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Archive | September, 2010

Amazing Ghost-like Long Exposure Photographs

Posted on 29 September 2010 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

A lot of cameras have the long-exposure function that captures movement in a picture over a small period of time, and they are known as hard-to-shoot photos. But what about a three year long exposure period? A German artist and also photographer, named Michael Wesely, has found out how to make photos with that long [...]

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Top 15 World’s Richest Royals

Posted on 27 September 2010 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

Some countries still got it, others don’t, some think it is old-fashioned, others will say that it is traditional and should be kept alive. Both ways the monarchy and the royal families are still popular among people and in the media, and they still get cheered when making public appearances. According to Forbes’s new ranking [...]

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X-ray Flowers Creates Beautiful Artistic Photos

Posted on 25 September 2010 in: Featured Articles, WTF

X-ray wakes up mixed feelings; some are positive and curious, while others are negative. In this case they are very positive, because this time x-ray is taken to a whole new level. Artist Hugh Tervey uses it to capture some amazingly beautiful photos of flowers. He uses the x-ray technique to make seriously detailed pictures [...]

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New York – The Big Apple While It Sleeps

Posted on 23 September 2010 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

New York – best known as “the city that never sleeps”. Does it ever sleep, and how would that look? A crew of photographers from the Wall Street Journal was sent out to take pictures of New York sleeping, and it was not impossible. They managed to capture some great shots by working at the [...]

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Creepy Edible Skull Made From Chocolate

Posted on 21 September 2010 in: Featured Articles, Food

The following creation is one of those things which are on the boundary between normal and disgusting. Cloe Bird got an idea to create a skull cake from chocolate. She used plastic model of real-sized human skull to create this cake which I wouldn’t like to taste even if it was made from the most [...]

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Calculators From The Past

Posted on 20 September 2010 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

Today it has become hard and unnecessary to do maths in your head, because everybody’s got a calculator. The calculator is a genius invention and range way back to year 1623, but was first produced and sold in 1820. This was really old calculators that can’t compare with those that are on the market today. [...]

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Batmobile Golf Cart

Posted on 18 September 2010 in: Featured Articles, Technology

Batman seems to be pretty active guy who also likes to play some golf when he is not occupied with chasing for Joker. But, when you are Batman then you have to keep your image and you cannot go to golf fields with usual golf cart. This one looks more like “Yo Dawg Golf Cart” [...]

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You Would Probably Not Like To Run Into This Forest Head

Posted on 16 September 2010 in: Featured Articles, WTF

At first glance these pictures can look scary showing a huge wooden head in the middle of a forest. Don’t worry, it’s just art. The so-called “Forest Head”, also known as Silvas Capitalis is to be found in Kielder Forest near the Scottish border. The head is made by an American art group named SIMPARCH, [...]

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Incredible Gundam Paper Craft Model

Posted on 15 September 2010 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

When I was a kid I was crazy about making miniature houses and other objects from paper but I was never so successful like Taras Lesko who created those amazing paper craft sculptures. One of his most impressive masterpieces is 4-foot tall paper model of Freedom Gundam, a famous cartoon character. This particular paper craft [...]

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Vintage Internet Ads

Posted on 14 September 2010 in: Featured Articles, WTF

Recent years everybody is crazy about vintage and retro stuff. Everything from clothing and shoes to furniture and accessories. It has gone so far that they are now producing vintage internet ads in a 1960’s style, and it is about all the trendy sites on the web, like for example Skype, Facebook and Twitter. The [...]

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Ashes – The Hairless Chimp

Posted on 12 September 2010 in: Animal Oddity, Featured Articles

We are all used to see different kind of monkeys at the zoo, mostly the furry chimpanzees, but have you ever seen a hairless chimpanzee? You need to travel to Mysore Zoo in India to see that: a hairless chimp called Ashes. The strange thing about it is that he was born with a lot [...]

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Crazy Girl Tries to Set Her Mouth on Fire

Posted on 11 September 2010 in: Featured Articles, Funny&Crazy

This girl, that is also a personal friend of mine, really tried to set her mouth on fire. And, after several attempts she actually did it. Lucky for her she didn’t had mustaches or they will be wasted in flame. Check out the video and let us know what you think.

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Meet the Thermometer Man

Posted on 10 September 2010 in: Featured Articles, People Oddity

Thermometer Man is the perfect name for the 83-year-old Richard T. Porter. He has the biggest collection of thermometers, almost 5000 in different shapes and sizes. Before losing his daughter to a brain tumor he promised her to do something with his collection, and therefore he opened The Porter Thermometer Museum in the small village [...]

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Woodland Home – A Hobbit-looking House in Wales

Posted on 09 September 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

Not being a builder or carpenter and having little experience, Simon Dale built this wooden house for him and his family. It’s located in Wales somewhere in the middle of the forest, and it looks like a little Hobbit house from the Lord of the Rings. It’s all built out of natural materials, and the [...]

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Afghanistan – A Broken Country That Was Full Of Hopes

Posted on 08 September 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

Today’s prejudices about Afghanistan are a barbarian country that will never make it out of the Middle Ages. A country full of chaos, poverty and a huge difference between the rights for men and women. Still a lot of people don’t know that this has not always been the issue with this country. In the [...]

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Abandoned, Rusty and Old Military Base in Murmansk

Posted on 07 September 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

After the World War II in 1946 this military base was built near Murmansk city on the northern Russian side to protect the coastline. Now it is just abandoned and spooky-looking. Old canons and other instruments used to make the defense even better, are left behind and looking kind of rusty today. Taking a walk [...]

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Paris Beaches On The Streets

Posted on 06 September 2010 in: Featured Articles, WTF

One of Paris’s several tourist attraction is this artificial beach called “Paris Beach”. The special thing about this beach is that it is built in a section of the pedestrian bank by the river Seine in the middle of Paris. It’s has become a huge success; more and more visitors are coming each year, and [...]

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Amazing Street Art by Ukrainian Banksy

Posted on 05 September 2010 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

A Ukrainian street artist that calls himself “Sharik” is creating amazing art in the streets of Simferopol. He uses paint to make fun and thoughtful graffiti on concrete walls of different buildings, or just on huge rocks and blocks. People call him the “Ukrainian Banksy”, because they are comparing him with an English graffiti artist [...]

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Spooky Abandoned Russian Theater

Posted on 04 September 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

In one of the previous articles a Russian spooky abandoned military base was represented, showing all the pieces that were left there. As a continuing on that here are some pictures of an abandoned theater in Moscow. This was the place to be during the Soviet era; people would go there in the weekends and [...]

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Spectacular Crystal Cave 1000ft Under Mexican Desert

Posted on 02 September 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

This cave under The Chihuahua Desert in Mexico is actually a working mine that is known for its amazing crystals. The name of the cave is Naica Mine, is located 1000ft under ground, and it was discovered by two miners that was also brothers when they were drilling into the Naica lead. The chamber of [...]

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