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A hand-sewn dress, one of the two she owns, is hanging beside her. The lights in her room are flickering, and voices and laughter can be heard from outside. Born a German national, Frank lost her citizenship in 1941 when Nazi Germany passed the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws. She gained international fame posthumously after her diary was published. It documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II....

Spanish artistAna Soler, in her most recent work entitled Causa-Efecto (Cause & Effect), hung 2,000 tennis balls across the Mustang Art Gallery in Alicante, Spain. The balls are carefully aligned in suspended trajectories that appear to bounce off walls, floors, and other surfaces providing an uncanny sense of motion similar to a photograph taken with a strobe light. [viaCollosal]

A number of businesses have been pursuing this dream for a long time but none has taken off yet. The car, technically called theTransition, has foldable wings which retracts when it is on the road. Terrafugia has said that the car will be ready for sale by the end of the year. It is expected to sell for $279,000 and about 100 of the aircraft/car have already been booked. The tires are heavier like any other small aircraft to handle landings as well as road driving....

A group of servicemen remained after the base closed, and the place has been inhabited ever since. Now it is home base for nearly 2,000 people who can’t afford to live anywhere else. Several thousand campers, many of them retired, use the site during the winter months. These “snowbirds” stay only for the winter, before migrating north in the spring to cooler climates. The site is both decommissioned and uncontrolled, and there is no charge for parking....

Hanson then clothed the figures with garments from second-hand clothing stores and theatrically arranged the action.

Refreshments, prizes and plenty of alcohol go around making up an entertaining package. Students who are called art monkeys come from all backgrounds and often have no artistic skill. The sessions are set up like a regular figure drawing class. Sketchers warm up their hands with a series of 1-minute, 2-minute and 5-minute poses. Throughout the night there are mini-competitions such as Best Eyelashes or Best Comic Strip. Since then Dr....

The result is large open air gaps that are bridged only by narrow steel beams or other support fixtures. Very few of the original handrails exist but a safety-wire runs the length of the path. The walkway is over 3 kilometers long. Photo credit After several fatal accidents, the local government closed the path in 2000.

Gursky demonstrates a similarly methodical approach in his own larger-scale photography. Rhein II, the photograph that sold for a record $4.3 million.

If there ever is a nuclear holocaust, Albania is the country you would want to be in. Albanias Communist dictator Enver Hoxha was in a constant fear of foreign invasion. During his forty-year rule between 1945 and 1985 he built an extraordinary 750,000 bunkers fearing nuclear war. At that time there was one for every four Albanians. The engineer answered, “Very confident”. The shell-shocked engineer emerged unscathed and Hoxha ordered thousands of these built....

Japanese artistTakanori Aibacreates fantastically detailed tiny tree houses atop bonsai trees. Takanori Aiba was born in 1953 in Yokohama, Japan. He built his first career as a freelance maze illustrator working for the Japanese fashion magazine POPYE. After a decade he founded his own company,“Graphics and Designing Inc. in 1981. Aiba says: My source of creations are my early experience of bonsai making and maze illustration. If you explore any small part of my works, you find amazing stories and some unique characters....

German photographerMartin Klimasphotographs sound using paint. He starts by putting different colored paint on top of some translucent material, underneath which is a speaker. Klimas photographs these motion and each photo becomes an analogue representation of the music. Martin Klimas has captured portrait of many different songs from Miles Davis to Kraftwerk. The resulting images are Klimass attempt to answer the question What does music look like?

The presence of alleged smugglers ship gave Navagio Beach yet another nick name Smugglers Cove. Navagio Beach was originally known as Agios Georgios. Stormy weather and bad visibility resulted in the ship running aground right on Navagio Beach.

ArtistSimon Beckcreates amazing pieces of snow art by walking in the snow wearing raquettes (snowshoes). Each artwork is typically the size of three soccer fields and takes 2 days to complete. Most of the designs are simple geometric figures, or figures generated by repeating simple rules at different scales. Recently we featured another snow artistSonja Hinrichsen. Her works are worth seeing too.