Death of a Loyalist Soldier"

Henri Cartier Bresson's 1933 photograph 'Madrid'.

Henri Cartier-Bresson's 1938 photograph "By the Marne River"

"General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon," that won the photographer Eddie Adams a Pulitzer prize in 1969

Marc Riboud's famous 1967 photograph taken at an anti-Vietnam protest in Washington

Alfred Eisenstaedt's 1945 photograph "V.J. Day Times Square"

Jeff Widener's 1989 photograph of "The unknown rebel".

Martin Elliott's 1976 photograph 'Tennis Girl'.

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the Moon in 1969 - Photograph by Neil Armstrong

Ian Bradshaw's 1974 photograph of streaker Michael O'Brien at Twickenham during the England-France rugby match.

Norman Potter’s 1954 photograph of Roger Bannister breaking the four-minute mile, completing the distance in 3 min 59.4 sec at Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, May 6, 1954.

Diego Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ goal during the quarter finals of the 1986 World cup between England and Argentina.

Robert Capa's 1944 photograph taken during the D-Day landings on Omaha beach during World War II.

Malcolm Browne's 1963 photograph of Thich Quang Duc's self-immolation in protest over persecution of Buddhists in South Vietnam.

W. Eugene Smith's 1946 photograph entitled "The Walk to Paradise Garden"

Source: Flickr

Creative cardboard art

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Cute models made from cardboard boxes.

More Girls T-shirt Messages

2008-12-07T13:28:00.003+05:30

More: Terrific messages on girls’ T-shirt

Trampe – The bicycle lift of Trondheim, Norway

2008-12-06T21:08:00.001+05:30

Trondheim of Norway is the first and only city in the world with a lift specifically designed for cyclists. This bicycle lift called Trampe, gets you to the top of a very steep hill, where it is installed, on your bicycle without actually riding it. Since it’s opening in 1993, the Trampe has reportedly pushed more than 220 000 cyclist up the very steep hill BBrubakken.

Bikes are available for rent for tourist who want to test run. To use the lift, the right foot is placed on the starting point (the left foot stays on the bicycle pedal) and keycard, which also needs to be bought or rented, is inserted in the card reader and one pushes the start button. After a few seconds, the user is pushed forward to the top of the hill. From the description, it doesn’t seem like a very comfortable ride since it pushes you and not the bicycle. But apparently, the Trampe is quite popular among students of the Trondheim University, as 90% of them uses bicycles as their main mode of transport because of the Trampe.

Trampe’s website

Crazy Japanese Inventions

2008-12-06T12:23:00.001+05:30

I guess the word Japanese in the title is redundant. You can’t expect any of these contraptions to come from anybody else.

(Somebody please translate the sign)