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Mobile cinema operators would travel the country hooking TVs and VCRs up to portable generators to create impromptu theaters. All they needed was a wall for screening and a couple of benches and chairs. Many of the representations are dramatically exaggerated. When the posters were finished they were rolled up and folded and taken on the road. To this day, hand-painted posters advertise the movie performances. it’s possible for you to actually buy these posters, if you want atwww....

Some even snore in deep slumber. Bernd began photographing and putting them on his websiteSleeping Chinese. Bernd puts all sleepers into one of the three categories hard sleepers, soft sleepers and group sleepers. “Let China sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world. They talk about The Sleeping Giant. About The Birth of the New Super Power or The Awakening of the Red Dragon. Often with a strange kind of undertone, which is supposed to frighten us....

Moynaq (also spelled as Muynak and Moynaq) is a city in northern Karakalpakstan in western Uzbekistan. Today, Muynak is separated from the sea by more than 150 kilometers. Vessels that once floated in the waters now stand rusting in the sun at the famous ship graveyard. But how did this happen? In the 1940s, ambitious Soviet planners embarked on a massive water program designed to make the desert bloom. With most of the sea’s water supply gone, the Aral Sea began to shrink....

Did anybody say wax museum? These latex sculptures of Hollywood stars are so real that it will put Madam Tussauds to shame. The sculptures were created byBobby Causey. I just know what needs to be done and I do it.

It is an artificial lake formed after the completion of the Xin’an River hydroelectric station. It is also home to lush forests (over 90%), and exotic islands. But what lies underneath the lake is perhaps more interesting and worthy than the lake itself. About 290,000 people were relocated for the project. The complete apathy of the government towards preservation of the ancient cities is shocking. On September 18, 2001, for the first time attempt was made to reach the town....

At first glance, these incredible images look like still-life portraits of some exotic flowers. His work takes months of painstaking planning and testing. He said: ‘I love working with liquids because of their incredible versatility when creating high speed photography. It is as much chance as it is preparation and planning. They are all different. The work takes a great amount of planning, set building and testing. This series was a culmination of months of planning and testing....

Perched high at the summit of a 230-metre-high rock is an ancient monastery probably founded during the 7th century. For 600 years the island was a centre of monastic life for Irish Christian monks. The very spartan conditions inside the monastery illustrate the ascetic lifestyle practiced by early Irish Christians. Because of the extreme remoteness of Skellig Michael, the island has until recently discouraged visitors. This kept the site exceptionally well preserved....

They are called Nieves Penitentes or simply Penitentes. Penitentes are a common sight in the regions between Argentina and Chile. Penitentes were first described in the literature by Darwin in 1839. An initially smooth snow surface first develops depressions as some regions randomly sublimate faster than others. At the micro-scale, similar-looking spikes help solar cell surfaces maximize their sunlight absorption. Studies are being pursued in this field to discover the effect of global warming on the formation of Penitentes....

Human beings are an amazing species. Given enough time, they will multiply, relocate and establish even on themost remote corners of the world. Today, entire cities stands on them. But unlike communities on mainland, land and resources on an island are scarce. With no space to grow geographically these islands are crushingly dense with people and housing. Here is a collection of some of the most populous island in the world....

He spent several years working with metal before turning his attention to stones.

Dullaway is doing it to promote her business as a photo restorer. The fascinating results has caught the medias attention during the last few months and caused a lot of debate. Colorization is WRONG, screamed one commenter onHuffington Post. It is creating a lie by imposing an an artistic interpretation on historic images. Another user mocks, Lincoln wore a blue coat with a brown vest? And who did his makeup, a funeral director?...

Socotra is a small archipelago of four islands in the Indian Ocean, near the Gulf of Aden. Extremely high levels of endemism also occur in Socotras reptiles. Ever since Socotra has been a breeding ground of birds, plants and animals. Also important in ancient times were Socotra’s various endemic aloes, used medicinally, and for cosmetics. Unlike the Galapagos, however, Socotra is significantly inhabited, and has been for some 2,000 years....

It takes a further 2million a year to keep it in working order. The enormous man-made pool sucks water directly in from the sea using a computer-controlled suction and filtration system. The pool holds 250 million liters (66 million gallons) of water and is navigable in small boats.