Who doesn’t like festive seasons? The magical music, the fierce dance, the vibrancy, the color and the enthusiasm! Being at festivals is like standing inside the mind of a culture as it dreams. So here are the 10 coolest and most unique festivals celebrated around the world. I bet it will be a divine experience. [...]
1. Twin Jewel Thieves Create Perfect Alibi – 5 Million Euros Stolen On Feb 25, 2009, three masked robbers boldly busted into Kaufhaus Des Westens, the second largest department store in Europe. Via a rope ladder, the men were able to ransack the main floor without tripping any sensors or alarms. But what may have [...]
The list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was compiled by the Greek writer Antipater of Sidon in a poem in 140 BC. He, along with Philo of Byzantium, Strabo, Herodotus and Diodoros of Sicily, are responsible for providing the descriptions of these sites. Though only one of the seven wonders remains intact, [...]
The Dynamic Tower (also known as Dynamic Architecture Building or the Da Vinci Tower) is a planned 420-metre (1,378 ft), 80-floor moving skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, designed by architect David Fisher. The tower is expected to be architecturally innovative for several reasons: Uniquely, each floor will be able to rotate independently. This will [...]
With explosions and massive machines scraping into the earth’s crust like a bad case of scabies, it’s small wonder open cast mining has made what many see as an unpleasant impact on the planet’s surface. The face of the earth is beleaguered with giant scars, scoured out in our ongoing bid to the plunder the [...]
1. Widest Street in the World, 9 De Julio – Buenos Aires, Argentina Buenos Aires, Argentina, features the widest avenue in the world. At over 300 feet wide, 9 de Julio Avenue occupies a gap of an entire block in the city grid, hence its incredible width. Crossing the avenue at street level often requires [...]
At first glance, it looks as if some natural disaster has shaken away the walls of these buildings to reveal architecture hidden for thousands of years. And at second and third glance, it looks like that too. But these spectacular images are not the unexpected result of an earthquake. The incredibly lifelike scenes are actually [...]
A collection of images taken with scanning electron microscopes (SEM) has been pieced together by London-based science author, Brandon Broll, into a book titled Microcosmos. The images cover anything from household items to human body parts. These are the most amazing images of what is too small to see with the naked eye. Related posts: [...]
At first glance these objects look like they are in motion, almost like every object is falling down. In reality they are actually natural materials, like feathers, fruits and flowers, attached to nylon threads. Sculptor Claire Morgan is the creator of this magnificent art work. Claire Morgan was born in Belfast in 1980. She graduated [...]
A series of print ads for Dutch Book Week by Van Wanten Etcetera. This years theme was the “autobiography”, so 3D portraits of Anne Frank, Vincent van Gogh, Louis van Gaal and Kader Abdollah were created from books as centerpieces for the ad campaign. Despite how striking the ads are I have to admit that [...]