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Strange Toilet Paper Roll Art

admin1 — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:36:17 +0000

Junior Fritz Jacquet is fascinated by the paper. He explores and experiments with different techniques of folding and crumpling to create new forms and poetic objects that decorate his life.

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More of his works can be found here.

Incredible Camouflage Art by Liu Bolin part 2

admin1 — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:59:00 +0000

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Children From Mongolia Then and Now

admin1 — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 21:56:03 +0000

The humanity is changing. Here are some good examples of such changes. The children of Mongolian nomads several years ago…

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Dachshund Adopts a Little Pig

admin — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:02:57 +0000

I wonder whatever became of this pig? This is a little old, as you can see my the date stamps on the pics, but it was just sent to me recently and if you haven’t seen it before, you must now!. Yes, there are lots of tales of different kinds of animals helping each other out, but this one is tremendously tremendous! Read, then enjoy pics! (I’ll tell you, this story raises dachshunds in my esteem!)

This dachshund was fostering this little guy for another mom who couldn’t take care of him. He had his eyes closed, but now they are open. He is just a little bigger than her other pups. She loves this little guy as much as the other puppies and she is nursing him back to health. He is the cleanest pig-puppy ever because she licks him all the time. (I didn’t write that, but I love the phrase, “pig-puppy.”)

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The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones

admin1 — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:36:59 +0000

In 1775, the Marquis de Sade wrote of it, “I have never seen anything more striking.” Granted, the crypt was to his tastes.

Mark Twain wrote about it in his 1869 book Innocents Abroad. When Twain asked one of the monks what would happen when he died, the monk responded, “We must all lie here at last.” And lie there they do. Some 4,000 Capuchin friars who died between 1528 and 1870 are still lying, hanging, and generally adorning the Santa Maria della Concezione crypt in Rome.

In 1631, the Capuchin friars – so-called because of the “capuche” or hood attached to their religious habit – left the friary of St. Bonaventure near the Trevi Fountain and came to live at the Santa Maria della Concezione, of which only the church and crypt remain. They were ordered by the Pope’s brother to bring the remains of the deceased friars along with them to their new home, so that all the Capuchin friars might be in one place.

Rather than simply burying the remains of their dead brethren, the monks decorated the walls of the crypts with their bones as a way of reminding themselves that death could come at anytime; one must always be ready to meet God. A plaque in the crypt reads: “What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be.”

The ossuary contains a crypt of skulls, a crypt of leg bones, and perhaps the oddest – a “crypt of pelvises.” Mummified monks were dressed in friar’s clothes and hung from the walls and ceiling. With the addition of electricity, light fixtures were incorporated into some of the hanging monks, bringing a new meaning to the phrase “the eternal light.”

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The church is free, though you are urged to give a donation, and all photography is prohibited.

Wonderful Playing with Perspective

admin1 — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:21:27 +0000

You can do some crazy things on a picture without even using Photoshop. You just have to play with perspective. Take the right angle and shoot. Here is a nice selection of such pics.

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Famous Building Models

admin1 — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:09:14 +0000

In the Japanese city of Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, is an amusement park which has recently opened the “Tobu World Square” exhibition. It presents structures to the scale of 1:25, including 45 copies of buildings and structures that are on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Amongst other things, it also includes the now non existent twin towers of the WTC.

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Ghost Town Kolmanskop Namibia

admin1 — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:00:11 +0000

Before World War I, Namibia came down on diamond fever. In the area now called Kolmanskop, the precious stones were found in abundance throughout 1908, activating an influx of new colonists hoping to capitalize on the riches.

For the most part, they were successful; resident of Kolmanskop accumulated enough wealthiness to build an entire town influenced by German aesthetics, replete with ballrooms, bowling alleys, mansions, and the first x-ray machine south of the equator.

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That said, history is a fickle mistress. The outbreak of the war caused a chain reaction reaching all the way to Kolmanskop as the diamond market slowly dried up. By less than 50 years after its inception, Kolmanskop had become a ghost town reclaimed by the desert. Today visitors can explore the structurally sound, completely vacant buildings, leaving poor in minerals but rich in aesthetic momentos.

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Vintage Tattoos

admin1 — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:31:25 +0000

Cool pictures collection of old school vintage tattoos. Cool designs that look as good today as they did in the olden days.

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Awesome Photography by Guido Shterkendris

admin1 — Tue, 25 May 2010 22:12:56 +0000

Very cool wildlife photographer and his pictures.

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